Somebody up there hates us

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Situation: It's a few days before Black Friday. The backroom is cram-packed with merchandise and you need to make mall aisle spots for the rest of the 6-hour sale merchandise. Hours are pretty light at the beginning of the week because all the sales are going to come at the end of the week.

So if you're the DC, what do you do?

Answer: You send our store a 2,000-piece truck, by far the largest I have seen in 9 years working there, and expect us to finish it with our normal 5-6 -person crew.

And over half the merchandise that came in was backstock, so we had no place to put it and make it look neat. We all had to put in an hour and half of overtime and we still didn't finish. We had three pallets of domestics, a pallet of electronics, a pallet and a cart of toys, and all the paper products and laundry detergent to backstock yet, plus there was still freight on the truck. We only left because the opening manager said she didn't want to keep us there any longer.

Opening manager told us she'd have the carryout person help out with backstocking when he wasn't doing carryouts. Unfortunately today that is CBFH.

Nothing like coming home and feeling epic fail. Fuck you DC. And fuck you third shift.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I've actually done a 2200-piece truck. That was last year around this time. But they've smartened up and went to a 5-day truck week. And we have about 25 people on the flow team and back room team. With that kind of truck, sales floor should be helping.

But 5 People?!?!?!?! Holy cannoli! I'd be in hell. The longest I've been there is 10 hours. They hate 2-lunch days for people. It's like they'd rather give us a raise then do that.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Thing is, when we do trucks during the mornings, sales floor does help us.

The person in electronics fills and backstocks their freight. Other salesfloor people will fill carts of stuff from repacks if necessary. The receiving clerk will backstock HBA and candy/grocery freight since that's right by her office. Other people will pitch in if needed.

But now that we are doing trucks on third shift trough the holidays, that's all on our shoulders. The thinking seems to be if we're going to be getting a dollar extra for working third shift, then they want productivity out of us.

Had this been a normal 1200-1400 piece truck we'd have finished with no problems. If the trucks get much bigger than that, we're screwed.

And we have another truck coming Black Friday that gets unloaded Saturday night. *crosses fingers that it gets cancelled.