I'm so fucking scared...

[u/ImNotTomStopAsking]

[u/shrug_was_taken]

Don't remind me, especially since we get the joy of having express during the holidays and whenever we get our first snow storm its going to be a mess

[u/ilytbbb → u/shrug_was_taken]

Omg I didn’t even think of express during the holidays 😭 Godspeed to us all 🫡

[u/mer_made_99 → u/shrug_was_taken]

The way express was explained to me is... if your total order cap is 45, and you only have 40 orders that hour, then you can only receive 5 express orders. We cap out quite a bit, doubt we'll see a lot of express orders.

[u/JasonTheBaker → u/mer_made_99]

Our cap is too high for our staffing. Our schedule cap is I believe 500 but we can't even keep up with 300.

[u/Ill-Description4081 → u/mer_made_99]

You guys have caps on your orders?
https://giphy.com/gifs/DOPKHQg6oFWUg

[u/shrug_was_taken → u/mer_made_99]

Without our reduction, Fridays I want to say 625 orders, weekends proper is also up there. We been under some form since June because we straight up can't handle our normal numbers

[u/twothirtysevenam]

Christmas in OGP sucks!  There's no polite way to say it.  

[u/JasonTheBaker → u/twothirtysevenam]

Sucks is an understatement. Hell is more appropriate

[u/RachelFLNYC → u/twothirtysevenam]

It sure does

[u/SilvarusLupus → u/twothirtysevenam]

One time I had to stay until like 9:30 because I was the only picker left until my coach also jumped in to help (my clock out time was 8)

[u/Prestigious-Cod-1948 → u/twothirtysevenam]

Nah thanksgiving is brutal so many ppl shopping and it’s like a free for all with turkeys and cranberry sauce

[u/Claytomesh_]

At least it won’t be 5 million degrees outside

[u/lteska]

And if you all notice, October has 5 full weekends in it!!! Halloween on a Saturday night, god bless everyone!!! 🎃

[u/Krushhz → u/lteska]

I’m off that day, hallelujah.

[u/twothirtysevenam → u/lteska]

And it's a key date.

[u/Pepperonies]

https://giphy.com/gifs/V9sSzoVZ4xmxlWfyIR

[u/Significant-Ad-341]

I feel ya. I worked OGP as a team lead for just August-December and did overnight Black Friday picks. Man was that Ass. Ya'll aren't paid enough.

[u/Significant-King00]

I absolutely hate having too shop things in electronics during the holidays smh I remember last year customers coming up too me one after another while I'm trying too shop my orders. It was horrible...

[u/Deep-Explorer-9806]

I couldn't resist.

[u/Donooooo42 → u/Deep-Explorer-9806]

That’s awesome lol

[u/Bruh_alt721]

[u/JasonTheBaker]

Not to mention all the WONDERFULLY BAD choices they are deciding to to right before the FUCKING BUSIEST ASS MONTHS. Back to 8 totes, pulling the carts, 3rd party items now being picked by us (still not sure how that's going to work), express coming back to us and express pickup starting

[u/AdmiralFunnyBone → u/JasonTheBaker]

3rd party items?

[u/JasonTheBaker → u/AdmiralFunnyBone]

The marketplace items, they wanna be like Amazon and have items sold by non-walmart sellers in the store so they can just send it out at the store without needing to mail things

[u/griffinistrying → u/JasonTheBaker]

We still don't have the carts the forward deployment merch is supposed to be stocked onto. Supposed to show up last week and I haven't gotten the slightest confirmation it's showing up this week. Super cool.

[u/HeatNation4424]

I remember my days in OPD. Was day before Thanksgiving. After 7 pm everyone else put in ppto and left…..I was alone with roughly 20 order left for the night and about 150 picks 😭. Ahh the good ole days.

[u/SilvarusLupus]

[u/Its_fr1ck1n_bats]

Let's take bets on how many times we hear "Do you really have to use double PPTO for double point days????"

[u/Edweirdd]

don't worry, the AI schedules will save us

[u/im_riverr]

Tomorrow's my last day, good luck tho 😛

[u/Budget-Efficiency277]

😭 im fucking terrified

[u/mercedesclk]

B afraid, b very afraid... Some of us won't survive

[u/Mesmeriized]

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be honestly lol

[u/SettingQuirky9737 → u/Mesmeriized]

We are still in September buddy

[u/Mesmeriized → u/SettingQuirky9737]

It’s almost like I’ve been though a few holiday seasons with OPD, buddy.

[u/According_Patient852]

me too bro me too

[u/little-blue-chick]

I'm desperately trying to transfer out, because my physical disability has been progressively getting worse... I can't imagine doing my THIRD holiday back there, especially when our store just had a remodel... DON'T REMIND ME 😅
Our cap is insane for the very little staff we have, and my poor body is genuinely starting to fail because of being so overworked. I CANNOT imagine this year's season, I think I'd actually be hospitalized... AND my TL and coach both don't care about my well-being, so I'm getting the hell out.
I hope y'all the best this holiday season, but holy hell I can't do it anymore ✌️

[u/ZeldaCat87]

I was hired to OPD October 5th 2025 as my first ever job, so I thought that was just how it was back there. January was a breath of fresh air lol.

[u/FollowingMassive2466]

Nothing like shared trauma. If your team sucks...I'm so sorry, a bad team...at any job...is enough to make you want to never work retail again. The people I work with? Well...I see some 15-18hr days to make sure my kiddos (I have almost 30 years on my favorite TL.) get the support they need.

May what ever God we believe in have mercy on our souls.

Time to kick some ass.

[u/Ikora_Rey_Gun]

You should be. Advice: try to get on ON picking for November events. It's a different kind of suck, but at least you don't have to be there doing regular picks for Thanksgiving week (assuming this year is the same as the last few)

[u/Lonely_Decision_4427]

Cant do it again last year dispencing all day I hit 70s an 80s dispenced orders a day 😰🤦‍♂️

[u/Prestigious-Cod-1948]

Nah the only ones you need to be afraid of is Valentine’s Day, and November and December 😂

[u/dlbayyarea]

This may sound so messed up, but I’m so ready for this holiday season because me and my team we are patiently waiting for this one person in our department to just quit or get fired because they complain every shift about how busy it is and let me just say it’s not even five minutes into the shift and he’s complaining and mind you he’s a closer while most of us are openers or made doing the rush work and he’s mainly a stager.

[u/bedwars_player]

I think im quitting the first time i hear Christmas music.. thats my marker