Archived The "Vent about all the crazy shit that happened during your shift" thread

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There was broken detergent first thing during unload and I had to clean it as best as I could, trying to work my way around and between the unloaders and the line. While I was grabbing the supplies to take care of it I had to yell at a flow TM to stop and put the cat litter away because they were about to pour it all over the spill.

Then spent the rest of the day huffing those wonderful fumes anyways.

Also, backroom finally brought me their defectives. Which included opened bags of frozen food that had been sitting at room temperature for who knows how long. Nothing like moldy garlic bread!
 
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Two aisles were set incorrectly (standard put as reverse and vice versa) by the POG team so me and 2 other TMs had to fix it while guests kept bothering us. :confused:
 
Circle9 said:
I absolutely love finding bags like that in the ESIM bin or on the donations pallet.
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you should know i always take it out and put it in a clear esim bag with a zip tie. no matter how gross it is i'm not leaving it for the next person.

edit: i should also mention if it needs a bag (open/leaking/pos prompt) and it's in anything other than an ESIM bag and ziptied, our cart attendant won't take it
 
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What a shitshow of a day. Completely worn down and exhausted from nothing going right. One thing after another kept coming up and I'm now at least a day behind in everything and no idea if I can catch up in time for the weekend.
 
Marcellow said:
Two aisles were set incorrectly (standard put as reverse and vice versa) by the POG team so me and 2 other TMs had to fix it while guests kept bothering us. :confused:
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We don't fix those things. We retie it the system, On 4ft yes. A valley, NO
 
Managed to finish loading the sweep and that's about it. About lost it when first thing I see is the grocery team trying to sort their FDC pallets right in the middle of where vendor deliveries go. When I had vendors lining up at the dock right away.

I am so fucked come Monday. Didn't touch defectives, MIRs or anything else that was cluttered around my area.
 
So I've mentioned in a previous discussion that there's team members that are getting 4-5 days while I'm stuck with 3. I brought it up then, and they said those employees were more important. One I brought up (I'll call her Ann) only separates HBA repacks and works in cosmetics. Occasionally she does stationary, but recently that's been going to electronics. I've had problems with Ann over the years, such as watching her shop on the clock, sitting around doing nothing, or yelling at me for making sure product was stocked properly. Basically, if she put something on the shelf, and I remove it as I pass through the aisle, she cries about it. She also passes jobs over to people she doesn't want to do, and what she does do, is very poor. Bowls everything randomly into aisles, overstocks shelves and just plain stocks wherever she finds a spot. Yeah...for some reason she's more important to the team and needs more hours than me.

That being said.

The other night I was asked to work spot 1 on the line, which includes electronics, pharmacy and HBA. She came to the back room to put a pallet jack under the pharmacy pallet (that's where we put all the repacks for that area), and SAT on a pallet of water under the steel for 20 minutes waiting for the pallet to fill to what she felt was acceptable to pull. Meanwhile every other person grabbing pallets to bowl was being told "Just take it! Don't wait for it to fill! Get it to the floor!". Was she told the same? No.
I have my own way of stacking a pallet. I fill the base and work upward. A few other people take the approach of building a wall on one side of the pallet, and then filling the rest. This is big pain in the behind when you come back to grab another pallet to bowl. Oh look, a full pallet! Oh wait....it's just a wall. If I lift that, the whole thing will turn sideways and fall over.
So I already have enough on the pallet the way I do it that it's about a foot tall. What does she do? Starts re-stacking my pallet! I can't ask her to stop, because she'll go cry to the managers that I'm talking back to her, and stand behind them with her arms crossed while I get chewed out. I have been telling management to tell her to stop doing this, and they just ignore it.

Stationary is right across from MMB, so when Ann is working over there, she places any coloring books that may have arrived in stationary repacks on a front endcap near the movies. She won't say if she put them there, and she doesn't care if I'm already done with the department. She flat out refuses to put them away herself. Monday I wasn't working in that department, and I had this exchange.
Ann: I have books. You push.
Me: Chris is working electronics, and he's been finished for an hour. You do it. They're right on that back wall.
Ann: No, I no do books.
Me: And it's not my job to do the stuff you feel you don't want to do. *walks away*

About 15 minutes toward the end of the shift, I was asked by my TL to go put the books away. When I asked why the guy who originally did that department couldn't do it, they ignored me.


Oh, and a quick thing about Chris and Frank (again, names changed). Frank was one of our TLs, and not a very good one. He started making rude comments to people, including myself. Which I went to HR about. You don't point to someone's face in front of others and announce that something looks like a cold sore.
Chris clocked in at 10:01, well within the allowed time, and wasn't late. He gets to the backroom to help with the truck, and Frank confronts him in front of all the people standing on the line, and the people waiting to bowl.
Frank: Chris! You can not continue being late!
Chris: I wasn't late
Frank: Yes you were! If you're late one more time, I'm having you written up.
*I step in* Me: HEY! You can NOT talk to him like that in front of the whole team. If you need reprimand him about something, you do it away from everyone else.
Frank: What's your problem? I'm making an example.
Me: And you can't do that. Walk away.
*walking away* Frank: You're being written up.
Me: Try it. Neither one of us are going to sign it. This is harassment.

Neither one of us got written up, and Frank no longer works for the company.
 
HRZone said:
The ops position was eliminated with AE17. Are they a salesfloor now?
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Nope, he's still in charge of dayside logistics. Maybe they call it something else now but his office door still says ETL-Ops. o_O
 
So today one guest spilled water all over the floor on accident, and another guest tripped and fell after walking right through it. The guy who fell got up and got in the face of the woman who spilled. He started yelling at her. She ended up hiding in the backroom and the LOD had to be called so that she could be escorted to her car, because she was scared.

What a day.
 
Did they get an incident report filled out?
Could've taken a little steam out of the guy but it sounds like he'd rather scream at a woman.
If she said "oops" & walked off that would've been justifiable but, it he walked thru it before anyone had a chance to clean it up, it's a bit much.
Look for him to come back with a lawsuit against your store.
 
So we got another clothing, homegoods outlet type store installed right next door to us and not only have our sales TANKED but they have lost a lot of staff (talked to 1 of their managers) and guests are using our parking (especially our handicap) and then our cart returns. Noone from this other store comes to collect. I told the one cart attendant to speak up to LOD but he seems like he likes to avoid conflict.

But we really have lost sales which i didnt expect.
 
Starswilldiex said:
So we got another clothing, homegoods outlet type store installed right next door to us and not only have our sales TANKED but they have lost a lot of staff (talked to 1 of their managers) and guests are using our parking (especially our handicap) and then our cart returns. Noone from this other store comes to collect. I told the one cart attendant to speak up to LOD but he seems like he likes to avoid conflict.

But we really have lost sales which i didnt expect.
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That is your leadership not talking to you about it cause they knew it was going to happen and if they didn't plan for it and talk to you guys about it they are a bunch of dumbasses. We had a Costco open down the road from us and for weeks before they opened we got talked to about it, and for weeks after they opened to keep up the work we had been doing. We did take a hit but have rebounded slowly. People need to check out the new thing then come back to what works. We had almost a month we didn't make sales, almost bad enough to comp down but we didn't.
 
Not really crazy or anything, just venting.

I finally got a new work center position approved in my store back in April as an FDC worker on weekends and it was at the worst possible time. I've had every weekend off since then due to school and graduation stuff and haven't seen me getting scheduled for it at all. I went in the other day and saw that they hired a new FDC person. I know I just gotta ask my ETL and see if that's still a thing, but I won't be working this weekend, next weekend, and saturday of two weeks out so far.
 
Bosch said:
That is your leadership not talking to you about it cause they knew it was going to happen and if they didn't plan for it and talk to you guys about it they are a bunch of dumbasses. We had a Costco open down the road from us and for weeks before they opened we got talked to about it, and for weeks after they opened to keep up the work we had been doing. We did take a hit but have rebounded slowly. People need to check out the new thing then come back to what works. We had almost a month we didn't make sales, almost bad enough to comp down but we didn't.
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Damn, hope they open on near me. They pay way more I hear
 
RedDelano said:
So I've mentioned in a previous discussion that there's team members that are getting 4-5 days while I'm stuck with 3. I brought it up then, and they said those employees were more important. One I brought up (I'll call her Ann) only separates HBA repacks and works in cosmetics. Occasionally she does stationary, but recently that's been going to electronics. I've had problems with Ann over the years, such as watching her shop on the clock, sitting around doing nothing, or yelling at me for making sure product was stocked properly. Basically, if she put something on the shelf, and I remove it as I pass through the aisle, she cries about it. She also passes jobs over to people she doesn't want to do, and what she does do, is very poor. Bowls everything randomly into aisles, overstocks shelves and just plain stocks wherever she finds a spot. Yeah...for some reason she's more important to the team and needs more hours than me.

That being said.

The other night I was asked to work spot 1 on the line, which includes electronics, pharmacy and HBA. She came to the back room to put a pallet jack under the pharmacy pallet (that's where we put all the repacks for that area), and SAT on a pallet of water under the steel for 20 minutes waiting for the pallet to fill to what she felt was acceptable to pull. Meanwhile every other person grabbing pallets to bowl was being told "Just take it! Don't wait for it to fill! Get it to the floor!". Was she told the same? No.
I have my own way of stacking a pallet. I fill the base and work upward. A few other people take the approach of building a wall on one side of the pallet, and then filling the rest. This is big pain in the behind when you come back to grab another pallet to bowl. Oh look, a full pallet! Oh wait....it's just a wall. If I lift that, the whole thing will turn sideways and fall over.
So I already have enough on the pallet the way I do it that it's about a foot tall. What does she do? Starts re-stacking my pallet! I can't ask her to stop, because she'll go cry to the managers that I'm talking back to her, and stand behind them with her arms crossed while I get chewed out. I have been telling management to tell her to stop doing this, and they just ignore it.

Stationary is right across from MMB, so when Ann is working over there, she places any coloring books that may have arrived in stationary repacks on a front endcap near the movies. She won't say if she put them there, and she doesn't care if I'm already done with the department. She flat out refuses to put them away herself. Monday I wasn't working in that department, and I had this exchange.
Ann: I have books. You push.
Me: Chris is working electronics, and he's been finished for an hour. You do it. They're right on that back wall.
Ann: No, I no do books.
Me: And it's not my job to do the stuff you feel you don't want to do. *walks away*

About 15 minutes toward the end of the shift, I was asked by my TL to go put the books away. When I asked why the guy who originally did that department couldn't do it, they ignored me.


Oh, and a quick thing about Chris and Frank (again, names changed). Frank was one of our TLs, and not a very good one. He started making rude comments to people, including myself. Which I went to HR about. You don't point to someone's face in front of others and announce that something looks like a cold sore.
Chris clocked in at 10:01, well within the allowed time, and wasn't late. He gets to the backroom to help with the truck, and Frank confronts him in front of all the people standing on the line, and the people waiting to bowl.
Frank: Chris! You can not continue being late!
Chris: I wasn't late
Frank: Yes you were! If you're late one more time, I'm having you written up.
*I step in* Me: HEY! You can NOT talk to him like that in front of the whole team. If you need reprimand him about something, you do it away from everyone else.
Frank: What's your problem? I'm making an example.
Me: And you can't do that. Walk away.
*walking away* Frank: You're being written up.
Me: Try it. Neither one of us are going to sign it. This is harassment.

Neither one of us got written up, and Frank no longer works for the company.
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Wtf, you got problems, what you just wrote is not normal, wtf is wrong with you?
 
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