It's a pain in the ass, especially since it's all unlabeled, and it takes a while to learn which things go in which aisles. We have to separate that stuff too, by aisle. It should be all dry grocery stuff: food, paper, chemicals, baby stuff, a little bit of pharmacy stuff. That truck you have entirely of skids is probably the HVDC truck, aka the remix. So I dunno what the fuck they're gonna do when we're gone but if all goes as planned, in two weeks it won't be my problem. I had to talk one associate out of taking the now-vacant backroom supervisor position because he would be set up to fail and he can get the same opportunity without the backstabbing and undermining elsewhere in the store. And we are pathologically incapable of retaining any new hires back there I don't know what they're telling these people in the interviews, but either 3rd shift snaps them up after we train them, they take one or two weeks of the bullshit and just leave, or they never make it to the backroom in the first place. The original core that was there when I started in March is gone, and the rest of us are almost all either already leaving, about to leave, or actively looking for a way out, so that whole backroom is going to hell. And on those days, it doesn't really help that we have to stop everything halfway through the second truck to pull all the overnighters' freight out for them, because if you ask the overnighters to actually work they will literally die, right there, just keel over and die. That means two-truck days are pretty much colossal clusterfucks where some parts of the unload process simply don't get done. Also, since we seem to still have more unloaders than the average Walmart, it is basically impossible for us to pull anyone from elsewhere in the store to come help us in the back. Ideally we're supposed to be stocking in pets by the end of the night, but that happens basically never. We are responsible for stocking garden, toys, sporting goods, hardware, auto, furniture, and I think also celebration, crafts, and stationery. Then we come back, finish pulling, and go stock for the rest of the night. These days we usually get the truck done about 6:30 or 7, we pull everything to the floor, we exile two guys to go separate frozen/dairy's freight for them, and then we go to lunch at 8. Our trucks are anywhere between 9 pieces, but usually they hover around 2000, give or take a couple hundred. Our usual set up is to have two guys throwing the truck, six guys on the line, one guy (me) processing breakpacks, one guy processing apparel, and (if there are enough of us) one guy downstacking remix. Nowadays our crew is reduced to about nine or ten on any given day, at the most. There was a core of guys who had been there for months already and knew everything, and when I started in March last year, they struck gold with an unusually high number of new hires who have stayed there and learned basically everything. But that was mainly because there were so many of us and pretty much all of us knew our shit. We used to have guys doing picks and downstacking remix and all sorts of other shit while we were unloading the truck. We would get the truck done by like 5:30 or 6, we'd do picks, we'd stock a big swath of the store from garden to housewares, and we'd set up the overnighters to dump bins, build features, zone, etc. My store is a Div 1 Supercenter that, at its height, had about 14 or 15 unloaders coming in daily. Also we used to receive a truck for merchandize composed purely of skids in the mornings that we now must unload as we unload the general merchandize truck, do you guys also go through something similar? I just wanted to know how your stores operate, the average truck sizes and associates scheduled as well as manager ignorance. However we are always the ones being yelled at, the first shift and over night stockroom associates don't even do anything but somehow we're at fault for they're stupidity. The work always gets done no matter how badly we are understaffed (average 3 people on 2000pc truck), picks are completed and the place is always swept before we leave to make sure everything is clean. Even with profit sharing our second shift team is always treated poorly and constantly being harassed and threatened by managers and pathetic overnight managers. Its been about 11 months since I got hired and our store has earned a profit for the first time since it opened. I currently work as an unloader at my store and have experienced some serious crap.
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