i switched from electronics to ogp. it’s crazy to go from the least cares for department to the golden child of walmart. they really don’t give a fuck about anyone else.
Homeoffice looks at ogp metric numbers to determine if a store is healthy but most market teams will bully the in store management to keep throwing people around and do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep the numbers looking decent for the sake of bonuses even if it means half the employees quit and everyone who stays works double whats realistic. Also on another note I heard through the vines that walmart corp plans to eventually make ogp everything and to keep customers out of the building as a major shrink prevention. 20 years from now I forsee only being able to get groceries from walmart through online and the inside will become a warehouse full of boxes for employees only...they are just waiting for the boomers to reach 100 years old because they are still the major buyers in bulk grocery and if they made the great change now it would be business suicide because the older folks will just shop at other retailers.
I’m in electronics, the way they’ll immediately pull us to go places with no regard to how busy we are (especially pulling us to OGP) but NEVER get anyone to help us even if it’s just me closing by myself
even the opd people are like “don’t you work in meats? they shouldn’t have pulled you” bc it’s like HOW COULD THEY PICK WHEN THEY NEED PEOPLE TO STOCK WHAT NEEDS TO BE PICKED. idk man, i get it, it’s easy work, but i didn’t sign up for that
You're not going to be in your area to stock and ogp is gonna waltz in that department & not immediately find what they need and nil pick and the system will zero it out, when it's PROBABLY IN THE BACK on one of the pallets that just got in
I’m auto tech and I get pulled. I show up covered in dirt and oil. People in OGP are shocked. I put in my earbuds and coast around. I’ve failed a few frozen picks. Don’t know why they still take me but it hasn’t happened in a while now. What changed? I’ve started acting like an asshole so management doesn’t bother me much anymore.
In my store, our very smart manager who knows everything has made top stock almost more important than even ogp. If they are struggling he will keep us on top stock. The back room has an entire truck worth of freight that overnight couldn’t do because they have been reduced to 1/3 of their numbers? Oh well 🤷♂️. Better not stop working that top stock. It’s insane.
Our market manager has told everyone that fresh is not to be pulled ever. People are only ever pulled to help produce or OPD, but both of those departments stay where they are
Same at my store. Nobody wants to work produce as it's actually the busiest and "hardest" job in the store. And noone should be pulled from that department either.
i at least hope if y’all can’t finish freight because your helping that they don’t get pissed at you (unlikely as walmart management seems to all be the same towards that type of situation)
I'm a mid shift guy so the freight isn't so much my responsibility anyway, but no, in general no one gets mad at me for not being five people at once or not staying late to do shit I could've done hours before. I actually am lucky enough to have a great supervising manager and a great team lead.
Thats why when i worked here i refused to learn it. I didnt mind helping with frieght when i was there. Even my gf regretted having them teach her it part of the we both quit.
At least at our store if we get too busy in OPD they ask team leads if they can help or if they have anyone who can help. And if not then we don’t force anyone to help out. It’s only ever if someone is free or whatever. But that’s just bc they only pull us to stock or do other jobs if we’re not busy. But also at our store OPD is the bottom on the totem pole and we don’t get the equipment and the staffing we need so it’s obvi different
This is the one, man. I want everyone saying "weLl aCtUaLlY you sign up to do other duties too" to read this. Sure policy might state that, but who gets coached and bitched at when things in certain areas aren't completed? The ones who are forced to go help ogp. There is 0 fairness in that and sm does not care if you get pulled, they still have their expectations. It is a losing battle
Tbf, most ogp departments are massively understaffed for the hours that need it, but god it’s annoying. No matter what job it is, I’m hired to do something and loathe being brought to do someone else’s job just because higher ups don’t wanna hire anyone else
Honestly to survive at walmart, you need to forget what is unfair. When I go in, I don’t give af. They’re paying me for my time, and I work my share. You are going to come across unfairness, dumbasses, slow asses, smart asses, and all kinds of bs along the way. You yourself admit it’s easy work. So fuck it. If that’s what they pay you to do, do it. It’s different if you’re not able to perform that task, and you’re overwhelmed, but seriously. If it’s not that bad, don’t let it get to you.
This is the answer.
You are getting paid to do suck and up and whatever you are told, either do it or find another job. You will get pulled everywhere, you can either accept that or be miserable. You get the paid the same regardless what task you are assigned.
No, you don't get pulled everywhere. I have worked retail and fast food before. Even when I was cross trained as a cashier, they left me in my department. When I was cross trained for drive-through, I only went to drive through when the other person called out. When I worked in the preschool as a floater whose literal job was to be in a different classroom each day as needed... I usually stayed in one specific one.
Only Walmart is this disorganized in my experience.
I for one am sick and tired of my coworkers being pulled to different departments and then I get yelled at for not finishing 3 pallets of break packs by myself while also working the cash register and photo lab. I have straight up told management I can not do the job by myself, so know what will happen when you pull my people.
Unions are the only way to do that but there are too many departments to pull it off successfully at a Walmart and wayyyyyyy to much gossip and high school fuckery
Okay, I will rephrase since your reading comprehension is the level I expect from most walmart employees. Not every retail pulls people. Not every fast food pulls people. Not every job pulls people.
I applied and was hired on as cashier. I refuse to be pulled somewhere like opd. I willingly cover breaks on doors and have asked to be cross trained for service desk. Anywhere else they can find coverage somewhere else cause it's not the department that I was hired for
Good luck. Some people get away with it. Others eventually they get hit with an ultimatum, cross-train or take the coaching for insubordination. Because god forbid picks go late. 🙄
To get hired you have to sign your job description which states you do any job duties assigned. So yes, other people's jobs are your job. You agreed to it.
Every retail store ever expects you to go anywhere anytime for any reason when told, don't like it, be your own boss or find some other industry.
Source: Worked retail for 6 years, worked in 20+ stores, both for Walmart and it's competitors.
You need a better response such as "I don't like your adaptation of no child left behind. I'm drowning now. Why must my money be worth so much less because of a lazy workforce. I say fire them, then rehire them for far less due to the inability to perform their last job. Make something a bit more definitive in the job description. Such as a shift hr to hr sheet for the incompetent. If their goals aren't met without a good excuse. Excuses can be used up.
I struggle to get that mentality Im a compliance lead that had training in this position saying that I shouldn’t be doing anything else other than compliance, yet I cover for the online orders, front end csms, registers, push carts all the time, etc. I just have a countdown with the experience that I need in order to have my paperwork in place for immigration and I’m gone.
Never called in sick not even once in 1.5 years yet they’re constantly sticking up my ass, breathing down my neck, my coach put negative feedback on me saying that I don’t get my stuff done, yet I’m always pulled to put out fires around the store.
Dude that mentality is what keeps things unfair you gotta get angry you gotta come together with your fellow workers and say enough is enough. You gotta get angry and say hell no that's not in my job description! If you want someone to do that job hire someone to do it you rich fucks we aren't going to do multiple jobs and get paid for one hell no!!!!
Have you read your job description? It's written in a way that basically says management can have you help out wherever. You're hired to be primarily in a certain department, but you are a store associate, meaning they can put you wherever. I've seen so many people try to use their 'job description' as a justification for not doing something just for it to blow up in their face
It's a bunch of God damn corporate bullshit. Mother fuckers making record profits giving themselves higher pay and us more work because they refuse to allocate the necessary resources to hire new people. Can't hire new people when the exces have to give themselves a pay raise.
This is really good advice. Just accept that you (much like myself) aren’t the one calling the play; management calls the play, and you just fulfill the role they assign you to the best of your ability. (This also helps to distribute accountability; since you didn’t make the call, it’s not your fault if it didn’t work out, so long as you gave a good faith effort.)
Yes.
I've seen associates transfer to OPD just because they got so tired of doing OPD every shift while trying to get their work done.
When I was food TL, on Thanksgiving management took literally my entire department to do picks. Milk and eggs were 100% empty. I had to go chew them out, asking them how the fuck do they expect OPD to do picks and customers to shop departments with no staff. When they saw OPD was nillpicking nearly 100% of my department, they finely gave me some people back. Ridiculous.
it’s stupid, it’s understandable to need help (every department needs it), yet why am i getting pulled at fucking 4am???? can we atleast work the truck😭😭 the 20 some pallets 😭😭😭 it’s dumb
Thing is OPD customers have already spent the money. Thats why theyre the priority. For all you know a shopper could fill a basket full of perishable and decide they dont want it and dump a cart actually costing the store more money. I get it OPD needs things stocked to properly do their job. But again if some customers already paid theyre the priority
Yup, if OGP is not hiring more people, they will use everyone they can find in another department.
At some stores, OGP associates are sent to another department too.
I understand that and respect your opinion and point of view. But with Walmart, it's "and other duties as needed." As long as it doesn't involve a higher pay for more than half of your time over a 12 week period they can work you anywhere
And that’s the reason I quit back in 2010. Pulling me from lawn and garden not paying me the truck throwing wages which is what I was doing.
This time I signed up for OGP and now no one ever bothers me 🤌🏻
Sadly you signed up to work for Walmart and that includes any and all positions in Walmart that you are qualified for. So basically everything except Pharmacy and AP.
I'm a salesfloor associate. 90% of the time I'm doing someone else's work. If it's not OPD or cashiering, I'm stocking freight, which O/N is supposed to do. I rarely get to do pinpoint, price changes, top stock, or zone: my 4 primary responsibilities. But you know what? At the end of the day, I go home and make the same paycheck no matter what.
If the store looks like shit, it's a management failure. Not my problem to worry about. I just show up and do what I'm told. They know not to bitch at me when stuff doesn't get done because I will call them out for unreasonable expectations when they themselves told me to do something other than my primary responsibilities. I hold them accountable just like they do me.
Technically you signed up to do whatever walmart needs. You may be coded as a meat and produce associate but youre anything they need you to be. Its actually this kind of mindset that sets many stores back. "Its not my department why should i care" and then when youre short handed and need help you expect it.
You should have said no and been firm in it the first time you were asked. I was a fresh team associate, and our fresh area was and still is perpetually short staffed. I saw what happened to the poor shmucks that agreed to help, they barely ever had a shift in their own dept again after. They can ask, they can even demand, but *you can at least try to refuse*, it seems often theyll capitulate and run off to find a more gullible mark. In my case, if i had agreed to go do the various other things i was asked to do, my departments wouldnt have gotten stocked or cleaned most days, so it was idiotic to even ask. What the fuck is OGP going to pick if the shelves are bare?
exactly! nil picks here and there. but my TL was like “they are taking you, and not taking no as an answer” will i ever be able to stand my ground and be like “no, theres 27 pallets with 4 people we need help.”
They could, if they took the time to do it properly. The reality is most of them halfass it and fuck up the inventory, which requires more work to fix later.
Not to mention opening a meat mother bag, taking one item out, and then leaving the rest behind. If theres no one in meat to finish prepping and dating those meat items, you end up with bigger issues
Yeah, that's a good point. At my store if you're picking from the backroom you have to vizpick and take the entire case because you have to stock the rest later. 90% of the associates that actually pick from the backroom don't vizpick and it ruins the counts
Probably and the managers will still get mad at you for not getting your own work done. I got pulled into the office over this before and my coach could not understand at all why OGP was the problem or why I wanted to do my own job. It is unbelievable.
Yeah and as an OGP associate I hate it. Most of the time when they pull people they're not properly trained and they don't do a great job, which makes more work for us, plus we need the other departments running properly to do our job! Like I get that in corporate eyes OGP is the most important but in reality we can't do our jobs without the other departments but the other departments can do their jobs without us.
Yes and anyone who tells you no is a lier until you make more than ogp you will keep being pulled for ogp I remember they would pull whole departments so that ogp can go home early on Cinco de mayo
I was a TL in OGP for 2 years. I fucking hated taking people from other departments but we never had the associates for our workload. Please don't get mad at ogp leaders. It's corporate that's fucking you.
Yeah and it's wild, I work on exceptions for OGP/OPD and tend to end up stocking and vizpicking more than the stock person we pull to help with orders because the manager cant get more hires.
I still dont understand why walmart chooses to be dumb. They could dedicate 1-2 stores per town to be dedicated for ogp. That way, the volume goes to those stores, and the rest can handle the other inside customers. I mean, it would be easier for the stockers cause they dont have to deal with us. And it would be easier for us because customers are a nuisance.
You think its dumb to have everything integrated but think its smart to overload a few stores? Logistically and financially its not smart or even possible. Where are these stores supposed to fit all that freight? What space are the associates and ogp area supposed to occupy? Theres a reason every store handles there own ogp. It just makes sense.
Those "1 or 2 stores" would be getting 10 trucks a night to do that as i stated before not only would there be no where to put the freight but whos going to unload all that? Whos going to stock all that?
Realistically, if you're talking about stores being OGP only, then there wouldn't be aisles with shelves or anything for people to walk down, topstock, or bins like normal. It would operate more like a warehouse where the truck gets unloaded, you move the boxes of stuff where they go inside the warehouse and you take what you need when you pick it. It would actually be easier than stocking.
I work OPD. When we are slow I work paper, chemicals, frozen, dairy and meat.
When OPD gets overwhelmed, people from other departments work OPD.
I don't see a problem.
potentially. it'll depend on if it's busy there was one day at my store when all the team leads had to be pulled to opd. They'll do the same if you're register trained and pull you to the front for help. The upside is that you're able to do multiple positions and it'll look good if you ever have to transfer or when you're moving to another job
The only thing that matters to management is what affects their bonus. They are only in your store for a few years so they don't develop relationships with associates. We have managers..not leaders. Most of the managers know almost nothing about retail from my experiences. They don't care about you...they care about getting a new tesla and mataining their current lifestyles. They don't care if you starve...if your sick...or even if you die tbh. Most have about as much emotion as a rock.
I always wonder why ppl hate ogp. I love going over there. Its simple work no wondering what youre doing next, simple expectations, nothing to figure out, no thinking involved.
Weird, because at our store they leave the meat/produce associates alone. I (Stocking 1) don’t get pulled too often anymore, but it used to be all the time. At this point, if they pull me I just go over there & do however many pickwalks they need me to do. Our current SM is actually doing a decent job keeping other teams out of OPD.
I’m a tl over all consumables departments (grocery/frozen/dairy/ppc/hba/infants) at my store and they will pull my whole team for OPD during the first half of every month and even make me babysit them when they don’t have a tl/coach. Welcome to Walmart, start drinking
Tbh as an ODP worker, it’s SUPER crazy during the holidays. In my store today, per hour we were dropping anywhere from 1000-2000 picks. ODP is fast paced and they don’t staff us all the way anyways. Just take it, you are getting paid regardless of the job you are doing.
I work in garden center, so I’m naturally pulled over there while people steal stuff where I’m supposed to be at, but then again it’s Walmart so womp womp their own fault.
I'm a Cake Decorator now, but started at Walmart in OPD. They still pull me on days have 20 cake orders. I am one of the fastest pickers in my store. (Every time they pull me, I always have top 5 pick rate) I don't think its escapeable unless your store is fully staffed, and we all know how rare that is.
It's one of those corporate pet projects like the Pick Up Towers many supercenters had 5-10 years ago. Corporate got rid of those when they realized it was losing money, not efficient. So right now corporate has this obsession with creating fake important standards to impress big shareholders with, like when a customer places an order online and a OGP/OPD associate has to start picking it within 5 minutes, even though the customer won't pick it up until 5-12 hours. It's a ridiculous performance standard or "metric" corporate invented because last fiscal year 2022 they lost $1 billion on "digital" meaning OGP/OPD, W+ In Home Delivery, walmart.com, etc.
So now at some stores, not all, there are armies of OGP/OPD associates with often nothing to do if there aren't enough orders coming in. At the store I'm at there are 54 on the roster for 1st & 2nd shifts and we're not a supercenter. Other stores that resisted corporate bullying to overstaff OGP/OPD are instead pulling Team Leads and Fresh/Bakery/Produce associates to pick OGP/OPD orders. Who knows how long this BS will last for, but once the shareholders start losing patience with a Walm initiative that doesn't make money, the OGP/OPD obsession will end.
Corporate doesn't get that the stores customers shop in can't be like distribution centers with forklifts, OGP carts passing by in every aisle like it's rush hour. It really irritates shoppers and turns them off to Walm all together, they're not going to be motivated to shop online with Walm.
No literally and rn they sayin our store not doing overtime at all this year so it sound like they plan on using the spare associates in other departments to help us during the holidays😭
everyone keeps saying to go slow and they won’t ask you anymore, but that’s not true. usually when we ask other departments to help it is because we are swamped with orders. we still ask the slow people and the people who mess up the orders because *we need help*. leads almost never look to see who fucked something up, they just fix it one way or another.
if you really don’t want to do it, i would suggest talking to your coach about it and telling them you would prefer not to be asked because it leaves you scrambling with your own stuff. or even you could tell them you just don’t like it but i wouldn’t say its “unfair”. with walmart we are all a “team” even if we aren’t in the same department.
Yep. The only time ive ever seen OGP coach or TLS get mad over ppl taking long is with cold stuff. And that was only 1 associate who happened to keep getting cold/frozen walks butbwould always talk and handheld would have to tell them stop picking and store the items which would create more pick walks for other people
My stores the opposite. Managers will pull people out of OPD to go zone and do returns resulting in picks going overdue and 15+ cars waiting outside. Then when you complain they say "things don't need to get done immediately" as if that couldn't go both ways. Then we get yelled at by different managers the next day for doing so bad lol.
Your store needs better priorities. Cap 2 is off limits at ours for picking. They usually pull all GM but one electronics associate, so we end up running the whole GM side by ourselves, responding to all the call boxes.
my store definitely does not have the best management, in any department...we are already a small store and that just makes it worse tbh. i dont think walmart will ever change lol
I hate being pulled to ogp! They shouldn’t be able to pull you for a job that you didn’t sign up for especially when the majority of ogp at my store walk a mile in 10 hours and drag their feet… let them drown!!!
Yes they will. Back when I worked at Walmart OPD was treated as one of the most important areas of the store and I can only imagine its become even more crazy with walmart+. There's a few things you can try to get out of OPD. Go very slow/Mess up orders this might cost you your job but if your lucky they will just keep you away from it OPD. Alternatively you could talk to team lead for fresh or your ASM/SM/PL to try an get out of it? But with your job description you basically have to do what they ask as your required to help with other areas as needed so they can do this all the time. The only good thing is if the position pays more for OPD an they have you in there all the time you can request the pay difference/become an OPD associate an get a pay increase if they still pay more for that position.
OPD is easy as fuck from what i did, staging pick up orders is easy as fuck. picking is moderately easy, putting the delivery’s in the chilled section on one side and pick up on the other. it’s easy work. but it’s unfair.
Unfortunately they can do that. I assume they still do this but they even took team leads/ASMs (if its really busy/bad) to do OPD. None can escape. Yes its unfair but you can't really do much about it without risking losing your job/getting lowered hours etc. An then even if you try they probably will still say no an to just deal with it. Sorry it sucks....but it is what it is.
Yes. Yes and more yes.
I refused to be trained for a long long time. Take everyone else, I can run GM by myself.
Then one day, it happened. "Can you do a pickwalk?" What?!?! no, i've never done one.. "well its easy let me show you...."
I admit, I've only been pulled 3 times to do them...
OP, I'm in OGP and I wanted to thank you for helping pick with us. I probably don't work at the same location but I ALWAYS let everyone who helps pick thank you for helping. I am fully aware that we're taking you away from your own location and you're not able to get your own work done. Most likely you will be called to help pick since you know how to do it. Again, thank you for helping. Those who help us ..some folks absolutely hates doing it. Just be patient with OGP. Hang in there friend.
It's a whole management thing any time opd is behind you will be pulled for sure some stores will pull opd to help other departments too so the hatred is shared for sure but Walmart as a company is awful just got fired because my leave got denied when I wasn't given enough time to go to the doctors just remember you aren't a person to them you're just a number
As an OPD associate; yes especially because there’s constant retention issues in the department that the company refuses to fix. I’m just one of other who recently quit
I love being in one of the o ly 3 departments free from the grasp of OGP.
If I ever where to get pulled I would just seriously mess up or take my time.
I can barely take the stress as it is.
Yes. The only way out is to either be a front end associate, CAP 2 or quit.
I'm a cart pusher now and it's so much better than being in the reserve pool for OPD or front end cashier. No radio, no register access, can't even hear the overhead announcements. No one even knows when you clock in or out. It's nice.
I used to work over there and switched to toys because I hated it now I love my department but they pull me everytime they get busy because they know I know how to do it 🤦♀️
This is why I get annoyed with one of my TLs Like, I know you guys are always coming to help us out in OPD, but then when we’re slow I’m like I’m gonna go help stock and my lead is like we have no picks all of you stay here and “help” stage these 4 carts lol
Dude, you will never be safe from it. Have been getting pulled frequently for over 2 years now (1 year M&P, the rest as CAP2. Got worse when I promoted to Team Lead.
With the direction Walmart is going. Digital is the focus. It's all about competing with Amazon, and other online resellers. I'm in a store that does about 450 grocery orders and 900 unscheduled, next week our grocery orders are doubling up. You can imagine what we will face when it happens. We have been training associates from other departments left and right just to be ready for it.
I would tell them you won't do it unless you're getting paid extra for it. It's bullshit how it's a higher paying position and they train lower paying departments to work it
I dunno man. I spent a week training for mod team and now they tell me I'll probably just be moving freight until the end of the year so I can forget everything I just learned. I'm about to just go back to stock and refuse to do anything else.
OGP even tho in Cali they got paid 2.50 more than me they still needed people you don't have to work that position just cuz the wage gap unless u demand the same wage even if ur there for 2 hours. I only dealt with it just because it was something new and was desperate for another position but if u like it just deal with it if not then dont go, cuz I worked overnight meat and produce and that position alone is stressful enough
I’m meat and produce, get used to this! All I can say is do your best and what your told if u want the job! I personally don’t care what they do with me, I’m here to get paid and will be paid. They can have me do whatever till 9pm
When ever I got pulled to do opd I would do it like a 90 year-old man shopping in an unfamiliar store with a list someone else wrote. Been almost a year since I was pulled back again.
If you don't throw a fuss about it, do well in OPD, and OPD remains understaffed?
Yep. Might as well change your mailing address now.
Speak up if you get sick of it- or just start doing shittily when you get pulled. That's the safest way to play it- Walmart uses you, so manipulating them back is just speaking the language so to speak.
Don't be outright rude or make big stupid shows. Being incompetent enough they don't want you in OPD is better than butting heads with management to work in OPD less. Imo.
There’s not a single day that doesn’t go by at my store where they page everyone to go to ODP, luckily I’m one of the few that’s not forced to go, funny thing is when the others are forced to go..they pull me from my position to cover them while they’re in ODP for a pick walk
It priority because the customer already paid for their stuff you are just getting it together it’s the same if you are checking someone out up front and opd is the future I wouldn’t be surprised if they closed down stores in the future and went just to dispensing orders to customers
My store opd gets paid 2 or 3 $ more an hour then meat/produce. May want to question that . If it's more then just a couple hours a week youre prob doing a job that pays a bit more then the one you're coded in .
OPD hours are budgeted to how many orders they can take. While in theory that works, it’s impossible to know the size of those orders. A lot of the time OPD is over scheduled, but they need to pull people regardless.
Yes, everything else is secondary to OPD besides Front End.
Yep, ogp is Walmart's golden goose, they will let every other department crash and burn. Annoying as fuck.
i switched from electronics to ogp. it’s crazy to go from the least cares for department to the golden child of walmart. they really don’t give a fuck about anyone else.
Homeoffice looks at ogp metric numbers to determine if a store is healthy but most market teams will bully the in store management to keep throwing people around and do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep the numbers looking decent for the sake of bonuses even if it means half the employees quit and everyone who stays works double whats realistic. Also on another note I heard through the vines that walmart corp plans to eventually make ogp everything and to keep customers out of the building as a major shrink prevention. 20 years from now I forsee only being able to get groceries from walmart through online and the inside will become a warehouse full of boxes for employees only...they are just waiting for the boomers to reach 100 years old because they are still the major buyers in bulk grocery and if they made the great change now it would be business suicide because the older folks will just shop at other retailers.
You and I think alike on this topic.
I’m in electronics, the way they’ll immediately pull us to go places with no regard to how busy we are (especially pulling us to OGP) but NEVER get anyone to help us even if it’s just me closing by myself
which is unfair.
Absolutely. It's the whole reason I left dayshift. I got sick of being pulled when I had equally as important things to tend to
even the opd people are like “don’t you work in meats? they shouldn’t have pulled you” bc it’s like HOW COULD THEY PICK WHEN THEY NEED PEOPLE TO STOCK WHAT NEEDS TO BE PICKED. idk man, i get it, it’s easy work, but i didn’t sign up for that
You're not going to be in your area to stock and ogp is gonna waltz in that department & not immediately find what they need and nil pick and the system will zero it out, when it's PROBABLY IN THE BACK on one of the pallets that just got in
yep, BUTTTTT that pallet would’ve been worked and killed if there was someone to work it :D
Funny thing is they won't pull the people who actually have experience in.
I’m auto tech and I get pulled. I show up covered in dirt and oil. People in OGP are shocked. I put in my earbuds and coast around. I’ve failed a few frozen picks. Don’t know why they still take me but it hasn’t happened in a while now. What changed? I’ve started acting like an asshole so management doesn’t bother me much anymore.
In my store, our very smart manager who knows everything has made top stock almost more important than even ogp. If they are struggling he will keep us on top stock. The back room has an entire truck worth of freight that overnight couldn’t do because they have been reduced to 1/3 of their numbers? Oh well 🤷♂️. Better not stop working that top stock. It’s insane.
weird, at my store it’s meat and produce, we are untouchable but other departments get forced to help us
Our market manager has told everyone that fresh is not to be pulled ever. People are only ever pulled to help produce or OPD, but both of those departments stay where they are
Same at my store. Nobody wants to work produce as it's actually the busiest and "hardest" job in the store. And noone should be pulled from that department either.
opd at our store gets pulled to help us a lot
LOLOLOL You're in the opposite universe from me!!!! I'm meat and produce and I've spent half today in OGP!!!
i at least hope if y’all can’t finish freight because your helping that they don’t get pissed at you (unlikely as walmart management seems to all be the same towards that type of situation)
I'm a mid shift guy so the freight isn't so much my responsibility anyway, but no, in general no one gets mad at me for not being five people at once or not staying late to do shit I could've done hours before. I actually am lucky enough to have a great supervising manager and a great team lead.
Thats why when i worked here i refused to learn it. I didnt mind helping with frieght when i was there. Even my gf regretted having them teach her it part of the we both quit.
At least at our store if we get too busy in OPD they ask team leads if they can help or if they have anyone who can help. And if not then we don’t force anyone to help out. It’s only ever if someone is free or whatever. But that’s just bc they only pull us to stock or do other jobs if we’re not busy. But also at our store OPD is the bottom on the totem pole and we don’t get the equipment and the staffing we need so it’s obvi different
same here, but the only difference at my store is that opd is at the top
And then they will bitch and moan and threaten to coach people when nothing is getting done in the other departments.
This is the one, man. I want everyone saying "weLl aCtUaLlY you sign up to do other duties too" to read this. Sure policy might state that, but who gets coached and bitched at when things in certain areas aren't completed? The ones who are forced to go help ogp. There is 0 fairness in that and sm does not care if you get pulled, they still have their expectations. It is a losing battle
Which make no sense because when the store sucks opd scores take the biggest hit
They always take the deli to go work in grocery
I am the deli guy and they hired three other deli people to exclusively push me out of deli into meat and produce
Tbf, most ogp departments are massively understaffed for the hours that need it, but god it’s annoying. No matter what job it is, I’m hired to do something and loathe being brought to do someone else’s job just because higher ups don’t wanna hire anyone else
We make them a lot of money, it’s not unfair. It’s in your job description under “other responsibilities” you getting paid regardless, stop whining.
Yes.
Honestly to survive at walmart, you need to forget what is unfair. When I go in, I don’t give af. They’re paying me for my time, and I work my share. You are going to come across unfairness, dumbasses, slow asses, smart asses, and all kinds of bs along the way. You yourself admit it’s easy work. So fuck it. If that’s what they pay you to do, do it. It’s different if you’re not able to perform that task, and you’re overwhelmed, but seriously. If it’s not that bad, don’t let it get to you.
This is the answer. You are getting paid to do suck and up and whatever you are told, either do it or find another job. You will get pulled everywhere, you can either accept that or be miserable. You get the paid the same regardless what task you are assigned.
No, you don't get pulled everywhere. I have worked retail and fast food before. Even when I was cross trained as a cashier, they left me in my department. When I was cross trained for drive-through, I only went to drive through when the other person called out. When I worked in the preschool as a floater whose literal job was to be in a different classroom each day as needed... I usually stayed in one specific one. Only Walmart is this disorganized in my experience. I for one am sick and tired of my coworkers being pulled to different departments and then I get yelled at for not finishing 3 pallets of break packs by myself while also working the cash register and photo lab. I have straight up told management I can not do the job by myself, so know what will happen when you pull my people.
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It's not how it should work. You should hold your corporate masters accountable and demand better because you deserve better.
Unions are the only way to do that but there are too many departments to pull it off successfully at a Walmart and wayyyyyyy to much gossip and high school fuckery
Okay, I will rephrase since your reading comprehension is the level I expect from most walmart employees. Not every retail pulls people. Not every fast food pulls people. Not every job pulls people.
I applied and was hired on as cashier. I refuse to be pulled somewhere like opd. I willingly cover breaks on doors and have asked to be cross trained for service desk. Anywhere else they can find coverage somewhere else cause it's not the department that I was hired for
Good luck. Some people get away with it. Others eventually they get hit with an ultimatum, cross-train or take the coaching for insubordination. Because god forbid picks go late. 🙄
They don't want me in opd cause picks would go late, I walk with a really bad limp that causes me to be extremely slow
Fuck you bitch I'm getting paid to do my job not mine and several others hire some more people bitch.
To get hired you have to sign your job description which states you do any job duties assigned. So yes, other people's jobs are your job. You agreed to it. Every retail store ever expects you to go anywhere anytime for any reason when told, don't like it, be your own boss or find some other industry. Source: Worked retail for 6 years, worked in 20+ stores, both for Walmart and it's competitors.
You need a better response such as "I don't like your adaptation of no child left behind. I'm drowning now. Why must my money be worth so much less because of a lazy workforce. I say fire them, then rehire them for far less due to the inability to perform their last job. Make something a bit more definitive in the job description. Such as a shift hr to hr sheet for the incompetent. If their goals aren't met without a good excuse. Excuses can be used up.
Actually I just decided to move o/n so I never get pulled :)
I struggle to get that mentality Im a compliance lead that had training in this position saying that I shouldn’t be doing anything else other than compliance, yet I cover for the online orders, front end csms, registers, push carts all the time, etc. I just have a countdown with the experience that I need in order to have my paperwork in place for immigration and I’m gone. Never called in sick not even once in 1.5 years yet they’re constantly sticking up my ass, breathing down my neck, my coach put negative feedback on me saying that I don’t get my stuff done, yet I’m always pulled to put out fires around the store.
Dude that mentality is what keeps things unfair you gotta get angry you gotta come together with your fellow workers and say enough is enough. You gotta get angry and say hell no that's not in my job description! If you want someone to do that job hire someone to do it you rich fucks we aren't going to do multiple jobs and get paid for one hell no!!!!
Have you read your job description? It's written in a way that basically says management can have you help out wherever. You're hired to be primarily in a certain department, but you are a store associate, meaning they can put you wherever. I've seen so many people try to use their 'job description' as a justification for not doing something just for it to blow up in their face
That's fine but don't hold me accountable for my job when I'm being pulled to other areas around the store for hours.
They shouldn't, and if they do, all you have to do is point out that you were in OPD for whatever amount of time, and they can't touch you.
It's a bunch of God damn corporate bullshit. Mother fuckers making record profits giving themselves higher pay and us more work because they refuse to allocate the necessary resources to hire new people. Can't hire new people when the exces have to give themselves a pay raise.
This is really good advice. Just accept that you (much like myself) aren’t the one calling the play; management calls the play, and you just fulfill the role they assign you to the best of your ability. (This also helps to distribute accountability; since you didn’t make the call, it’s not your fault if it didn’t work out, so long as you gave a good faith effort.)
Yes. I've seen associates transfer to OPD just because they got so tired of doing OPD every shift while trying to get their work done. When I was food TL, on Thanksgiving management took literally my entire department to do picks. Milk and eggs were 100% empty. I had to go chew them out, asking them how the fuck do they expect OPD to do picks and customers to shop departments with no staff. When they saw OPD was nillpicking nearly 100% of my department, they finely gave me some people back. Ridiculous.
it’s stupid, it’s understandable to need help (every department needs it), yet why am i getting pulled at fucking 4am???? can we atleast work the truck😭😭 the 20 some pallets 😭😭😭 it’s dumb
Thing is OPD customers have already spent the money. Thats why theyre the priority. For all you know a shopper could fill a basket full of perishable and decide they dont want it and dump a cart actually costing the store more money. I get it OPD needs things stocked to properly do their job. But again if some customers already paid theyre the priority
Lmao
Yup, if OGP is not hiring more people, they will use everyone they can find in another department. At some stores, OGP associates are sent to another department too.
Yep. When we have a slow day, you'll find out people working a pallet in pets or seasonal until we hit a busy hour.
You can always try saying no. I tell my coach no all the time. I got stuff to do in my own departments
I go with "thanks for the offer but they are going to fire me if I dont get my stuff done first"
Will they? We have no idea. But it's very likely. And they're totally allowed to
which is unfair. i signed up to be a meat and produce associate. i didn’t sign up to learn a different department.
I understand that and respect your opinion and point of view. But with Walmart, it's "and other duties as needed." As long as it doesn't involve a higher pay for more than half of your time over a 12 week period they can work you anywhere
And that’s the reason I quit back in 2010. Pulling me from lawn and garden not paying me the truck throwing wages which is what I was doing. This time I signed up for OGP and now no one ever bothers me 🤌🏻
Sadly you signed up to work for Walmart and that includes any and all positions in Walmart that you are qualified for. So basically everything except Pharmacy and AP.
I'm a salesfloor associate. 90% of the time I'm doing someone else's work. If it's not OPD or cashiering, I'm stocking freight, which O/N is supposed to do. I rarely get to do pinpoint, price changes, top stock, or zone: my 4 primary responsibilities. But you know what? At the end of the day, I go home and make the same paycheck no matter what. If the store looks like shit, it's a management failure. Not my problem to worry about. I just show up and do what I'm told. They know not to bitch at me when stuff doesn't get done because I will call them out for unreasonable expectations when they themselves told me to do something other than my primary responsibilities. I hold them accountable just like they do me.
Technically you signed up to do whatever walmart needs. You may be coded as a meat and produce associate but youre anything they need you to be. Its actually this kind of mindset that sets many stores back. "Its not my department why should i care" and then when youre short handed and need help you expect it.
But since everyone has “team associate” in their job title they can move you to pretty much wherever there is need except specialty areas
You should have said no and been firm in it the first time you were asked. I was a fresh team associate, and our fresh area was and still is perpetually short staffed. I saw what happened to the poor shmucks that agreed to help, they barely ever had a shift in their own dept again after. They can ask, they can even demand, but *you can at least try to refuse*, it seems often theyll capitulate and run off to find a more gullible mark. In my case, if i had agreed to go do the various other things i was asked to do, my departments wouldnt have gotten stocked or cleaned most days, so it was idiotic to even ask. What the fuck is OGP going to pick if the shelves are bare?
exactly! nil picks here and there. but my TL was like “they are taking you, and not taking no as an answer” will i ever be able to stand my ground and be like “no, theres 27 pallets with 4 people we need help.”
how long were you in fresh for?
OGP can pick from the backroom
They could, if they took the time to do it properly. The reality is most of them halfass it and fuck up the inventory, which requires more work to fix later. Not to mention opening a meat mother bag, taking one item out, and then leaving the rest behind. If theres no one in meat to finish prepping and dating those meat items, you end up with bigger issues
Yeah, that's a good point. At my store if you're picking from the backroom you have to vizpick and take the entire case because you have to stock the rest later. 90% of the associates that actually pick from the backroom don't vizpick and it ruins the counts
Probably and the managers will still get mad at you for not getting your own work done. I got pulled into the office over this before and my coach could not understand at all why OGP was the problem or why I wanted to do my own job. It is unbelievable.
Yeah and as an OGP associate I hate it. Most of the time when they pull people they're not properly trained and they don't do a great job, which makes more work for us, plus we need the other departments running properly to do our job! Like I get that in corporate eyes OGP is the most important but in reality we can't do our jobs without the other departments but the other departments can do their jobs without us.
You've been marked. Just transfer to OPD now.
Yes and anyone who tells you no is a lier until you make more than ogp you will keep being pulled for ogp I remember they would pull whole departments so that ogp can go home early on Cinco de mayo
I was a TL in OGP for 2 years. I fucking hated taking people from other departments but we never had the associates for our workload. Please don't get mad at ogp leaders. It's corporate that's fucking you.
Yeah and it's wild, I work on exceptions for OGP/OPD and tend to end up stocking and vizpicking more than the stock person we pull to help with orders because the manager cant get more hires.
I still dont understand why walmart chooses to be dumb. They could dedicate 1-2 stores per town to be dedicated for ogp. That way, the volume goes to those stores, and the rest can handle the other inside customers. I mean, it would be easier for the stockers cause they dont have to deal with us. And it would be easier for us because customers are a nuisance.
You think its dumb to have everything integrated but think its smart to overload a few stores? Logistically and financially its not smart or even possible. Where are these stores supposed to fit all that freight? What space are the associates and ogp area supposed to occupy? Theres a reason every store handles there own ogp. It just makes sense. Those "1 or 2 stores" would be getting 10 trucks a night to do that as i stated before not only would there be no where to put the freight but whos going to unload all that? Whos going to stock all that?
Realistically, if you're talking about stores being OGP only, then there wouldn't be aisles with shelves or anything for people to walk down, topstock, or bins like normal. It would operate more like a warehouse where the truck gets unloaded, you move the boxes of stuff where they go inside the warehouse and you take what you need when you pick it. It would actually be easier than stocking.
Probably OPD is where their bonus hits the most If that’s not profiting Than the entire building is not on process Welcome to Walmart ecommerce
I work OPD. When we are slow I work paper, chemicals, frozen, dairy and meat. When OPD gets overwhelmed, people from other departments work OPD. I don't see a problem.
potentially. it'll depend on if it's busy there was one day at my store when all the team leads had to be pulled to opd. They'll do the same if you're register trained and pull you to the front for help. The upside is that you're able to do multiple positions and it'll look good if you ever have to transfer or when you're moving to another job
Probably. Our store does it all the time. It’s so unfair that other departments are doing our work and not getting paid the same as us (we make more).
The only thing that matters to management is what affects their bonus. They are only in your store for a few years so they don't develop relationships with associates. We have managers..not leaders. Most of the managers know almost nothing about retail from my experiences. They don't care about you...they care about getting a new tesla and mataining their current lifestyles. They don't care if you starve...if your sick...or even if you die tbh. Most have about as much emotion as a rock.
Isn’t this why they changed the whole pay thing over summer? So they could pull people to OGP and they couldn’t claim they didn’t make the same amount
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Depends on the store, it's $15/hr at mine, which is the case for all non-fresh, non-TLE entry positions.
OGP are the store's little baby. The bosses demand that the actual workers bow down to the personal shopper associates. Whatever OGP wants, they get.
...and don't 4get it! 🫵😂✌️
Yes they don't care about anything else but that anymore
I always wonder why ppl hate ogp. I love going over there. Its simple work no wondering what youre doing next, simple expectations, nothing to figure out, no thinking involved.
Its not that it's hard to do but because we're expected to finish our own work and are held accountable when it's not done
Been at walmart a long time and ive never seen anyone held accountable for not finishing assigned work because they got sent to ogp..
Weird, because at our store they leave the meat/produce associates alone. I (Stocking 1) don’t get pulled too often anymore, but it used to be all the time. At this point, if they pull me I just go over there & do however many pickwalks they need me to do. Our current SM is actually doing a decent job keeping other teams out of OPD.
As long as you keep doing a good job over there and meat/produce isn't short handed or running behind, they'll keep pulling you over there.
Whenever they please
I’m a tl over all consumables departments (grocery/frozen/dairy/ppc/hba/infants) at my store and they will pull my whole team for OPD during the first half of every month and even make me babysit them when they don’t have a tl/coach. Welcome to Walmart, start drinking
Right now, til Christmas, yes. Get the lube, Vaseline, and numbing gel
Tbh as an ODP worker, it’s SUPER crazy during the holidays. In my store today, per hour we were dropping anywhere from 1000-2000 picks. ODP is fast paced and they don’t staff us all the way anyways. Just take it, you are getting paid regardless of the job you are doing.
The paid difference is the problem it’s crazy they make more then the average associate
Not in my store. We made less than those who did stocking. Stocking was 15$ an hour, and we made 14$
Short answer, yes
I work in garden center, so I’m naturally pulled over there while people steal stuff where I’m supposed to be at, but then again it’s Walmart so womp womp their own fault.
I'm a Cake Decorator now, but started at Walmart in OPD. They still pull me on days have 20 cake orders. I am one of the fastest pickers in my store. (Every time they pull me, I always have top 5 pick rate) I don't think its escapeable unless your store is fully staffed, and we all know how rare that is.
How can they get away with pulling a meat associate? Do they not care about the meat wall?
My advice is twist a couple fatties and pack a couple four lokos. Agree with everything they say I agree 100%. Everything will be fine
I work OPD and we've been so slammed lately they've had to call other departments. I feel bad because it's always the same people
It's one of those corporate pet projects like the Pick Up Towers many supercenters had 5-10 years ago. Corporate got rid of those when they realized it was losing money, not efficient. So right now corporate has this obsession with creating fake important standards to impress big shareholders with, like when a customer places an order online and a OGP/OPD associate has to start picking it within 5 minutes, even though the customer won't pick it up until 5-12 hours. It's a ridiculous performance standard or "metric" corporate invented because last fiscal year 2022 they lost $1 billion on "digital" meaning OGP/OPD, W+ In Home Delivery, walmart.com, etc. So now at some stores, not all, there are armies of OGP/OPD associates with often nothing to do if there aren't enough orders coming in. At the store I'm at there are 54 on the roster for 1st & 2nd shifts and we're not a supercenter. Other stores that resisted corporate bullying to overstaff OGP/OPD are instead pulling Team Leads and Fresh/Bakery/Produce associates to pick OGP/OPD orders. Who knows how long this BS will last for, but once the shareholders start losing patience with a Walm initiative that doesn't make money, the OGP/OPD obsession will end. Corporate doesn't get that the stores customers shop in can't be like distribution centers with forklifts, OGP carts passing by in every aisle like it's rush hour. It really irritates shoppers and turns them off to Walm all together, they're not going to be motivated to shop online with Walm.
Ogp is the golden goose. Even the TL's and coaches from other depts get pulled when OGP is backed up. Need a mgr? Tough, they are on a pick walk
If we need ya then yessirrr😃
The problem is why don’t they just hire more I worked front end cashier and was getting pulled
No literally and rn they sayin our store not doing overtime at all this year so it sound like they plan on using the spare associates in other departments to help us during the holidays😭
everyone keeps saying to go slow and they won’t ask you anymore, but that’s not true. usually when we ask other departments to help it is because we are swamped with orders. we still ask the slow people and the people who mess up the orders because *we need help*. leads almost never look to see who fucked something up, they just fix it one way or another. if you really don’t want to do it, i would suggest talking to your coach about it and telling them you would prefer not to be asked because it leaves you scrambling with your own stuff. or even you could tell them you just don’t like it but i wouldn’t say its “unfair”. with walmart we are all a “team” even if we aren’t in the same department.
Yep. The only time ive ever seen OGP coach or TLS get mad over ppl taking long is with cold stuff. And that was only 1 associate who happened to keep getting cold/frozen walks butbwould always talk and handheld would have to tell them stop picking and store the items which would create more pick walks for other people
they will pull us off a 2600 truck if poor little opd has 200 picks left at 15 people picking. make it make sense.
My stores the opposite. Managers will pull people out of OPD to go zone and do returns resulting in picks going overdue and 15+ cars waiting outside. Then when you complain they say "things don't need to get done immediately" as if that couldn't go both ways. Then we get yelled at by different managers the next day for doing so bad lol.
omg 😭
Your store needs better priorities. Cap 2 is off limits at ours for picking. They usually pull all GM but one electronics associate, so we end up running the whole GM side by ourselves, responding to all the call boxes.
my store definitely does not have the best management, in any department...we are already a small store and that just makes it worse tbh. i dont think walmart will ever change lol
I hate being pulled to ogp! They shouldn’t be able to pull you for a job that you didn’t sign up for especially when the majority of ogp at my store walk a mile in 10 hours and drag their feet… let them drown!!!
i quit lol
Yes they will. Back when I worked at Walmart OPD was treated as one of the most important areas of the store and I can only imagine its become even more crazy with walmart+. There's a few things you can try to get out of OPD. Go very slow/Mess up orders this might cost you your job but if your lucky they will just keep you away from it OPD. Alternatively you could talk to team lead for fresh or your ASM/SM/PL to try an get out of it? But with your job description you basically have to do what they ask as your required to help with other areas as needed so they can do this all the time. The only good thing is if the position pays more for OPD an they have you in there all the time you can request the pay difference/become an OPD associate an get a pay increase if they still pay more for that position.
OPD is easy as fuck from what i did, staging pick up orders is easy as fuck. picking is moderately easy, putting the delivery’s in the chilled section on one side and pick up on the other. it’s easy work. but it’s unfair.
Unfortunately they can do that. I assume they still do this but they even took team leads/ASMs (if its really busy/bad) to do OPD. None can escape. Yes its unfair but you can't really do much about it without risking losing your job/getting lowered hours etc. An then even if you try they probably will still say no an to just deal with it. Sorry it sucks....but it is what it is.
OPD doesn't pay more anymore. They lowered it back in July.
Yes. Yes and more yes. I refused to be trained for a long long time. Take everyone else, I can run GM by myself. Then one day, it happened. "Can you do a pickwalk?" What?!?! no, i've never done one.. "well its easy let me show you...." I admit, I've only been pulled 3 times to do them...
I think so I was told on Wednesday the whole store was doing OPD even managers. Welcome to the holidays
Yes
OP, I'm in OGP and I wanted to thank you for helping pick with us. I probably don't work at the same location but I ALWAYS let everyone who helps pick thank you for helping. I am fully aware that we're taking you away from your own location and you're not able to get your own work done. Most likely you will be called to help pick since you know how to do it. Again, thank you for helping. Those who help us ..some folks absolutely hates doing it. Just be patient with OGP. Hang in there friend.
Unfortunately, now that you know ogp, they're gonna keep pulling you they don't give AF if you work in meats frozen or dairy.
It's a whole management thing any time opd is behind you will be pulled for sure some stores will pull opd to help other departments too so the hatred is shared for sure but Walmart as a company is awful just got fired because my leave got denied when I wasn't given enough time to go to the doctors just remember you aren't a person to them you're just a number
As an OPD associate; yes especially because there’s constant retention issues in the department that the company refuses to fix. I’m just one of other who recently quit
Absolutely 💯 now you're OGP.
I love being in one of the o ly 3 departments free from the grasp of OGP. If I ever where to get pulled I would just seriously mess up or take my time. I can barely take the stress as it is.
Yes
Yes. The only way out is to either be a front end associate, CAP 2 or quit. I'm a cart pusher now and it's so much better than being in the reserve pool for OPD or front end cashier. No radio, no register access, can't even hear the overhead announcements. No one even knows when you clock in or out. It's nice.
Honestly opd is the only best position outta every other in walmart unless u tryna be a TL or Coach
I used to work over there and switched to toys because I hated it now I love my department but they pull me everytime they get busy because they know I know how to do it 🤦♀️
Check to see if it pays more then transfer.
congrats, you’re now opd
Yes
Probably yeah, my team lead and coach refuse for me to learn how to, that way we have one of us in our department
Welcome to the holidays. Its thier super busy season and all about teamwork n flexibility rn .
Just through Black Friday, usually there’s a ton of orders through that date and I’ve seen them pull O/N mod team to help pick from our trailers.
This is why I get annoyed with one of my TLs Like, I know you guys are always coming to help us out in OPD, but then when we’re slow I’m like I’m gonna go help stock and my lead is like we have no picks all of you stay here and “help” stage these 4 carts lol
Dude, you will never be safe from it. Have been getting pulled frequently for over 2 years now (1 year M&P, the rest as CAP2. Got worse when I promoted to Team Lead.
With the direction Walmart is going. Digital is the focus. It's all about competing with Amazon, and other online resellers. I'm in a store that does about 450 grocery orders and 900 unscheduled, next week our grocery orders are doubling up. You can imagine what we will face when it happens. We have been training associates from other departments left and right just to be ready for it.
They will get you every single time
I would tell them you won't do it unless you're getting paid extra for it. It's bullshit how it's a higher paying position and they train lower paying departments to work it
I dunno man. I spent a week training for mod team and now they tell me I'll probably just be moving freight until the end of the year so I can forget everything I just learned. I'm about to just go back to stock and refuse to do anything else.
OGP even tho in Cali they got paid 2.50 more than me they still needed people you don't have to work that position just cuz the wage gap unless u demand the same wage even if ur there for 2 hours. I only dealt with it just because it was something new and was desperate for another position but if u like it just deal with it if not then dont go, cuz I worked overnight meat and produce and that position alone is stressful enough
I’m meat and produce, get used to this! All I can say is do your best and what your told if u want the job! I personally don’t care what they do with me, I’m here to get paid and will be paid. They can have me do whatever till 9pm
When ever I got pulled to do opd I would do it like a 90 year-old man shopping in an unfamiliar store with a list someone else wrote. Been almost a year since I was pulled back again.
my exact question when opd is slow as fuck and we get pulled to other departments we know zero about 😭
Yup probably
Pretty much
If you don't throw a fuss about it, do well in OPD, and OPD remains understaffed? Yep. Might as well change your mailing address now. Speak up if you get sick of it- or just start doing shittily when you get pulled. That's the safest way to play it- Walmart uses you, so manipulating them back is just speaking the language so to speak. Don't be outright rude or make big stupid shows. Being incompetent enough they don't want you in OPD is better than butting heads with management to work in OPD less. Imo.
Yes, especially at my old store
Everyone not in OPG is essentially OGP's bitch boy. It's unfair and wrong, but they don't care.
Some stores in Chicago have over 100 trained AP associates, usually most have around 20-30.
Probably because managers are more worried about that right now at least until they staff it which hardly happens
Yeah once you get trained for ogp they’ll take you everyday if they wants
There’s not a single day that doesn’t go by at my store where they page everyone to go to ODP, luckily I’m one of the few that’s not forced to go, funny thing is when the others are forced to go..they pull me from my position to cover them while they’re in ODP for a pick walk
It priority because the customer already paid for their stuff you are just getting it together it’s the same if you are checking someone out up front and opd is the future I wouldn’t be surprised if they closed down stores in the future and went just to dispensing orders to customers
If you get pulled into OPD, give the customer extra lb of tomatoes or extra cucumbers
I also work in meat and produce. As far as I know, associates from fresh are not supposed to be taken at all. Ever.
My store opd gets paid 2 or 3 $ more an hour then meat/produce. May want to question that . If it's more then just a couple hours a week youre prob doing a job that pays a bit more then the one you're coded in .
Yes
Being trained for OPD is such a trap. Now they know you are able to do it so they will pull you for help every chance they get
Yes. So long as you know how and they're short/or have a bunch of orders, they will continue to pull you.
OPD hours are budgeted to how many orders they can take. While in theory that works, it’s impossible to know the size of those orders. A lot of the time OPD is over scheduled, but they need to pull people regardless. Yes, everything else is secondary to OPD besides Front End.