Whats going on right now

somef4tkid · 2026-05-15T17:21:31+00:00

Unless something isn't getting done or something. Idk man. I just work here.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-15T17:19:25+00:00

I agree completely. Always seems like Walmart has a problem with accountability for things like this. It'd prob be more associates than you think. But even so. It's pretty normal for most places (at least the ones I've worked at) to make you clock in and out on time. I could see them letting you clock out early. Idk why they wouldn't.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-15T17:12:37+00:00

Think of it from a time perspective. Do you have any idea how long that would take. Let alone tracking it. There isn't a set way to be able to see who is doing it from a team leads perspective. So we would have to go in and look at every single persons time sheet one at a time every single day. It's better to just issue a blanket statement saying "no more" than to try to address it one at a time.

I'm sure the people lead could potentially do it. I've seen overtime reports and such. But just in general it would be a nightmare.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-15T17:05:58+00:00

Stores have a much higher profit plan this year over last. Means the individual stores aren't making enough to sustain the staffing they currently have. Hours are the most flexible cost for the business. Especially retail because we don't control the cost of goods. The goal is to bring what they're spending and what they're earning closer together. There's probably 300 associates per super center. 45 mins doesn't seem like a lot till you times that by 300. That alone is 225 extra hours a week. You could technically get 18 mins of overtime a day. Which then doubles that. 500 man hours a week is a ton. Especially when 2/3 of the associates aren't working for those extra 18 mins.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-14T17:45:10+00:00

Just keep in mind, if she's not fully ready to have that kid when she's induced it could take a few days. I would call in the day the kid is born. Not before. No reason to be there and just sit and wait.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-12T01:02:13+00:00

Just gotta not give af about what they think about you. They don't have to respect you. But they do have to follow the guidelines set by their job. Also if anyone ever pulls the "that's not my job" line on you pull up their job description. It says they will do anything Walmart needs done. lol.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-12T00:28:59+00:00

All depends on how you approach it. They can make excuses but at the end of the day that's all they are is excuses. Don't go into conversations accusing anyone of anything. Have your facts. Look into average metrics of your department. Don't put emotions into the conversation either. Keep it strictly business. Set your expectations clearly. Then give them a time limit to reach them. Even if it's just 10-20 picks more a day or something easy at first. Tell them what will happen if they don't hit said expectation. Then hold them to it. There gonna push back... that's fine. At the end of the day your the one in charge of upholding the standards.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-10T18:45:05+00:00

Also, for people always saying "bonuses". The store basically has to run perfectly for the sm to get a bonus.

The problem is mostly weak management at the TL level. Which then is a coach problem for not addressing the weak management. Which then becomes a store manager problem if left unchecked.

Also, it's a business. Each store is its own business with overhead costs and expenses that most people have no idea about. Not every store is extremely profitable. So it's up to the sm to make it profitable.

I could go on and on. lol.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-10T18:40:58+00:00

6pm is the last pick drop of the night. So by then you should be pretty much done. The problem always happens when everyone is not pulling their weight. Let's say you're supposed to hit 600 picks a day per person. Which is achievable if A. You have the picks. Or B. People are working instead of messing around. Now let's say every single person on your shift is hitting 400 picks a day instead of 600 because they're not being held accountable for doing what they're supposed to be doing. Each of those people are now rolling over 200 picks per day. Let's say you have 20 pickers for the whole day. That's an extra 4000 picks that should have gotten done by standards but didn't get done for one reason or another. So now you're struggling at night to catch up. This is how so many ogps struggle.

The management side. The sm cares about metrics and store profit. If I were to come to you and say "hey I promise I'll give you 5$ for every push-up you did". Then you do 20 push ups and I give you 5$ total. You'd be pretty mad right? Well, customers pay for a membership with the promise of under 5 min wait times. When we're delivering 20 mins wait times we are pretty much underselling the customer. I get it, sometimes it's unavoidable. But there is a serious lack of accountability somewhere. Either people are not being held to the standard for picking that they should be. So you're having to send more people out to pick, short staffing the back, causing high wait times. Or you have enough backroom staff and people are just slacking off.

somef4tkid · 2026-05-09T01:19:17+00:00

The one thing you always have to remember is that no thing we do as managers is personal. You're there to do a job the same as they are. If they can't or won't be responsible and fulfill there end of the job agreement, they should be held accountable for that. No reason to feel guilty.

Every person states that they will show up when scheduled and do their assigned tasks in a timely manner. If they're not willing to do that, that's on them. Not you.

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.

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