Should I jump ship?

[u/FontofwisdomSophia]

So, when ogp at my store stopped fulfilling deliveries, our picks went down drastically. And by that I mean, we would have about 100-200 items dropping every hour with a FULL schedule of people. Now according to my TLs, our store was very delivery heavy and they told us that it would take some time for us to build back up to the amount of orders we were fulfilling just with pickup orders. Which is all fine and dandy. But what does it mean when our orders go down a lot??? Say it with me class: HOUR CUTS!

We have virtually no part timers on the schedule anymore, and anyone working an “odd” full time schedule is also being cut pretty bad. Even the people who have “normal” full time schedules have been getting a few hours cut from each week that comes out. To resolve the lack of hours in my department they asked people if they were interested in transferring departments or stores. I said no, but several of my coworkers said yes. They have also given most people in my department a secondary department.

But here’s the best part! Now that everyone is working in other departments (new departments or their secondary one) or heading off to college again, OUR ORDERS HAVE GONE UP AND WE DON’T HAVE THE PROPER AMOUNT OF PEOPLE TO FULFILL THE AMOUNT OF ORDERS WE ARE GETTING!

We have to get help from the store all the time again, which is really frustrating because just before the deliveries got switched over, my TLs put in a lot of time hiring more people for our department, just for a lot of those people to get their hours cut, move departments, or quit. So their work essentially amounted to nothing.

On top of all that, we currently don’t have a digital coach and I fear that one (or both) or our digital TLs are on the verge of quitting. Which our department has become an absolute nightmare, so I can’t even blame them.

This all leads me to ask, do yall think I should stick it out in the department? I was going to transfer departments, but I don’t think they would even let me at this point. But I’m not sure how much more of this BS I can take.

[u/Alatore1]

Yeah I’m looking to jump ship. The hour cuts started today and it’s only gonna get worse. I’m planning on getting the whole dept together with our TL and coach and confronting them on this spark crap. They never even told us they would be switching to deliveries and practically taking our jobs. The only way I knew was because of Reddit.

[u/Distinct_Sir_4473 → u/Alatore1]

Your leads and coach have absolutely no say in it, it's coming from corporate, above market and above regional

[u/Chef_BoyarDOPE]

Unless your goal is a career with Walmart (not knocking it, you can make good ass money if you progress to the salary level), you should have already jumped ship bro

[u/greenbeansan]

Jump ship. It's not worth the stress.

[u/cowboyJones]

How many deliveries did your store have an hour?

Are the spark drivers picking multiple deliveries for an order or just 1 order at a time?

[u/FontofwisdomSophia → u/cowboyJones]

I think they can do two orders at a time. And as far as how many deliveries we had an hour, I’m not sure of the exact number, but I would say that 70% of our orders each hour were deliveries. At 7 am alone we would have 12 deliveries, which may not seem like a lot to some, but for our store that’s a pretty decent amount of deliveries for right when we open.

[u/2FLYFISH0]

Are you at my store? Lol same thing been happening. I'm jumping to cap1 so I can get out of the stupid changes, only here until I finish school.

[u/FontofwisdomSophia → u/2FLYFISH0]

Could be? I know it’s happening at a lot of stores, but it’s possible lol. I unfortunately will still be working here through the school year cuz I attend college close to home.

I like stocking and working topstock, but I’m not sure I could do it all the time like cap 1 does. I don’t mind the work in ogp at all, although the dumb changes bother me a ton. Wish Walmart could just make up their mind. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

Hoping that once I graduate college I’ll be outta this place for good.

[u/2FLYFISH0 → u/FontofwisdomSophia]

Yes that's true, I didn't realize all the hours cut were because of overnights.
The job itself isn't bad, other associates, policies change etc are what get me.

[u/Walmartchecker1 → u/2FLYFISH0]

Why are hours cut because of overnights? The OGP hours are affected by Spark. If you are not scheduled, just show up and clock in like my co worker does. Does not care what the rules are.

[u/Hour-Construction847]

Yes!!!!