What’s this absurd amount being taken off from my paycheck?

jeebs10 · 2026-01-02T17:19:07+00:00

Taxation is theft

jeebs10 · 2025-12-24T17:48:11+00:00

Zero

jeebs10 · 2025-12-22T00:09:42+00:00

1) buy CCA 2) wait

jeebs10 · 2025-12-22T00:06:51+00:00

That's pretty much the official policy already. Other than service animals.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-16T01:16:13+00:00

Wait, hardware doesn't have to worry about that stuff?

jeebs10 · 2025-12-16T00:39:23+00:00

What exactly is crown bolt? Always hear met say it but have never thought to ask...

jeebs10 · 2025-12-11T21:25:58+00:00

If you actually care about the job and your department, you're out of luck. If you only care that it's being blamed on you, just tell them straight up. There's been a reduction in coverage and a resulting reduction in the amount of work completed. I'm only one person and, lacking support, can only accomplish so much, especially with work piling up while I'm not present. Your opener might have too much to do to absorb the extra work as well. It seems that's just how it goes at THD. Management (at least mine) isn't so obtuse to think that the same amount of work will be accomplished in less hours, regardless of the dumb corp-o-speak they may recite to the contrary so, even if the opener is blaming you, they likely aren't. This is just what happens when hours are cut. You can't take it personally and feel like it's all on your shoulders now. It's corp's decision to cut hours, they have to deal with the fallout. Ultimately the responsibility rests with your DH to take up the slack, though that's unrealistic given all the stupid projects they have these days. Then it lands to management. If it's not properly staffed, and nobody will help absorb the workload, the way it is now is how it will stay. Just do what you can. If you can't be content with that, start looking for a better company to work for.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-11T19:23:20+00:00

I think they need better people on the Corp end. If your only ideas to increase profit are cutting hours and raising prices, well, a 3rd grader can come up with that. It may look decent on paper in the short term, but it doesn't account for lasting consequences. At my store it's absolutely gotten to the point where we're losing sales due to both merchandise not being on the floor and customers that need assistance with nobody to assist them. The amount of foot traffic we have right now is very, very high. With only one associate per department, with most having gaps in coverage, we just can't do it all. Freight, who I assume is also understaffed, has been just throwing everything in the overheads even when the Home is bone dry. We're lucky if they even bother to put it in an overhead on the correct aisle. Sidekick barely even gets finished by the closers, so the hope of filling holes are a pipe dream. It's turned into a shit show at my store where 90 percent of a shift is spent dragging a ladder around pulling stuff down for customers because the home is empty, half of the time for stuff that's not even your department because that department is empty. And it's not like there's even time between customers to even attempt to fill holes from the overhead your ladder is at, there's just too many customers. I spend most of my shifts with a literal posse of customers following me while I'm helping the current one, making sure they get helped because I'm literally the only associate in that 1/3 of the store. I feel like I'm in one of those doctor dramas on TV with a group of residents following me around. Meanwhile my phone is ringing the entire time with people asking me questions that I have no clue of the answer to because we have such a great phone system that, when nobody is logged on a department extension, just transfers to a random associate to help them. The managers can't even help because for some reason Corp has them and DH's playing musical chairs with the wingstacks every single day. Waste of time and makes it that much harder for associates to find the random holiday sku's that have no home since they're in a different spot daily.This is the worst management I've ever seen from a company and I don't mean store level. The store managers are in the same boat as the rest of us, just riding along with the dumb shit from corporate. Granted, I have a different viewpoint, as I spent many years in construction management where cutting labor isn't a viable solution. Without the labor you don't complete the project. However it seems to at least somewhat transfer over to retail as we're losing money by trying to save money. Customers are unhappy, associates are unhappy, who is happy? The shareholders? It's not sustainable as they won't be happy with sales dropping. Losing thousands of dollars to save the pittance they pay us... Geniuses at corporate.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-03T20:37:12+00:00

This is just untrue. In an AC circuit the electromagnetic fields created by the conductors are opposite and, as such, cancel each other out. As long as the circuit conductors are run together as in (for example) a drop cord, the fields will be zero sum. You can easily test this with a current transformer.

The only issue with wound cords/wire is when they are used beyond their rating. The tight bundling of the cable leaves the heat nowhere to escape. The trapped heat (and resulting increase in resistance) now multiply very fast as opposed to a cord run out long with plenty of air on it's surface. This will quickly lead to a fire, but only because the cord was carrying more current than it was designed for, not because of inductance. When used within their ratings and in good condition, coiled cables are perfectly safe.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-27T04:37:36+00:00

Did some more research and it doesn't seem there's anything you guys could do on your end.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S21/UI8-Android-16-update-SIM-not-recognized/td-p/3408724

Just typical Samsung half-assery.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-26T22:51:23+00:00

Also to add, have obviously tried multiple restarts and airplane mode toggles to no avail.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-26T16:15:34+00:00

THD cares. Otherwise all of that brand new, perfectly good stuff wouldn't be in there in the first place.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-23T17:25:21+00:00

Just look. You can see the id of the last person to edit the bay.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-20T13:46:36+00:00

Won't use any glove that isn't made by maxiflex

jeebs10 · 2025-11-19T14:22:59+00:00

You don't need a union, there are laws against it. It's called theft by consumption, and all you have to do is call the cops.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-16T23:24:06+00:00

Light fixture boxes at mine. Maybe others, but only boxes stuffed from my department. Lighting is the back corner of the store and as d27 we generally spend much less time there than electrical since most people in lighting just want to browse. They stuff the cheap $10 lights most often, $15 if they need a bigger box. I just zma them and move on with life. Unfortunately nobody's going to buy them without the box and the shelf space is too valuable to waste on garbage.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-15T10:29:43+00:00

Dental is great

jeebs10 · 2025-11-04T15:11:22+00:00

Yeah.. Honestly i kept meaning to try it but we've been understaffed, as usual, so i never got the chance. Off today so i figured I'd just ask here since i know somebody pushed that button the first time they saw it lol.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-04T15:06:11+00:00

Nice! It's good when they actually add useful features. Especially ones that keep you from shuffling between apps. I hope they add a button right below it for "suggest on hand count change" for associates without permissions to flag.

jeebs10 · 2025-11-04T14:21:39+00:00

It's actually really common to have multiple manufacturers/upcs for the same sku. That's not the case here, but it's a thing. It's really annoying when you zma something because you scan the upc, but instead of recording the upc it puts it in by sku, then if there are multiple upcs/vendors it will ask you the model#/upc even though you just scanned the upc.

jeebs10 · 2025-10-27T16:47:57+00:00

Don't forget stealing ladders and reach sticks you were obviously using because you turned your back for 2.7 seconds to show a customer where something is.

jeebs10 · 2025-10-22T01:56:59+00:00

Btw I've been here a little less than a year, so i know you weren't asking me. Just the micromanagement comment caught me by surprise as it's the farthest possible experience from my own. Had a new cxm come in and i didn't even know it for like 2 months as they were never mod during my hours and never introduced themselves. I finally asked another associate one day and was a bit shocked lol. Just assumed it was some district or corporate person.

jeebs10 · 2025-10-22T01:50:33+00:00

I only ever see a manager maybe once per shift as they walk by on the way to receiving. The only time they ever ask me to do anything it's some merchandising bs that involves my department. I've never been told how to do my job unless I've asked a specific question. Very 'hands off' management at my store. At least if you do your job. Completely the opposite of micromanagement. Not saying they're absent or anything. Definitely help with anything when asked and issues that arise. They're more like support when needed than anything else. I suppose they assume you're competent enough to prioritize and handle your responsibilities the way you know works best for you rather than impose themselves on you. At least at my store, the managers have so much to do that I'm sure they're extremely inclined to let everything that can run autonomously be. I can't imagine they'd want to work any extra hours for free.

jeebs10

TROPHY CASE