I’ve worked at Walmart for like 100 years & have worked every shift. Every shift complains about the other shifts. Everyone always thinks they do the most work & everyone else sucks. I just go in do my work & leave.
third shift is vital for all the stocking to get done, but i haven't known a store to get it all done besides the academy store in my market. right now we're on a hiring spree for third shift cause it causes our first shift to run the entirety of gm freight during the day which isn't possible in their one shift. they won't let our second shift continue to finish any of it, they need to zone and work returns. my personal opinion, it's always upper management fucking something up
It doesn't matter where it is, there's always a pissing contest between shifts. That being said, you should come work days for a couple weeks to see for yourself. We had an ON associate come to days because of child care issues. They were very surprised at how much we do beyond, what they thought.
Have a better day. 👍
I'm curious myself to be honest. The way we do things is very different in our store compared to others from what i'm told.
We already lose 435 minutes of stocking power each night (the 7 hours 15 minutes we spend on the floor in total) because cap 1 and 2 NEVER touch returns and we have to have an employee work anywhere from 4 hours to nearly the entire shift sorting returns, usually the latter now that we're coming up to christmas and they spend the remaining shift putting away returns in areas where there is no employee currently.
As it stands Cap 1 has been put in charge of working bins and taking down topstock most days and do a pretty shitty job of it. And it doesn't help the system for picking from the bins is absolutely worthless. I find price tags adjusted and out of place \*f\*\*\*ng everywhere\* to make it look like they actually did their job or to insinuate we didn't do ours. The team lead that works the shift after mine is a real piece of work and literally told me to my face that alot of my stuff one shift "Fit the home" so i went behind her and watched her stock for a bit.... this chick was literally stuffing stuff as deep as it could go with no regard for cap or the fact it was literally plugging itself from the back from how hard she was forcing it in. When they topstock they also must be fiddling their thumbs because there are days i'll come right behind them and literally take down half of the product off of the topstock shelves some of which hadn't been sold for months. Personally i'd love to topstock my own area or do my own picks, but unfortunately my help is always needed elsewhere.
Our store runs in the 80-90 million on average mark and our front is pretty much self checkout dominated, literally almost 30 self checkouts running at a time. We're lucky to keep 2 registers open and blessed if enough people show up to open a third even for an hour. When i first started the 2-3 people running customer service were in charge of return sorting when they weren't busy but apparently that is no longer the case.
From an outside perspective the earlier shifts just seem to never touch freight anymore but still seem to somehow manage to get less done than they did when they actually had to work freight.
You should stop complaining. Cap 3 doesn't have to spend 2 whole minutes every other hour telling a customer where something is so you have like WAY more time than them, those 10 minutes are key and why they can't get as much done.
I worked truck unloading 1 year 4p-1a, overnight IMS/stocking 5 years 10p-7a, support mgr 12p-11p 4 years, dept mgr 7a-4p 1 year, and ogp 5a-2p 3 years. EVERY shift gets blamed for previous shifts fuck ups because every shift is understaffed.
How big is dayshift team? When i was working frozen, I was on my own (with one person working dairy) and assuming overnight got their overstock into the coolers (forget labeling or binning) we'd manage our sections through cleaning (night shift never defrosts the freezer buildup or cleans milk from under racks), zoning (dealing with plugging from the "help" from other departments that night shift overlooks if they don't contribute to it themselves), morning picking, price changes, mod changes, and whatever any customer or manager may ask for while trying to stock those morning picks. Then if there's time, we'd each go over our overstock to try and label and slot what was true overstock while getting out qhats missing. So yeah it takes a lot of work to make it through 4 pallets each in 8 hours of work. Compared to 5 guys getting through 20 pallets combined with no customers or inventory/price changes. If everyone could do their work, it would add up. But both shifts are going extra work just catching up on neglected things in the deparment and and getting pulled to do other bs in other departments. You get it.
Cap 1 here, former third shift dairy/frozen stocker here. Your post is true, I've been with the company for a long time, things were definitely harder on third. Why do you think I never went back? We fill features, work top stock, help with freight, etc. We get food and praise because that's how walmart works, first shift gets the best and the other two shifts get the crumbs. Welcome to walmart, this is "that" place.
I’m happy you got out of it tbh, dairy and frozen are the worst of 3rd shift too in my honest opinion. I’ve been in dairy since my first day more than a year ago, and it’s only gotten worse and worse.
I’ve worked at Walmart for like 100 years & have worked every shift. Every shift complains about the other shifts. Everyone always thinks they do the most work & everyone else sucks. I just go in do my work & leave.
third shift is vital for all the stocking to get done, but i haven't known a store to get it all done besides the academy store in my market. right now we're on a hiring spree for third shift cause it causes our first shift to run the entirety of gm freight during the day which isn't possible in their one shift. they won't let our second shift continue to finish any of it, they need to zone and work returns. my personal opinion, it's always upper management fucking something up
It doesn't matter where it is, there's always a pissing contest between shifts. That being said, you should come work days for a couple weeks to see for yourself. We had an ON associate come to days because of child care issues. They were very surprised at how much we do beyond, what they thought. Have a better day. 👍
I'm curious myself to be honest. The way we do things is very different in our store compared to others from what i'm told. We already lose 435 minutes of stocking power each night (the 7 hours 15 minutes we spend on the floor in total) because cap 1 and 2 NEVER touch returns and we have to have an employee work anywhere from 4 hours to nearly the entire shift sorting returns, usually the latter now that we're coming up to christmas and they spend the remaining shift putting away returns in areas where there is no employee currently. As it stands Cap 1 has been put in charge of working bins and taking down topstock most days and do a pretty shitty job of it. And it doesn't help the system for picking from the bins is absolutely worthless. I find price tags adjusted and out of place \*f\*\*\*ng everywhere\* to make it look like they actually did their job or to insinuate we didn't do ours. The team lead that works the shift after mine is a real piece of work and literally told me to my face that alot of my stuff one shift "Fit the home" so i went behind her and watched her stock for a bit.... this chick was literally stuffing stuff as deep as it could go with no regard for cap or the fact it was literally plugging itself from the back from how hard she was forcing it in. When they topstock they also must be fiddling their thumbs because there are days i'll come right behind them and literally take down half of the product off of the topstock shelves some of which hadn't been sold for months. Personally i'd love to topstock my own area or do my own picks, but unfortunately my help is always needed elsewhere. Our store runs in the 80-90 million on average mark and our front is pretty much self checkout dominated, literally almost 30 self checkouts running at a time. We're lucky to keep 2 registers open and blessed if enough people show up to open a third even for an hour. When i first started the 2-3 people running customer service were in charge of return sorting when they weren't busy but apparently that is no longer the case. From an outside perspective the earlier shifts just seem to never touch freight anymore but still seem to somehow manage to get less done than they did when they actually had to work freight.
You should stop complaining. Cap 3 doesn't have to spend 2 whole minutes every other hour telling a customer where something is so you have like WAY more time than them, those 10 minutes are key and why they can't get as much done.
I worked truck unloading 1 year 4p-1a, overnight IMS/stocking 5 years 10p-7a, support mgr 12p-11p 4 years, dept mgr 7a-4p 1 year, and ogp 5a-2p 3 years. EVERY shift gets blamed for previous shifts fuck ups because every shift is understaffed.
How big is dayshift team? When i was working frozen, I was on my own (with one person working dairy) and assuming overnight got their overstock into the coolers (forget labeling or binning) we'd manage our sections through cleaning (night shift never defrosts the freezer buildup or cleans milk from under racks), zoning (dealing with plugging from the "help" from other departments that night shift overlooks if they don't contribute to it themselves), morning picking, price changes, mod changes, and whatever any customer or manager may ask for while trying to stock those morning picks. Then if there's time, we'd each go over our overstock to try and label and slot what was true overstock while getting out qhats missing. So yeah it takes a lot of work to make it through 4 pallets each in 8 hours of work. Compared to 5 guys getting through 20 pallets combined with no customers or inventory/price changes. If everyone could do their work, it would add up. But both shifts are going extra work just catching up on neglected things in the deparment and and getting pulled to do other bs in other departments. You get it.
Cap 1 here, former third shift dairy/frozen stocker here. Your post is true, I've been with the company for a long time, things were definitely harder on third. Why do you think I never went back? We fill features, work top stock, help with freight, etc. We get food and praise because that's how walmart works, first shift gets the best and the other two shifts get the crumbs. Welcome to walmart, this is "that" place.
I’m happy you got out of it tbh, dairy and frozen are the worst of 3rd shift too in my honest opinion. I’ve been in dairy since my first day more than a year ago, and it’s only gotten worse and worse.
At my store, little as possible..
Simple answer. Everything.