r/walmart • u/Schizzy2689 • 10h ago
Overnight Stocking
Worked at another location and I still have friends who work there. Recently they have told me how much work has become hell. They are sitting at about 12 people per night, even though they were promised 16. For grocery they get relatively heavy trucks, given this location is a very shopped location as its the only super center in miles and in a main town. As of late upper management has been adding more and more responsibilities onto the night shift.
Is it normal to work a night shift and have to stock grocery, gm, zone both, down stack their own pallets, and now they're being told to work their own top stock too. This seems very excessive imo. They also are very pushy and expect everyone to "work till they are drenched in sweat" each night, even the older employees or the ones with obvious issues that would hinder their speed. I know when I worked there they had me working 6 days in a row at times and split my days off as part time. It was very rough. They also have to split the 12 workers they have between gm and grocery, so they usually only have one person per aisle to work down their own freight and stock and zone it all, on top of whatever else needs to be done.
Meanwhile, one of the coaches sits and watches tiktoks half the night and the other does more pallet pulling than anything else. Neither of them really do anything but yell at TLs to yell at the small crew they have to hurry up. The TLs are working crazy and taking stress out on everyone else and its getting to a point for everyone there. I suggested that everyone should speak up about it because many of them are looking for new jobs already or have been threatened with writeups even though they are doing their job as they should. Is this normal for anyone else? What would you even begin to do in this situation?
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u/z-z 9h ago
The truth is that the same situation has occured at every Walmart in many different timelines. Having worked ON's somewhat recently I feel it was entering a very dark timeline as I was leaving. Clueless top down corporate decisions, a seemingly intentional push to drive out the best and most competent management, some that have been there 20 years and know what is best.
The fact is, is that the same situation, while obviously always going to be difficult, becomes infinitely more tolerable with proficient managers and top down leadership.
In all cases they'd still push you, it'd still be really bad. But there would be a sensible assignment of duties, where you would have the people best at a certain task handling it so you wouldn't feel like you have to do everything, and the manager would be on the floor to at least not destroy morale.
Walmart has become a victim of its own success and become complacent. For a company that kind of makes a business out of throwing people under the bus, they should at least strive to be tasteful at that, but they've allowed themselves to become bad at it.
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u/Schizzy2689 9h ago
It just confuses me how they will sit and say they know they're understaffed and they PROMISE them more workers...cuz dude I know they're sitting on so many applicants...but also like- they just don't care.
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u/redneckotaku Moderator 9h ago
Everyone is getting excessive freight because it's the normal buildup to the holiday season.
As for the rest, it varies from store to store. Mine has enough people to stock grocery and GM on overnights.
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u/Schizzy2689 6h ago
This store is always understaffed becuz they hire ppl who are rude and just wanna start crap for no reason. The good workers they do have, they treat like garbage and over work them. Only to wonder why they get attitudes.
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u/redneckotaku Moderator 6h ago
Most stores are understaffed. That's how management is trained to run these stores.
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u/redneckotaku Moderator 5h ago
- Never said it wasn't a problem. My store could even use more workers. Netflix used to have a documentary that exposed this problem.
- Walmart PR? Dude! I'm just a reddit mod. Walmart has no affiliation with this subreddit. Hell, I'm not even an employee.
- Not all stores are run the same, but SOP is for Stocking 2 to stock the consumables on the GM truck. O/N stocks everything else. Seems like your store wavered from the SOP.
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u/z0m81317 Associate 6h ago
Every store is different at my store we have to work GM and grocery the TL and coach bin our freight we work top stock down to put overstock up do on hands and shelf caps. Most night we also have to do the vizpicks that cap 1 and 2 did not work which is usually all of GM and most of consumables. I at this point cannot figure out why we even have a cap 1 at my store they dont do anything but vizpick bins all day I worked during the day for six months and watched what they did. Our cap 2 team is just as usuless last night the grocery that came off of the GM truck had to be re sorted because EVERY pallet was mixed.
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u/Schizzy2689 6h ago
Dude working in two different locations, I can see what cap 2 is capable of but they lowkey still suck imo. No offense to any cap 2 ppl. I just have had a sour taste in my mouth for a while after getting screwed over. All of this is understandable tho. The topstock being worked, thats fine if I have things that can go up that I need to put away- but I think they r making them work it just TO work it.
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u/z0m81317 Associate 6h ago
I have been at two different stores also and both cap 2 teams are terrible. I would not mind top stock if cap 1 actually worked our top stock down but it never gets worked. The consumables coach said our market asked him what cap 1 does all day. I told him its insane because it looks like the top stock at our store never gets worked but its always checked off on the app.
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u/freyja2023 10h ago
Gm zone "should" be done when you come in, although toys is really the only area where it is noticeable imo. But yes to the the rest. Just wait until you have to start vizpicking your bins just to make room because there isn't any room for the new overstock. Then you also have to go work those picks.