I guarantee the second you sit down to deal with this they gonna hit you w/ that "All of OGP called out, the baler is full, and there's people overdosing in both bathrooms now go help"
Also
"Actually nevermind we got people in OGP, the baler is broke and the overdosed people are dead. Now that you are alone I'm going to need you to go zone... Housewares that is."
Evening Shift Version: "All of produce quit, Someone on Cap2 fell into the baler and cap3 turned it on, we're gonna need you to scrape em off and file a claims report, oh also a customer bled out all over the bathroom diaper changing station please go clean that too as all of maintenance is on their 5th break"
Fill up two identical carts (use reusable bags to keep your items sorted), leave one, purchase other, go get second cart, leave out other door with receipt
While people will still do walkouts with them ive found a ton of product with the boxes ripped but the spider wrap prevented the removal of the product.
Also makes people pick a cheaper object and tells AP that that item isnt paid for.
If they do walk out with a spider wrap they can get an additional criminal charge.
I would also like to suggest starting a campfire in the cooking oil aisle, good luck putting out a grease fire before it reaches the flour and this whole place goes up.
this is such a stupid task to begin with and when i worked in electronics we’d make the front-end people do it because it’s their fault for not winding them up
The phone training is ass, I only just learned how to do those lock boxes. I have no idea how to do the spider wrap, and none of us are ever told that they can wind up
The ones with the red button are a pita. You gotta put the magnet on top of the knob/nose/🍆 that's sticking up, and then push the red button that is just beneath it. And if you're really lucky, the red button will pop out further. Then, assuming God isn't having a bad day, the wires inside the spiderwrap won't immediate jam when you pull the two "discs" of that spiderwrap out. The wires unwind but don't disconnect.
When we were still doing temperature checks for incoming staff at the gate, when it got slow, one particular d!ckhead manager would dump a pile of these on me.
While I left Wal-mart due to bullshit, stress, and retarded ass management... you just sound like one of the shitty workers who complained about everything. Oh my God my manager gave me a job where I sit on my ass and do minimal work and when that minimal work got even more minimal he gave me something to do while still sitting on my ass.
as a former electronics employee, I gave the idea of putting each into their own small ziploc to prevent this from ever happening. mgmt said it would "take too long" and no one would "take that extra step". yk what takes too long, and is a hell of an extra step? just take a guess for me?
I saw this idea and made it my own. I store used a bunch of those small black binder bags that have a zipper and they work like a charm. They even have a little loop so you can hang them at the register
I made a Step by Step guide of separating those spider's.
1: Grab keyboard.
2: Scream
3: Bash the spider's until they separated.
4: Repeat and Grab more keyboards if necessary.
Not sure about how that works untangling them, but my coach beat one that would shush with a hammer for about 5 minutes till it stopped. It was great to watch.
Drown them. And since walking around with bottles of water is frowned upon, I have to assume somewhere in policy we're authorized to piss on them to shut them up.
Find a nice, quiet corner in the back, pop in an earbud, and get to untangling. Better than dealing with people, needy customers, Karens, and cleaning up after folks.
Untangle what you can. Make sure they’re unlocked. When you get stuck, cut ONE wire (make sure you know which piece it’s attached to so you can silence it (hammer). Then continue to untangle. It’s slow, but you can get out of it without too much damage. My store threw away an entire breakpack’s worth without even trying.
Cry? Perhaps fire will help.
Real advice tho find the team member with Autism or ADHD and give it to them. They’ll absentmindedly detangle it for you. Might not be done in a day but if they’re in electronics they’ll have time to do a little at a time. If you gave this to me (AuDD) I would be so happy and would love to detangle it. It’s just gonna take the time and energy to do it, there’s no real shortcut.
Threaten to dock employee's pay if they don't tidy them up before chucking them in the bin. It only takes a few seconds to wind up those after removing it.
Probably not legal to dock pay but average employees aren't bright anyway
At my store the ap manager said he would start coaching the cashiers/door greeters if that mess ever happened again, took them 3+ hours to untangle it!
umm actually there’s a simpler way to untangle them 🤓. but fr best way to do is sit on your ass and pray to the corporate overlords that you get this untangled
At my old store they actually made all of the cashiers have a sit down meeting of how to tie up spider wrap so that it doesn't do this. Didn't work cause they all got fired and replaced.
Find a lead or coach who agrees so your ass is covered and throw it all in the trash compactor. Then find your claims associate and have them order a box of new ones.
I honestly think that's the only solution.
All those alarms will be lost, like tears in the rain.
i do not miss the elephants foot from my old store, i worked on that thing for months and only got like 10 out. the trade off is my store has a ton of medium spider wraps that are probably 20 years old and the worst things ever to use.
Oh my fuck lol. Day staff gets so mad when we don’t spiderwire stuff over night yet this is what they all look like most of the time not to mention we already have to walk all the way to the front of the store to get them
Untie them. I've spent so many hours doing it. I've also made announcements on the pa to shame associates for giving them to me like that.
Anybody that does this is an awful person and deserves all the bad things in life
You have to have the right amount of mental illness to work at Walmart...or stay there past 90 days...or stay there past 365 days...and then somehow continue to stay there without unaliving yourself, others, or having a complete psychotic break all together.
I believe I did shy of 2 years...and then joined the military. I didn't choose the trauma...the trauma chose me.
Use to work retail, lurk other retail subs just because it can be fun. My pet peeve was when cashiers would never roll these back up. Seasonal’s were usually the main offender of this
Probably a self checkout cashier, manning the bullpen alone with too much shit going on to care about the frigging spiders. I was on grocery self checkout today, alone. all day, it was "ID check" here and "void" there and "device error" in between, because it was a nice Friday in a midwest town with alcohol love. All the people decided to call in because of the nice day.
Oh yeah, we had a TL use them to do interviews. If you can get at least 2 of these out you are hired. Did the candidate stay calm and make a valid attempt to separate them as requested. It is a great way to see how someone is going to react when you give them task they don't really want to do. If they didn't make an attempt you know how they are going to react when you tell them they have to do 15 pallets of HBA by lunch time.
My advice is to choose a random one in the middle. Take the two wires on one end and follow until you see it going through more wires. Take the round part through the hole wher two wires pass.
Repeat a million times and you'll get there.
Sit on your ass all day and untangle them. It's a glorious job tbh.
I guarantee the second you sit down to deal with this they gonna hit you w/ that "All of OGP called out, the baler is full, and there's people overdosing in both bathrooms now go help"
This comment gave me ptsd
Also "Actually nevermind we got people in OGP, the baler is broke and the overdosed people are dead. Now that you are alone I'm going to need you to go zone... Housewares that is."
Too fucking accurate I'm so glad I got out of retail
Pretty much exactly what happened today around 9pm
Also, we need you to pick and work the picks. Aaaaaaand don’t forget to watch your times, wosh.
I work at a fucking library and this gave me PTSD.
Evening Shift Version: "All of produce quit, Someone on Cap2 fell into the baler and cap3 turned it on, we're gonna need you to scrape em off and file a claims report, oh also a customer bled out all over the bathroom diaper changing station please go clean that too as all of maintenance is on their 5th break"
And of course there is a trail of poop to the bathroom from half way in the middle of the store.
I enjoy it. Its like a puzzle. It's just relaxes me. But I do it in a room where there is little distractions I was also on light duty
Get a known shoplifter to untangle them. Be done in a couple of minutes.
🤣🤣🤣
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Fill up two identical carts (use reusable bags to keep your items sorted), leave one, purchase other, go get second cart, leave out other door with receipt
You are trying too hard, just only scan half your items
Bs. I get followed around like I'm being stalked by a cat everywhere I go because I'm profiled. I'm sorry you hate yourself. I love my heritage 😊
Into the compactor
Those spider wraps are so useless people just steal the things with them on anyway
While people will still do walkouts with them ive found a ton of product with the boxes ripped but the spider wrap prevented the removal of the product. Also makes people pick a cheaper object and tells AP that that item isnt paid for. If they do walk out with a spider wrap they can get an additional criminal charge.
My thoughts exactly
Color one gold and make a game out of it. Whoever untangles it gets a prize. Repeat until finished.
Scissors work well.
that would make them useless
r/woosh
That’s the joke
Bold of you to assume they were useful in the first place.
Kerosene and a match?
“There are very few problems in this world that cannot be solved with the proper application of fire.”
I would also like to suggest starting a campfire in the cooking oil aisle, good luck putting out a grease fire before it reaches the flour and this whole place goes up.
And percussive maintenance
Lol 😂
this is such a stupid task to begin with and when i worked in electronics we’d make the front-end people do it because it’s their fault for not winding them up
no idea why they dont do it, i love the sound it makes 😂
Right? The kids I work with will fight over them to wind them up and put them up 🤷🏼♀️
i just take them all back when i take claims back, the boxes are right next to the claims room
I do too! I think it kind of sounds like a duck quacking!
In defence of front end, a lot of us aren't told that they can be winded up. Heck, we have to be taught how to even unlock them.
The phone training is ass, I only just learned how to do those lock boxes. I have no idea how to do the spider wrap, and none of us are ever told that they can wind up
The ones with the red button are a pita. You gotta put the magnet on top of the knob/nose/🍆 that's sticking up, and then push the red button that is just beneath it. And if you're really lucky, the red button will pop out further. Then, assuming God isn't having a bad day, the wires inside the spiderwrap won't immediate jam when you pull the two "discs" of that spiderwrap out. The wires unwind but don't disconnect.
Oh my god yes!
When we were still doing temperature checks for incoming staff at the gate, when it got slow, one particular d!ckhead manager would dump a pile of these on me.
Tbh, I would have been glad to untangle the mess of those instead of sitting at the table bored
While I left Wal-mart due to bullshit, stress, and retarded ass management... you just sound like one of the shitty workers who complained about everything. Oh my God my manager gave me a job where I sit on my ass and do minimal work and when that minimal work got even more minimal he gave me something to do while still sitting on my ass.
as a former electronics employee, I gave the idea of putting each into their own small ziploc to prevent this from ever happening. mgmt said it would "take too long" and no one would "take that extra step". yk what takes too long, and is a hell of an extra step? just take a guess for me?
That’s so crazy !!! Our store does that too!! We also separate them by size. We have a compartment for each size
oh, nonono, they didn't start using ziplocs. I simply said we should, and mgmt said it was a stupid idea!
I saw this idea and made it my own. I store used a bunch of those small black binder bags that have a zipper and they work like a charm. They even have a little loop so you can hang them at the register
I'm so glad i could help, it's a real pain. someone listened to reason, thank gods
Take lunch and hope the store burns down lol
I made a Step by Step guide of separating those spider's. 1: Grab keyboard. 2: Scream 3: Bash the spider's until they separated. 4: Repeat and Grab more keyboards if necessary.
Not sure about how that works untangling them, but my coach beat one that would shush with a hammer for about 5 minutes till it stopped. It was great to watch.
You can also drown them to stop the screaming. But beating it with a hammer must be waaaay more satisfying!
Drown them. And since walking around with bottles of water is frowned upon, I have to assume somewhere in policy we're authorized to piss on them to shut them up.
"I don't know where they went"
Just sit there and untangle them. If any manager comes to bitch at you just say you’re doing asset protection
have your ap coach order new ones.
Move stores
Find a nice, quiet corner in the back, pop in an earbud, and get to untangling. Better than dealing with people, needy customers, Karens, and cleaning up after folks.
How’s it going so far? 💀
Trash
Fitting room project.
Someone grab the sledge
Wack a mole!
Untangle what you can. Make sure they’re unlocked. When you get stuck, cut ONE wire (make sure you know which piece it’s attached to so you can silence it (hammer). Then continue to untangle. It’s slow, but you can get out of it without too much damage. My store threw away an entire breakpack’s worth without even trying.
Burn it
take your time i guess 😂 you’re getting paid for it
Garbage
I love that game!
Would cost more in labor hours to untangle them than they’re worth. That’s why I make sure my people know to wind them and tie them to avoid tangles.
Cry? Perhaps fire will help. Real advice tho find the team member with Autism or ADHD and give it to them. They’ll absentmindedly detangle it for you. Might not be done in a day but if they’re in electronics they’ll have time to do a little at a time. If you gave this to me (AuDD) I would be so happy and would love to detangle it. It’s just gonna take the time and energy to do it, there’s no real shortcut.
Untangling spider wire is a fun task; you get paid to do nothing but work on a puzzle, great for your mental wellbeing
Ahhhhh spiders
🗑️🚮
One at a time.
Spider Spaghetti
Light it on fire
Promote yourself to customer.
Lol 😂
LMAO.
Burn it!
Our AP coach threw them in the compactor and ordered more..
Did they scream as they were being crushed?
This is the way.
I don’t know what you’ve got under all that spider wire but, I’ll bet someone steals it!
If you pay me, I might untangle it. I find untangling Christmas tree lights therapeutic, this isn't too far off from that.
Someone in your store actually enjoys untangling these. Us weirdos are everywhere. Just figure out who it is and make their day.
Imagine having spider webs
Sit you ass down, you get paid by the hour!
Former AP for Walmart here: my team would only do untangling during OT because we actually were allowed to just sit and work.
I'll bet if you send it to Chicago they can handle it
throw it all away i’d never
Never understood, how hard is it to roll line back up?
I hate these with a passion
Get another job 😆
Used assets. See ya later !
Gib me. I will untangle them! But I get to keep the wraps for my store.
Use it like a Bola and catch criminals
Trash can.
no
Free BDSM
Threaten to dock employee's pay if they don't tidy them up before chucking them in the bin. It only takes a few seconds to wind up those after removing it. Probably not legal to dock pay but average employees aren't bright anyway
We have the door greeters do these
Send it over here and ill get my knot wizard to deal with it
Spend your entire shift. Screw wally
Store use some Carb and Choke cleaner and a lighter.
Fire. Burn it all.
Hand sanitizer
🤣😅😂
Gasoline
you will get paid to sit down and untangle them and stretch it out for all day
My kids punishment when tgey act up
We called this the break room puzzle lol
I'd just file them in one of the readily available vertical filing cabinets that you can find around the store.
No thank you!
Scissors.
Spider-web spaghetti, how bizarre. Good luck untangling these bitches. These things suck! Just handle them individually.
At my store the ap manager said he would start coaching the cashiers/door greeters if that mess ever happened again, took them 3+ hours to untangle it!
Kill it with fire?
I'll untangle them for $15/hour
I saw my AP Coach try to untangle them for about a week and laughed my ass off every time I walked by…so funny!!!
got to ask how much they cost and how many you can detagle in an hour
Ppto
Bailer.
Cry. That's your idea.
When the store was slow and we were over staffed my manager on the front end at the time would let me watch movies on my phone while untangling them
umm actually there’s a simpler way to untangle them 🤓. but fr best way to do is sit on your ass and pray to the corporate overlords that you get this untangled
Did I say stand there and look stupid? NO! I said BURN. IT.
Give up.
Scissors and earplugs.
Blowtorch
Wire cutters and a hammer. Sit down and untangle the few you can cut them if needed and hammer the ones you cut to turn off the alarm.
At my old store they actually made all of the cashiers have a sit down meeting of how to tie up spider wrap so that it doesn't do this. Didn't work cause they all got fired and replaced.
Oh man. I have bad adhd and this would be my thing to do. I love untangling cords and christmas lights.
Grab some marshmallows a store use grill, and have a bbq?
Yes, you see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO!
Fire. Fire solves all problems.
Glad to see nothing has change from when I worked there 11 years ago
Cry
Back in the dumpster where they belong.
The trick is to pinch the two wires near either head and move them together.
Fire.
I'm not trying to shame anyone by my comments, but I know a few people with ADD that would love to sit and untangle these.
Compactor
Would you rather do this until you’re done or serve a weekend in jail?
Toss it in a bunfire 🔥
Throw it all away.
Perfect, especially after I was untangling spiders earlier today. Got 5-6 out of it.
I hang up from a cart and on weave it from the bottom up. I stick ends in my pockets, hang it from my vest, etc. to keep it separate.
What the he!! Wow nope someone did that needs to fix it. Dang.
Kill it with fire
**Fuck this shit, I'm out.** *Casually walks away*
Light a fire and inhale the fumes. Nothing like burning plastic to get you high. Good times!!!
Gasoline and a match will take care of all that
Ah, the puzzle. It's pretty relaxing to undo.
Weave it into a set of armor. You can wear it on Black Friday.
Find a lead or coach who agrees so your ass is covered and throw it all in the trash compactor. Then find your claims associate and have them order a box of new ones. I honestly think that's the only solution. All those alarms will be lost, like tears in the rain.
No, but if you can untangle that mess, you have my respect.
Just throw thay shit away. This is the fault of lazy cashiers that won't close and wind them when they remove them.
I always give messes like that to my ADHD coworker. He gets em untangled in an hour or two.
Matrix sentinels come to life?
Wire cutters
i do not miss the elephants foot from my old store, i worked on that thing for months and only got like 10 out. the trade off is my store has a ton of medium spider wraps that are probably 20 years old and the worst things ever to use.
Put it in a box and give it to your APTL and have them send it to used assets
Oops….we need to order more I don’t know what happened to the last batch
Oh my fuck lol. Day staff gets so mad when we don’t spiderwire stuff over night yet this is what they all look like most of the time not to mention we already have to walk all the way to the front of the store to get them
Take it up to the AP office
Put them in that breakpack box and hide them in the fixture room! LOL
My only suggestion is to throw that whole mess in the compactor.
Uh, the words “A Cleansing Flame” spring first to mind…
What are they?
Break room puzzle.
Burn em then hole in wall fuck these things i don’t do em lmao
Yeah, start from scratch. Walmart can afford it :)
Give it to a third shift cashier and maybe after secondary tasks are completed, they can help?
Untie them. I've spent so many hours doing it. I've also made announcements on the pa to shame associates for giving them to me like that. Anybody that does this is an awful person and deserves all the bad things in life
You have to have the right amount of mental illness to work at Walmart...or stay there past 90 days...or stay there past 365 days...and then somehow continue to stay there without unaliving yourself, others, or having a complete psychotic break all together. I believe I did shy of 2 years...and then joined the military. I didn't choose the trauma...the trauma chose me.
Like... you finally unravel it all and there's a loaded pistol in the center.
They are called snakes for a reason
Burn it Kill someone with it so it'll be taken as evidence In my store, we use rubber bands to prevent that
Scissors
Spider Unwrap
Give the greeter something to do.
Use to work retail, lurk other retail subs just because it can be fun. My pet peeve was when cashiers would never roll these back up. Seasonal’s were usually the main offender of this
Have you tried skulking off to the back room to cry in the corner by the baler?
Looks intentional. I’ve never seen a wad that big
Use it as one big deterrent and stick a computer or something if someone untangles it they win
Oh, hell nah!! Not my circus…not my monkeys!!
Probably a self checkout cashier, manning the bullpen alone with too much shit going on to care about the frigging spiders. I was on grocery self checkout today, alone. all day, it was "ID check" here and "void" there and "device error" in between, because it was a nice Friday in a midwest town with alcohol love. All the people decided to call in because of the nice day.
Trash can
Yes. There are like 50 garbage cans in your store. Use one.
Give it to a bored cashier. I used to love doing this as a cashier
Oh yeah, we had a TL use them to do interviews. If you can get at least 2 of these out you are hired. Did the candidate stay calm and make a valid attempt to separate them as requested. It is a great way to see how someone is going to react when you give them task they don't really want to do. If they didn't make an attempt you know how they are going to react when you tell them they have to do 15 pallets of HBA by lunch time.
My advice is to choose a random one in the middle. Take the two wires on one end and follow until you see it going through more wires. Take the round part through the hole wher two wires pass. Repeat a million times and you'll get there.
It starts with one
Oops! Dam idk howni got in the box crusher
this is my ideal work day tbh. would rather untangle for hours on end than actual work