r/OGPBackroom

My TL turns every conversation into a gym session 💀

No matter what you say, this man will somehow bench press the conversation straight into the gym.

I saw him today while I was on a pick walk. I hit him with a simple “good morning.” He asks how I’m doing, I say “alright,” and like an idiot, I go, “how about you?”

Instant regret.

Him: “Man, I’m feeling great. Just finished working out my back, lat pulldowns, rows, you know how it is.”

(He’s literally rolling his shoulders mid-convo like he’s still at the gym.)

“Gotta grab a protein drink before I start. I need like 180 grams a day to maintain muscle.”

I didn’t ask for ANY of that 😭

Every. Single. Time.

Me: “Hey, a customer just passed out in produce.”

Him: “Yeah, that reminds me of the time I was squatting heavy. Went so hard I almost passed out. You gotta control your breathing, engage your core.”

BRO.

Cool story, but what do I do about the dude currently folded on the floor???

Like, I respect the dedication. Live your best life. Get your gains.

Quite literally, I just walked in the background, and he's talked about his workout routine. 💀🤣

I’ve been working at Walmart/in OPD for 1.5 years now. When I first started, we had a cool coach, 3 great team leads, sufficient staffing, good hours, etc. All of that is gone.

2 coaches later, we now have a sweet but incompetent coach. I like him, but he just stares at the pick/dispense screen like it will change anything. We’ve got 3 new team leads - 2 just started and have no idea what to do. 1 is quiet as a mouse and the other 1 is a psycho micromanager. (Not sure I can actually say what issues she has, but it rhymes with rug and bug. Seriously, not joking).

Our staffing is a joke now. Closers used to include like 6 people. The other night it was 2. A dispenser and a picker who doesn’t know how to do anything but pick and returns. Plus, our store, like many others, is cutting hours for everyone, so it will be even worse.

As told by my former team lead who left recently, market removed our hourly/daily order cap. We can handle 8,000 to 10,000 picks a day. Now we’re up to 13,000 or 14,000. We used to finish picking at 6:30 and go home early. Now we’re lucky if we finish by 8:30. The stuff piles up. The claims pile up.

I used to love this job. I was the stellar employee who skipped their breaks, stayed late, put in 110%. I loved going to work.

Now? I don’t blame anyone for calling in. I don’t get surprised when I’m told another associate quit on the spot. I don’t stay over. I don’t come in early. I don’t answer my phone on my off days. I see people’s orders and instead of wondering what they got (yeah I’m a curious person), all I see is stuff. Junk. Overconsumption.

Like did you really need 16 12-packs of Dr. Thunder? (no joke).

Don’t get me wrong, I respect Walmart to a degree. Our store makes target sales every day. We move inventory. We make money (I suppose).

But at what cost? Sometimes I get home and cry from the stress and exhaustion. My coworkers that I am buddies with, who haven’t quit yet, all say they are tired of this place.

It’s not sustainable. And better yet? Our store lead has seen our struggling numbers - high wait times, LTPs, OTP, pre-sub - and his advice? “Find a solution.”

Coming from a man who has never worked a day in OPD at our store.

I applied to a bunch of jobs on Indeed today. Hoping to find somewhere that pays better and won’t schedule me 16 hours a week. Because that totally pays the bills.

Anyway, vent almost over. I do love the people I work with (most of them) and have many cherished memories. I even met my partner at Walmart lol. But it seems my time is coming to an end at the Walmart.

My coworker prints it off but I keep forgetting to ask them to show me. How do I print it? Thanks everyone

Leaving only me and two new people. I wasn’t informed of this and I walk into the back room to people crying, customers pissed off in the parking lot, and orders backed up since 7pm. I put in an hour of ppto and left. You let them do it to you once they will keep doing it to you. 14$ an hour isn’t worth the disrespect and stress. Plus my app has been broken for a month, nobody has helped me because they are on vacation constantly. I’ve been here 2 years and I work my ass off. The coaches laughed in the employees faces when they left to. So guess who got to come into a shitstorm of a back room while I stressed out all fucking night over standing up for myself. This job isn’t fucking worth it.

Oh my god I hate this new thing where they’re putting GMD orders with deliveries it makes no sense, GMD’s were perfectly fine the way they were stop changing it so we have to do even more work.

Anyone willing to share their experience of how it went when one of your Team Leads stepped down and stayed on in the department as a regular associate ? Is it allowed in your store ? Going from a leadership role to being a peer has there been any noticeable issues positive or negative ?

If you did poorly with your interview with your coach would you automatically be disqualified? Does the interview really pull any weight or is it just a formality? Also, how and when do you usually find out if you got the job?

i got pulled into the office saying that i can’t nil pick exceptions anymore or else ill get in trouble. i hear from the other two exception pickers they got told the same thing. i do everything i can before i nil something. when i ask for help it’s like a 50/50 that someone’s gonna be nice and help or someone’s going to be rude to me. also sometimes…. it’s genuinely not there idk. am i gonna get fired.

apparently "beep beep, beep beep beep beep" is how you ask me to move my cart. like i'm a car taking too long to drive when the light turns green. if i did that to a customer, they'd demand a manager.

i've gotten better at keeping my mouth shut, so i didn't say anything, but i was so pissed for the whole rest of my walk

hey everyone please don’t get on me for asking this. does your guys management get on you for having vests unzipped? half my dept doesn’t zip theirs but the second i unzip mine my tl gets on my ass.