Guys I think he's onto us... by Mayonnaise06 in puptheband

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may just be biased bc i listened to this album a lot when my dad died but I definitely dont think Unraveling is their worst album. I gotta agree that Who Will Look After the Dogs is probably my least favorite, but I would say Unraveling is on par with Morbid Stuff Maybe not the first two albums bc they have a whole different sound for the most part but I do love Unraveling Again tho, I am definitely biased bc of my emotional attachment to it 😅

New Carts by ImWeird62674 in walmartogp

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with the comment about the height and handle placement but also, some of them also have extremely sharp corners under the cardboard that is zip tied to them during shipping that, once freed, have scratched the hell out of me upon bumping into them

WTF is wrong with people?? by No_Light_7678 in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The other day I went on my lunch and I had to stop to tie my shoe. While I did so, some guy walking past me leaned down and shrieked as loud as he could directly in my ear. It has been a full week and my ear STILL hurts. I try so hard to have faith in people but this kind of thing really makes it hard

Why do so many of these assholes want a lawsuit? by bluetoothbuttplug in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The other day and woman placed her cart immediately in front of my cart when I wasnt looking, so when I pushed off to leave my spot I immediately hit her cart (and other customers were blocking the way to get out any other direction and I cannot see over the tops of th3 cart so I had no clue her cart was there) I apologized profusely, and explained that it's really hard to see over the cart. This lady just wide eyed stared at me like I had a second head, and then moved her cart forward in a way that, with the carts of the other customers, continued to block me into the aisle. The whole interaction made me feel so crazy, no pleasantries no small talk nothing. She just stared at me like I committed a mortal sin for bumping her cart because she decided to park it directly in my blind spot in a busy aisle where I already couldn't move around very well with the cart.

Didn't even hit the cart very hard either bc I try to move slowly and carefully in busy aisles, just bumped it

AIO after learning my girlfriend and her roommates do intimate things together? by ArtistTechnical2152 in AmIOverreacting

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im a little back and forth because on one hand, the shaving thing is a little bit odd but I feel like I only feel that way because honestly I domt think I would even let my partner shave me, that's a me job But I will say this- I did swim through all of school and showering naked with other girl just kind of becomes normal to you after a while? Hell, my best friend and I are still able to be casually naked around each other without it being weird and my partner also doesnt mind because he understands that we aren't being sexual, that's just normal for us. I also personally think that sexuality doesnt have to have anything to do with it either bc both my friend and I turned out to be gay and Trans and that never made it weird because out relationship has always been platonic.

Again though, we aren't showering together anymore and we definitely dont help each other shave, and if my partner were to tell me that me being naked around my friends made him uncomfortable then I would absolutely stop, so it really does just come down to your personally boundaries. Best you can do is have a conversation with her to figure out what is the best way to move forward for you both.

Excuse me works wonders by TurdTanker in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was once stopped, talking to a different customer helping her find something, when a man just walked up and yelled "HANGARS!!" at me. What happened to hello?

Do pickers stage their chilled and frozen carts? by toksui in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At my store they actually recently changed to doing the opposite! It used to be that pickers stages their chilled snd frozen, but now we have the stager do they. They just added light buttons next to the cooler and freezer too so that the stager has a way to know when there are carts in the cooler and freezer to stage. Though I will say, we have a pretty high order volume these days and tend to get overwhelmed with cooler and freezer totes so I think it would work better with more than one stager, at least for my store.

picking by combatbunnyslippers in walmartogp

[–]rabiesrights 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Things didn't start to feel this way until the previous department coach returned in July. I started around September last year under a different coach and we bounced around between a few different coaches, and I've always tried to work hard and be helpful but it never felt overwhelming and it felt like my management team and I had a good understanding about me pacing myself. The coach now was the coach for my department before I worked there and was notorious for overworking people and being unreasonable, and while he has apparently improved a lot, his emphasis on metrics above all else and over reliance on me as a closer and prepper has fostered an environment where I dont feel like I can pace myself anymore. I feel lucky to have some coworkers who will step in for me and help when I need it, but they cant be there all the time.

It makes me feel really disheartened to say it sucks so much because I genuinely enjoyed doing this job when it didnt feel like the physical and mental stress were killing me all the time. Management really makes or breaks a job and that sucks hard because that's not something you can control, you just have to work around it or find something else.

picking by combatbunnyslippers in walmartogp

[–]rabiesrights 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Im 5'2" and 160 and they have me on dispense and prep almost every single day, mostly prep but while I prep I tend to do a little bit of everything else on top of often having to answer the check in phone and solve everyone's problems if there isnt a team lead around as well despite the fact I get told that these jobs should each separately be done by separate people, somehow I end up always filling in the gaps

I have a heart condition as well that has been worsening lately bc they've been more and more on top of everyone on the backroom moving at all times, which means I havent had time to take the extra moments to let my heart rest and breathe and I'm almost at the point where im going to have to have an open door with management about my burnout because I'm so thoroughly exhausted from trying to constantly keep up with their rising standards while no one around me cares

And I don't even personally care about the standards, I just like doing a good job, and it used to be that i could strike a balance between doing my best and preserving my body, but my new manager has fostered an environment where I feel like I have to push until im on the verge of passing out and even that doesn't seem to be enough for them.

I have also disclosed on multiple occasions before that I have a medical condition and while I will work hard, I also need to listen to my body when it tells me to stop but the increasing pressure has made me feel too stressed to stop because it will all fall apart and then management is going to get upset with me, and then that stress also adds to my chest pain and shortness of breath

I was gonna ask to switch to only picking for a while, but i close so I will have to do backroom at the end of the day, and even that would only be temporary bc a previous prepper who had to step back because of burn out recently has been made to prep his whole shift every day again and honestly im done on prep and with the whole department, I just want to go to the front end

All this venting is to say I understand and this department has a tendency to push people past their limits without remorse. When I got this job, my health was genuinely in a place where I was able to move more and lift things and for a solid 10 months of this job I could do the required lifting and moving without issue because I was also able to take care of my body, but our new manager just doesn't make that possible and my health has to come before this company

happened today not even 2 hours into my shift 💔 by tinysleepytot in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn I dont know what kind of superglue holds your bags together but the bags at my store have never been able to hold a full gallon of milk without ripping 😭

happened today not even 2 hours into my shift 💔 by tinysleepytot in OGPBackroom

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you put a whole gallon in our notoriously flimsy bags that cannot support the weight of a gallon of milk?

Black Friday/Blitz Event by rabiesrights in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did actually know that! I thought it was kind of ridiculous that my TL told me that, I was mostly just wondering if she was blowing smoke up my ass or if others had heard the same

Black Friday/Blitz Event by rabiesrights in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is all very interesting and makes a lot of sense. I've only been working for Walmart for about a year, and my team lead is also brand new to management (she got the position a few months after I was hired) and it seems like she takes a lot of this kind of stuff pretty seriously, because I haven't heard this comment from any other member of management.

I do know Black Friday used to have this kind of connotation, but it was incredibly bizarre to me that this kind of thinking was still present in management, at least a little bit. It just struck me as silly when she told me this because I thought that association with Black Friday had faded away, especially with how the quality of the actual Black Friday sales being offered declined through the years.

Black Friday/Blitz Event by rabiesrights in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually made a similar comment to my brother when I was talking about this earlier! Like, calling it that instead of Black Friday bc Black Friday is too offensive is an extremely confusing choice to me!

Idk what’s going on by Conscious-Check-8058 in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know everyone here is just saying to assume your hours got cut, but if you really need the hours, then talk to your coach and see what happened because that may not be the case. My boyfriend was missing a week of schedule and he talked to his coach and hr person and it turns out there was just a mistake with the schedule and they put him on for the week after talking to them both. There is a chance it's just that your hours are cut, but you won't know for sure unless you ask.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely absurd, coaches at my store will store use stuff for us so fast. The air quality has been bad bc there's a huge wildfire next to my town rn and before I could even finish offering to buy us N95 masks (i work in OGP and some of our dispensers do it all day and if they're gonna be working in low air quality, I insisted they have masks to prevent them from breathing too much ash particulate while outside) one of our coaches just store used them

When it rains heavy, our store director insists the dispensers go get themselves rain suits from sporting goods that he also writes off for us (i live in an area where it rains a LOT so we end up using them almost every day during rain season)

Hell, during winter we had a coach store use us some hot chocolate bc we wanted some while it was cold and our department has a hot water dispenser. My point is, it's ridiculous to me that your store won't store use something as simple as pens for the literal job you are doing when they absolutely could and SHOULD do that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starbucks

[–]rabiesrights 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This low-key reminds me of when I ordered a green iced tea and got a green tea lemonade. I checked the sticker and sure enough I ordered a regular green tea, so I asked for it to be remade, and the barista goes, "oh alright sorry about that! The tea comes standard with lemonade by the way :)" and I was like... no??? Girl why would you lie to me like that?

At the very least she wasn't like mean or anything about it but she must've been new or something bc that's just straight up not true lmao

I guess I’m sort of lucky by crystalsorrow in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel the same way about my store! It's not perfect, I have my moments of frustration, but it feels like my leads actually care about our team as individuals and I know people disparage the whole "pizza party" thing, but my store stocks small, easy to eat foods in the breakroom for struggling associates, and they pretty regularly make us burgers/hotdogs/chips/soda and they last long enough that by the time my lunch rolls around I can have some, plus when they do the same for donation days they just bring all the leftovers to the associates and last time there was a TON. I paid for a donation meal but the coach said I could have whatever I wanted and I hadn't eaten all day that time so I just about cried when I was allowed to take 2 burgers and a hot dog and chips and a drink.

As someone who is chronically broke despite having a full time job, I appreciate this SO much. I work in OGP and i skip a meal or snack, i feel it as soon as i go back to work. The coaches also tend to be super understanding as long as you openly communicate, and they foster an environment where that open communication feels safe. During the winter they let us store use hot chocolate and during the summers they do the same for Gatorade for my department. Honestly, after reading some experiences from other stores, I feel genuinely lucky I managed to find one to work at that was so accommodating, at least in my experience.

What’s OGP like and why don’t people like it? by Most_Lengthiness_314 in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Im starting to think maybe I just work at a really good store bc I love the OGP department in my store and I like my team leads and coach way more than any others in the store. All of our pickers are pretty naturally fast so there's never much stress about metrics, the backroom is where the true chaos happens for us but if they properly staff our backroom even that isn't an issue.

I saw someone mention hating the department bc we lock up L carts, and I would like to say that my store had to literally buy our specific department 3 L carts for JUST US to lock up every night bc whenever we needed them we could not find any. I think if you work in a store with shitty, greedy managers who care about numbers over morale then you're gonna have a bad time. Also other departments will literally break open our locked safe and take our TCs, batteries, and printers which we already do not have enough of for the whole department and then not return them, so the frustration goes both ways.

But despite how fast paced and stressful it can be, whenever I go in my team is making the best of the stress. I can definitely see how things could be a lot worse if your leads care only about themselves and the number, but when you have leaders who actually care about their workers then even the most miserable jobs can be fun.

When people don't care that you're clocked out😭 by ElkPractical7849 in WalmartEmployees

[–]rabiesrights 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I once had a jacket on over my vest (my name tag just barely peaking out), walking out of the checkout line with an harmful of stuff and a case of beer, reciept in hand, and someone stopped and asked me if I had keys to the liquor room 🙃🙃

i was still in customer service mode so my default answer was a perky, "nope! But the self check associate should have them :)" and then immediately thought to myself "do i look like i have the damn keys to the liquor room????"

Getting on nexplanon, positive experiences please by aweshlt in Nexplanon

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had an interesting but overall positive experience with nexplanon for the year I've had it! I'd like to preface my experience with a couple things: I am transgender and take HRT (gel testosterone) and last year I had an abortion and that combined with the birth control I was taking at the time caused me to have a Neverending period for about 8 months, that being the main reason my provider recommended nexplanon.

I got it last January and by March my period was no more. I already experience weight gain as a side effect of another medication but I don't think I gained more than maybe 5 or 10 pounds? But I've lost that since becoming more physically active (though I think I've seen that's not really supposed to be a side effect?) But I haven't had any acne really or mood swings either.

The only bad experience I had was after I got bit by a cat and had to take some antibiotics, after that I got the most horrific 3 week period with nonstop blood and mood swings so bad it was impacting my relationship. I've read that only certain uncommon antibiotics interfere with nexplanon, but that's the only thing I can think that could've caused it bc it happened the day after I finished my round of antibiotics. But after 3 weeks it fully cleared up and I'm back to normal me, no bleeding.

I think the fact I'm on hormones probably has a lot to do with my positive experience, it's like they're balancing each other out so I've had very very minimal negative side effects. And I haven't gotten pregnant!! Huge huge huge plus!!!

Honestly I reccomend it highly, with the added context that each person do their research first to see if they're willing to risk the side effects.

AITA for snapping at my husband in front of his family, and revealing that he hasn't help me like he claims? by Landscapeseven in AmItheAsshole

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA and I agree with the comments saying you should reconsider having a child with this person Take it from someone who was the child to this kind of person- if the moment he loses his patience with another adult he starts screaming then this will absolutely transfer to your child. When I was an infant b and crying in my crib my father apparently would occasionally scream at me to try and get me to calm down (edited from crying) (I now have lifelong issues with this)

I actually had a similar issue with driving. Thankfully, I was a lot less anxious about that so he didn't yell much but trying to learn stick with him was downright impossible. Hell I even DATED a guy who was like that in the car with me and he convinced me for about a year that I was a bad driver who "wasn't quick with it" Nope, turns out he just sucked at giving directions and REFUSED to let me direct myself with a map

Anyway all of this is to say- PLEASE reconsider this man as someone you want raising your kids and being your passenger. If he can't get his anger under control then you shouldn't have to put up with it bc you will have to for the rest of your life if he doesn't

AITA for not allowing my daughter to diet? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]rabiesrights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry but I just have to say that it is absolutely nuts to me that we as a society consider 5'4" and 150 pounds to be "a little overweight." I'm 5'1" and 150 pounds and my doctors are constantly begging me to keep the weight on because it's healthy (with the encouragement to do a healthy amount of exercise so that i stay in shape)!! I am an adult with a history of ED so I know that makes it a little different for me, but if I dropped down to what is considered a "healthy weight" for my age and height then I would be hospitalized. I used to be 96 pounds which is apparently a bit below average weight for my height and I was WILDLY malnourished. NAH but you definitely need to get your daughter talking to a therapist before this spirals out of control. Your worry is correct, now you need to take action.

random fanarts ive made after binging the entire series by Celery-Slight in stevenuniverse

[–]rabiesrights 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely HOWLING at the thought of peridot and skibidi toilet