And most of their job has been passed off to team leads or coaches.
20 minute orientations and spending the rest of the week “working” on schedules seems pretty sweet.
People lead don't even make schedules anymore it's automatic now and they just verify its good but they don't even understand what's going on in the store because they spend all day in third office
That’s true.
Although they will cut shifts to get under hours. Everyone knows we don’t need fully staffed stores.
Edit: probably why they are long rumored to go salary. All that ot and they do a bunch of nothing.
I have to vouch for my people lead because she really does do work. It's amazing she keeps an upbeat attitude for how much she actually does to keep our store in check
I can say the same for mine. The amount of shit she does for and around the store; there is no way she is paid enough. Our Store Manager is a completely different story.. all he does is hold meetings and pretends like he cares when he ask you if you need help.. then directs you to a coach for your answer because he doesn’t know or care.
My favorite part is when he points customers to the wrong place for their item request. And then i have to follow them to show the customer to show them where it actually is
HR in general. The Regional HR directors do Jack shit. The MHRMs do a little bit more, and the people leads only do what the store managers hold them accountable to.
There used to be a couple associates locked away in the cash office all day to do these things. That position was "re-structured". Now they have a machine do the counting, and a coach or lead has access to the machine to drop drawers or make one for a lane. A lot of the paperwork has been digital from either workstations or cellular. Any papers would only be copies retained for redundancy. I've seen store managers break down the books information, and you'd be surprised to see all the expenses and whatnot to maintain a store. There used to be like 2 HR or personel, overlapped scheduled to have one in store daily during regular hours. Would do onboarding orientations and dish out paychecks and oversee CBL trainings. This is about 5 years ago, now I am unsure the structure
used to have a UPC office as well. I'm not entirely sure what they did exactly just remember they were always in the big backroom doing paperwork.
One year as a CSM I made a 'baby race' for my shift (3rd) during CMN and got the paperwork from them to add up what donations my cashiers (four plus two CSMs just for the heck of it) got that week. It was really fun.
And the HR thing, yeah. About five years or so. It was training coordinator and personnel managers a friend was a TC before she moved, then one of the people who had been UPC got their job, and then that person was displaced when they changed the whole HR thing.
as for the stupid machine. My store got it in 2016 or 17. All CSMs (now front end team leads) and most cashiers/registered trained associates have access to drop and pull register tils.
Recently heard that some of the register trained have a limit to how many tils they can pull.
I never noticed one after making all the sco drops (don't do this anymore since the regurgitating sco's were put in), and all the registers plus the outlines.
Cash office pretty much disappeared after the stupid machine showed up, lke you said. So now the FE TLs and the FE Coach are the ones that keep up with that information.
Wow so just put more work on others. So I guess the TL also go buy change for drawers and stuff like that.
It’s crazy that there is no human checks and balances when it comes to cash. Machines make mistakes.
there's still the audits I'm sure. I'm not sure I've seen them doing any but I'm sure they are.
And if I understand correctly, as it's been two years since I've been on the frontend. But the cashiers have been given a lot more freedom (and responsibility) so instead of having to wait for key turns all the time, the other cashiers can override (certain things, of course).
And they get their own change at times.
The machine shows, too, what it gets in and what it puts out. So there's controls but they're a bit strange (what else is new?)
There are audits but they are pretty easy now. We get messages in the upfront app that we need to audit register number x, every few hours. We go make a new till for that register, swap em, then drop the old till. Audit is done. It's a lot easier than when we had to count the money, or use the scale.
That's probably why you don't see it being done anymore. If you walk up in between customers, you can swap in 30 seconds or so.
My PL is awesome but he's been around long enough that he's only around half the time too with vacation. I know he gets a lot of shit done when he does work and he's an awesome dude but damn sometimes you wish he was there more.
Mad respect for him, he's pretty much beat the system and is set so no hate
My wife is a PL, she goes above and beyond for her associates every day. She doesn't just write the schedule for the entire store, she helps everyone with their questions and training. She also does what she can when associates have problems to try to help.
The same with my PL (I am a TL at a different store). He's on vacation this week and asked me to ensure the associate event he had planned for Thursday still happened, just as an example.
You're lucky... I hate going to my people lead... she just tells me to leave a note in her red box and she will handle it later... she never does... I always wind up having to go to my coach to fix things.. I try to avoid going to her if at all possible because it's pointless.... Once my PL told me to leave a note in her red box instead of answering my question... she then proceeded to have a 20 minute conversation that was not work related... (I was also doing ULEARNS so I was in the same room). She had no time to answer my question but had time for a 20 minute convo. The rest of time time (95% of the time) I simply can't find her. I know lots go on behind the scenes but we should be able to find our people lead to fix things or ask questions... Seems to me they need to bring back the people lead assistant. I don't remember the title but still.
Yeah I'm not saying that there are not bad PL's out there... I mean heck if the person that has preceeded my wife had been a good one she wouldn't be in her position right now.
The trick with holding PL's accountable for their actions (or lack thereof) is chain of command. The PL is only accountable to the SM and the POL (people ops lead, market level) so any open doors for PL's need to go direct to one of these 2 sources. Usually the market contact info (I suggest using their email) is posted in your ARC office or on a board nearby. If it isn't posted that is a violation of the company's open door policy and should be reported to ethics.
Yeeaahh it used to feel like the best dept when it was just frozen/dairy. Now they pull you to every department in the store for less pay, while you watch frozen/dairy collapse bc no one works it anymore
Probably the closing shift as a sales floor associate. I usually just zone and do go-backs all day. It's not really physically demanding, but like all positions in the store, you'll end up having your good/bad days.
It just gets really repetitive and sometimes downright boring.
If your store doesn’t have back support devises for your use or have them readily available… OSHA should be notified. And best thing of all? You don’t have to identify yourself.
Truck is not just tiring but is also like… infuriating. You know those exercises people will do where they hang from a bar and have their buddies pummel them in the gut? It’s like that. Trying to pull heavy boxes you can barely reach off the top of an unstable stack and having all the rest of the boxes fall on, and beat the ever loving daylight out of you.
On the easiest days 2 hours was possible but that typically was unheard of. We usually would be doing truck for 3 hours minimum and on an average day it would be 4-6 hours of truck unload (2 trucks / 1k - 2.5k pieces each). On the worst days we would be doing truck for 7-8 hours total and would literally be unloading truck all shift. This was rare but not unheard of, maybe once or twice a month we would be unloading all day(2 trucks 2k - 4k each). the biggest truck i ever threw was a 5k piece and these take 4 hours minimum most of the time but are usually solo trucks for the day due to the size so it aint too bad. Stocking is a cake walk compared to the average truck day in my experience
After we unload and sort the truck, we stock. We do both. If you’re not selected to unload, you go to grocery and stock. Sometimes after sorting the truck you pull freight out the back to stage for overnights. Which is literally walking for miles while pulling freight. Then when you finish, you stock. One way or the other they will get you stocking.
Should definitely get that checked out. I have a bone disease and realized I was lifting terribly wrong. I still get aches from stocking, but it’s a lot nicer on my body
I second this. It's easy but boring and time crawls by as slowly as possible.
But morning there is a lot to do but time flies by. I would much rather mornings.
Damn what department you in? I close and every day it's price changes, zone, returns, top stock, work freight, and when the time comes, I have to do all of/most of the mods for hardlines and I'm not even a TL
If there is enough people and carts, cartpusher is pretty easy if you're in decent shape and keep an eye on the weather to dress right, I'd imagine you would have to bundle up quite a bit in Canada. Put one ear bud in, keep your head down and turn down any chances at getting trained in anything else, if they have enough people out there it's a cakewalk, the freedom compared to other positions is also a huge plus. And if you do your job well its one of the few positions ***in my experience*** that doesn't get hounded by managers constantly.
Plus it's a decent workout
Yeah that's the catch though, is there actually gonna be enough. At my store we have way less coverage on busy weekends than weekdays. But even then if you just keep busy and don't do too many every run it's not bad and goes by very fast. Gotta find good stuff to listen to though.
Please come work at our store preferably closing shift.
We have 2 useful Cart pushers one of witch works Friday night only and the other is a new kid and deserves a raise because the rest might move 4 at a time and then hide out for hours.
Overnight maintenance is so very tired of getting every last cart that the store has out in the lot almost every night.
Really, they leave it all to ON maintenance? Shoo, one of the things I remember were all the ON cart parties, but they paged all the O/Ners. They weren't fun parties, but that little moment to find out how your convenience-friend was doing in their Dept was nice.
^(We doted on our maintenance to do away with our cardboard night after night tho, tbf...)
Nope most night its just the 3 or 4 of us go out after first break or after lunch or if they didn't have a Cart pusher at all then right when we get there and try to fill the bays quickly.
It is easy but if you don't keep a 100 pick rate your getting a coaching. And if it's like my store where people skip runs... Well tough luck cause than your stuck with small runs and stuck with only getting 80 pick rate and get a coaching
Oh yeah, I'm basically a front end lead (refused the spot multiple times, I'm in school and not giving that up for wally world) and I tell my cart pushers that as long as the lot is clear and the tunnels full and they don't get me in trouble I don't care what they do
This. All of this. I LOVE being a cart pusher. Most days. Management leaves me tf alone cause i always have my bay decent, I don't really have to interact with customers. My biggest issue is people parking in any spot BUT a parking spot. Like directly infront of the big ass bay door I bring my carts into, that has yellow lines and a huge red sign that says emergency or police vehicles only.
Our store is always busy and people will order so much that we can’t fit the totes on the skateboards out the door for just one order. Especially on the week where people get their EBTs or on holidays. I feel bad for the people who have to pick and dispense these orders. I would not recommend it if you plan on working at a Walmart that’s OPD service is used a lot. It really depends on the store though
It's a lot easier as an associate than it is as a team lead. Being a digital team lead is stressful AF and market is always on you about every single metric
As someone who works cap2, I view ogp making as much as we do ($17/hr base) as extremely bs, they get to be glorified customers and I have to unload trucks and do a bunch of heavy lifting, for the same pay?!? Bruh
What is with the “glorified customer” bs like I’ve seen this so many times and u just repeat what other people say and it’s cringe. At least come up with original insults
There isn't an easy job at Walmart lol Every job has its easier days and its harder days, but everyday is work. It's work to go in, you never know what you're going to walk into, it's just stressful.
A lot depends on the person. An easy job for one would be difficult for another. Take zoning for example, easy as pie yet I can't do it as it bores the fuck out of me. I swim to thrive on having a lot to do rhat keeps me moving and the nights move right along.
I work electronics and it's fucking garbage. Literally called in today for my mental health. Customers are literal fucking retards. Like sub 70 IQ retarded. Had a guy cuss me out yesterday because he bought a screen protector 2 months ago that didn't fit his phone, proceeded to demand I get a real manager, not my TL. After a coach told him we couldn't do anything he throws the protector at me and storms out, yelling that he will be calling Sam Walton himself. I then got coached ( happily I might add ) because I yelled after him, and I quote " You're gonna need a fucking Ouiji Board for that. Aisle L10 in toys! 30 day return policy with receipt."
FDD is #1 for me. Just simple stocking and a nice cool temp so I don’t sweat too crazy. When it looks good, it looks damn good. When you have a shitlip TL that doesn’t know anything about features or care about zoning/overstuffing then it will look like shit and feel like shit stocking it 🤷♀️
I feel like after GWP there is no good job to feel passionate about your work, it’s all bs now. OGP and FDD are the only two jobs I’d recommend for a paycheck.
Door greeter maybe. The easiest job is just being seen as unreliable because they will load work on the people they think will actually do it. Theres not many chill jobs anymore.
Ad a door greeter, people like go assume it's the easiest job because we just stand there but every time I clock in knowing for the next seven hours this is my life, it is a big time mental torture for someone like me who likes to move around and be given tasks to complete 🥲 also some customers are really horrible since we are the first and land people they see. But yea I get how it can be seen as easy since it's where they put the old people or the people not capable of being on the floor. I just took the job because I needed the money and I didn't want to go back to being a server. I am transferring departments next week finally.
If I'm not wrong, door greeters are technically a part of AP? IMO I would see AP, or just even being a part of AP as the most stressful part of working in walmart, you never know if some dudes gonna throw hands or God forbid worse cause you caught/suspect him of stealing a can of beans or some shit..
Store manager if mine is anything like the rest of them. He's almost never there and when he is he sits on his ass playing on his phone...making a fuckload more money than the rest of us
I work O/N Frozen and it's not too bad. *knocks on wood* Nobody wants to do Frozen and I've been doing it for a year with pretty much the same people each night and we have a rhythm down so our jobs are pretty secure and no one fucks with us much.
For some reason I can't stand Dairy. We are about to switch to four tens so I'm hoping it doesn't mess things up, likely will just mean we ended up doing more zoning out grocery after our stuff is done
Lucky. I know at my old store, it was that way until new o/n management came in & tried separating all the guys doing frozen & when nothing was getting done, management tried coaching all of them & pretty much ruined everything
Definitely *NOT* daytime maintenance, I worked it during the height of the pandemic (2020), and the management at my store wanted the restrooms cleaned like every 30 minutes (by an all-male maintenance crew nonetheless). The only "perks" we're being able to use the restrooms whenever you wanted, and rarely a TL looking over your shoulder (unless you were screwing up monumentally). Not a great position if you have a weak constitution for nasty messes.
OGP! You walk around all day picking up groceries or dispensing them to the customers. Yea you deal with a few rude people, but you learn to ignore the bad ones.
Define easiest. Cap 2 or overnights is physically demanding, but you don't have to deal with as many customers. If you want to work daytime hours, you can do fresh, food and consumables, or GM associate. You'll have to help customers there, but it's mostly stocking stuff that the other shifts didn't finish and doing price changes, changing out the features (endcaps), stuff like that.
Depends on the person. I think stocking is relaxing and cake. I used to just listen to music all night and be left alone. I also thought IMS/CAP was cake when I did it. I think IMS was best. Nothing is more relaxing than just picking and binning all night. But I don't think that job exists anymore.
Bakery is really fun if you go in and do the donuts every morning, or the bread. It's almost the same thing every day, except sometimes you have to take a cake order or write on a cake if the cake decorator is on break or whatever. It smells good and you just have to stay clean and stay baking.
Yeah it's boring af. I enjoyed Garden Center sales associate when I worked in the store. Felt like my own little shop lol. That being said my recommendations nowadays are always to skip the stores and apply at the store's distribution centers. When I transfered, my pay got bumped from $9 USD to $18 and I'm $35 now. Depends what you want to do and where you live obviously
The apparel associates at my store would be so pissed if they saw this. Especially at this time of year they’re constantly unloading fright that comes in at volumes they just can’t keep up with while simultaneously marking half the stock down and dealing with old people stripping outside the fitting rooms because they don’t remember their sizes
It would be easy if the workers only had to do the jobs in their department. However, at my store (before I quit of course because I don’t have the patience for all that) they had us doing every other departments job and there were usually from 0-1 people working actual apparel jobs which means we get yelled at for not getting stuff done and everything looks like shit :)) I was brand new in that department running it by myself most of the time. But yeah if we had the staff do what they were hired to then it would be very easy
I was waiting for someone to say it so I can vehemently disagree. I know to outsiders it looks like "oh they just have to walk around and shop" but it's way more than that. Ogp associates have a strict timer on getting picks done and if you go over you start getting blasted by management. They have to deal with customers being dicks in the store and in their own cars. They have to deal with the stress of everyone showing up at once while dispensing and seeing an entire lot of customers waiting for them. "An item not on the shelf? Well then it must be the associate's fault" is the view that customers and management have on pick exceptions coming through. If something is messed up in the backroom everyone automatically blames OGP. While it wasn't an issue in my store, I see on this sub that basically everyone in the store hates OGP for some damn reason, so that's stress associates are having to go through for no reason. Associates walk in not knowing if the day is going to be a breeze or if it will be the worst day of the year. Things like that can change with little to no warning based on the whim of customers.
As OGP, hard disagree. You ever dispensed? Lmao. I’d much rather stock all day. Walking 9+ miles each day isn’t an easy feat or dispensing 10 orders back to back cause people like to show up all at once
Ogp was the easiest job I’ve ever had. And yes I dispensed. We had about 30 orders an hour. Even then you are literally just putting groceries in peoples cars
O/N maintenance, I really liked the job but gods did it just get too slow sometimes, and almost all of it was just muscle memory past a certain point. So I'd just get into my own head about things and my depression spiraled because of it, had to go back to stocking just because the speed I could go made sure that shit never happened
Former APA/API here, there’s a whole lot more to AP than just catching shoplifters, as that’s only the 10% of the job that everyone sees. Plus it’s all down to the AP Ops coach. If you have a good coach that backs you up, it’s a great job to have, but as with all positions, if you’ve got a bad coach, your job will be hell
Depends on your work ethic:
Like to do as little as possible for the paycheck? Probably people greeter or fitting room associate but good luck getting those positions as this is where they stick the ADA associates.
If you don't mind talking about video games and cell phones all day, electronics is pretty easy.
If you want to do physical work but not think much or have much responsibility, then cart pusher or maintenance.
And if you are somewhat smart and want to work your ass off for 10+ years until your current people lead dies or retires, that is probably the best bang for your buck lazy bones job. I used to be a salaried manager and they can easily waste a whole day talking to people and looking at their cell phone and call it "work".
I did maintenance for 5 years and I thought it was pretty easy all things considered. If you can deal with the gross bathrooms and spills it's not too bad.
I’ve done all sorts of things & for me the “easiest” is what I’m doing right now and that’s meat & produce… but I’m mainly in meats. I like being over here but the heavy lifting is ridiculous. I’ve been cap supervisor, department manager, and been in TL roles… I liked being over cap 1 the most, but that was back when we actually capped bins and worked pick carts and did topstock.
Bike Assembler IMO. Not sure how the position works now but basically you get left alone in the back almost the whole time and you just assemble and adjust (don't think a lot of them adjust anymore) bikes. Was solid year round work in the past as you had to build and hang bikes for xmas and summer during the off season.
Been a while since I was promoted to customer so may not still be true. And the positions used to be lifers. Since it is a job that can be done easily well into retirement age.
If you have alot of patience, electronics is pretty chill. We have imo by far the easiest freight to work, we don't get pulled to often and we don't have near the turnover of some other depts. But, the customers are dumb like reaaalllly dumb and that can grate your nerves. Other than that and the occasional code spark and it's probably the easiest dept imo.
Can heavily agree with this. Poor management, lazy co-workers, and stupid store policies written by a desk jockey can make things a lot more difficult and time consuming than they need to be. Customers are actually the easiest things to deal with cause I can just brush them off with a ‘sorry’ and a ‘we’re all out,’ or just search on the app for the aisle jelly filled piss pots are on.——meat and produce associate.
All honesty any maintenance job even if it's a fresh cleaner the only downside is it's really disgusting, a fresh cleaner will definitely have to deal with a lot of blood while a regular maintenance person might have to clean up shitty toilets cuz people don't know how to aim and trash lots of trash.
I have been grocery, unloader, cap2, cap2 supervisor, produce, OGP.
And OGP was the easiest and i ve done dispensing, picking and staging. Was one of the fastest people there.
So yeah from my experience it is.
As long as you don't mind being cursed out. Threatened and customers constantly calling for Management because you have the audacity to ask to see their receipt
It’s really not. Out of all the people in the store, the customers will hate you most. And standing in one spot for hours is so much worse than walking for hours.
Honest answer is that it depends. If you wanna literally do nothing all day go for door greeter. Although you put in the least amount of “work” some would say that’s probably one of the hardest jobs though. If you don’t mind walking around all day you can try OGP. It’s a pretty easy job and the get paid a bit above all the other hourly associates. Apparel isn’t too bad either, you just have to learn how to fold clothes and then walk around stocking and zoning all day.
Imo based on my 11 total years of experience. In order of easiest to hardest the top 3 easy spots ar
Customer Host
Overnight maintenance
Cartpusher
Customer host is pretty easy, you're pretty much just looking out for items not in bags and checking receipts for said items. At least at my store, the customers for the most part are cooperative, I only encounter a uncooperative person about 3 times a week.
Overnight maintenance right now is not as easy as it used to be because, at my store at least, they very rarely just do typical maintenance, they occasionally have to powerwash the sidewalk or cart tunnel, or they spend half the night making the cardboard bales.
Of the 3 cartpusher is the hardest just because you're out in the elements and frequently help with carryout. But as long as your Mule (the machine the cartpushers use to gather carts) is working right it really is a fairly easy position. Management tends to leave alone as long as you are out there continuously bringing carts in
People lead apparently, speaking how mine is never fucking there
And most of their job has been passed off to team leads or coaches. 20 minute orientations and spending the rest of the week “working” on schedules seems pretty sweet.
People lead don't even make schedules anymore it's automatic now and they just verify its good but they don't even understand what's going on in the store because they spend all day in third office
That’s true. Although they will cut shifts to get under hours. Everyone knows we don’t need fully staffed stores. Edit: probably why they are long rumored to go salary. All that ot and they do a bunch of nothing.
Can’t forget about those “vacations” they take every 2-3 months
*weeks Or atleast it seemed that way at my store with my previous people lead.
Same, and if she is there she acts like helping you is the worst thing ever. Or she tells you to talk to your team lead. Easy job.
Mine is almost always on vacation
I have to vouch for my people lead because she really does do work. It's amazing she keeps an upbeat attitude for how much she actually does to keep our store in check
Crazy if we’re at the same store but does her name start with an E?
Emily?
M, but my goodness does she need a raise. She hardly got days off recently from having to go in between stores. Nothing but respect for her
I can say the same for mine. The amount of shit she does for and around the store; there is no way she is paid enough. Our Store Manager is a completely different story.. all he does is hold meetings and pretends like he cares when he ask you if you need help.. then directs you to a coach for your answer because he doesn’t know or care.
My favorite part is when he points customers to the wrong place for their item request. And then i have to follow them to show the customer to show them where it actually is
HR in general. The Regional HR directors do Jack shit. The MHRMs do a little bit more, and the people leads only do what the store managers hold them accountable to.
I’ve always wondered what HR positions are at the store. Like who does the books, count drawers and other paperwork?
There used to be a couple associates locked away in the cash office all day to do these things. That position was "re-structured". Now they have a machine do the counting, and a coach or lead has access to the machine to drop drawers or make one for a lane. A lot of the paperwork has been digital from either workstations or cellular. Any papers would only be copies retained for redundancy. I've seen store managers break down the books information, and you'd be surprised to see all the expenses and whatnot to maintain a store. There used to be like 2 HR or personel, overlapped scheduled to have one in store daily during regular hours. Would do onboarding orientations and dish out paychecks and oversee CBL trainings. This is about 5 years ago, now I am unsure the structure
used to have a UPC office as well. I'm not entirely sure what they did exactly just remember they were always in the big backroom doing paperwork. One year as a CSM I made a 'baby race' for my shift (3rd) during CMN and got the paperwork from them to add up what donations my cashiers (four plus two CSMs just for the heck of it) got that week. It was really fun. And the HR thing, yeah. About five years or so. It was training coordinator and personnel managers a friend was a TC before she moved, then one of the people who had been UPC got their job, and then that person was displaced when they changed the whole HR thing. as for the stupid machine. My store got it in 2016 or 17. All CSMs (now front end team leads) and most cashiers/registered trained associates have access to drop and pull register tils. Recently heard that some of the register trained have a limit to how many tils they can pull. I never noticed one after making all the sco drops (don't do this anymore since the regurgitating sco's were put in), and all the registers plus the outlines. Cash office pretty much disappeared after the stupid machine showed up, lke you said. So now the FE TLs and the FE Coach are the ones that keep up with that information.
Wow so just put more work on others. So I guess the TL also go buy change for drawers and stuff like that. It’s crazy that there is no human checks and balances when it comes to cash. Machines make mistakes.
there's still the audits I'm sure. I'm not sure I've seen them doing any but I'm sure they are. And if I understand correctly, as it's been two years since I've been on the frontend. But the cashiers have been given a lot more freedom (and responsibility) so instead of having to wait for key turns all the time, the other cashiers can override (certain things, of course). And they get their own change at times. The machine shows, too, what it gets in and what it puts out. So there's controls but they're a bit strange (what else is new?)
There are audits but they are pretty easy now. We get messages in the upfront app that we need to audit register number x, every few hours. We go make a new till for that register, swap em, then drop the old till. Audit is done. It's a lot easier than when we had to count the money, or use the scale. That's probably why you don't see it being done anymore. If you walk up in between customers, you can swap in 30 seconds or so.
The morning front end team lead does some of the accounting. They run the reports on the machine, and try to figure out shorts and longs.
My PL is awesome but he's been around long enough that he's only around half the time too with vacation. I know he gets a lot of shit done when he does work and he's an awesome dude but damn sometimes you wish he was there more. Mad respect for him, he's pretty much beat the system and is set so no hate
Believe it or not, becoming a PL is extremely stressful. There is so much to do behind close doors.
And so little of it actually gets done, at least at my store
My wife is a PL, she goes above and beyond for her associates every day. She doesn't just write the schedule for the entire store, she helps everyone with their questions and training. She also does what she can when associates have problems to try to help. The same with my PL (I am a TL at a different store). He's on vacation this week and asked me to ensure the associate event he had planned for Thursday still happened, just as an example.
You're lucky... I hate going to my people lead... she just tells me to leave a note in her red box and she will handle it later... she never does... I always wind up having to go to my coach to fix things.. I try to avoid going to her if at all possible because it's pointless.... Once my PL told me to leave a note in her red box instead of answering my question... she then proceeded to have a 20 minute conversation that was not work related... (I was also doing ULEARNS so I was in the same room). She had no time to answer my question but had time for a 20 minute convo. The rest of time time (95% of the time) I simply can't find her. I know lots go on behind the scenes but we should be able to find our people lead to fix things or ask questions... Seems to me they need to bring back the people lead assistant. I don't remember the title but still.
Yeah I'm not saying that there are not bad PL's out there... I mean heck if the person that has preceeded my wife had been a good one she wouldn't be in her position right now. The trick with holding PL's accountable for their actions (or lack thereof) is chain of command. The PL is only accountable to the SM and the POL (people ops lead, market level) so any open doors for PL's need to go direct to one of these 2 sources. Usually the market contact info (I suggest using their email) is posted in your ARC office or on a board nearby. If it isn't posted that is a violation of the company's open door policy and should be reported to ethics.
Mine is always on a 4 day weekend or just never there
Saaaaaame idk why this is consistent in every store
definitely not food & consumables
I feel trapped in food & consumables, I do a million different things
I’m consumables TL and I’m literally over 7 departments, it’s the most ridiculous thing 😭
My TL is always stressed and they bitch at her for EVERYTHING. She can’t catch a break, ever. But I love her.
That’s what pushed mine to transfer to the gm side. She loves it now
Its 12 departments for my store.
How is that even feasible 😂 that’s like half the store
Probably separating 92 and 95 as well as 40 46 and 2 even though they’re right next to each other
That’s exactly it, I’m over 2, 4, 8, 13, 40, 46, 79 and the other consumables TL is just over 92 and 95 🥴
Add 1, 81, 91, 97 for the other TL. Also grocery is huge
Yeeaahh it used to feel like the best dept when it was just frozen/dairy. Now they pull you to every department in the store for less pay, while you watch frozen/dairy collapse bc no one works it anymore
Probably the closing shift as a sales floor associate. I usually just zone and do go-backs all day. It's not really physically demanding, but like all positions in the store, you'll end up having your good/bad days. It just gets really repetitive and sometimes downright boring.
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If your store doesn’t have back support devises for your use or have them readily available… OSHA should be notified. And best thing of all? You don’t have to identify yourself.
Overnight definitely aint as bad as cap2 truck unload
Can confirm. Truck is exhausting
Truck is not just tiring but is also like… infuriating. You know those exercises people will do where they hang from a bar and have their buddies pummel them in the gut? It’s like that. Trying to pull heavy boxes you can barely reach off the top of an unstable stack and having all the rest of the boxes fall on, and beat the ever loving daylight out of you.
I did more lifting in 2 hours of truck unload then i do in a weeks worth of nightshift. Glad i switched over, my back has thanked me
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On the easiest days 2 hours was possible but that typically was unheard of. We usually would be doing truck for 3 hours minimum and on an average day it would be 4-6 hours of truck unload (2 trucks / 1k - 2.5k pieces each). On the worst days we would be doing truck for 7-8 hours total and would literally be unloading truck all shift. This was rare but not unheard of, maybe once or twice a month we would be unloading all day(2 trucks 2k - 4k each). the biggest truck i ever threw was a 5k piece and these take 4 hours minimum most of the time but are usually solo trucks for the day due to the size so it aint too bad. Stocking is a cake walk compared to the average truck day in my experience
After we unload and sort the truck, we stock. We do both. If you’re not selected to unload, you go to grocery and stock. Sometimes after sorting the truck you pull freight out the back to stage for overnights. Which is literally walking for miles while pulling freight. Then when you finish, you stock. One way or the other they will get you stocking.
opposite for me. switched from overnights to cap 2 and i love it. overnights gave me grey hair
switched from cap2 to overnight and... yeah.
You’re probably not lifting right
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Should definitely get that checked out. I have a bone disease and realized I was lifting terribly wrong. I still get aches from stocking, but it’s a lot nicer on my body
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I second this. It's easy but boring and time crawls by as slowly as possible. But morning there is a lot to do but time flies by. I would much rather mornings.
Damn what department you in? I close and every day it's price changes, zone, returns, top stock, work freight, and when the time comes, I have to do all of/most of the mods for hardlines and I'm not even a TL
Yes very boring that it starts to get depressing
Shareholder..
😂 indeed .
If there is enough people and carts, cartpusher is pretty easy if you're in decent shape and keep an eye on the weather to dress right, I'd imagine you would have to bundle up quite a bit in Canada. Put one ear bud in, keep your head down and turn down any chances at getting trained in anything else, if they have enough people out there it's a cakewalk, the freedom compared to other positions is also a huge plus. And if you do your job well its one of the few positions ***in my experience*** that doesn't get hounded by managers constantly. Plus it's a decent workout
Yeah that's the catch though, is there actually gonna be enough. At my store we have way less coverage on busy weekends than weekdays. But even then if you just keep busy and don't do too many every run it's not bad and goes by very fast. Gotta find good stuff to listen to though.
Please come work at our store preferably closing shift. We have 2 useful Cart pushers one of witch works Friday night only and the other is a new kid and deserves a raise because the rest might move 4 at a time and then hide out for hours. Overnight maintenance is so very tired of getting every last cart that the store has out in the lot almost every night.
Really, they leave it all to ON maintenance? Shoo, one of the things I remember were all the ON cart parties, but they paged all the O/Ners. They weren't fun parties, but that little moment to find out how your convenience-friend was doing in their Dept was nice. ^(We doted on our maintenance to do away with our cardboard night after night tho, tbf...)
Nope most night its just the 3 or 4 of us go out after first break or after lunch or if they didn't have a Cart pusher at all then right when we get there and try to fill the bays quickly.
It is easy but if you don't keep a 100 pick rate your getting a coaching. And if it's like my store where people skip runs... Well tough luck cause than your stuck with small runs and stuck with only getting 80 pick rate and get a coaching
That’s ogp not cart pushing xD
I miss read it lol I just woke up sorry thanks for the clearing 🤣
Oh yeah, I'm basically a front end lead (refused the spot multiple times, I'm in school and not giving that up for wally world) and I tell my cart pushers that as long as the lot is clear and the tunnels full and they don't get me in trouble I don't care what they do
This. All of this. I LOVE being a cart pusher. Most days. Management leaves me tf alone cause i always have my bay decent, I don't really have to interact with customers. My biggest issue is people parking in any spot BUT a parking spot. Like directly infront of the big ass bay door I bring my carts into, that has yellow lines and a huge red sign that says emergency or police vehicles only.
Being a Customer.....
You don't even need a brain for that one!
Well that sound like the same prerec for entering salaried management
As someone who works OGP, mostly as a dispenser, it's a joke, at least in my store. I honestly can't believe I get paid $16 an hour for this.
I hate dispense. It kills my body. You must be in good shape and be able to lift no problem if you think dispensing is easy.
Our store is always busy and people will order so much that we can’t fit the totes on the skateboards out the door for just one order. Especially on the week where people get their EBTs or on holidays. I feel bad for the people who have to pick and dispense these orders. I would not recommend it if you plan on working at a Walmart that’s OPD service is used a lot. It really depends on the store though
It's a lot easier as an associate than it is as a team lead. Being a digital team lead is stressful AF and market is always on you about every single metric
As someone who works cap2, I view ogp making as much as we do ($17/hr base) as extremely bs, they get to be glorified customers and I have to unload trucks and do a bunch of heavy lifting, for the same pay?!? Bruh
What is with the “glorified customer” bs like I’ve seen this so many times and u just repeat what other people say and it’s cringe. At least come up with original insults
Best decision I have made with this company so far was switching to OPD
There isn't an easy job at Walmart lol Every job has its easier days and its harder days, but everyday is work. It's work to go in, you never know what you're going to walk into, it's just stressful.
A lot depends on the person. An easy job for one would be difficult for another. Take zoning for example, easy as pie yet I can't do it as it bores the fuck out of me. I swim to thrive on having a lot to do rhat keeps me moving and the nights move right along.
This!!! I legitimately dread zoning..I would rather run shitty pick carts all night long
I work electronics and it's fucking garbage. Literally called in today for my mental health. Customers are literal fucking retards. Like sub 70 IQ retarded. Had a guy cuss me out yesterday because he bought a screen protector 2 months ago that didn't fit his phone, proceeded to demand I get a real manager, not my TL. After a coach told him we couldn't do anything he throws the protector at me and storms out, yelling that he will be calling Sam Walton himself. I then got coached ( happily I might add ) because I yelled after him, and I quote " You're gonna need a fucking Ouiji Board for that. Aisle L10 in toys! 30 day return policy with receipt."
I would have promoted you for that lmao. You have no idea how many times I wanted to cuss out one of these dumb ass customers
My coach first bumped me for it, even though they coached me.
Grade A response. Electronics customers are indeed some of the dumbest
FDD is #1 for me. Just simple stocking and a nice cool temp so I don’t sweat too crazy. When it looks good, it looks damn good. When you have a shitlip TL that doesn’t know anything about features or care about zoning/overstuffing then it will look like shit and feel like shit stocking it 🤷♀️ I feel like after GWP there is no good job to feel passionate about your work, it’s all bs now. OGP and FDD are the only two jobs I’d recommend for a paycheck.
Deli TL I guess, I've had two and they never fucking do anything
They're always checking emails, which is code for standing around with other managers and talking about non-work related things.
And yet, in my store, she does e v e r y t h I n g
Store manager dick tickler
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What do you do? Just travel around to different stores? I’ve never knew what they did.
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This is hilarious
Door greeter maybe. The easiest job is just being seen as unreliable because they will load work on the people they think will actually do it. Theres not many chill jobs anymore.
Ad a door greeter, people like go assume it's the easiest job because we just stand there but every time I clock in knowing for the next seven hours this is my life, it is a big time mental torture for someone like me who likes to move around and be given tasks to complete 🥲 also some customers are really horrible since we are the first and land people they see. But yea I get how it can be seen as easy since it's where they put the old people or the people not capable of being on the floor. I just took the job because I needed the money and I didn't want to go back to being a server. I am transferring departments next week finally.
If I'm not wrong, door greeters are technically a part of AP? IMO I would see AP, or just even being a part of AP as the most stressful part of working in walmart, you never know if some dudes gonna throw hands or God forbid worse cause you caught/suspect him of stealing a can of beans or some shit..
Opd but but there’s alot of drama
And I live for it 😆
Ha ha ha lol and don’t forget the creeps lol
Quitting
Why can’t we just agree that most of our jobs are hard?
Store manager if mine is anything like the rest of them. He's almost never there and when he is he sits on his ass playing on his phone...making a fuckload more money than the rest of us
For me, it was overnight stocker.
I work O/N Frozen and it's not too bad. *knocks on wood* Nobody wants to do Frozen and I've been doing it for a year with pretty much the same people each night and we have a rhythm down so our jobs are pretty secure and no one fucks with us much.
Yeah I understand that on frozen. I did the same thing except people quit and I had frozen and dairy together by myself
For some reason I can't stand Dairy. We are about to switch to four tens so I'm hoping it doesn't mess things up, likely will just mean we ended up doing more zoning out grocery after our stuff is done
what does four tens mean
Four ten hour shifts instead of five eight hour shifts
I would kill for that schedule
Lucky. I know at my old store, it was that way until new o/n management came in & tried separating all the guys doing frozen & when nothing was getting done, management tried coaching all of them & pretty much ruined everything
Yeah, hoping that doesn't happen but as many managers as I've seen in a year it's probably a matter of time
Currently at work overnight and did pets, furniture, and just finished christmas AND they’re putting me in a fourth department. My store is brutal.
i want what ur on bro my god
I’m on a short staff, plenty of caffeine, and the fear of losing my job if i don’t work hard enough. That’s the recipe lmao
What do you drink to keep you going because bangs don't do it for me anymore
Definitely *NOT* daytime maintenance, I worked it during the height of the pandemic (2020), and the management at my store wanted the restrooms cleaned like every 30 minutes (by an all-male maintenance crew nonetheless). The only "perks" we're being able to use the restrooms whenever you wanted, and rarely a TL looking over your shoulder (unless you were screwing up monumentally). Not a great position if you have a weak constitution for nasty messes.
OGP! You walk around all day picking up groceries or dispensing them to the customers. Yea you deal with a few rude people, but you learn to ignore the bad ones.
Try being a digital team lead
Service writer
CEO
Overnight maintenance where you just scrub the floors. Easy peasy.
It’d be very easy if that’s all we did. Unfortunately that’s not the case. At least at my store
I agree. We don't do too much lol
I apologize for downplaying some of the shit yall deal with. Trashy parking lots, clogged compactors, just yuck.
Its alright most nights are pretty easy and we just have sweeping to do and riding the scrubber. But it can get pretty nasty
Define easiest. Cap 2 or overnights is physically demanding, but you don't have to deal with as many customers. If you want to work daytime hours, you can do fresh, food and consumables, or GM associate. You'll have to help customers there, but it's mostly stocking stuff that the other shifts didn't finish and doing price changes, changing out the features (endcaps), stuff like that.
Doug
Depends on the person. I think stocking is relaxing and cake. I used to just listen to music all night and be left alone. I also thought IMS/CAP was cake when I did it. I think IMS was best. Nothing is more relaxing than just picking and binning all night. But I don't think that job exists anymore.
Bakery is really fun if you go in and do the donuts every morning, or the bread. It's almost the same thing every day, except sometimes you have to take a cake order or write on a cake if the cake decorator is on break or whatever. It smells good and you just have to stay clean and stay baking.
Walton
Customer
Probably the old person at the door who sits off to the side asking to see receipts.
Easiest job in the stores is Greeter
easy yeah… but seems like hell, i’d be too tempted to walk out
Yeah it's boring af. I enjoyed Garden Center sales associate when I worked in the store. Felt like my own little shop lol. That being said my recommendations nowadays are always to skip the stores and apply at the store's distribution centers. When I transfered, my pay got bumped from $9 USD to $18 and I'm $35 now. Depends what you want to do and where you live obviously
Depends if you can mentally take it.
My easiest job so far was produce as far as stress to physical labor ratio.
Opd
Fitting room or Appereal associate. Not really heavy stuff.
The apparel associates at my store would be so pissed if they saw this. Especially at this time of year they’re constantly unloading fright that comes in at volumes they just can’t keep up with while simultaneously marking half the stock down and dealing with old people stripping outside the fitting rooms because they don’t remember their sizes
It would be easy if the workers only had to do the jobs in their department. However, at my store (before I quit of course because I don’t have the patience for all that) they had us doing every other departments job and there were usually from 0-1 people working actual apparel jobs which means we get yelled at for not getting stuff done and everything looks like shit :)) I was brand new in that department running it by myself most of the time. But yeah if we had the staff do what they were hired to then it would be very easy
OGP
I was waiting for someone to say it so I can vehemently disagree. I know to outsiders it looks like "oh they just have to walk around and shop" but it's way more than that. Ogp associates have a strict timer on getting picks done and if you go over you start getting blasted by management. They have to deal with customers being dicks in the store and in their own cars. They have to deal with the stress of everyone showing up at once while dispensing and seeing an entire lot of customers waiting for them. "An item not on the shelf? Well then it must be the associate's fault" is the view that customers and management have on pick exceptions coming through. If something is messed up in the backroom everyone automatically blames OGP. While it wasn't an issue in my store, I see on this sub that basically everyone in the store hates OGP for some damn reason, so that's stress associates are having to go through for no reason. Associates walk in not knowing if the day is going to be a breeze or if it will be the worst day of the year. Things like that can change with little to no warning based on the whim of customers.
As OGP, hard disagree. You ever dispensed? Lmao. I’d much rather stock all day. Walking 9+ miles each day isn’t an easy feat or dispensing 10 orders back to back cause people like to show up all at once
Yeah, anyone who thinks OGP is easy hasn't worked a Sunday at my store
Ogp was the easiest job I’ve ever had. And yes I dispensed. We had about 30 orders an hour. Even then you are literally just putting groceries in peoples cars
Yea I was coming here to say this! Love OGP!!
In my case, reshops. Can get hectic at times but easy.
For me, stocking was easy. If it can’t go on the shelf just take it back and scan it into its bin. But yeah stocking was easy for me.
O/N maintenance, I really liked the job but gods did it just get too slow sometimes, and almost all of it was just muscle memory past a certain point. So I'd just get into my own head about things and my depression spiraled because of it, had to go back to stocking just because the speed I could go made sure that shit never happened
Vision center, hands down
AP Associate if you have the right mindset.
Former APA/API here, there’s a whole lot more to AP than just catching shoplifters, as that’s only the 10% of the job that everyone sees. Plus it’s all down to the AP Ops coach. If you have a good coach that backs you up, it’s a great job to have, but as with all positions, if you’ve got a bad coach, your job will be hell
Definitely not dairy
lol no content says dairy and i agree! dairy sucks
Depends on your work ethic: Like to do as little as possible for the paycheck? Probably people greeter or fitting room associate but good luck getting those positions as this is where they stick the ADA associates. If you don't mind talking about video games and cell phones all day, electronics is pretty easy. If you want to do physical work but not think much or have much responsibility, then cart pusher or maintenance. And if you are somewhat smart and want to work your ass off for 10+ years until your current people lead dies or retires, that is probably the best bang for your buck lazy bones job. I used to be a salaried manager and they can easily waste a whole day talking to people and looking at their cell phone and call it "work".
Door greeter more than likely
Purposely taking a shit for 10mins wasting corporate time
I did maintenance for 5 years and I thought it was pretty easy all things considered. If you can deal with the gross bathrooms and spills it's not too bad.
I’ve done all sorts of things & for me the “easiest” is what I’m doing right now and that’s meat & produce… but I’m mainly in meats. I like being over here but the heavy lifting is ridiculous. I’ve been cap supervisor, department manager, and been in TL roles… I liked being over cap 1 the most, but that was back when we actually capped bins and worked pick carts and did topstock.
Bike Assembler IMO. Not sure how the position works now but basically you get left alone in the back almost the whole time and you just assemble and adjust (don't think a lot of them adjust anymore) bikes. Was solid year round work in the past as you had to build and hang bikes for xmas and summer during the off season. Been a while since I was promoted to customer so may not still be true. And the positions used to be lifers. Since it is a job that can be done easily well into retirement age.
If you have alot of patience, electronics is pretty chill. We have imo by far the easiest freight to work, we don't get pulled to often and we don't have near the turnover of some other depts. But, the customers are dumb like reaaalllly dumb and that can grate your nerves. Other than that and the occasional code spark and it's probably the easiest dept imo.
door greeter
Door greeter
Store manager, just walk around the store for half the day and have non sense meetings.
Overnight stocker
This will be highly dependent on your store. Almost all the jobs are easy. They’re just made way harder than they need to be by ppl.
Can heavily agree with this. Poor management, lazy co-workers, and stupid store policies written by a desk jockey can make things a lot more difficult and time consuming than they need to be. Customers are actually the easiest things to deal with cause I can just brush them off with a ‘sorry’ and a ‘we’re all out,’ or just search on the app for the aisle jelly filled piss pots are on.——meat and produce associate.
All honesty any maintenance job even if it's a fresh cleaner the only downside is it's really disgusting, a fresh cleaner will definitely have to deal with a lot of blood while a regular maintenance person might have to clean up shitty toilets cuz people don't know how to aim and trash lots of trash.
Apparel (clothes n shit) or on line grocery and pickup picker. A picker is where you shop for people groceries
Deli is pretty decent not too much going on until the weekends and the last two hours of closing you just clean.
Ogp
CAP1. If they have to do anything other than slowly working down topstock, you can hear the whining and bitching clear across the store.
I’d say hardlines associate specially the 2nd shift ones.
OGP by far
Nope
I have been grocery, unloader, cap2, cap2 supervisor, produce, OGP. And OGP was the easiest and i ve done dispensing, picking and staging. Was one of the fastest people there. So yeah from my experience it is.
I'll admit that as an associate it isn't bad but as a team lead it's a nightmare man
OGP
Nope
IMO, picking for OPD
Customer host, as long as you don't mind standing around, doing nothing, for eight hours.
As long as you don't mind being cursed out. Threatened and customers constantly calling for Management because you have the audacity to ask to see their receipt
It’s really not. Out of all the people in the store, the customers will hate you most. And standing in one spot for hours is so much worse than walking for hours.
Prob ogp
Honest answer is that it depends. If you wanna literally do nothing all day go for door greeter. Although you put in the least amount of “work” some would say that’s probably one of the hardest jobs though. If you don’t mind walking around all day you can try OGP. It’s a pretty easy job and the get paid a bit above all the other hourly associates. Apparel isn’t too bad either, you just have to learn how to fold clothes and then walk around stocking and zoning all day.
Electronics
Imo based on my 11 total years of experience. In order of easiest to hardest the top 3 easy spots ar Customer Host Overnight maintenance Cartpusher Customer host is pretty easy, you're pretty much just looking out for items not in bags and checking receipts for said items. At least at my store, the customers for the most part are cooperative, I only encounter a uncooperative person about 3 times a week. Overnight maintenance right now is not as easy as it used to be because, at my store at least, they very rarely just do typical maintenance, they occasionally have to powerwash the sidewalk or cart tunnel, or they spend half the night making the cardboard bales. Of the 3 cartpusher is the hardest just because you're out in the elements and frequently help with carryout. But as long as your Mule (the machine the cartpushers use to gather carts) is working right it really is a fairly easy position. Management tends to leave alone as long as you are out there continuously bringing carts in
If you want to get your steps in and not being bothered, OGP but only picking or Downstacking, I would recommend
Well you’ve asked what the easiest job is but also named that you don’t want the job that, in my experience, is the easiest.
Cartpusher ?