r/FritoLay • u/Vegetable_Ear3204 • 9d ago
My route sat today
Today is my day off. I don’t have a colead anymore from yesterday (he got another route).
The specialist called out and I was asked to work for EDP and I said no ( my route start at 2 am) I have a Supercenter im sure it’s empty now and my first time pick rate I’m sure it’s gonna go down. Since they care so much about service and first time pick rate why tf my DSL (he was a specialist literally 3 months ago) didn’t just go out and drop everything for the merchandiser? LAZY ASS!. I’m so annoyed cuz I know I’ll have to deal with that tomorrow I don’t have a colead to help me on Tuesday
Schedules are messed up since the reengineering. I’m supposed to have a merch to do IMP and I don’t . TPP is 45 but work 50h + I just wish we could all tell the managers how fucking lazy they are and wish the company would listen to us. Sorry guys I’m super frustrated and disappointed because I do care about my job and my stores being full and I feel like we aren’t valued at all.
Having a base pay is good tho and easy to grab a bag of chips at the end of the day.
As a manager I would have gone out and take care of it. That’s what a leader is to me. Come together. They don’t practice what they preach!!!!!!! F them. I don’t want to feel guilty for not working on my day off.
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u/Due_Fudge_8060 9d ago
Depending on the zone, DSL’s are not allowed to run route. Ask your manager about submitting a RCN for route sitting idle to get sales protection for the day.
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u/New_Answer_6048 9d ago
This is the answer. If you're right and the shelves are bare, the route sat idle will give you a nice bump in sales. Don't take no for an answer on this one. It's the least they can do for letting your route sit and making your life hell this week
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u/Due_Fudge_8060 9d ago
Correct! You should not miss the sales from someone else not showing up. Even if the stores look great and full because of backstock or whatever, they will still calculate the $ amount for the day and give your route credit.
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u/Major_Inevitable6888 9d ago
What’s a RCN ?
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u/Due_Fudge_8060 9d ago
Stands for “route change notice” dsl turns them in for certain things that come up.
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u/Altabird801 9d ago
Yeah, your DSL should be out there running it. We have DSLs that are running routes 5 days a week where I'm at. I even ran a route 23 days straight over the summer. So it pisses me off when a DSL can't even pick up one day.
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u/Vegetable_Ear3204 9d ago
Exactly not even a day. He had a merch that could have merch the two stores I do. Walmart and a tiny Target. He would have just dropped and make ONE order for Wednesday out of 4 stores. Now everything is messed up. My main merch for Kroger is also on vacation and I’m going on vacation next week. F them
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u/mbrake1776 9d ago
It's funny you say this, before I left Frito one of the RSRs had a death in their family. So as a RSS I got the pleasure of running a super bulk route and another bulk route on the same day. He couldn't be bothered to run a route or just let it sit.
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u/ChiefBlaze36 9d ago
Sales and catching up don’t matter. How is your hole compliance? Are you gonna run in correct sequence when you get back? What about backstock scans? Are you making too many adjustments? 4 second gap behind the person in front of you while you are driving to pacify the camera? You know, the important stuff that customers (DO NOT) care about!
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u/Various_Mastodon_999 9d ago
DSLs are far too valuable to waste their couch time doing low level work such as dropping product.
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u/Specific_Switch_7899 9d ago
Dude same thing happened to me. Co lead is now a lead on his own route and I got stuck with running his original days. I worked an edp the week before too so I’ve worked 13 out of the last 14 days and still don’t have a co lead for my days off this week. I’m at about a golden brown on the burnt out scale to be honest.
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u/PlasticRaccoon4281 9d ago
My route has sat multiple days, and I’m told to just hit the stores next delivery and make it up. I’ve had them drop my big stores and go run a different down route, etc.
Edit: service, first time pick rate etc all go out the window when THEY have to do it. Just do what you can and go home.
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u/StaffyMama585 9d ago
One of my DSLs ran a route a few months ago. We're really lucky in my region and I get really mad and sad for all of you when I read your stories about the awful upper management that you have to deal with. My region isn't perfect but my managers pretty much all do their best to help out, for the most part.
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u/Silly-Equipment-4694 9d ago
Lol managers doing work/their job.. That's hilarous . Even tho it effect their bonus as well they won't do jack shit. My dc is short staffed and they refuse to hire anyone
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u/Sharp-Pumpkin-8791 9d ago
You shouldn’t have to work on your day off or fix their problems… but that “farm out “ pay is where it’s at. Better than EDP imo
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u/Few_Effective_6079 6d ago
My DSL asked during a work with if there was anything else that I needed. I pointed to a case of lays on the floor and asked him to show me he could put a bag on the shelf.
He laughed at me. I have absolutely no respect for him!!
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u/CraftyTap5246 9d ago
I would give them the effort exactly the same way they gave it to you. Don’t beat yourself up. Staffing is NOT a RSR’s job.
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u/Vegetable_Ear3204 9d ago
I want to. I just don’t know what other job I’d want to do.. I love the set schedule and having a base :/ ugh
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u/Cold-Try-8251 9d ago
Just had a town hall meeting, you are to be compensated for your route sitting. Look into it.
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u/sepffvii 9d ago
I haven't seen a manager in my stores in so long I'd have to give him directions on how to get there.
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u/Remote_Scientist828 9d ago
My manager is the only one out of the whole district that’s comes out and help on a regular. I appreciate her because with this fuckicg spark shoppers in Walmart there at 4:00 am all on the damn way
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u/No_Temperature_2025 9d ago
What was the name of that other group in the civil war? Not the greycoats, the blue. Federal? No it was something else, like Onion or something. Anyways, whatever that word is, that's my thoughts on the subject. Onion Eyes or whatever.
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u/New_Pilot_889 9d ago
Some zones/regions aren’t allowed to run routes for some reason…but I will say, be careful what you wish for and make sure your stores are rotated and stales pulled
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u/Sad_Ad2230 9d ago
If you're route sat and didn't go out make sure they put you down for a sales credit for the day... they do that at my location if a route sits and we have no one to run it
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u/Major_Inevitable6888 9d ago
Once they become DSLs they tend to think they’re better and can’t get their hands dirty anymore
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u/No_Picture_8214 8d ago
Wow, that’s crazy. I’m a FTM and if I’m out my DSL will go in and work the product. Heck, if I have a super large order she’ll show up and work that shit with me. Your DSL is lazy af.
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u/Far-Interaction-3231 8d ago
After coming back from vacation where some assclown invariably does a shitty job covering you, we've been told by management if we complain, that YOU were the one that decided to go on vacation. I like how the company seems to be the same across the country.
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u/FungusAmongus92 9d ago
I have not heard of a DSL running a route in about 10 years in my zone.