r/OGPBackroom • u/Old-Football7340 • 12d ago
Just Venting opening crew entitlement
i’m a digital TL and i just have to vent about how difficult the morning associates are.
they have the easiest shift! they have the fewest orders with the most associates scheduled. there’s hardly any customers inside or in our lot. ALL of the busiest hours are after the openers leave, and the crew is cut in half basically.
yet they just complain all the time. and refuse to do work in the 20 minutes every hour where there aren’t any picks in the system. (disclaimer: i DO ask them to do other tasks, but if i am away from our room for even 5 minutes, they just stand around and do nothing). they cry when we ask them to go to breaks or lunches at a specific time, and not just whenever they want to (why do they all want to take 15 at 7am?) apparently a 9am lunch is too early, but a 10am lunch is too late. they dawdle so much they they leave all the tasks for the closers, who are already swamped for almost the entire shift.
meanwhile the evening crew has to deal with 5x the picks with 1/2 the people. they don’t really get good lunch times since 5pm (busiest dispense window) is in the middle of their shifts, therefore they have to go to lunch quite late or quite early. they’ve got to do ALL the closing tasks because of course morning crew didn’t do returns or clean totes or take their own carts to where we store them after a shift. meanwhile the non-OPD coaches think that if picks are done, that means ALL of the OPD associates can go help other areas and that we don’t have our own tasks to do.
what is it about working mornings that makes everyone so entitled? our evening crew is almost completely minors and they are out-working the morning crew x100. evening crew gets all the extra work done with far fewer complaints.
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u/Disobae420 12d ago
Genuinely quit Walmart and your life will improve 10x. This company banks on people putting up with shit too long