My problem here is in the last paragraph. “2 of my sorters are only scheduled 4 hours”
My last store was a 4am store and most of the team that came in for 4 hours wanted to. They work a few hours before their stay at home moms that work before their husband goes to work. There are plenty of people out there that the 4am 4hour schedule works
Yes I know it works for some but that is usually not the case. At my store all of us that come in at 4 we’re previous on the overnight flow team. Some team members with disabilities such as being deaf or autism have pretty much been forced to quit. Others are still getting only 2 days a week 4 hour shifts and not making enough to even come close to rent. It’s just a really shit way to treat people who have put their heart into this company.
Yeh it depends on your volume they just made the thresholds different for modernization. Lots of 6am stores now but the 4am and overnight stores still exist
I did eventually manage to get that first vehicle done though after getting permission from my ETL to turn off my walkie.Were a 6am unload store... more like 6:30-6:45 because we have to move all of the P2 freight that didnt get pushed from the previous truck, just so we can set the line.
You need to challenge your leaders on this, and tell them that the product won’t be pushed if you keep being pulled in 15 directions. Why can’t electronics help the toys guest? Why can’t softlines or market do some backing up or the carry out? 25+ minutes at a time backing up on a lane is unacceptable, and if you were my TM and I lost an hour of your shift to the checklanes, I’d have words for the gstl. Also, salesfloor TMs covering OPU breaks? What the fuck? At my store, leaders cover OPU when there’s a break or gap. I assume this means your leaders were pushing U boats instead?My store continues to be off to a less than successful start at modernization. Walked into receiving to start a shift early yesterday afternoon. Not sure which was more troubling: the dozens of unpushed truck vehicles left or DTL there for a third visit in less than a week? HL TL was back there and I let him know that I was scheduled for hardlines. After saying "Thank God," he looks up and down the line and tells me to focus on clearing vehicles. I'm to start with the least full vehicles I can find, regardless of section, and just get them clear.
OK cool. Easy enough, right? I grab a lightly loaded toys vehicle that looked like it was about half full of some street dated stuff. It looks like maybe 15-20 minutes to push it out on a Saturday afternoon and maybe another 5-10 to backstock? I push it out to the location, grab the first box, open it up, take one item out and put it on a peg. Four and a half hours later that would still be the only part of my assignment that I had accomplished.
It started innocently enough with a call box going off in seasonal. Cleared it. Grabbed an item for the guest out of the back. Simple. Ohhh, backup needed in electronics. Grab the keys. Unlock some games, ring them up. Guest first to the front. 25 minutes later finally walking back to my vehicle, call box in home furnishing. Guest wants a table. Not on the floor but we have it in the back. Tell the guest I'll grab it and leave it at guest services for them while they continue shopping. Get to the back. Location blocked by pallets. Moved the pallets. Grabbed the item. Moved the pallets backs because there is nowhere else to put them. Took the table to the front. Oh, since you're here anyway, guests first! 35 minutes this time. Got off the line just in time to be recruited to do the carryout for that same home furnishings guest. Almost made it back to my vehicle but stopped by a guest who wanted 4 of a particular chair and we only had one in stock. So, walk the guest to the front and explain to guest services so they can process a My Checkout for the other three. Get asked to finish processing STS from the day before that didn't get done. Fine. Fine. Then, it was cover a meal for OPU. After that, I got back to my vehicle and actually managed to pick up a box only to have a guest ask me about an item. Had to go get it for them out of the back. No problem. Then, it was another guests first to the front. Got done with that. I don't get three steps from the lanes when I hear, "Hardlines, there's a call on 2280 about toys who can get it?" I look at my device. I've been there for four hours and 2 minutes. Grab my walkie. "This is Seasonaldude. I'm going to my meal," as I turn around and walk towards the breakroom.
So much for 40 cartons an hour.
leads and leaders have to get out of the TSC and start doing the TMs jobs as well.
With that kind of skeleton crew, I’m guessing that means there’s 6 more inbound or dedicated stockers working as well? Where are they? If they’re strictly inbound and don’t do cashiering, well then that’s the exact situation modernization is supposed to solve. If there isn’t anyone there, then where’s the payroll going from what would have been inbound? Something doesn’t add up; I have a feeling an ETL or STL is fucking something up over there.
Then you do what you can, you do your best; that’s all we can do. Rough days and weeks happen. We don’t have non-truck days at my store, so this is a little out of my area of expertise 😝It's a non-truck day, so there's no one scheduled under Inbound. There were supposed to be 4 pushers, but 2 called off. Called TMs at home to see if they'd come in -- just one person picked up the phone, and said they had a prior engagement. No one is willing to extend their shift to cover save for those who are scheduled 40 already, of course. No OT.
I never said they did. Just doing my part to help my store succeed, and if I end up proving it can work or help others make it work for them, oops. 🤷🏻♂️
Lol. Like I’ve said previously, the next few weeks I’ll be getting the rest of my store on board. I’ll be honest about how it goes.You're only proving you can make it work for your team and your section of your store, which gives corporate the idea that it can work anywhere. But that clearly isn't the case.
Corporate are anti-vaccers and you ran an experiment that potentially shows an inconclusive, marginal link between autism and vaccines in a sample size of 10. Congrats, you've ended the world.
Thanks, I’ll definitely need it.
Stupid question, does books get done on truck day?
