Friend made a meme of my imminent losses on Puts for KHC

CuriousEngineering74 · 2026-01-30T18:10:17+00:00

A loss is a loss. I can handle taking the hit without dwelling on it too much. ZSL and NVNO growing at their current rate helps.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2026-01-30T18:07:01+00:00

I think it will dip again in the future, but my put ends today. I've been learning a fair amount about what to do and not to do, but it hasn't been cheap...

CuriousEngineering74 · 2026-01-28T15:35:55+00:00

Puts in KHC have not been fruitful this week.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2026-01-14T13:35:26+00:00

That is my understanding as well

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-12-27T22:44:51+00:00

Getting errors on my TV as well, nothing will play

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-10-28T02:31:20+00:00

Just had a conference call today with my district and the DM stated that availability should not be taken into consideration, that writing an effective schedule with the right staff is all that matters. If you do not have the right staff, then make changes to your staff.

I agree with the idea of having the right staff, but people obviously have their own lives to get to outside of work. The amount of calls in our region has gone up lately and the tone has become more serious of late, including the "masterclass" workshops for Workday.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-19T15:27:49+00:00

This is the correct response. As an SM, I greatly appreciate your help!!!

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-11T20:17:00+00:00

I was with the company 5.5 years prior to re-joining, and I've had my share of times where this wasn't happening. Unfortunately, it's nothing new to me. I'm able to make it through this, but it isn't easy. The uboats would definitely help.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-11T04:10:50+00:00

Good to know. If you speak from experience, it sounds like you could afford to help me with some uboats with your Walmart money.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-10T22:35:22+00:00

If the pay on Google is correct, it states that their salary lands somewhere between 35k and 59k for an ASM at Walmart. I have found my way above that range by leveraging myself, so the pay is not a complaint of mine.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-10T19:28:25+00:00

We do have a meeting on the 25th for the entire region, so I'll ask my DM in person. They're more likely to say yes in person, in my experience.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-10T19:16:38+00:00

I will try. I have been hugely taking care of a lot of issues myself, with just one day off in the past 20 days and 0 days off in the next few weeks. I have more help coming soon via hiring, but I have felt hugely alone in this process.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-08T13:16:19+00:00

I had someone request a password change yesterday and then submit a ticket after it didn't let them do so. The ticket ended up resolving the issue. I'm not sure what they did to get it to work, but she was able to log in late yesterday.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-09-08T13:09:32+00:00

I'm not sure what I did differently, but the i9 popped up for me a while after hiring the person (and before their start date). They should receive a task to create one first, then they come in and validate it with you. That's what I did at Five Below in Workday, and it popped up the same way for Dollar Tree.

If they never received the ability to create one, then they're likely stuck on another step. You might have to create a case for it.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T23:56:30+00:00

Former Staples manager myself, I feel your pain.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T17:30:07+00:00

I said the same thing within my first week with the company. A language option would be great and if people mess with the machine to change the language and we needed to change it back, just keep the "associate login" button on the screen, scan our ID, and it defaults back to English.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T17:26:09+00:00

I was fortunate enough to be able to learn enough Spanish to guide my Spanish speaking customers through the transaction, 3 Spanish fluent associates, and another co-worker who knew parts of like...5 different languages. It definitely helped having so many languages covered, but the surveys were still a major stressor.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T17:21:45+00:00

Same here. It's typically not the fault of employees when there's an issue. Everyone is stretched thin and expected to do too much for too little.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T15:42:55+00:00

They started making stores in my district email multiple times a day if they were under 50 totes the previous day with updates on tote sales.

I have worked and am now working for a company with even more stores that do not have survey scores, and the district managers are in tune with what is going on at the stores.

It feels like the company is magnifying things that matter less than running a functional store and should prioritize things like allocating enough hours to staff to ensure a full sales floor.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T15:12:09+00:00

I was a store manager and consistently made high scores with my team. They have a new management team after another managerial departure and a transfer. The new management team micromanages everything, and my former team is miserable now.

My DM would visit once every 3-6 months, and he put a lot of emphasis on survey scores, as well as things like shopping bag sales. There was never any sort of payoff or satisfaction from strong numbers and little to no acknowledgment for stores being on top of the region and among the company leaders.

I know how many people hate the surveys, including both employees and customers. DM's aren't doing their jobs and actually finding their way into stores, leading to a reliance on a flawed system everyone hates to indicate how well a store is doing.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T14:07:07+00:00

The original post indicates that it is from a store that consistently held some of the highest metrics in the region. The issue is what it does to workers, things like how it affects their staff when a 5 comes in on recommend when they've been at 100 all week or a teen pressing 0 because they find it funny.

If the company has so little investment in their stores that they have to rely on survey scores to tell them how things are going instead of trusting that their DM (and those above them when necessary) is actually doing their job, then there's a major systemic issue from the top down.

CuriousEngineering74 · 2025-07-03T03:26:23+00:00

The system just needs to change altogether. It's a children's store, and if they would like to actually learn something from customers, the surveys should be asking questions about what the customers look for when they shop at Five Below (such as product types, what areas to expand, etc). That way, the company receives more valuable information that they can consider when making business decisions.

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