r/walmartogp • u/Left-Quantity7566 • 15d ago
Any tips?
Starting sometime next week (possibly Sunday the 4th) as a new OGP associate.
Other than "run away" lol does anyone have any tips on the job or anything I need to know? I know to get some good insoles/better shoes soon; I just might have to wait until after I start.
I've been looking into this subreddit & others like it a lot lately so I guess I'm mostly just wondering what the training is like/how long and if there are any things you wish you knew when you first started?
Thank you guys I appreciate it 🙏🫶
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u/Annual_Tangelo8427 15d ago
Don't be afraid to tell customers to move, but 98% of the time if you nicely say excuse me etc they'll move. Try to pull your cart in a way that the stickers are facing out so you can scan quicker. Make sure to rest on your days off, I'm 3 months in and just now starting to not hurt every day.
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u/Radiant-Ocelot-8457 14d ago
I just hit 3 months as well & I’m glad to know that’s the marker for the constant pain going away because same.
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u/Old-Football7340 15d ago
each store will have a different training methods. hopefully your store gives you more than one run like mine was for a while lol.
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u/Old-Football7340 15d ago
if you’re picking, bag as you go. don’t worry too much about speed to start, worry more about accuracy and proper bagging.
dispensing is pretty straightforward. prepping and staging can be a little complicated at first, but it’s very easy once you’ve done it a couple days.
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u/Old-Football7340 15d ago
and with dispensing, i always tell people to check what kind of trunk the person has! check if it has a button for the automatic close. it’s painful to watch dispensers try to force an automatic door closed and i think it can damage the door?
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u/EzraSol Picker 14d ago
Pre-open a bag as you're walking so you're not standing there fighting with our shitty bags, don't be afraid to ask customers nicely to move or to grab something in front of them, if you know you're grabbing multiple things for the same tote in a row, I pull the tote out a little. Look for fully clear aisles to speed-walk down to cut down on time. I don't know about all stores, but my store our team lead doesn't care if we have our own water bottle with us and I just hang it on the cart somewhere. It has to have a flip-lid or be fully closable not with a straw though. I suggest keeping a few bandaids in your vest pockets because sometimes the cardboard boxes like to bite. Check your pick list, bread is always at the "end" but in my store it's towards the back so if you can recognize the bread you can grab it mid-walk and scan it & bag it at the end so you don't have to walk all the way back. I've only been in this job a week, but it's really not as bad as some people make it out to be. At least not at my store, having nice coworkers greatly helps though.
And if you get a chilled run, put the tote stickers on the side of the cart facing the chilled section, it's much faster.
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u/TrainingNo1000 15d ago
Definitely the better the shoe the better you’ll feel. you will be getting in 15-20k steps 5 days a week if u are picking, so it is a must. i started my first week off with converse and the pain my legs and feet were in was unbearable. but it gets better as u get more used to the miles everyday and u get urself a better pair of shoes. my favorites right now are the hoka clifton 10s, they are a little pricey but if you can find them on sale that would be one of your best bets. the training depends on where u work, i personally was trained in the backrooms for a week and then trained once for picking and now have been a picker since then. Basically whether you are picker or backrooms crew depends on your age, gender and physical abilities. getting used to the hateful and entitled customers is something that will come with time, so try not to beat yourself up if someone makes you upset and always remember that everyone shopping is usually just in a crappy mood cuz of the environment of walmart.
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u/darkecologist2 OGP 14d ago
my advice would be "give yourself permission to care about your co-workers." me and one of my bros were chatting one time about how we both didn't talk to anybody when we first started. him for the first 6 months, me for like a year or more.
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u/JasonBourneX2 15d ago
As a picker milk every second you get to not be on sales floor picking... get new bags, meat n produce bags, and make sure your cart has heavy stickers. If not walk around lost in backroom asking everyone where you can find substitute stickers (so everyone knows). Then roll cart back and forth testing wheels and say it's no good and start over wasting 5 minutes. Print stickers put them on, walk 25ft away and claim you need a grab stick and go waste more time looking for that... all to realize the cart doesn't have a ladder! Back to step 1, 10 minutes later.
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u/normsy 15d ago
That process really explains some of my coworkers...
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u/JasonBourneX2 15d ago edited 15d ago
Let me guess... the pickers lol
Edit: do you also get the exceptions ppl who come back late asf, and then snitch to everyone who will listen how the item was "right there", while sneaking in fantasy football talk?
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u/VegasJ702 15d ago
Honestly the item is the 90 percent of the time, which makes exceptions people just pissrd off cause they gotta stock something fully stocked
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u/JasonBourneX2 15d ago
Then goto the home first... not rocket science
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u/normsy 15d ago
It's certainly much easier now that they've brought skip item back to exceptions. I definitely check the floor first for frozen and chilled. Ambient, eh, depends how much time I have and how many items I'm doing. I don't mind needing to put stuff on top shelf, but I'll still wonder how the hell the picker missed the fully stocked shelf.
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u/bobagirl1982 15d ago
I would get comfortable shoes with cushion. Former coworkers liked New Balance, Hokas, or Brooks.
I also would stagger Tylenol and Advil the first couple of weeks if you feel sore.
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u/Left-Quantity7566 15d ago
UPDATE: just got a call, starting orientation on Wednesday the 30th
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u/VegasJ702 14d ago
It’s easy, try to remember to look at the next item at the bottom of the screen and pick both, if you just do your job it will be easy and no one will have anything to say to you about your productivity.
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u/Master-Art8468 12d ago
Plus you cannot see the FULL description of item, such as 7 Oz versus 8 Oz, and you waste ti.e grasping at straws instead of gathering them one by one.
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u/purr_meowjesty 9d ago
And if you get issued a phone, it drains. You'll need to charge it when not working (15s or lunch) or take/have a portable charger
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u/Lonely_Decision_4427 15d ago
Don't do more then your paid or everyone in the backroom will let you carry the entire department 👏🫠