u/ninjawarriorjay

I was recently hired at Walmart as an OMNI Customer Fulfillment Associate. Most of my coworkers are Indian, and they speak Hindi with each other. I was born and raised in Canada and speak English with everyone at work.

Recently, I was told I should speak Urdu after I mentioned to a coworker that my nationality is Canadian and my ethnicity is Pakistani. I’m not fluent in Urdu and don’t feel comfortable speaking it at work.

I think English should be the main language used at work so everyone can communicate clearly and no one is left out.

What do you think?

I worked at an Amazon delivery warehouse where I made $2- $3 more than minimum wage. I recently got hired at Walmart OGP, where they pay 15 cents more than minimum wage and tell me to work faster when I’m staging and picking at a normal pace. At Amazon, I was told to be safe and work hard. They didn’t focus too much on stow rate unless I was slow or making a lot of mistakes. Although the job at Amazon was more physically demanding than Walmart, the expectations felt different overall.

I was recently hired at Walmart as a personal shopper and have learned how to bag, stage, and dispense orders, and I know how to do these tasks on my own. I also shadowed a picker and understand how the process works, but I have not been told to do it myself yet. Is this normal? I would like to try picking and learn more, but so far I have only been assigned to bagging, staging, and dispensing. I don’t want to stay in the backroom every day, so should I ask my manager if I can try picking for my next shift if I'm assigned to staging again?

I finished my first shift in OGP today and I’m looking for some advice.

I learned how to pick, bag, stage, and dispense. Bagging, staging, and dispensing were easy, but picking was the hardest part for me. I don’t really know where most of the products are yet, so I spent a lot of time trying to find items. I also had a customer ask me where something was, and I had to tell her it was my first day and say that another associate could help her find the item.

My manager mentioned that I need to keep my pick rate up and told me a couple of times to work faster when I was staging at a normal pace. I know that speed matters, but it’s hard when I’m still learning everything. I also made a couple of mistakes with staging by putting totes in the wrong area, but I fixed them once I was told.

Before this, I worked at an Amazon delivery warehouse where the job was physically demanding, but I was never told to work faster. I ended up working fast there because I got comfortable with the environment. This feels different since I’m still trying to learn where everything is while also keeping a good pace.

Right now, my biggest struggle is knowing where all the products are and what to do when something is out of stock, because we don’t substitute and instead look in the backroom. I’m thinking about going in an hour before my shift to walk around the store and learn where everything is. I would also like to know where I should start and if I should write down the aisle signs and numbers.

How did you get faster at picking when you first started?