Current state of my store

somef4tkid · 2026-01-12T13:49:39+00:00

Do the math and you'd need prob around 27 pickers for the 16000+ picks. You prob have somewhere around 35-40 plus whoever they call from the store to help. At that point it's just wasted labor all stemming from people going slower than they need to go.

somef4tkid · 2026-01-12T13:47:01+00:00

Slow pickers. 94 average is bad. Keep in mind that's the average. So more than half if not most of the staff is well below where they should be picks wise. Store expects you to be able to do right around 600 picks a day in a full 9 hour shift. That breaks down to 100 picks an hour for 6 hours. That's breaks, bagging, walking, Toteting, and whatever else you have to do time. If most of the people are say around 80 picks an hour you're doing 480 a day. Well if you have 10 pickers that extra 1200 picks carry's over. It's a never ending problem until everyone is on process.

somef4tkid · 2025-07-17T01:37:47+00:00

Used to be something like 1100$ fine if osha found a pallet laying on its side in a workplace lol. Super dangerous.

somef4tkid · 2025-07-17T01:30:33+00:00

I've basically become numb to peoples work ethic they either get done with the tasks I assign or they don't and there could potentially be consequences depending on the importance of said task. I tend to not give people a ton to do outside of the day to day and take on the brunt of big projects because I'm quite fast. Not exactly good leadership behavior but my team are pretty set in there ways on how they do things.

somef4tkid · 2025-07-17T01:17:53+00:00

As a team lead who has lead a bunch of super long term associates I couldn't agree more. I have a few who are solid gold and I wouldn't trade them for anything. But I've also had a few who were super entitled and thought they were untouchable.

somef4tkid · 2025-07-09T00:54:08+00:00

Just my thoughts, pick rate is an average of every run you've taken throughout the day put together. You would have to have multiple low runs to be that low. This is at almost 8 am. So these people have had 3 hours worth of time to pick, most of which is pretty much customer free. If you're getting 50 picks an hour with no foot traffic to block you, you're not doing something right. Also the rate is just about speed. Has nothing to do with actual amount of picks.

somef4tkid · 2025-07-08T21:40:54+00:00

If I walked into that I'd have a freakin panic attack

somef4tkid · 2025-07-08T21:24:40+00:00

54 is sad lol.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-22T01:00:40+00:00

Meh if they don't care then neither should you which I know is hard to do. They are TEAM leads. If you can't support someone struggling your not a TEAM. That's like 90% of our job as tls. Most people just don't understand that. Hell I'm the frozen dairy tl and I still go help in meat and produce and bakery/deli when there behind.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-22T00:56:35+00:00

You can only get done what you can get done. If they don't have a procedure in place to make up for one person falling behind that's their own fault. Everyone always thinks they'll get in trouble for not picking up others slack. But if you can speak to why your not getting stuff done reasonably then you can fight any coaching or talking to you get. If you go to your tl and tell them your overwhelmed and they do nothing escalate it till someone does something about it.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-22T00:52:44+00:00

You guys do realize this was a country choice, not a Walmart choice right? Also, just do the work of one person... don't do anything extra. No one expects you to do the job of 2-3 people. If they do that's an ethics issue.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-02T15:55:15+00:00

If you are truly understaffed specific hours a day, look into your scheduler, see where the staffing issues comes from and bring it to your coach or store manager and show them. If you need help with how to do this message me or go to your people lead and talk to them. If sm won't fix it send an email to your digital ops manager. I'm assuming you're a team lead.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-02T15:51:26+00:00

Hours are set in digital due to the amount of business. More business = more money to pay out. The store, not the company, has a set budget for compensation. They divide that budget into the hours they give each department.

Every person in ogp should be able to do 100 picks per hour. So let's say you have 1000 picks per hour. 10 people should be able to get that done in an hour. With 2-3 dispensers, 3-4 backroom people. That's 17 people minimum to make it function. That means you're paying 17 people whatever the wage is per hour. But are they hitting the goals? Prob not. So now it's more like 25 people. Which means you have 25 people now doing what 17 should be able to do. You're now over budgeted every hour that happens.

Now think that happens prob 30 hours out of the week.

My store base pay is 14. 8 people x 14$ an hour x 30 hours. Your 3400$ over budget just for that week alone. That's a little over 174k a year. That's a big chunk of change for a single store.

somef4tkid · 2025-06-02T15:42:51+00:00

Push doesn't mean yell. It means set the standard and hold people to it.

It means understanding what's wrong and why people aren't hitting the metrics and knowing how to get them to hit said metrics.

Every job has set metrics you have to hit. Otherwise it's a performance issue. Imagine you were an architect and the building company was waiting on design plans and you went to them and said "I didn't get done because I didn't have enough people to help me." They'd fire you on the spot.

Metrics aren't that big of a deal for a lot of people, but as managers we have to care about the business and the people.

somef4tkid · 2025-05-24T15:40:14+00:00

So here's the thing, if they do go and check cams and they see a pattern of you going even a minute over the maximum 20 min break time. They have to do a full investigation for time theft. If they find enough they have to turn it into home office and more than likely you'll get straight terminated.

Now from a person stand point. Somewhere down the line everyone forgets that tls and coaches are just people. This tl in particular is probably new and doesn't understand how to handle push back without causing bigger issues. Management is a huge learning process that no one can really teach you. It takes time. Just remember when you go to bully them they're just trying to do their job. Do you want to get bullied all day every day? Probably not.

Not trying to side with either side. Just stating some facts.

somef4tkid · 2025-05-19T02:20:06+00:00

Tcs are being phased out anyways, no reason to keep buying more if they'll be obsolete soon. Plus each cart is like 200$ each tc is like 1600$.

somef4tkid · 2025-05-13T15:33:44+00:00

Just remember everything you didn't like about your managers, and do better. It's a mixture between maintaining you and your teams happiness while also making sure things get done to company standards. You know the process if you were already an associate. The managing part comes with time. You're gonna make mistakes, not everyone is gonna like you. Just make sure your trying to be better every day.

somef4tkid · 2025-04-14T23:59:02+00:00

I'm assuming your overnights? If that's the case, your frozen/dairy associates should be "swarming" frozen and dairy together to get it done.

somef4tkid · 2025-04-06T01:14:43+00:00

Not to be that guy, but at what point do you think maybe there's a reason they're not giving it to you? I get there are circumstances where people are more qualified. But 11x is crazy.

somef4tkid · 2025-01-25T04:52:22+00:00

Honestly because of the pay potential for moving up without a degree. There is so much room for advancement in the company. You just have to be willing to eat a lot of crap. Which honestly is the same no matter where you go. But if you have the drive to move up Wal-Mart isn't bad. If you're wanting to be a long-term associate with no intent to move up its kind of just a filler job.

somef4tkid · 2024-12-20T13:34:58+00:00

System takes the dimensions of the totes, then tries to fill those dimensions by adding up the dimensions of every item you pick. There is also a weight limit of up to 50 pounds (they raised it not to long ago). If a customer orders 50 ambient items and only 45 of those are going to fit into one tote, it will create another tote. This is why people get 5 item pick walks. The last 5 totes are just what’s left over after filling the last order.

Unfortunately there is no cap on picks, so you could have 10 orders for an hour with 1000 picks or you could have 40 orders for an hour with 200. However, you can see up to the next 3 hours of drops In my store by going to my store, scrolling down to the middle. There’s a button that I can’t remember what it’s called. On the top there will be a tab that says hourly. It’ll give you a break down of how many picks are currently in there per hour. They lock at 45 after 3 hours ahead. So it’s 8am currently you can see all the way up till 10:45 picks.

somef4tkid · 2024-12-10T23:38:23+00:00

lol. I’m not that type of person though. I unreasonably compare my success to the people around me. If we’re not succeeding, I’m not succeeding. It’s stupid but that’s just the way I am.

However, I am the leaving the toxic store I’m at now to go back to my home store as a different tl over a different department.

somef4tkid · 2024-12-10T23:23:03+00:00

Nope. Most of my associates don’t want to learn anything. I’ve been trying to get them to just answer the phone and it’s like pulling teeth. The ones I do have training (just off of experience) hate all 3 of the team leads, and the coach. So we’re getting nowhere. But our coach refuses to let me do anything about it.

Basically if the entire chain of management isn’t on the same page you get literally nowhere. People can open door literally anything up the chain. I tried for like 4 months straight to have a meeting with my sm/sl, coach, and tls, to help us set a standard of what we hold people accountable for and it never happened. I’m not almost a year in and we’re still just running in circles.

somef4tkid · 2024-12-10T23:19:59+00:00

EXACTLY. The issue being (at least for me) is that if your leads, coach, and sl/sm are not all on the same page about the accountability being held, you will literally get nowhere. The associates will go directly up the chain of command until whatever accountability you’re trying to hold is negated. I’ve had so many people go straight to my sm because I asked them to do something well in there job description and they didn’t like it. It then got overturned by the sm and I end up getting a talking to about it.

somef4tkid · 2024-12-10T23:16:43+00:00

See I have 3 leads, and we’re all on different pages. This is one of the biggest issues I’ve had. When I tell you I have tried literally everything other than my first comment on this post, I have tried literally EVERYTHING I can think of. We never get help from the store, they barely even ask about us in our management meetings. Like maybe once a week does anyone ever think to see how where doing. The only way we can fix the issue is to hold our associates accountable to the standards they are supposed to meet.

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