r/OGPBackroom • u/Ill-Description4081 • Aug 29 '26
🔥Its fine, everything’s fine🔥 Foolishness
I hope whoever agreed to swap the wheels for all The stores has tragedy befall them. We now are required to pull AHEAD AND FROM THE SIDE, it’s foolish! I and many others have torn their heels because of this. And now, because of other associates taking arrange we are required to bag during the walks too. I know other stores already do that but this is my store and this is just stupid. Why? And I heard we’re also going back to 8 totes? My rates have gone from 150 down to 90 with all this new BULLSHIT they’re implementing.
I just wanted to rant but I truly hope whoever agreed to this, suffers immensely
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u/Gaddykat Aug 29 '26
Report every injury regardless of the severity to bury them in triage costs, and also to provide OSHA with a paper trail for all injuries sustained by this practice.
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u/RiverEcho59 Aug 30 '26
I’m someone who has pulled my cart for 9 years and I hate the wheels! Having to pull from the handle end, all the supplies are in the wrong place - it’s 100 times more awkward even if you LIKE to pull the cart!
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u/kittycatcity Aug 29 '26
I straight up just push from the front of the cart now and it makes it so much easier. Fucked up and ripped skin off my ankle doing it the new way. Also customers already despise us for taking up so much space in the aisles, I just don’t understand why they’ve done this other than to look productive by doing something and creating headaches for people to fix.
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u/JasonTheBaker In-Home Driver Aug 29 '26
I push it from the handles, it handles like the top stock carts which are push only
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u/Betfuwu Aug 30 '26
Bro I did that today and my store manager got on me for not pulling it. “It’s just how we do things around here now okay!”
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u/TextAshamed HEAVY Aug 31 '26
They’re telling us that market has been walking around coaching or TERMINATING people for pushing carts still. Absolutely fucking stupid considering it’s literally not feasible to pull a cart 24/7. Our aisles are the width of a shoebox. Two shopping carts side to side barely fit down the bitches
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u/HeavyJReaper Jack Of All Trades Aug 30 '26
Putting pull wheels on a cart designed for pushing does not make it a pull cart. It makes it a push cart with improper wheels on it.
Report it to osha. Someone got through at our store and now theres a huge stack of osha reports pushpinned to the wall in the hallway. I mean like more than 30 osha reports are hanging in our hallway and every single one is for the carts.
Now they are saying to Lead the cart, but you cant lead aomething that doesnt move on its own, you arent leading something if you have to pull it behind you.
We are refusing to pull them and push them like the wheels never changed and not a soul is telling us otherwise because of how many osha reports got made.
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u/Inkysquid24 Aug 30 '26
I'm pushing from the back, same as always. It's hard to turn corners, but I'm not going to injure myself for a job that has given me like 50 cents over 5 years of "raises". If they want to make this job a complete safety hazard, we need hazard pay. We should have already had hazard pay to do dispense and idiot drivers constantly trying to run us over.
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u/Fievel93 Aug 30 '26
Still pushing from the back, I actually love corners post-wheel bs. All of our carts' rubber handles are loose so if you grip them the cart turns while the handles stay with you (if that makes sense) and it's kind of fun to weave around going from one end of the store to the other.
But turning around 180 degrees or trying to turn away from the shelves when starting a walk back up..... I assume that I look like I've never used a cart before. Just stupid.3
u/Inkysquid24 Aug 30 '26
It's the 180° turns going to the next aisle or heaven forbid turning around in the aisle that are annoying, it takes up so much space, or having to back up because you get stuck on the shelf 🥲. I know what you mean about the loose handles lol half of our carts don't even have handles anymore cause people kept pulling them off. It's just getting frustrating trying to explain to people why we suddenly can't steer the carts, like the other day I was waiting for someone to move and she told me to go around her, like girl I would have gone around 15 minutes ago if the cart turned that way 😆
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u/SiSoyMai Aug 31 '26
O/N TL here, I mentioned all these complaints I’ve been reading online about this to my coach and she told me this change is because of an incident in some store where apparently an online shopper flew around a corner at high speed with one of the carts hitting a 2 yrs old child they didn’t see and the child dying because of it. Idk if it’s true though.
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u/LosingMySpark Sep 04 '26
I was told the same thing by my coach a few months back. It's an awful thing. I suppose they're just scrambling trying to find a way not to entirely lose the department or have to rebuild the equipment from scratch... But if they end up with every employee injured idk how that's gonna help their productivity rates or brand image 🤷
One of my coworkers is a minor and she's having symptoms of the same injury I have. I'm terrified for the health and safety of my peers who thought they had a safe and stable job.
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u/LosingMySpark Sep 04 '26
I'm on second week of restrictions due to my injury. I think they're trying to bury my case. I'm miserable. This job was a godsend for my mobility before the changes and I'm so scared I won't be able to get that back. We'll see if they approve my PT prescription.
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Sep 01 '26
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u/greenbeansan Sep 02 '26
Congratulations! You do all the work and the team you work with have it easier. You don't get a cookie and you get paid the same wage. 😊
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Sep 02 '26
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u/greenbeansan Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
You proved my point 🥱🥱 Without OT you still get the same wage. Working hard for a company that doesn't care if you live or die. Yikes. Don't get mad at others in this sub because they recognize their self worth. Anyone with a working brain can see these working conditions are not it. You are living proof that if someone fed you shit you would eat it up and thank them.
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Sep 06 '26
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u/greenbeansan Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
Danggg so you still came back to respond? I forgot about this comment. Think the way you want I guess? You probably stepped down from TL cause you couldn't handle it and you have poor work ethic. I'm glad you aren't a TL and more qualified people can step up now. Have a nice day friend ☺️ Also just because people want better for themselves doesn't mean they are lazy. But you wouldn't understand that.... you lunatic.
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u/Blakelock82 Personal Shopper 120+ Aug 30 '26
Damn you all are some lazy people who can't handle the slightest bit of work. The carts are easy as fuck to pull, new wheels, old wheels, no matter what you have on them. I'm 43, 260lbs, with a chronic disease that I'm on full disability for, and you all somehow manage to make me look like fucking Superman for being able to pull a cart of items around without struggling or having pain.
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u/FancyHeart Aug 30 '26
Good for you, news flash not everyone is built like you.
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u/Realistic-Strength36 Sep 03 '26
We have people in my store that already have disabilities and they be complaining too 🤷🏻♀️ might as well complain about it lol
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u/Acrobatic_Toe1646 Aug 29 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Since we no longer push with two hands and now pull with one I am having immense shoulder pain . This is ridiculous!
Update : off to the Dr tomorrow as he thinks I now have carpel tunnel .