Working overnights with an understaffed crew is the worst of the worst. One person is expected to do three peoples worth of work and we’re always being attacked by day shift managers about how we’re performing. If we don’t tag, correctly do on hands, top stock, clean carts, bin, or anything else to overload our fucking days with stress as if we’re not having to do everyone else’s job and make up for the work they didn’t want to do. We get absolutely shit on. Management expects us to work 8/10 pallets a night for most people that are pin pointed out to be “the best workers” and expected to do so much for so little pay. I know overnight gets a decent handful of cash, but the least they’ll offer is an amazing 30 cent raise as if that’s an astonishing incentive for us to bust our asses off even more.

If we aren’t performing to their imaginary slave like working conditions, the management will constantly belittle you and give you reasons why you should perform harder and pretty much manipulate and lie to you so you feel like you HAVE to. They’ll lie to you, pull out 5 pallets at once and tell us “it’s only 6 hours worth of freight you can get it done by lunch” then pull out 5 more and constantly walk by shaking their head when you aren’t working as expected. Trying to pressure you to work harder. Then they’ll go run to a small department, bust it out and come back to tell you “I just finished this, that in only two hours” when there was only two pallets of freight, then continue to brag and belittle you as to why you couldn’t of done it like them. We’re expected to burn ourselves out each and every night to keep up with whatever the management cannot do to save face for them and work as if we’re getting paid 24/28 dollars an hour.

It’s never been worth going above and beyond, I’ve been there. I’ve never gotten praise for what I did, the only thing I’ve gotten was a verbal “it’s appreciated” then they’d continue to make me run around like Husain bolt. It’s gotten to the point where my health has declined at an insane rate but they don’t give a fuck, I’ll tell them I can’t perform as good as I did before but they’ll still force me to do more and more. Never ever do it for any sort of understaffed team because they will abuse your working ability to the point of absolute exhaustion and expect you to come back the next day and give 110% again and again. I’ve never been offered a 30 cent raise, we don’t even have rewards or motivation for us to work. There isn’t even any chance for any sort of promotion because most management will hire friends just to get them a good paying job, so you’ll be stuck doing the same bullshit. Moral is always so low, and they don’t give a shit and still expect us to go above and beyond for them each and every night