Show up and try your best every day and you will be successful. Most people don't really care that much and wouldn't even show up at all so the fact that you are persistent and just show up and try every day will say a lot to your leaders.
I'd also speak with your Team Lead or ETL about your concerns with the workload and see what they say.
As far as the front of the store being sorted with Hearth & Hand and furniture I don't know how your store is set up but that doesn't sound very smart to have product that is located in a totally different part of the store with the front of the store product. That's probably something that could be fixed with how your custom blocks are set up on the line or maybe they're just not sorting it right when it's coming off the truck.
Another thing is maybe a custom block doesn't exist at all for those sections so they just randomly throw it on a pallet.
Also, I want to add in...when it comes to the heavy furniture if it's more than 40-50lbs that's a mandatory team lift so you are obligated to get help with moving those items. Just call it out every time you need a team lift on the walkie and someone should respond to help you so you don't hurt yourself.
And you're not a useless Team Member I'm sure, so I wouldn't tell yourself that.
My shift leader had a one on one conversation with me earlier today as to why I couldn't meet the time frame. I had told him that on the line when other team members sort out the case packs home decor/hearth and hand, furniture & front of the store the custom blocks for those departments are flubbed making it very easy for my co workers to mix the pallets since most of them are not familiar with those areas. However, I talked to my overnight manager about it when it was first implemented and told him that custom blocks where skewed for various departments (other people complained too) but he just didn't really care or wasn't aware of how BIG OF A PROBLEM it was.
At my store. The Front of the Store, Hearth and Hand, Decorative Home & Furniture aisles are nearby one another especially in the order that I listed it in... but the area is so big that pushing those departments individually would take for ever especially since hearth and hand, and front of the store aisles have no barcodes or aisle indicators... which means those two departments have to be pushed in a specific way or flexed. Hearth and hand used to have a print out with a picture indicating what items where supposed to belong on certain shelves but that sheet of paper is no longer there.
I also explained to my shift leaders that many things contribute as to why I cannot meet my time frame:
-the repacks from domestics can have decorative home items, hearth and hand, or even front of the store items... whoever is pushing there drops off those items (usually unsorted) in a cart further increasing the workload at hand
-detrashing can be time consuming obstacle, especially since they don't want the styrofoam and plastic wrappings in a big box... they want said recyclable items in plastic bags which can almost always be found in the janitorial equipment room... But if I take the time to find plastic bags would take away time that I'm pushing on the sales floor
-if there are days where I don't push hearth and hand or the front of the store... I have to sort out those pallets because they might contain case packs for home decor or furniture items that I'm supposed to push... But if I don't sort it out someone from dayside will surely complain about why those pallets have items that I'm supposed to push...
Overall, I told that shift leader...
That if the department I push in gets neglected because of various contributing circumstances, it will greatly affect the way I push in that department. Making it very difficult to push and or meet expectations.
