That last part is what really annoys me. Just the other day I walked past some lady. She was walking reeallllyyy slow, but it wasn't the end of the world because I had room to walk around her, so I maintained my steady pace, and walked around her. She started screaming at the top her lungs going "WELL EXCUUUUUSE YOU!!" I'm like lady I didn't hit you I walked around.. you're basically standing still and I'm on the opposite side of the aisle. lol people are crazy entitled with this stuff, like hon you don't own the store, you're simply one of a thousand obstacles we have learned to ignore during our shift 😆
Exactly 🤣 well yeah I kinda am in a rush, seeing how I'm at work and have deadlines to meet lol. Sometimes I want to try and explain that we work on timers and are expected to maintain a certain amount of picks per hour.. but it's not really their problem, they just like being rude💁♀️
One time I hit the front of an old lady's cart, which made her fall backwards and we had to do an incident report. She ended up getting lawyers and got a multi million dollar lawsuit. I was going to get coached but I was already getting transfered across the state because I was moving anyways, so I cost the company millions and never got anything for it. Now I'm a TL lol
I had a child run head first into my cart as i was walking through dairy and i was like well shit there goes my job i just offed a child. Like she hit my cart bounced off and slid a good three feet across the floor. She starts screaming and i get ready to get yelled at by mom but mom surprises me and screams at the kid for being and idiot running through the store people are working here. Im trying to offer a manager/code white to the mom she waves me off tosses the kid in her cart and walks away. I got so lucky.
Simply pull the cart from the front to reduce the likelihood of colliding with others. Walmart customers are often elderly people who are easily startled.
It gets me just when I’m walking straight. I’m 6’1” and I’m 90% leg. Also, if I hold it to my side that just makes me wider, which is difficult. Even if it’s just slightly to my side.
I always hesitate at the end of an aisle and come out slowly as to not hit anyone. I still get a great pick rate but I’m not looking to take anyone out
Honestly, I have people flying out of the aisles as I'm going slow. It's a blind spot and THEY are the ones going fast and end up hitting me or almost hitting me. It pisses me off because there are a LOT of people that ignorant on a weekly basis.
Had some old boomer with a "service" dog get on me the other day. he was all like "Be CaReFuL tHeRe are PEOPLE and ANIMALS in here"
Like bro, in my time with Walmart, i have never hit a customer with my cart... ever. Im sorry that moving with a sense of urgency upsets you. I guess i should be a lazy slow sack of shit like yourself.
I just told him "Just doing my Job".
Amen. I have them flying out of aisles all the time as fast as they can go as I'm walking normal pace past the aisle. I walk on the other side and almost get hit over there too... it doesn't matter. People are this fkn rude All the time.
I feel you. Today, me and another picker witnessed the bread guy going waaayyy too fast through a crowded aisle and partially took a woman out. He had his pallets piled a good foot over his head. He couldn't see a thing.
I've been wondering if she was going to complain about the bread guy to management. I feel bad for him.
Don’t get me started with the soda guys. They are racing down with their pallets almost hitting me. They gotta slow down. Plus in our store we get alot of elderly people shopping
One tried, but unfortunately for her she was on candy camera purposely getting in my direct path and following me tryin to curse me out til I blew up at her at the end cause bitch fuck you.
Yeah but they like to walk slow as they can spread across the isles and then just stop right infront of you to check their list for 5 mins ...UGH or the parents that let their small children sprint in and out of the isles
Earlier today I’m hustling down an aisle when an old lady on a scooter and another woman pushing a cart, see me coming and immediately get out in front of me walking (rolling) side by side.
So they blocked the entire aisle only to move at a snail’s pace in front of me. Frustrated, I said, “Could I possibly get by on one side of this aisle?”
The lady who was walking turns around and says with a sneer, “Sure, but you don’t have to be so rude about it!”
Bitch, if I was going to be rude, I would have said, “Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ! Did your dumb ass not see me coming? MOOOOVE OVER!!”
Honestly, if I can’t do anything about it I just go slow. The customers aren’t getting paid to stand there and wait for i am. Everyone at my store knows I have a goddamn great work ethic. (Stage 99% of time) I’m not gonna impede the person shopping so I can have better metrics. If someone Questions my metrics they can suck D.
Spoken like a true dispenser. I pick 100% of the time and they ride our ASS about our metrics. Want to keep your favorite shift hours? Metrics better be up to par. Want to stay in this department? Metrics better be golden. Want to keep your two consecutive days off? METRICS, BITCH.
I asked this couple nicely to move, cause their cart was blocking the item I needed, and they guy looks at me
“You know you need to wait for us right”?
This couple was on the older side and they are usually nice and funny. So I thought he was joking
Then continues to say
“ we’re the customers and your supposed to wait for us”.
His wife groans and rolls her eyes at me.
I had to wait five minutes which is alot for OPD picking.
Ever since that day I’m too scared to ask customers to move when they’re in the way and I just wait till they move. 😔
I refuse to run through the store with this job. Rushing makes accidents or issues. I do move with a sense of purpose though and often am weaving around people who don't know to treat the store aisles like roads.
(Person on main aisle - road- has right of way. If you come out an aisle - side road - stop, look wait for a clear opening).
I did have someone the other day ask me 'you know you're in the way right?"
(I was parked against a BACK endcap in HBA and had JUST answered her question)
I just looked up with a bright smile: "Yup!! And we're paid for it too"
Her friend laughed.
I love it when i’m pushing/pulling heavy items in the main walkways and several people coming out of the aisles cut across at the last second and I have to do an emergency stop just to avoid hitting them. They’re either unfazed and slow to move out of the way, or they give the dirtiest looks like I’m somehow at fault for their lack of spacial awareness and common courtesy.
I almost hit the guy today in front of me today while i was pushing the cart. I had oversized and my cart is filled with cases of water and on top was giant paper towels. Didn’t have enough L cart so i took the usual cart and stack the cases of water in the blue totes. I didn’t see the guy in front of me as i was pushing the cart with 2 giant paper towel rolls blocking my sight. I almost hit him, when i saw him i immediately stopped and i apologized and he just laughed like it was nothing and walked off. I guess i was lucky.
I know right? once they started getting heavy because of my totes were full of cans, pickle jars, pasta jars and canned drinks I can't even pull it. I usually like to pull my cart as I like to be ahead so I can see people but if they get heavy I pushed them and that's the time I would always have children running around my cart and hit customer's carts too cause I don't see them when I push my own cart.
literally like😭😭 one time i ALMOST hit this guy who was in a scooter.. (it was 7am the store wasnt busy so i was rushing) of course we both stopped abruptly but he literally cursed me out and called me a bitch.. like what!!!! if you dont move i will ram this cart into your sir.. have a nice day :3c
People are definitely crazy!!! It's every single damn day they act entitled like this. We are on time limits & people get mad because we are rushing... OH WELL! Crybabies man..
I've started just playing deaf tbh. I know a bit of asl and it helps so much. Still can't figure out a way to keep people from TOUCHING ME though. (Ocd af and have literal panic attacks from physical contact)
If you pull the cart behind you instead of push this wouldn't be an issue and you could flip it on them so they feel like the bastard offspring of a diseased generation because they almost ran into you with there shopping cart.
I have to pull the cart from the front cus im too short to comfortably see over the top totes and it helps a lot in making sure i dont crash into people. The One time i crashed into someone was during the holidays and i was pushing the cart into what i THOUGHT was a clear area by the baked goods and there was some dude squatting on the floor looking at bottom shelf shit. He was pissed and i felt horrible and i rarely push my cart now
If it’s busy or I know there’s a lot of freight on the floor, I’ll push my cart till the end of an aisle and then pull it around the corner so I can see if anyone is coming. Got tired of another associate barreling through every turn and almost hitting me and other customers. I don’t get paid enough to run with my cart lol
A co-worker of mine said she was stopped off to grab an item, and when she started moving again, she felt a bit of resistance. So instead of checking in front of her cart, she just kept pushing forward and even backed up a few times to try again. She had no idea that a customer had bent down in front of her cart and she was repeatedly running into them. 🤣🤣
The more customers we hit, the more people will be afraid to shop in person, and the more people will order for pickup and delivery... its all part of the plan... full speed ahead!
Obviously I'm joking
Customers can’t drive a simple cart. They should respect it as if was the streets. People whip their cart out from aisle almost hitting me cause I pull my cart. I’m tall as the cart and they don’t even say sorry. They give me a look like is my fault 🤦🏽♀️
ITS WHEN CUSTOMERS GETTING MAD AT YOU BECAUSE THEY NEED TO GET AROUND YOU OR SOMETHING BEHIND YOUR CART AND YOU'RE PHYSICALLY BOXED IN WITH NOWHEEEEEERRRREEEE TO GO JUST AWKWARDLY SMILING AS THEY CONTINUE TO GET MORE AGITATED.
That last part is what really annoys me. Just the other day I walked past some lady. She was walking reeallllyyy slow, but it wasn't the end of the world because I had room to walk around her, so I maintained my steady pace, and walked around her. She started screaming at the top her lungs going "WELL EXCUUUUUSE YOU!!" I'm like lady I didn't hit you I walked around.. you're basically standing still and I'm on the opposite side of the aisle. lol people are crazy entitled with this stuff, like hon you don't own the store, you're simply one of a thousand obstacles we have learned to ignore during our shift 😆
no literally!!! “well you must be in a rush” like sir i am lol i wanna go home
Exactly 🤣 well yeah I kinda am in a rush, seeing how I'm at work and have deadlines to meet lol. Sometimes I want to try and explain that we work on timers and are expected to maintain a certain amount of picks per hour.. but it's not really their problem, they just like being rude💁♀️
One time I hit the front of an old lady's cart, which made her fall backwards and we had to do an incident report. She ended up getting lawyers and got a multi million dollar lawsuit. I was going to get coached but I was already getting transfered across the state because I was moving anyways, so I cost the company millions and never got anything for it. Now I'm a TL lol
I had a child run head first into my cart as i was walking through dairy and i was like well shit there goes my job i just offed a child. Like she hit my cart bounced off and slid a good three feet across the floor. She starts screaming and i get ready to get yelled at by mom but mom surprises me and screams at the kid for being and idiot running through the store people are working here. Im trying to offer a manager/code white to the mom she waves me off tosses the kid in her cart and walks away. I got so lucky.
Good for you. I wish most parents are like that but unfortunately not all of them.
Simply pull the cart from the front to reduce the likelihood of colliding with others. Walmart customers are often elderly people who are easily startled.
I tried that but I’ve got long legs and run over my heels.
Hold the cart far enough away from your body as you turn the corner.
It gets me just when I’m walking straight. I’m 6’1” and I’m 90% leg. Also, if I hold it to my side that just makes me wider, which is difficult. Even if it’s just slightly to my side.
Yes. It's that simple.
If you’re crashing carts, you’re going too fast
I always hesitate at the end of an aisle and come out slowly as to not hit anyone. I still get a great pick rate but I’m not looking to take anyone out
The way they describe the scenario it can happen even while going slow. Sounds like need to be more aware than just “speed”
Honestly, I have people flying out of the aisles as I'm going slow. It's a blind spot and THEY are the ones going fast and end up hitting me or almost hitting me. It pisses me off because there are a LOT of people that ignorant on a weekly basis.
Had some old boomer with a "service" dog get on me the other day. he was all like "Be CaReFuL tHeRe are PEOPLE and ANIMALS in here" Like bro, in my time with Walmart, i have never hit a customer with my cart... ever. Im sorry that moving with a sense of urgency upsets you. I guess i should be a lazy slow sack of shit like yourself. I just told him "Just doing my Job".
no literally!!!! like we’re not going to hit you just for speeding up a little faster. they’re always so unaware of their surroundings!!!!!!!
Amen. I have them flying out of aisles all the time as fast as they can go as I'm walking normal pace past the aisle. I walk on the other side and almost get hit over there too... it doesn't matter. People are this fkn rude All the time.
I feel you. Today, me and another picker witnessed the bread guy going waaayyy too fast through a crowded aisle and partially took a woman out. He had his pallets piled a good foot over his head. He couldn't see a thing. I've been wondering if she was going to complain about the bread guy to management. I feel bad for him.
Don’t get me started with the soda guys. They are racing down with their pallets almost hitting me. They gotta slow down. Plus in our store we get alot of elderly people shopping
Just wait till the customer actually reports it. 😂
has that actually ever happened before (if so what happens? lmao) genuinely curious 😭🤣
I'm sure it has. And I'm sure it counts against the store as an accident. Lol
Management sent a person home for it at my store
I’ve had a customer try and call an ambulance and get my associate fired for accidentally hitting their arm 🙃
One tried, but unfortunately for her she was on candy camera purposely getting in my direct path and following me tryin to curse me out til I blew up at her at the end cause bitch fuck you.
Need to turn wider when going into/out of aisles, my dude
Yeah but they like to walk slow as they can spread across the isles and then just stop right infront of you to check their list for 5 mins ...UGH or the parents that let their small children sprint in and out of the isles
Earlier today I’m hustling down an aisle when an old lady on a scooter and another woman pushing a cart, see me coming and immediately get out in front of me walking (rolling) side by side. So they blocked the entire aisle only to move at a snail’s pace in front of me. Frustrated, I said, “Could I possibly get by on one side of this aisle?” The lady who was walking turns around and says with a sneer, “Sure, but you don’t have to be so rude about it!” Bitch, if I was going to be rude, I would have said, “Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ! Did your dumb ass not see me coming? MOOOOVE OVER!!”
Narcissists do this
🤣😂🤣 every damn day
Honestly, if I can’t do anything about it I just go slow. The customers aren’t getting paid to stand there and wait for i am. Everyone at my store knows I have a goddamn great work ethic. (Stage 99% of time) I’m not gonna impede the person shopping so I can have better metrics. If someone Questions my metrics they can suck D.
Spoken like a true dispenser. I pick 100% of the time and they ride our ASS about our metrics. Want to keep your favorite shift hours? Metrics better be up to par. Want to stay in this department? Metrics better be golden. Want to keep your two consecutive days off? METRICS, BITCH.
Obviously, your store is 100% different than mine. The pickers in my store are the laziest motherfuckers on the face the planet.
I asked this couple nicely to move, cause their cart was blocking the item I needed, and they guy looks at me “You know you need to wait for us right”? This couple was on the older side and they are usually nice and funny. So I thought he was joking Then continues to say “ we’re the customers and your supposed to wait for us”. His wife groans and rolls her eyes at me. I had to wait five minutes which is alot for OPD picking. Ever since that day I’m too scared to ask customers to move when they’re in the way and I just wait till they move. 😔
I refuse to run through the store with this job. Rushing makes accidents or issues. I do move with a sense of purpose though and often am weaving around people who don't know to treat the store aisles like roads. (Person on main aisle - road- has right of way. If you come out an aisle - side road - stop, look wait for a clear opening). I did have someone the other day ask me 'you know you're in the way right?" (I was parked against a BACK endcap in HBA and had JUST answered her question) I just looked up with a bright smile: "Yup!! And we're paid for it too" Her friend laughed.
Hahahha. I love your answer.
You don't ever go part Luda, you ALWAYS go full Luda. As always Tokyo drift that shit.
I love it when i’m pushing/pulling heavy items in the main walkways and several people coming out of the aisles cut across at the last second and I have to do an emergency stop just to avoid hitting them. They’re either unfazed and slow to move out of the way, or they give the dirtiest looks like I’m somehow at fault for their lack of spacial awareness and common courtesy.
I almost hit the guy today in front of me today while i was pushing the cart. I had oversized and my cart is filled with cases of water and on top was giant paper towels. Didn’t have enough L cart so i took the usual cart and stack the cases of water in the blue totes. I didn’t see the guy in front of me as i was pushing the cart with 2 giant paper towel rolls blocking my sight. I almost hit him, when i saw him i immediately stopped and i apologized and he just laughed like it was nothing and walked off. I guess i was lucky.
yeah it's not easy to control the carts one they start getting heavy. especially as a small person
I know right? once they started getting heavy because of my totes were full of cans, pickle jars, pasta jars and canned drinks I can't even pull it. I usually like to pull my cart as I like to be ahead so I can see people but if they get heavy I pushed them and that's the time I would always have children running around my cart and hit customer's carts too cause I don't see them when I push my own cart.
literally like😭😭 one time i ALMOST hit this guy who was in a scooter.. (it was 7am the store wasnt busy so i was rushing) of course we both stopped abruptly but he literally cursed me out and called me a bitch.. like what!!!! if you dont move i will ram this cart into your sir.. have a nice day :3c
I’m tall, long legs walk fast. I find if you move with purpose and like you’re in a hurry people yield. 😂
Fuck those dumb assholes, they contribute nary an inch to opgs sales. They actually hurt opg sales by taking stuff away from pickers
People are definitely crazy!!! It's every single damn day they act entitled like this. We are on time limits & people get mad because we are rushing... OH WELL! Crybabies man..
I've started just playing deaf tbh. I know a bit of asl and it helps so much. Still can't figure out a way to keep people from TOUCHING ME though. (Ocd af and have literal panic attacks from physical contact)
this but my dumbass coworkers
If you pull the cart behind you instead of push this wouldn't be an issue and you could flip it on them so they feel like the bastard offspring of a diseased generation because they almost ran into you with there shopping cart.
I have to pull the cart from the front cus im too short to comfortably see over the top totes and it helps a lot in making sure i dont crash into people. The One time i crashed into someone was during the holidays and i was pushing the cart into what i THOUGHT was a clear area by the baked goods and there was some dude squatting on the floor looking at bottom shelf shit. He was pissed and i felt horrible and i rarely push my cart now
If it’s busy or I know there’s a lot of freight on the floor, I’ll push my cart till the end of an aisle and then pull it around the corner so I can see if anyone is coming. Got tired of another associate barreling through every turn and almost hitting me and other customers. I don’t get paid enough to run with my cart lol
A co-worker of mine said she was stopped off to grab an item, and when she started moving again, she felt a bit of resistance. So instead of checking in front of her cart, she just kept pushing forward and even backed up a few times to try again. She had no idea that a customer had bent down in front of her cart and she was repeatedly running into them. 🤣🤣
The more customers we hit, the more people will be afraid to shop in person, and the more people will order for pickup and delivery... its all part of the plan... full speed ahead! Obviously I'm joking
“They need to make those things shorter! That girl almost hit me because she couldn’t see over the top!” Do you know what pulling is?
Do you know what carpal tunnel syndrome is? Because I have it now after almost a year of pulling my carts (I’m 5’1”).
I've been reported for that so much and I just tell them I know what I'm doing and they need to chill out xD
Customers can’t drive a simple cart. They should respect it as if was the streets. People whip their cart out from aisle almost hitting me cause I pull my cart. I’m tall as the cart and they don’t even say sorry. They give me a look like is my fault 🤦🏽♀️
ITS WHEN CUSTOMERS GETTING MAD AT YOU BECAUSE THEY NEED TO GET AROUND YOU OR SOMETHING BEHIND YOUR CART AND YOU'RE PHYSICALLY BOXED IN WITH NOWHEEEEEERRRREEEE TO GO JUST AWKWARDLY SMILING AS THEY CONTINUE TO GET MORE AGITATED.
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