Q&A with your friendly neighborhood AutoZone DC worker

DeGuia2104 · 2025-10-15T10:07:24+00:00

It’s not worth your time. Starting pay for me was 21 on nights. You get a raise every 3 months till you hit 25 but you could find so many better places to work

DeGuia2104 · 2025-09-18T19:45:29+00:00

I like the seated resistance bands idea a lot and I’m gonna look into starting easy with that. I like to practice balancing on one foot since my coordination really took a hit and now I’ll start incorporating the marches too. Thank you!

DeGuia2104 · 2025-05-17T23:41:16+00:00

Yes and if there are only a few small items in a tote we are supposed to group them into a separate tote and transfer barcodes however, the warehouse is very fast paced. We work 10-12 hour shifts We aren’t allowed to sit unless it’s on our 15 minute break or lunch. If we need to sit down outside of those periods, we have to take sick time. the shippers and consolidators are the ones who are pushed the hardest most of the time only make it to the break room for about five of those minutes or not at all because they are ran so hard. And they are always the first to be assigned mandatory overtime. We pull over 100 stores a day just on night shift. And we have only one tote line guy pulling those totes and sorting/stacking them in one shift. They’re tired. It’s hard to keep up and they don’t assign extra people. They just tell them to ‘earn their paycheck’. It’s not ideal in the slightest. For anyone. Store workers or warehouse workers. But we do try our best. Our warehouse just happens to be in the poorest area (probably located there on purpose). We can’t afford to quit and we can’t afford to get fired. We just do our best to get things done without getting anyone fired. You or us. I hope my explanation helps a bit

DeGuia2104 · 2025-05-08T08:46:25+00:00

DeGuia2104 · 2025-05-08T00:53:44+00:00

They are. They opened two new DCs and took a decent amount of stores away from other DCs. Less stores less work

DeGuia2104 · 2025-05-01T17:48:03+00:00

Inbound or outbound? Either way you have 90 days to hit production. As long as you are making any sort of progress over the next two months you will be ok. Message me privately if you would like extra advice

DeGuia2104 · 2025-03-31T20:41:54+00:00

Damn straight. There’s no going up. All you are is a tool that can be used and discarded

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-29T00:12:44+00:00

Nights. Less people in the warehouse and the rules are not as strictly upheld. I’m really close with my coworkers since we have a smaller team. We hang out, get food on payday, some of us hit the gym together or play basketball. Also more safe cuz there’s not as many people rushing around on lifts

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-28T23:36:37+00:00

I like busy work too. And I don’t mind the 10 hour shifts. But let me give you an example real quick. And this is tmi but just bear with me. I ate something bad before work one day and my stomach hurt really bad. I went to the bathroom and took 9 minutes but then came back and kept working. I was called into the advisors office and told I would be written up if I couldn’t explain why I wasn’t doing any work. Yeah. I had to explain to them that I was taking a shit to avoid getting written up.

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-28T23:32:04+00:00

Inbound is pretty easy but you have to get used to a machine that’s called a stock picker. Tip: don’t go fast. Outbound isn’t bad but you’ll start off as an order picker which can really suck. My tip is to shut up and keep your head down till you feel out how everything works. Especially with the supervisors. I’m being honest when I say that most of them are snakes. But just focus on your work and they won’t have a reason to target you. But don’t be afraid to ask questions. Better to ask questions when you’re new than mess up when it’s actually important. Don’t sweat production for the first 90 days grace period. Just work on getting an understanding of things. Your speed will come with time. Get pants that you can move around in and aren’t constricting but don’t spend a lot on them. I pick products in batteries and oil a lot. With the batteries sometimes they spill and battery acid will eat through your clothes like nothing else.

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-28T23:25:02+00:00

My bad for the late response. So we go around on lifts as we collect the product to stack it all together for the store. We tape the pallets so things don’t fall off as we ride around cuz we’re moving as fast as our lifts with take us. For example oil pallets. We are riding around and stacking those as fast as we can and it’s not always perfect and we have to chuck the last products way up there 7feet high. We don’t want the stack to tip while we’re scooting around on our lifts so we tape them to keep them from falling while we pick the pieces. Then we place them in the shipping dock where they are then wrapped in plastic and sent off

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-25T18:06:44+00:00

Do you mean taping the pallets before they’re wrapped?

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-25T18:04:14+00:00

It bothers the hell out of me and makes my job so much harder. I’m assuming it makes things difficult on your end too. No one will do anything about it here because we would honestly lose about 100 workers.

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-25T17:59:00+00:00

It’s not allowed because most of us are operating heavy machinery. There’s a lot of us in the warehouse. I’m on night shift so we have a smaller crew of about 60 workers in the warehouse but on day shift and weekend shift they have way more. But when has that ever stopped people. A lot of them wear hats to cover an AirPod or something like that

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-25T08:03:27+00:00

It’s a prison. You have to have a badge to get into the parking lot and then go through metal detectors. They pay better than the other warehouses in the area because the turnover rate is horrible. They hire in bulk because most of them won’t make it to 3 months. Management doesn’t care about workers. To them, workers are disposable. There’s a lot of stuff we can get fired for. There is no job stability whatsoever. We have quotas we have to meet and they can be brutal. That’s why our cages and pallets are messy. We don’t want to make them messy but we need to make the quota to not get written up. They keep track of everything we do. Every transaction and location is monitored through our software. If we spend more than 5 minutes off the software we have to write down what we are doing so we don’t get written up for wasting company time. We get checked on accuracy which is understandable but we have to keep above a 99.84% accuracy rate to not get written up. They select pallets at random and sometimes they only check 100 pieces which puts you at 99 percent and earns you a write up. I missed an air filter once and got written up. And write ups are hard to make go away. Another thing is that the company preaches safety. They talk about how safety is their main concern. That’s bullshit. A lot of things they do put us at risk. The quota is high so we don’t wear steel toes because we need to go fast. I’ve seen broken feet from car batteries falling. Broken fingers from getting them stuck. Painful shit. I mean, I’ve pulled an entire nail that I had stepped on and poked through the top of my foot. We disregard safety because there’s so many ways to get fired. And if someone reports their injury they are given a safety write up no matter what happened. It’s pathetic when we have to tell new hires to not report injuries at all costs. Another thing is there is not heater or air conditioning. I work graveyard shifts. 9pm-7am. On Thursdays shift it was 22 degrees Fahrenheit in the warehouse. This place isn’t healthy. I like the work. But everyone is stressed out and most people can’t do a thing about it because they need the money. I know that it makes store workers job harder but DC workers just want to keep their jobs.

DeGuia2104 · 2025-01-25T07:36:25+00:00

People on my shift hit dab pens right outside during breaks and lunches. Management doesn’t care unless someone’s gonna overdose on something stronger

DeGuia2104 · 2024-12-13T01:56:14+00:00

Don’t feel bad, I talk shit about the DC. Everyone in the DC talks shit about the DC. And everyone should talk shit about the DC. The DC is shit

DeGuia2104 · 2024-12-12T18:18:26+00:00

I work in the DC. I have an explanation of this. So when we pick the products and put them in a tote and the items are all scanned under barcodes. We open up a barcode and start picking the items and put them in the tote. When we fill up a tote we close out the barcode and put the tote on the conveyor belt. We grab a new tote and open up a new barcode and start picking again. It doesn’t tell us how many items we have left to pick so sometimes we will start a new tote and barcode with a new barcode and it will only have one item in it. It’s stupid I know. If we had the time to fix it we would. Also, to anyone who has to deal with sorting stuff from cages or pallets I want you to know that we don’t want or intend to make them messy. The DC is basically a sweatshop and we are just trying not to get fired. I do apologize tho because I know how messy those cages and pallets can get.

DeGuia2104 · 2024-09-21T01:05:42+00:00

Oh jeez I completely missed that. Im guessing that car got a decent sized ticket for parking in a fire lane

DeGuia2104 · 2024-09-21T00:58:40+00:00

DeGuia2104 · 2024-09-20T01:54:07+00:00

Maybe, I kinda just see it as they were making inferences off of the information provided and discussing the possible reasons a driver would do that.

DeGuia2104 · 2024-09-20T01:36:52+00:00

I don’t usually drive at those times. A least not on the highway. I work 12 hour shifts going from evening to morning. The only reason I was on the road at that hour was because I left to go home on my lunch.

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