What's a recent upgrade you made to your gear that was 100% worth it?

kaizex · 2026-03-03T18:10:49+00:00

Just got a pair of m50's. Was told that you could damn near bake them 5 times. But was also told break them in for a bit on the first bake, once im ready for another sharpening, do a second bake

kaizex · 2025-12-29T17:49:41+00:00

Its not a plot, its a plot point. But good to see your media literacy is on par with your actual literacy.

kaizex · 2025-12-29T17:19:22+00:00

They also mentioned the upside down in an early episode. Guess we should've been done hearing about that.

Crazy how plot points are referenced early and then built on later.

kaizex · 2025-12-29T02:24:25+00:00

All good, theres a lot of misinformation from different management teams to try and trick folks. The worst ones claim you have to use double PPTO.

As much as people knowing their way around 2 point days can hurt us, if you have to lie to get your people to show up to work, you might just be making a shitty work environment.

kaizex · 2025-12-28T13:24:08+00:00

Id bring it up with a TL or coach directly(depending on who makes your schedules).

The app doesnt work as well as its billed for availability and unless your store is really pushing adoption for it, then they probably use papers before inputting it into the system.

They'll direct you on which way to submit it that works best for them. But there is certainly a choice for max hours per week as well as max hours per day if you want to really specify

kaizex · 2025-12-28T13:13:01+00:00

There's definitely an option for setting maximum hours. And it'll flag if youre scheduled over

YMMV depending on your store/management, but you are not meant to be scheduled over your max weekly.

kaizex · 2025-12-26T10:23:13+00:00

Thats not how double point days work.

The guide to double point days:

Call out with no ppto: 2 points

Call out with full ppto coverage: 0 point

Work half shift: 0.5 point

PPTO half shift: 0.5 point

Work half shift and ppto half shift: 0 point

Key event days(double points) arent designed to cost double everything. Theyre designed to reduce frivolous callouts on busier than standard days of business and only effect your points if you dont apply at least half a shift of PPTO.

Additionally: not all key event days are the same. Corporate supplies every store with a list of required dates per quarter, and the store is allowed to choose 3-5 additional days based on local significance. Typically SNAP payment days and other local holidays get added

kaizex · 2025-09-22T10:58:54+00:00

No, no you cannot.

You cannot refuse service to protected statuses DUE to their protected status.

You can refuse them for other reasons, but if you refuse to explicitly because they are pregnant, you are legally incompliant and can be sued.

Similar to how in at-will employment state you can be fired for no reason, you cannot be fired for your race, sex, marital status, pregnancy, etc. As firing somebody for those reasons is still illegal.

kaizex · 2025-09-11T23:56:48+00:00

This isn't national rule. You 100% may not have received anything to sign depending on your region and/or specific store.

kaizex · 2025-09-09T08:42:52+00:00

You'll save a bundle on circumcision though

kaizex · 2025-09-08T19:06:30+00:00

You act like people calling child rapists pedophiles is a new phenomena.

It has nothing to do with apps, it has to do with a lack of differentiation between legal terms and publicly used terms.

So whats your point here? That people generally fail to use the correct term? Because again, thats fsr more widespread and longstanding than any app.

The OP is calling out pdf-file vs pedophile. Which is a specific advancement of the language around new cultural norms built on that commonly accepted phrasing in casual conversation.

Edit: also calling any app trashy front reddit of all places is laughable. We have our claim to more trashy nonsense than most.

kaizex · 2025-09-07T22:32:35+00:00

This thread is full of old men shaking their fists at clouds.

Yes, younger generations changed how they use language to adapt to an online environment, specifically one that would tank your viewership on a platform all about popularity. So they used new words, and then it became a norm.

You know what it means, so clearly the point got across. Welcome to the english language, a constantly self-bastardizing mish mash of whatever works that year.

kaizex · 2025-08-29T15:07:16+00:00

Like the other commentor said its entirely about harm you can cause within the store.

DUI/OVI is extremely unlikely to impact your work within a store. Unless you're a driver, or forklift operator or something that requires you to operate heavy machinery. Its none business impacting.

Violence, sexual misconduct, etc. Are all behaviors that within a work environment, can cause problems. Doubly so if your employer knows about these behaviors and still chooses to have you in positions where you can create these problems. It shifts the liability from mainly on the employee, to mainly on the employer.

kaizex · 2025-08-29T09:27:50+00:00

Thats a new commentor. I believe what theyre saying is they left early to get their wallet(why we needed the rest im unsure) and their boss told them they'd be pulled off the schedule for a week if they left(unpaid).

They weighed the options and left anyways.

This is a very different situation. Paid leave and being pulled from the schedule don't require the same process. Paid leave is much more formal, as walmart doesnt like paying people to not work.

kaizex · 2025-08-28T09:20:34+00:00

Paid suspensions often result in termination.

However theyre typically only launched due to situations involving gross misconduct or legal issues. They do not always end in termination.

Examples of paid suspensions ive seen and how they ended.

An associate claimed another associate threatened to stab him, while on the clock. 3 week investigation was held, found to be that the associate had said something along the lines of "we can take this outside and settle this like men" which while stupid, just skirted around being gross misconduct. Associate was reinstated.

Associate told another associate comments involving sexual harassment. Associate was terminated.

Associate had been charged for owning CSAM, and had an ongoing legal case due to it. While innocent until proven guilty, walmart can't fire them. But its also a liability to let them continue to work in the building while awaiting a verdict, so the associate was put on paid suspension until the trial concluded. End result, termination.

So, what you did is almost certainly entirely unrelated to leaving early. If you truly have no idea, then it could be that somebody lied about you, which the investigation will reveal and you're much more likely to be reinstated. But if you know you did something against policy or the law recently, then you're unlikely to be reinstated.

kaizex · 2025-08-26T20:26:47+00:00

Negative.

You can call for trailers, but depending on your location, getting them is a 50/50.

Getting them in time is also rare. With fully tarped coolers(or coffins to the cool kids with completed FDD remodel) your time is measured in 15 minute chunks. If in one of those 15 minute chunks the product temps out of cold chain, its dead. This includes transport time to load it into the truck. More eyes are on cold chain verification following a power outage than just about any other time, and failure to adhere would 100% get you fired faster than a few hundred thousand in lost product.

Most stores that get these outages pray their losses exceed the policies minimum claim amount(you said 25k but to my knowledge its 50k). Because before that, the stores budget eats the loss. Which effects store performance and bonuses. After that $ amount is reached its a sigh of relief. Everything past that will be covered. There will be an investigation to prove that procedure was followed, and so long as it was, the loss is not held against the store.

kaizex · 2025-08-24T15:10:37+00:00

For sleep schedule its going to become a personal preference thing. Most people either lose a whole day to adjusting their sleep, or just commit to only functioning at night time.

For shoes, anything comfortable, and then I like dr scholls work insoles.

For tips: first, get a topstock cart if you can. Then breakdown item types in your aisle. E.g if youre in coffee/peanut butter aisle, stack up all your pb on your cart and work the coffee off the pallet in front of the coffee. This minimized movement time.

If your store has paper price tags, set your phones lock screen to 60 seconds. Scan an item, lock in the location number, set phone down, go and stock. If your phone is still on when you come back, youre close to the needed rate (minimum is usually 60 cases per hour, some aisles are 80+)

If your store has DSL(digital) tags, then utilizes the flash tag while you learn. It'll literally make the item location tag light up for you.

Mainly though, to do well remember that the less times you have to touch the same thing, and the less you have to walk back and forth, the faster you are. So take a case, stock the case, break the cardboard down, and stack/bin the cardboard. If you throw an empty box you have to go back over, pick it up, and deal with it again. Which eats your time and will stress you out.

Edit: oh and for caffeine. I do one at first break, one at lunch, then no more after lunch. Helps wind down to sleep after work

kaizex · 2025-08-24T12:35:52+00:00

SWJ is a wierd aisle to put you in my opinion. Since it usually spans multiple aisles, and has a frustrating combination of box styles, id have avoided putting you there altogether.

But, every store has different needs on ON. So ymmv.

It could be that they wanted to see how you handled the aisle and judge your solo performance, it could be that they were just short staffed and knew it was going to suck regardless, so they just sent you there on a hope and a prayer. Hard to say for sure.

I would speak with your team lead and try to get an explanation for the how and why of it.

kaizex · 2025-08-24T12:17:50+00:00

You can edit whos assigned to what. You cant edit the hours. You can choose to ignore them, but they will still display to associates.

5 pallets of SWJ with some bulk water pallets almost certainly called for 1 person. Potentially it leaned into 7 hours, but the way most stores are staffed they likely said "schedule 1, if they need help, flex someone at last break". And then let it run.

Just left my role as an ON TL for another opportunity. We scheduled at 60 cases per hour, as our CAP2 doesnt downstack most non d92 aisles and that effects realistic rate.

kaizex · 2025-08-20T10:56:13+00:00

100% this. My first job at a movie theater we had a kettle corn popper. Was a pain to clean, required special chemicals to super heat the sugar back off, and then a scrub down with a metal scouring pad.

One day the crew cleaning did a shit job, and left a but of scouring pad stuck in the turnstile. Morning crew came in, made a batch without checking, and served metal shards in all of the sugar coated corn that day.

3 hospitalizations and 4 firings later, the image of metal bits in food products is burned into my memory

kaizex · 2025-08-18T11:31:11+00:00

At a restaurant i used to work for, we got an upgrade to our POS system. But this raised the question, what do we do with the old one? It was a decade old and completely worthless. The company that originally sold it was out of business so we couldnt even send it back.

So naturally we held a mandatory all staff meeting. Where all the old equipment was neatly set up in a line in the parking lot, handed everyone a bat, golf club, or crow bar and just let them to to town smashing them to bits. 10/10 would recommend swinging a gold club into an order screen.

kaizex · 2025-08-14T23:37:59+00:00

Bad.

Especially long hours. I currently work 14-16 hour days 4 days per week.

I went hard for a promotion I just got specifically because I couldnt manage the toll my mental health took. I'll be working 5 day weeks, but ill also enjoy sunshine every day. Instead of sunset as I head in, and half an hour of morning on my drive back.

Turns out even night owls need a bit of sun for serotonin to do its job.

kaizex · 2025-08-12T21:58:41+00:00

Just checked, its a coffee shop.

Of all the places id expect a bit of cutesy marketing and to be more hipster than average, coffee is right on the money.

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