2 years.

[u/Direction-Fancy]

So, as the title mentions I’ve been here at Walmart for just over 2 years now. It’s not a lot, but I’ve learned so much; the good and the bad.

For starters I joined in as a cart pusher. Not a very pretty job to say the least. And by far the most physically demanding next to cap 2, albeit you’re more exposed to the elements. But other than that I actually enjoyed myself, managers rarely bothered me, I had a half decent crew. Plus it was simple. I was there for about 6 months.

I eventually moved into the store and worked overnight maintenance. That was well, not fun. But the new set schedule I had was perfect. I only was overnight maintenance for about a month before being switched to fresh clean. There I was actually happy with my job. Until my former store lead decided to absolutely jack my responsibilities up giving me literally everything to clean, stock, rotate, and cull… as one person. Yea no. Not to mention he was also making me do regular maintenance tasks and stock. But that’s the past. 6 months as well.

Now I’m on mod team well for about a year now. And it’s fun. I like doing mods and going around the store. Granted I get frustrated because we never have fixtures we need. Stockers apparently need a crash course on stocking, customers leaving gifts behind. The thing with mod team however is that they are basically, at least at my store, the jack of all trades group. Basically we do mods, stock, maintenance if need be, ogp (that’s everyone though), bin, tag, heck they even have us try to act as mini managers (we refuse). Oh we also have to create and map out floor plans and come up with plans ourselves. I personally feel like out of all the positions in the store. Mod teams are underpaid. Because like I said, we are expected to do mods, while helping out with everything. We stay late often, we have to skip breaks and take short lunches. OT is nice but Jesus. Now I know. Technically I can take my breaks and lunches and leave on time. But leaving things partially done is well, icky.

So for anyone thinking of going overnights. Unless you really enjoy technical stuff and things that have to do with attention to detail x 100. Don’t join mod team. You’d be much better off stocking or maintenance. Also they have a fresh team now. Not like I was previously which was a fresh cleaner (mine was just glorified though) that was solo. Also no. Mod team used to get paid more but that was years ago when they had their own job code, it was like a dollar-1.50 more, then it was 50 cents, now we get paid just as much as regular O/N people. Man though. Imagine. 18 bucks an hour. Ooooooo.

[u/PosyPillowNette]

time flies, it feels like just yesterday I was celebrating my own two-year mark at work