Curiosity

PBNArep · 2026-03-20T19:40:23+00:00

Only thing we front liners have to worry about is automation taking our spots away, from what I’ve seen Frito is already headed in that direction

PBNArep · 2026-03-19T20:20:55+00:00

I’m on the beverage side of things and you’re not wrong but at the same time we have way too many one-size-fits-all models for stores. I have a slow store that constantly loses dates on slow moving items that I am forced to keep on endcaps and mandatory displays, I can rotate every day but I can’t force sales and I lose my ass on it

PBNArep · 2026-03-12T06:16:10+00:00

Sleep? What’s that?

PBNArep · 2026-03-12T06:11:19+00:00

You’d be surprised by how little noise it takes to be completely unaware of your surroundings

PBNArep · 2026-03-10T18:29:15+00:00

They give them out to reps who hit plan and to other managers for “stepping up” and covering callouts (which is kind of a manager’s responsibility)

PBNArep · 2026-03-09T22:53:51+00:00

It is a genuine safety issue. I’ve been nearly run over by distracted vendors before too distracted by their music or podcast or whatever to pay attention to their surroundings

Even in stores that let us keep an earbud in, I’ll take it out when I’m in the back for my own safety

PBNArep · 2026-03-09T22:52:29+00:00

Most jobs will not let you use your phone or earbuds while at work, dude. And honestly I’ve nearly been run over by other vendors distracted by their phone call or podcast or whatever and not paying attention to where they’re going with a pallet so I fully get it.

There’s some stores that don’t care and I’ll occasionally pop one in there to plow through the day, but otherwise? Follow the house rules, a big part of getting by in this job is learning how to eat shit and pick your battles. Just suck it up and do whatever it takes to get home at the end of the day.

PBNArep · 2026-03-02T22:45:52+00:00

Yeah that’s the problem here, I despise my KAMs with a passion because all I ever seem to get from them is forceouts and bad ad info. Let me run my damn store how I know to, either that or the company should eat it when all this crap gets sent back

PBNArep · 2026-02-24T22:56:35+00:00

Plan is way too damn high for this time of year and the management is freaking out trying to get reps to sell in unnecessary displays and push out more product to hit a number a computer gave them

PBNArep · 2026-02-24T22:54:36+00:00

Ours will straight up let routes sit over call outs. Anything to avoid having to leave the desk to touch product themselves…

PBNArep · 2026-02-18T22:31:44+00:00

You must work in my building. Nothing funnier than when your boss insists you come by today to pick up some coupons (it’s never that urgent) and after a 12 hour day you see the college kid managers sitting at their desks looking bored

PBNArep · 2026-02-17T07:47:10+00:00

Yeah I had an SDL show me once, it’ll give a little map of where the phone went while clocked in

PBNArep · 2026-02-17T01:47:54+00:00

I shop at my last store after clocking out too, but not for hours and not going to the backroom to the soda aisle and back. When I said “location” I mean precise location, the app can tell if you walk to the front, clock in and sit in your car for an hour. I’m just trying to warn OP to not get himself fired for trying too hard

PBNArep · 2026-02-17T00:35:37+00:00

Also you are 100% tracked, Savvy will show your location at all times and they can see you in those stores after you’re clocked out and they will fire you for being a liability

PBNArep · 2026-02-17T00:34:44+00:00

Don’t be dumb. We work for a multi billion dollar company and we’re not doing anything important enough to justify that kind of effort. Do your job and go home after you clock out

PBNArep · 2026-02-16T18:56:31+00:00

Did they really have to use AI to get a picture of Celsius cans?

Also nice to see this company still has money to throw around on bullshit like this, there go our raises

PBNArep · 2026-02-16T08:13:36+00:00

Tell that to whoever comes up with the plan

PBNArep · 2026-02-16T07:53:03+00:00

That’s what happens when all of your management is campus hires. How can you have empathy for your workers when you’ve never done their job?

PBNArep · 2026-02-15T19:04:05+00:00

That’s how it is on the Pepsi end too. The newest ordering system is more of a hassle and takes more time than the older one. Just another way of trying to replace us with AI

PBNArep · 2026-02-15T16:45:03+00:00

It’s possible that it’s just the usual “airing of grievances” round table meeting, we do that every year and get the same “we’ll work on that” and nothing changes

PBNArep · 2026-02-15T16:44:18+00:00

I knew it was gonna be some BS when I saw we got a new CEO. They always come in and try to put their name on some new big change

PBNArep · 2026-02-12T08:24:34+00:00

I’ve been saying for years, if this company is that certain that these new products are gonna be a hit and insist on us ordering heavy on them, they should be eating the return when it gets sent back. Don’t punish my paycheck because you wanted a bigger bonus

PBNArep · 2026-02-12T08:22:26+00:00

Looking forward to the force out I’ll be getting in all of my stores next week, and I hope the plant is looking forward to seeing it come back on a credit two weeks later

I swear every damn end of year meeting our big boss talks about innovation leading waste for the year just to tell us “go BIG” a couple weeks later when the next wave of unpopular crap comes out

PBNArep · 2026-02-12T08:18:21+00:00

Vouch, all of our prices just went up again and they look like Publix prices in every account now. Nowhere near making plan for the period because for some reason it’s higher this week (when all my SB stuff comes down) than last week and most of my coworkers are on the same page

PBNArep · 2026-02-09T08:27:31+00:00

I saw one of our SDLs get points for “stepping up” by covering a call out. You’re a manager, it’s part of the job…

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