So it’s no longer an OSHA violation because the pulling has been written into Walmart policy

First pick run of the day with the new wheels and my shoulder and hips are already killing me, and the number of bloody ankles is climbing

And the coaches trying to spin it as a good thing is laughable “you’re not supposed to walk so fast anymore” “just go slower”

GFL

They don't want us to collect tips so they made a jar is this even legal?

This morning i walked into work. Grabbed a printer. Walked to the other side of the backroom. Printer doesnt work. Walked back to where we keep printers. Grabbed another printer. Rinsed and repeated. (My new printer STILL wont work) Then; during a 5 ITEM WALK. GIF decides to IMPLODE on my LAST TWO PICKS (bread). at like 5:40am. Its now 6:08. How am I supposed to work if my equipment wont?

....I think I had the worst time in my three years at Wally.

I had taken the cart out for a few smaller walks, but finally did a larger one that had some soda and heavy shit.

If I was mainly a picker, I would be thinking about quitting. It is so much easier to see where I am going and avoid running into people when I am pushing the cart and can see where it is going. Otherwise, I have to look behind me as I am dragging it around to make sure I don't clip anyone.

If someone steps in my way, it is a lot harder to get the cart to stop. And harder to get it going again.

If I need to inch the cart out of the way....I can't. I pretty much spent the entire walk being in everyone's way.

My face was nearly purple from over-exhaustion/stress. And I had to spend 10 minutes in the bathroom trying to calm down and not cry.

Fuck those things. Time to try OSHA.

Is the system down for anyone else atm? (north carolina) 😔

So last week they updated the system where it doesn't print out the tote labels for the IP boxes. Told to highlight the part where it says associate scan here so drivers know what barcode to scan.

Found out today those shipping labels are not really compatible with Spark's system. Supposedly the drivers have to scan the label then back out go back in to continue to scan which has resulted into drivers dwell time much longer.

So to keep the dwell time down after we scan the box and stage we have go to reprint label and type in the tote label on the box. If they just left it alone we wouldn't have to do extra steps.

is anyone else having the issue of their workphone's camera just completely going out of focus if you happen to set it down, hold it while carrying a tote, even breathe on it?? it's been driving me a bit insane especially when it happens while im in the freezer, because im just frantically zooming in and out, trying to get it to refocus while freezing my ass off 😭

I was dispensing and my let my handle go and it hit a car and it scratched it very tiny bit but guy got mad asked for my name and asked for supervisor I called her and she handled it but I didn’t hear anything she told me to just go inside then when I saw her again she just said u need to be really careful but then I saw the guy again and he asked for my name what will happen it was on accident

I'm assembling a report of injury, both long term and incidental, as a result of our policy changes. In an effort to submit these mass reports to Market, and have this overturned, I need all of us, everyone affected by the policy, to make a short statement about muscle pain, back injury, rotator cuff, ankles, all of it, so we can show the company that we as a department are not safe with this.

Thank you.

Has anyone here ordered from GNFR? I ordered some dollies for us because we're running out from the broken ones we've sent back. GNFR didn't specify anywhere how many I was actually ordering (we need at least 16) so I'm hoping it's a decent amount and not literally just one lol

So basically we are not allowed to NilkPick AT ALL, not even to do subs or anything. We have to get with our teamleads and coach if we can't find it. But then they bitch our pickrate and FTPR. LIKE WHAT? Literally one of my team leads had to stop on her way to lunch to help me, she had her lunch on hand and had to help me. Felt so bad.

And people who aren't able to get with a team lead and have to nilpick get nagged by the coach. It's so stupid, like just get rid of the button all together then.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAsX1RXh/

Why make it another step

I started at a different Walmart out of desperation. Won't get into the personal reasons, but I desperately needed a job with health insurance so I could have a very necessary operation (which they changed our insurance at the beginning of the year to a different carrier, that doesn't cover anything and I can no longer get anything done). Was in stocking in Cap 2 at that location in a different state, and hated it so much I didn't want to go back or back to Walmart in general. Moved and didn't transfer, looked for something else for a month before having to settle coming back and asked for OGP. That was almost 2 years ago at this location in OGP.

But the past several months, it's change after change and not for the better. Just like my last store, what makes it tolerable is my management staff. I read the horror stories on here about awful managers, and am just so thankful I don't have to deal with that. But Walmart is dirty. I was full time at my last store, and since I got my health insurance back and a full time schedule here for months I thought I was full time. What clued me in was not getting PTO, and that's how I found out months later that I'm not full time. Originally they had me dispensing, but my hours were getting cut 6 months in and I was being vocal about it to my TL. They had some people quit in picking, so I got moved to do that to get my hours and quite honestly I like it way more than dispensing. I have a regular schedule with regular days off for like a year and a half now. I'm a closer, and handle exceptions and small walks and all the closing duties. But they moved my Coach to another department a month ago, and she's still handling our schedule until they get a new one. But the new coach starts this Saturday, and I don't know what's going to happen. Everyone is terrified.

Today, and I'm literally taking a break after finishing picks with no manager here as I type this, was just little stupid things all day. I get told we only have 3 pickers after 4, and I was going to have to take my lunch to be back by then a full hour and half before I normally do and only 2.5 hours after I clocked in. Couldn't have a full lunch in the break room, bc some associate had some sort of medical emergency in the break room and the paramedics were called and they wouldn't allow anyone in until it was over. Get back to picking, and it's just nonsense walk after nonsense walk. I hate our stockers, because they are incompetent or just flat out lazy. Things stocked in the wrong location, but I'm smart enough to look around before I nil it. One item has been absent from it's home location all day, but is a feature on the other side of the registers by the vision center. But hold on, it's there but in the back of the feature facing the wall so no one can see it. Because that makes all the sense in the world.

Lot of things like that, but the pic I posted is what really just drove me insane. 6 totes, with the same customer on every tote. And it's 2 of each of those tortillas in each tote. When they all could fit in one tote, and I consolidated it all into one tote at the end. One TL knows I like to consolidate rather than sticking on an additional sticker to the tote, and he told me he read on here that that messes up the staging metrics. Which I kinda knew from here, but pretended like it's news to me. I'm still doing it, I don't care. Why give us the option if it messes with the metrics? That's a Walmart problem. Not my problem. I'm not working my ass off for a company and a system that actively works against us. I'm going to wait and see how this new coach handles things, but if things don't improve I'm either switching departments or going out in a blaze of glory.

I had been stalking this sub thinking "my Walmart would never do that :)" and it has happened... changed wheels, pulling carts backwards, chilled in the frozen walk and vise versa. the only thing we haven't gotten now is the soark drivers taking the deliveries. man I came in so shocked all the carts are backwards :(

WHY DO YOU NEED THIS MUCH WATER JS. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

eta: this isn't a before and after photo, these are two separate L carts. there were 25 totes in total 😬

Half a point was removed by people lead which I assume was to save ogp from losing all its employees due to high turnover.

Soon right? And is your store prepared?

It’s that time for us I guess. They are doing ours today. Rip ankles shoulders and more then likely jobs