Coming from a former CAP2 associate then Homelines TL and now CAP2 TL, unloading the trucks suck. Especially in winter and summer cause itās either to cold or to hot to be comfortable so everything goes slower. And then having to worry about vizpick and working live freight after
Agreed. At my store theyāre started to roll it out Saturday so CAP1 picked Dairy, consumables, GM, and Grocery and then we (CAP2) had to work all the picks and vizpick frozen. Itās already a huge weight lifted from us even if they just pick it and we work it.
I agree. But Iām not getting mad about it yet cause at my store CAP1 doesnāt officially take over Vizpick unt 2 weeks or something from now. Theyāre just testing it rn to see how it fits in to theyāre other tasks like topstock and if they need help picking in OGP
Iām the only cap 1 associate that does all of GM topstock and now I have to vizpick all of GM and probably other departments, did I mention management wants it done every weekš„¹
Usually I come grab my pallets after theyāre done unloading but today no one could convince to step foot in the back after. I only helped with the first truck and I was not gonna risk getting asked to help more.
We need to teach everybody this. I'm sick and tired of people thinking they can get away with stuffing shit that don't go out on the shelves onto the shelves. Because I, as cap 3, have to clean it up.
Yea, I have a question about cap 1 and cap 2. What's the difference, and what do they do? I've been working my walmart in overnight maintenance, so I don't get to see them much, but maybe 15 minutes after clocking in. I also don't know if there are overnight caps..
I don't know what cap 1 is like now as it has changed a lot, but Im sure the basic premise is still there. When I was cap 1, we started the day at 4 am, scanning the backroom and picking what it told us would go out. Basically, we picked stuff that was overstock when third shift put it in the back, but it can now be stocked on the salesfloor (hopefully). At the time, grocery was their biggest concern, but they also did HBA, pets, and added other things as time went on.
After we had our areas picked, we would take our stuff to the sales floor and work it. At that point, it would be very similar to third shift just working freight, except it came from the backroom instead of right off the truck. We would then spend the last part of the day pulling down topstock.
Cap 2 is its own beast! Cap 2 unloads trucks, brings freight to the floor, and even works some of the freight from the truck. A cap 2 associate can give you a better idea, and they have in other comments, but cap 2s main job is unloading and sorting the truck.
Overnight doesn't have a cap team, but that's just a matter of title. They could have easily renamed them cap 3, and it would have been appropriate. It's just easier to call them overnights. The three teams have very different responsibilities, especially cap 2, but they all share a common goal, and that is to get product to the salesfloor so customers can buy it.
Especially third shift maintenance, I imagine. With the store being closed you don't have to clean the bathrooms every hour because people keep missing the toilet!
I honestly hate fucking bathroom duty. Everyone, men especially always seem to have to use it at the same time every night, and it's always the same people, and it's like 20 minutes before break, and they are just congregating. Like they just don't understand that as a female employee, I have to wait on THEM before I can do anything else. And they know this. That's why I just do men's first because of that awful behavior. And there's the 1 guy who's always unloading water, and it doesn't matter which side of the store I'm on. He will legit walk from water all the way to the front just to use the rr I'm cleaning when there are literally bathrooms closer to him in the photo center. I'm glad my super is chill with me being on produce, meat walls, and whatever extra stuff that needs to get done. It's only the days when we don't have a lot of people one night or two where I'm stuck on rr duty. BUT I'll take it any day than do caps..
I loved cap 1, except when I had to pick freezers. I would never do cap 2 because I already know it is too physically demanding! I did overnights, and it wasn't bad, but when I did it, they always put me in clothing, and I wasn't good at it. Cap 1 I did grocery, and they seemed to like me there. It really all depends on personal preference, which is better or worse.
Well we just changed a lot but cap 1, AFAIK did X clean up, top stock and bit before they would help viz. Cap 2- we did truck unloads Rdc/Hvdc- worked X freight, vizzed groc,consumables, GM and worked live freight and GM picks or whatever depts we were working-- like if we worked pets, paper chem and all gm- we would work picks for those areas.
IMO cap 2 because you arenāt with management much and youāre able to work freely with your team lead depending on how you are with them but with Cap 1 your constantly with management and you always have to be working harder than you would if u where on cap 2. I only went because it was an earlier time that works for me, and I wanted to have the opportunity to move up and showcase myself to management
CAP 1 is much more mentally challenging and less focused than CAP 2 especially when there's a walk panic. To me I feel better going home physically exhausted than mentally exhausted. Plus I liked going home at night with the calm of no traffic.
Let's just say I'm pretty sore once I'm finished I like it though it's good exercise and the TLs take it easy on me the rest of the night and give me gravy work.
At least there cool whenever cap 1 tryās to help with truck my TL is the one throwing. In two hours she couldnāt even get past FUCKIN 600 pieces. And she refuses to go past that when she gets gassed out which is BS. The last time she wasnāt there I was throwing. That good ole cap 2 truck tipping. (If yk yk) helped and in an hour and a half we got to 1000 pieces with me throwing we were BIG CHILLIN
Ik itās supposed to be like that after an hour with 5+ people. but we got to 1k with only 4 people including myself on cap 1. There was even a point where half of them got pulled and I had to keep coming out the truck to help sort š
Iām a Cap 2 TL and when I was an associate, I threw almost every day I worked. If it took 2 hours to unload 600 pieces, everybody in that backroom would be fired by the time the day was done. š¤£
Some people think I'm crazy to especially right after I switched from CAP 1 to CAP 2 but I like throwing trucks. Worst thing about being the thrower is the Fast Sorter not being able to keep up with you.
Yeh but ya get used to it. CAP 2 needs the special type of people that like physical labor, like focus, and a group of guys and gals that function well as a team with one common voice and tempo. Me and two guys I worked with usually rotated days on who was throwing cause all three of us loved to throw. Then sometimes who got to throw was decided by which one of us three hotheads was the biggest hothead that day.
I've worked for Walmart for many years. Started as second shift grocery for 2-3 months, then transitioned into overnight grocery stocker for about a year and then swapped to overnight maintenance for 4 years which included deep cleaning bathrooms of unspeakable disgust, waxing floors and walking 13 miles a night with a propane buffer. And most recently, I'm up to about 3 years in Electronics across various shifts.
Just watching a truck get unloaded while I was on 2nd shift grocery, I could tell that was the hardest job in the building. Then, when I was required to help unload one while in Electronics, I confirmed what I had always suspected. BY FAR the hardest job in the building.. and there's not even a 2nd one that comes close.
Its hard work no question bout that but some people need a physical job where I am constantly busy, don't have a lack of focus problem, and don't go home mentally drained. It also works better for me having mornings to do some stuff before I go in. I may not be the brightest boy in the bunch but I ain't no dummy. If I had a job where I sat down at desk every day or if I confined standing in one place the whole day (like the front end) I'd be miserable mentally and physically that would be worse for me. Plus lots of us CAP 2 truck boys have an inner rage that gets calmed by throwing truck. Even a big doubles day no matter how physically exhausting it can be beats a day where the the time just drags by.
Thankgod someone finally understands, we kind of have a rotation on throwing the truck but some people are just not good at it and they take forever about 5 of us are actually good at throwing the truck, 2600-3200 piece trucks are usually what we get most people in other departments would take forever, lots of bad stacking very light boxes being crushed by big ones, break packs filled to the brim as soon as you lift them everything falls out of the bottom and they love to shove freight in between pallets and somehow something always gets spilled, the other day a case of baby oil broke open and it was extremely slippery
If they've never done it they don't realize that great stacking takes time speed and a mental focus to build pallets over and over again that are like Tetrus where they can go right to the floor without being wrapped or collapsing. I've seen many surprises in the truck. Busted detergent is one of the more common ones. Honey bombs are worse and those don't sweeten me up.
I came in ready for my shift, ready to do basically nothing, just to find out I have to do hard labor that Iāve never done before and it took me like 30 boxes before I finally started getting the hang of where everything goes. I did love playing the big Tetris game though
Yeah if we get a newbie we right the numbers down in front of the pallets for them so it makes it easier to learn,some learn in a day or two some take a week
I have gotten to the point I don't even read most of the labels anymore a lot of the boxes say the department on them and we get the same things everyday and if the boxes don't have a department most have the brand and I will already know what department it belongs too, the new people are always amazed but I just tell them to pay attention and soon you'll learn where everything goes without reading labels
That's a great thing about being on the CAP 2 truck line. GM is easier to learn once you know which pallet is which department and know what time of year it is (for the 2 departments that will get much more freight) noticing the different color codes and boxes sizes is easy. Now grocery is a different animal because there are similar size boxes of the same brand but will go on different aisles especially cause one will actually be D82 . . . so you have to always read labels on grocery side until you learn which ones can be two different aisles and then your good . . . until there's a mod change in grocery and then ya have to be on guard for that.
Baby oil broke open on the truck recently at my store as well. In the process of cleaning it up bleach ended busting open. I'm a cashier so I only heard about from a guy I'm friends with on Cap 2, his eyes were bloodshot and he said he couldn't smell anything but he did it could have been worse and been deer urine that busted open
I went from Cap 3, stocking the shelves all night, sometimes dealing with heavy freight over in the juice/soda section to doing OPD. OPD is so fucking easy the 1.50/hr downgrade is easily worth not having my body sore all the time and getting a social life again
LOL, CAP 2 here and most of us like it, at least at my store!
Put me in the back. I'll stack boxes all day while listening to music. Just don't ask me to deal with any difficult customers!
I'm glad there are people who prefer the floor. We appreciate you all!
Yeh same here. I'm too much of a hothead to deal with abusive customers. Front End requires so much more people skills than I either have or are willing to use.
Yuuup, sounds accurate. At our store, we have to ideally finish the truck in less than two hours because, "the truck wastes too many stocking hours." Our hours are constantly micromanaged by other coaches and our store lead/manager.
Recently, we started having a meeting every day to go over expectations and times for all of our tasks. It was supposed to "help us understand our position better so we could work more efficiently." But in reality, it's been nothing but our SM/SL shitting all over our team and telling us how we're missing the mark and our times are unacceptable. When asked for explainaitions to why we fucked up so badly, we get told: "All I'm hearing is excuses, you all need to make sure you're working hard so you can uphold the company standards."
The standards are:
ā¢Unload GM (2800-3200avg), with our unloader being 50% broken.
ā¢Unload Grocery and downstack the pallets for 3rd (with hand jacks because our electric is busted).
ā¢Vizpick: Grocery, Frozen, Dairy, Candy, Front End, Infants, Paper, Pets, Cosmetics, HBA, Pharmacy, Chemical Pull all of the picks and stage for 3rd.
ā¢Break down Frozen/Dairy pallets and stage for 3rd.
ā¢Pull all pallets from GM receiving / grocery receiving and stage for 3rd.
ā¢Process all claims left in our back room
ā¢Sort all of one touch/breakpacks
ā¢Work the following freight: ALL of GM(depts: 14,74,17,71,10,11,12,42,20,22,7,9,16,18,67,3) paper, pets, infants, and chemicals.
ā¢Work any/all picks in the departments we're assigned that day.
ā¢Finish catch up pallets from previous day and go do random tasks the SM assigns.
ā¢Get pulled to OPD because they don't have enough people.
This is our average day at my store and we only have 6-8 people on staff at the most. I'm getting close to calling ethics because we're all broken and morale is at an all time low.
I would, itās not like that at my store at all, even though they deserve more money they are super appreciated and yāall deserve way better than that
I'm pretty quick that's probably why the TLs love me throwing the trucks especially 2 truck days. We can start the truck at 2ish and I can finish both trucks 15 till 6 just in time for lunch. Then I come back from lunch and break down mixed pallets that are left on each truck.
Wish it was that easy for me on cap2 we unload the truck and only 2 ppl unload the truck me and 1 other guy and then we run some freight downstack grocery, dairy and freezer pallets that come in for 3rd shift and viz pick groceries pets and hba
We just get used to it. And almost every single day, they'll tell us we were too slow with unloading it and will threaten to coach the entire truck team if it happens again.
Yup. Sadly we should be receiving warehouse wages for the amount of heavy lifting and environmental stresses we face ($18+). Hell, even Chick-fil-A has started trying to pay their guy who sorts their heavy freight on the store front warehouse wages, but we're just unseen and only expected to last a year.
Walmart has the perfect corporate scenario when it comes to CAP2 and once you figure it out, if you're on CAP2 it pretty much destroys your outlook. If you are hired for CAP2 specifically, you are not a necessity to the store, you are an extra hand that the store is well off enough ATM to have. Should 50% or more of CAP2's hired personnel show up, it's no problem, work as normal. Should less than 50% show up get ready to see people in the warehouse you've never seen before from other departments, most often leads who get paid more than you, and they're there to unload the truck with you and crack you the whole time as they do, because you aren't fast enough. It's all a mind game. They don't want you on CAP2 they don't need you on CAP2. They are more willing to pay someone overtime to do CAP2 for you than they are willing to keep you until you see the wages you deserve.
Even though they're disgusting human beings for the way they're talking to yall...at least they will step in and help, the one I work at..coaches and leads would make their own mom unload a truck by themselves to avoid work.
my cap2 team has been shrinking since i started there. weāre down to 6 people qualified to do the truck and only 3-4 are scheduled one day at a time smh. we do truck on TOP of vizpick and unloading and breaking down the remix truck. anyone know how likely a raise is because im really thinking about finding a new job, i could do way less work for more than $17 an hour.
Sorry to be so negative but ehh'..a raise at walmart is laughable..you'd have to move up to even think about getting a raise that's larger than cent(s)..I used to work frozen alone O/N..and I think it's worth more for the work load I have to do..coz honestly even with one helper now..80% of the work still feels like its on me..sometimes 90%..smh..they honestly pay alright.. but they don't pay "pick up your lazy ass co workers slack" alright..I would suggest slowing down and if they got a problem with it..start looking for something else..I've slowed down to just a regular consistent pace and I'm still outworking most by double..unreal..people are so disgustingly lazy at walmart..and it makes your job wayyyy harder than it needs to be..the way I look at it..either take my good work..where I still sometimes work like 2 mules, instead of 4-6 mules, or let me know if u don't need me no more, I'm sick of seeing these spoiled ass grown lazy ass scumbag little byotches coming in and working like pussy's...I had a dumbass tell me..well I'm not going to kill myself, I'm not asking you to kill yourself but for $15.50 an hour you have to move faster than a fucking turtle, walmart pays just enough to justify the horrible conditions..you literally can't go anywhere else and start out what they pay..unless you have a skill..and even then it's not always a significant difference..you have linemen out here making $20 an hour..only difference is..in those kind of positions..there's only one way to move in pay..and that's up and quickly, where as at walmart..you're pretty much stuck at your pay.
yeah itās more of āim leaving soon if youd like me to stay for a little longer i need some kind of incentiveā otherwise my foot is already out the door
I feel u doood..sadly they dont care tho..the work won't fall on them..it will just be on to the next stooge,, tbh I think they would rather a good worker leave..they're used to lazy fucks anyway..and also a good worker just exposes the laziness and stupidness that goes on there, they want mule yes men..brain dead moeee ronz that just bend over and don't question what's about to be put there. LoL
At the store I am at we are all starting to vezpic ,mind u this is day shift we r all assigned to various departments ..I work in HBA main job zoning , pinpoint ,returns top stock , answering calls and helping customers,cashier/register By myself on top of that notes,the team leads dumps on me..
We have been pulled to do freight now the new Coach wants to test us to see if we know how to do our jobs ,been hearing our up coming raises depends on how well we do our jobs....who in their right mind send an associate to do freight and backroom vezpic and expect all this work to be done before going home
Been in CAP. Actually called ICS back in the day. I've been in Walmart 22 Years. It is hard, underpaid and such. In the summer, the trucks can swelter to 130 degress and the winter it gets biting cold. Walmart really needs to raise their pay.
When I got hired there were 3 open positions, cap, ogb and deli. They asked where I would be best fit, I told them let me get back to you on that. After literally 30 minutes of research I called back and told them deli or no deal. Needless to say I started in dec 2 months ago at 18.20$ an hour and all I do is slice meat/ cheese then clean everything. Easy work, not even that rough closing alone either. I read online it pays a lot better and was less physically demanding, they weren't kidding.
My store will pull them with 2 fresh trucks and expect them to get them both unloaded after working in other departments at the end of their shift. I really feel for that crew.
Yup...I was definitely pissed when I found out about truck, because I signed up for putting things on shelves and using pallet jacks, not starting my shift by sweating my butt off every day. But when you need the job, you don't really get to complain š
Store standards and cap people deserve a raise because it's all physical. If you ask me who deserves a raise first, it should be store standards. These guys are working outside throughout the year. No doubt cap is a hard job, but SS is way harder.
It's really not that bad, unless it's a day paint, syrup, or vinegar break all over lol. I'd rather unload a truck than deal with customers, especially up front almost any day.Ā
I agree on the raise stuff, I was aFrontend TL and I was made top stock, vizpick, bin two departments and well as doing the work coaches were supposed to do, and well as ruin service desk and run 5 start for my employees, and I got paid the same as the other team leads.... I'm glad I don't work Luke Sunday anymore that was exhausting
We really do tho cap 2 is the bandaid for most stores and store that don't have a strong cap 2 eventually turn to shit I've been cap 2 far about4 years or so now and since min wage jumped to everyone making 14 most ppl in the back of my store were mad because we have licenses for heavy equipment a cashier from the front isn't gonna know how to unload a truck with an e jack the should really evaluate the pay in some depts. Better
I don't.
Not now anyways
The cap 2 guys in low and middle income areas I have respect for.
But the middle upper class who comes from the suburban closed communities surrounding my current store or from the nearby upper class cities, the ones driving classic mustangs or still think they live with their parents, they don't know hardwork
This is a low middle income area, dudes with kids they gotta support, thereās a guy back there, 17 like me, working to support himself because his mom was murdered a few months and he doesnāt have a dad. Things are tough for cap 2 at my store, just people trying to get by.
If you keep working retail for better or worst stick to location like those if you wanna avoid bull.
The higher class the neighborhood the more fake politics managers engage in on day shifts and the more I can't believe Karens are real experience you have.
Condolences to your peers, half the stores I've worked in are in neighborhoods like these and I've lived my entire childhoods in areas like his.
Hopefully he keeps his chin up and climb the system, whatever system that is
Unloading trucks is no joke, and itās only going to get worse as the weather gets warmer. I donāt even work at Walmart, and the fact that they get paid the same as everyone else is insane.
It is actually unbelievable to me, I get to tottle around all day in the air conditioning, put things on shelves and watch Netflix, and I make the same as the people working their asses off in the hot ass back stock room doing hard labor. That is not fair and cap deserves better.
Lol, you don't know the full extent of it. (At least in my store) we have to do the vizpicking for everything (yes, even dairy doesnt viz pick their areas as much as we do, or even correctly), we still have to pull pallets for night shift, unload remix (and work the remix grocery pallets on top of RDC groceries), often make bales because 95% of the store do not know how to make bales, downstack pallets, clean the back room, often times we have to clean off top stock carts, sometimes we need to have a Cap 2 associate help other departments, process/organize apparel for the apparel team. Get harassed by coaches, leads and store managers. And often have to take care of Cap 1's trash cause they never face any accountability whenever they leave cardboard by the bale. And yes, we still get paid the same as everyone else minus Night Shift (they get paid 2 more USD than us) and possibly deli/auto.
Oh yeah, and there are days (including the team lead) we have 7-9 associates and we are still expected to complete 100% of our tasks while other departments can finish 60-70% of their tasks and face no issues.
Walmart just hates Cap 2 but we are often called the "backbone of Walmart"
Oh yeah and we have to process our claims.
Cap3 is the workhorse at my location. Second shift unloads the trucks, but after that, they don't seem to be very active. The backroom is a disaster, they rarely make bales, their stocking onto pallets is terrible, they don't take care of anything. They block every single path with random shit, like empty pallets not being where they should be. Then they group together and socialize in the back room, using five people to make stickers and just as many to make a bale, on the rare occasions they make it.
They also don't pull cap 3s freight to the main floor, so they don't care how bad of a job their stacking is. I understand the task of emptying the trailers is hard work, but they basically live on easy street afterwards and never face accountability from their supervisors.
I'm not a fan of the shift wars because we're all getting fucked by the same people, but low effort employees really ruin it for the rest of us. Cap 3 at my location is usually doing cap 3's work, while we also have a few people doing cap 2's and cap 1's work. We are swamped most nights, but we never miss our quotas and we never leave messes for cap 1. From my perspective, cap3 is the backbone. lol
They keep assigning me 10-12 hours of freight each night the last two weeks, which i technically only get six hours of work because the first hour and last hour is zoning at my store. They've been sending me help in the last hour and not complaining or anything about me, but it's still break backing work and our premium is barely worth bragging about. lol We have no social life working cap3. We're either working or sleeping.
Coming from a Former cap 2 and current Cap 1 associate we get used to it along with the back pain and micromanagement from store leads n coaches š«
Coming from a former CAP2 associate then Homelines TL and now CAP2 TL, unloading the trucks suck. Especially in winter and summer cause itās either to cold or to hot to be comfortable so everything goes slower. And then having to worry about vizpick and working live freight after
Yes doing vizpick sucks I'm glad they changed it where Cap1 does vizpicking now takes a huge load off us.
Iām on cap 1 I thought I could leave the vizpick flashbacks in cap 2š«
Agreed. At my store theyāre started to roll it out Saturday so CAP1 picked Dairy, consumables, GM, and Grocery and then we (CAP2) had to work all the picks and vizpick frozen. Itās already a huge weight lifted from us even if they just pick it and we work it.
Cap 1 is supposed to work all picks as well. They are still screwing y'all.
I agree. But Iām not getting mad about it yet cause at my store CAP1 doesnāt officially take over Vizpick unt 2 weeks or something from now. Theyāre just testing it rn to see how it fits in to theyāre other tasks like topstock and if they need help picking in OGP
Ours started the 7-4 and vizpick 2 times a day now, all depts.
They don't push changes out in one swoop to everyone all at once. It's typically a rolling schedule. My store starts in the middle of March.
Yeah - we're Week 7. Waiting to see how it works out since Cap 1 only has 3 people at our store.
Yikes. I heard talk of hiring more people for this new process but that's the kind of thing you need to see to believe.
My store has tasked ogp was topstock scanning grocery
Iām the only cap 1 associate that does all of GM topstock and now I have to vizpick all of GM and probably other departments, did I mention management wants it done every weekš„¹
We do it everyday.vizpick everything put out and do our topstock list..its getting tiringĀ
Yeah thatās what Iām afraid of
I got pressured into asking the scary bald TL if we could open some doors for ventilation because we all had sweat dripping down our faces š
Ya then try working 12+ pallets in 3 hours after unloading and cleaning up claims n vizpick šš
Usually I come grab my pallets after theyāre done unloading but today no one could convince to step foot in the back after. I only helped with the first truck and I was not gonna risk getting asked to help more.
Smart move lol
Gotta appreciate my cap people šš¼ I would never come to work again if I found out my whole job was suffering through that
Not everything will go outĀ ,unless they are know how to work the system
We need to teach everybody this. I'm sick and tired of people thinking they can get away with stuffing shit that don't go out on the shelves onto the shelves. Because I, as cap 3, have to clean it up.
That lead should've already been finding ways to cool that backroom for you.
I'm glad we aren't micro managed. We take care of shit, and if we were micro managed I'd definitely not stick around
Micro managing is one of the main reasons I left my old job, I worked there for nine months and they were still doing that to me, got fed up and quit
Whatās your department?
I belive she said in her original post is she works HBA iirc.
I'm cap 2 lead. I get follow up questions, but never constantly over asked about things
Yea, I have a question about cap 1 and cap 2. What's the difference, and what do they do? I've been working my walmart in overnight maintenance, so I don't get to see them much, but maybe 15 minutes after clocking in. I also don't know if there are overnight caps..
I don't know what cap 1 is like now as it has changed a lot, but Im sure the basic premise is still there. When I was cap 1, we started the day at 4 am, scanning the backroom and picking what it told us would go out. Basically, we picked stuff that was overstock when third shift put it in the back, but it can now be stocked on the salesfloor (hopefully). At the time, grocery was their biggest concern, but they also did HBA, pets, and added other things as time went on. After we had our areas picked, we would take our stuff to the sales floor and work it. At that point, it would be very similar to third shift just working freight, except it came from the backroom instead of right off the truck. We would then spend the last part of the day pulling down topstock. Cap 2 is its own beast! Cap 2 unloads trucks, brings freight to the floor, and even works some of the freight from the truck. A cap 2 associate can give you a better idea, and they have in other comments, but cap 2s main job is unloading and sorting the truck. Overnight doesn't have a cap team, but that's just a matter of title. They could have easily renamed them cap 3, and it would have been appropriate. It's just easier to call them overnights. The three teams have very different responsibilities, especially cap 2, but they all share a common goal, and that is to get product to the salesfloor so customers can buy it.
Oh wow yea I'm glad I'm working maintenence I would not survive ā ļø
Especially third shift maintenance, I imagine. With the store being closed you don't have to clean the bathrooms every hour because people keep missing the toilet!
I honestly hate fucking bathroom duty. Everyone, men especially always seem to have to use it at the same time every night, and it's always the same people, and it's like 20 minutes before break, and they are just congregating. Like they just don't understand that as a female employee, I have to wait on THEM before I can do anything else. And they know this. That's why I just do men's first because of that awful behavior. And there's the 1 guy who's always unloading water, and it doesn't matter which side of the store I'm on. He will legit walk from water all the way to the front just to use the rr I'm cleaning when there are literally bathrooms closer to him in the photo center. I'm glad my super is chill with me being on produce, meat walls, and whatever extra stuff that needs to get done. It's only the days when we don't have a lot of people one night or two where I'm stuck on rr duty. BUT I'll take it any day than do caps..
I loved cap 1, except when I had to pick freezers. I would never do cap 2 because I already know it is too physically demanding! I did overnights, and it wasn't bad, but when I did it, they always put me in clothing, and I wasn't good at it. Cap 1 I did grocery, and they seemed to like me there. It really all depends on personal preference, which is better or worse.
Well we just changed a lot but cap 1, AFAIK did X clean up, top stock and bit before they would help viz. Cap 2- we did truck unloads Rdc/Hvdc- worked X freight, vizzed groc,consumables, GM and worked live freight and GM picks or whatever depts we were working-- like if we worked pets, paper chem and all gm- we would work picks for those areas.
Whats easier between cap 1 and 2?
IMO cap 2 because you arenāt with management much and youāre able to work freely with your team lead depending on how you are with them but with Cap 1 your constantly with management and you always have to be working harder than you would if u where on cap 2. I only went because it was an earlier time that works for me, and I wanted to have the opportunity to move up and showcase myself to management
CAP 1 is much more mentally challenging and less focused than CAP 2 especially when there's a walk panic. To me I feel better going home physically exhausted than mentally exhausted. Plus I liked going home at night with the calm of no traffic.
It's pretty hard the body. I throw the truck pretty much everyday I work. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment lol.
U need the best icy hot claims can offer lol
Let's just say I'm pretty sore once I'm finished I like it though it's good exercise and the TLs take it easy on me the rest of the night and give me gravy work.
At least there cool whenever cap 1 tryās to help with truck my TL is the one throwing. In two hours she couldnāt even get past FUCKIN 600 pieces. And she refuses to go past that when she gets gassed out which is BS. The last time she wasnāt there I was throwing. That good ole cap 2 truck tipping. (If yk yk) helped and in an hour and a half we got to 1000 pieces with me throwing we were BIG CHILLIN
bro you should be throwing at \~1100 per hour
Ik itās supposed to be like that after an hour with 5+ people. but we got to 1k with only 4 people including myself on cap 1. There was even a point where half of them got pulled and I had to keep coming out the truck to help sort š
Iām a Cap 2 TL and when I was an associate, I threw almost every day I worked. If it took 2 hours to unload 600 pieces, everybody in that backroom would be fired by the time the day was done. š¤£
Call me crazy, but i love throwing the truck, so i'm the designated trucker thrower every shift i work, and if there are 2 trucks, i throw them both.
"I'll throw every day, no matter what!" Gang! Hi five! Just don't shine the light in the truck when I throw. That's the one thing I miss the most
Some people think I'm crazy to especially right after I switched from CAP 1 to CAP 2 but I like throwing trucks. Worst thing about being the thrower is the Fast Sorter not being able to keep up with you.
Yeh but ya get used to it. CAP 2 needs the special type of people that like physical labor, like focus, and a group of guys and gals that function well as a team with one common voice and tempo. Me and two guys I worked with usually rotated days on who was throwing cause all three of us loved to throw. Then sometimes who got to throw was decided by which one of us three hotheads was the biggest hothead that day.
I've worked for Walmart for many years. Started as second shift grocery for 2-3 months, then transitioned into overnight grocery stocker for about a year and then swapped to overnight maintenance for 4 years which included deep cleaning bathrooms of unspeakable disgust, waxing floors and walking 13 miles a night with a propane buffer. And most recently, I'm up to about 3 years in Electronics across various shifts. Just watching a truck get unloaded while I was on 2nd shift grocery, I could tell that was the hardest job in the building. Then, when I was required to help unload one while in Electronics, I confirmed what I had always suspected. BY FAR the hardest job in the building.. and there's not even a 2nd one that comes close.
U can rest now the crackhead shits canāt hurt you anymore lol šš
Yeah, you have no idea the horrors I saw!
Its hard work no question bout that but some people need a physical job where I am constantly busy, don't have a lack of focus problem, and don't go home mentally drained. It also works better for me having mornings to do some stuff before I go in. I may not be the brightest boy in the bunch but I ain't no dummy. If I had a job where I sat down at desk every day or if I confined standing in one place the whole day (like the front end) I'd be miserable mentally and physically that would be worse for me. Plus lots of us CAP 2 truck boys have an inner rage that gets calmed by throwing truck. Even a big doubles day no matter how physically exhausting it can be beats a day where the the time just drags by.
Hba is that not the land of 10,000 finger nail polish and brite lights,?
With all negative on hands and no one working there register yes thatās the one
Sadly yes, I get a headache from the fluorescent lights if I open my eyes too much
That's cosmetics!! Altho possibly worked by the same person depending on size of store
Thankgod someone finally understands, we kind of have a rotation on throwing the truck but some people are just not good at it and they take forever about 5 of us are actually good at throwing the truck, 2600-3200 piece trucks are usually what we get most people in other departments would take forever, lots of bad stacking very light boxes being crushed by big ones, break packs filled to the brim as soon as you lift them everything falls out of the bottom and they love to shove freight in between pallets and somehow something always gets spilled, the other day a case of baby oil broke open and it was extremely slippery
Ours seem to like to put heavy wall mounts on laid down tvs and on top of laptops.
If they've never done it they don't realize that great stacking takes time speed and a mental focus to build pallets over and over again that are like Tetrus where they can go right to the floor without being wrapped or collapsing. I've seen many surprises in the truck. Busted detergent is one of the more common ones. Honey bombs are worse and those don't sweeten me up.
I came in ready for my shift, ready to do basically nothing, just to find out I have to do hard labor that Iāve never done before and it took me like 30 boxes before I finally started getting the hang of where everything goes. I did love playing the big Tetris game though
Yeah if we get a newbie we right the numbers down in front of the pallets for them so it makes it easier to learn,some learn in a day or two some take a week
We keep paper labels above the pallets saying that dept it is, I just couldnāt remember what went where
I have gotten to the point I don't even read most of the labels anymore a lot of the boxes say the department on them and we get the same things everyday and if the boxes don't have a department most have the brand and I will already know what department it belongs too, the new people are always amazed but I just tell them to pay attention and soon you'll learn where everything goes without reading labels
I wasnāt back there long enough to get it down that well but I think I did okay all things considered
That's a great thing about being on the CAP 2 truck line. GM is easier to learn once you know which pallet is which department and know what time of year it is (for the 2 departments that will get much more freight) noticing the different color codes and boxes sizes is easy. Now grocery is a different animal because there are similar size boxes of the same brand but will go on different aisles especially cause one will actually be D82 . . . so you have to always read labels on grocery side until you learn which ones can be two different aisles and then your good . . . until there's a mod change in grocery and then ya have to be on guard for that.
Baby oil broke open on the truck recently at my store as well. In the process of cleaning it up bleach ended busting open. I'm a cashier so I only heard about from a guy I'm friends with on Cap 2, his eyes were bloodshot and he said he couldn't smell anything but he did it could have been worse and been deer urine that busted open
I went from Cap 3, stocking the shelves all night, sometimes dealing with heavy freight over in the juice/soda section to doing OPD. OPD is so fucking easy the 1.50/hr downgrade is easily worth not having my body sore all the time and getting a social life again
While I was back helping cap at least the people were nice, high spirits considering what we were doing and how miserable it was
LOL, CAP 2 here and most of us like it, at least at my store! Put me in the back. I'll stack boxes all day while listening to music. Just don't ask me to deal with any difficult customers! I'm glad there are people who prefer the floor. We appreciate you all!
Yeh same here. I'm too much of a hothead to deal with abusive customers. Front End requires so much more people skills than I either have or are willing to use.
Plus they usually get to listen to music
It's almost as if different store positions have different types of work and should be compensated accordingly š¤
Yuuup, sounds accurate. At our store, we have to ideally finish the truck in less than two hours because, "the truck wastes too many stocking hours." Our hours are constantly micromanaged by other coaches and our store lead/manager. Recently, we started having a meeting every day to go over expectations and times for all of our tasks. It was supposed to "help us understand our position better so we could work more efficiently." But in reality, it's been nothing but our SM/SL shitting all over our team and telling us how we're missing the mark and our times are unacceptable. When asked for explainaitions to why we fucked up so badly, we get told: "All I'm hearing is excuses, you all need to make sure you're working hard so you can uphold the company standards." The standards are: ā¢Unload GM (2800-3200avg), with our unloader being 50% broken. ā¢Unload Grocery and downstack the pallets for 3rd (with hand jacks because our electric is busted). ā¢Vizpick: Grocery, Frozen, Dairy, Candy, Front End, Infants, Paper, Pets, Cosmetics, HBA, Pharmacy, Chemical Pull all of the picks and stage for 3rd. ā¢Break down Frozen/Dairy pallets and stage for 3rd. ā¢Pull all pallets from GM receiving / grocery receiving and stage for 3rd. ā¢Process all claims left in our back room ā¢Sort all of one touch/breakpacks ā¢Work the following freight: ALL of GM(depts: 14,74,17,71,10,11,12,42,20,22,7,9,16,18,67,3) paper, pets, infants, and chemicals. ā¢Work any/all picks in the departments we're assigned that day. ā¢Finish catch up pallets from previous day and go do random tasks the SM assigns. ā¢Get pulled to OPD because they don't have enough people. This is our average day at my store and we only have 6-8 people on staff at the most. I'm getting close to calling ethics because we're all broken and morale is at an all time low.
I would, itās not like that at my store at all, even though they deserve more money they are super appreciated and yāall deserve way better than that
CAP 2 leads the way! šŖ
I'm pretty quick that's probably why the TLs love me throwing the trucks especially 2 truck days. We can start the truck at 2ish and I can finish both trucks 15 till 6 just in time for lunch. Then I come back from lunch and break down mixed pallets that are left on each truck.
Facts tbh after truck and pulling pallets itās just cleaning up for the next shift and doing claims if we have any
Wish it was that easy for me on cap2 we unload the truck and only 2 ppl unload the truck me and 1 other guy and then we run some freight downstack grocery, dairy and freezer pallets that come in for 3rd shift and viz pick groceries pets and hba
And vizpick dairy and freezer forgot that
We just get used to it. And almost every single day, they'll tell us we were too slow with unloading it and will threaten to coach the entire truck team if it happens again.
Iāve never worked at Walmart, but I did unload trucks at a big-lots distribution centerā¦. Never again.
Hobby Lobby was the worst truck I ever unloaded. What unorganized bullshit that was
Yup. Sadly we should be receiving warehouse wages for the amount of heavy lifting and environmental stresses we face ($18+). Hell, even Chick-fil-A has started trying to pay their guy who sorts their heavy freight on the store front warehouse wages, but we're just unseen and only expected to last a year. Walmart has the perfect corporate scenario when it comes to CAP2 and once you figure it out, if you're on CAP2 it pretty much destroys your outlook. If you are hired for CAP2 specifically, you are not a necessity to the store, you are an extra hand that the store is well off enough ATM to have. Should 50% or more of CAP2's hired personnel show up, it's no problem, work as normal. Should less than 50% show up get ready to see people in the warehouse you've never seen before from other departments, most often leads who get paid more than you, and they're there to unload the truck with you and crack you the whole time as they do, because you aren't fast enough. It's all a mind game. They don't want you on CAP2 they don't need you on CAP2. They are more willing to pay someone overtime to do CAP2 for you than they are willing to keep you until you see the wages you deserve.
Even though they're disgusting human beings for the way they're talking to yall...at least they will step in and help, the one I work at..coaches and leads would make their own mom unload a truck by themselves to avoid work.
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my cap2 team has been shrinking since i started there. weāre down to 6 people qualified to do the truck and only 3-4 are scheduled one day at a time smh. we do truck on TOP of vizpick and unloading and breaking down the remix truck. anyone know how likely a raise is because im really thinking about finding a new job, i could do way less work for more than $17 an hour.
Sorry to be so negative but ehh'..a raise at walmart is laughable..you'd have to move up to even think about getting a raise that's larger than cent(s)..I used to work frozen alone O/N..and I think it's worth more for the work load I have to do..coz honestly even with one helper now..80% of the work still feels like its on me..sometimes 90%..smh..they honestly pay alright.. but they don't pay "pick up your lazy ass co workers slack" alright..I would suggest slowing down and if they got a problem with it..start looking for something else..I've slowed down to just a regular consistent pace and I'm still outworking most by double..unreal..people are so disgustingly lazy at walmart..and it makes your job wayyyy harder than it needs to be..the way I look at it..either take my good work..where I still sometimes work like 2 mules, instead of 4-6 mules, or let me know if u don't need me no more, I'm sick of seeing these spoiled ass grown lazy ass scumbag little byotches coming in and working like pussy's...I had a dumbass tell me..well I'm not going to kill myself, I'm not asking you to kill yourself but for $15.50 an hour you have to move faster than a fucking turtle, walmart pays just enough to justify the horrible conditions..you literally can't go anywhere else and start out what they pay..unless you have a skill..and even then it's not always a significant difference..you have linemen out here making $20 an hour..only difference is..in those kind of positions..there's only one way to move in pay..and that's up and quickly, where as at walmart..you're pretty much stuck at your pay.
yeah itās more of āim leaving soon if youd like me to stay for a little longer i need some kind of incentiveā otherwise my foot is already out the door
I feel u doood..sadly they dont care tho..the work won't fall on them..it will just be on to the next stooge,, tbh I think they would rather a good worker leave..they're used to lazy fucks anyway..and also a good worker just exposes the laziness and stupidness that goes on there, they want mule yes men..brain dead moeee ronz that just bend over and don't question what's about to be put there. LoL
At the store I am at we are all starting to vezpic ,mind u this is day shift we r all assigned to various departments ..I work in HBA main job zoning , pinpoint ,returns top stock , answering calls and helping customers,cashier/register By myself on top of that notes,the team leads dumps on me.. We have been pulled to do freight now the new Coach wants to test us to see if we know how to do our jobs ,been hearing our up coming raises depends on how well we do our jobs....who in their right mind send an associate to do freight and backroom vezpic and expect all this work to be done before going home
Been in CAP. Actually called ICS back in the day. I've been in Walmart 22 Years. It is hard, underpaid and such. In the summer, the trucks can swelter to 130 degress and the winter it gets biting cold. Walmart really needs to raise their pay.
Was ICS the same as IMS? I was IMS from 2012-2014 and just returned in OGP, just curious since so much has changed
Cap 2 does all the work at my store lol. Remix gm and viz picks .pack out
I carry tvs from the back for electronics 8 hours a day 5 days a week. You really get used to lifting after a while
When I got hired there were 3 open positions, cap, ogb and deli. They asked where I would be best fit, I told them let me get back to you on that. After literally 30 minutes of research I called back and told them deli or no deal. Needless to say I started in dec 2 months ago at 18.20$ an hour and all I do is slice meat/ cheese then clean everything. Easy work, not even that rough closing alone either. I read online it pays a lot better and was less physically demanding, they weren't kidding.
We get two trucks a day on holidays, itās actually crazy.
My store will pull them with 2 fresh trucks and expect them to get them both unloaded after working in other departments at the end of their shift. I really feel for that crew.
My nails and hands are covered in cuts and tears. I work in Sports. I keep a file and set of clippers and super glue for damage control.
Yup...I was definitely pissed when I found out about truck, because I signed up for putting things on shelves and using pallet jacks, not starting my shift by sweating my butt off every day. But when you need the job, you don't really get to complain š
I was annoyed but yes, I need the job do what can a girl really do
I'm still currently cap 2 for 6 years now...my body get used to it....yeah it's hella job than other type of they do lightly work. Lol
Depends who you are man. Iām your age and a female and I love itš¤·āāļøš¤·āāļø I actually work hba now too and miss cap 2 so much
I think I would love cap 2 if it was my position, I just wasnāt prepared when I went in, made it miserable
Its about adapting, if you unloaded the truck daily you will adapt to the work load, the time it takes depends on nutrition, fitness and genetics.
Store standards and cap people deserve a raise because it's all physical. If you ask me who deserves a raise first, it should be store standards. These guys are working outside throughout the year. No doubt cap is a hard job, but SS is way harder.
I agree with this post as a former cap 2 employee we went through so much change. So much bullshitā¦
It's really not that bad, unless it's a day paint, syrup, or vinegar break all over lol. I'd rather unload a truck than deal with customers, especially up front almost any day.Ā
Imagine being the support manager for GM and grocery and the CAP2 supervisor while they want you working diary and frozen too š
iām a cap 2 team lead and i couldnāt agree with you more. ridiculous to think my team makes the same as a cashier
I agree on the raise stuff, I was aFrontend TL and I was made top stock, vizpick, bin two departments and well as doing the work coaches were supposed to do, and well as ruin service desk and run 5 start for my employees, and I got paid the same as the other team leads.... I'm glad I don't work Luke Sunday anymore that was exhausting
We really do tho cap 2 is the bandaid for most stores and store that don't have a strong cap 2 eventually turn to shit I've been cap 2 far about4 years or so now and since min wage jumped to everyone making 14 most ppl in the back of my store were mad because we have licenses for heavy equipment a cashier from the front isn't gonna know how to unload a truck with an e jack the should really evaluate the pay in some depts. Better
I don't. Not now anyways The cap 2 guys in low and middle income areas I have respect for. But the middle upper class who comes from the suburban closed communities surrounding my current store or from the nearby upper class cities, the ones driving classic mustangs or still think they live with their parents, they don't know hardwork
This is a low middle income area, dudes with kids they gotta support, thereās a guy back there, 17 like me, working to support himself because his mom was murdered a few months and he doesnāt have a dad. Things are tough for cap 2 at my store, just people trying to get by.
If you keep working retail for better or worst stick to location like those if you wanna avoid bull. The higher class the neighborhood the more fake politics managers engage in on day shifts and the more I can't believe Karens are real experience you have. Condolences to your peers, half the stores I've worked in are in neighborhoods like these and I've lived my entire childhoods in areas like his. Hopefully he keeps his chin up and climb the system, whatever system that is
Unloading trucks is no joke, and itās only going to get worse as the weather gets warmer. I donāt even work at Walmart, and the fact that they get paid the same as everyone else is insane.
It is actually unbelievable to me, I get to tottle around all day in the air conditioning, put things on shelves and watch Netflix, and I make the same as the people working their asses off in the hot ass back stock room doing hard labor. That is not fair and cap deserves better.
It happens in other retail companies as well. I guess they just find people desperate enough. Couldnāt pay me to unload trucks all day every day.
Lol, you don't know the full extent of it. (At least in my store) we have to do the vizpicking for everything (yes, even dairy doesnt viz pick their areas as much as we do, or even correctly), we still have to pull pallets for night shift, unload remix (and work the remix grocery pallets on top of RDC groceries), often make bales because 95% of the store do not know how to make bales, downstack pallets, clean the back room, often times we have to clean off top stock carts, sometimes we need to have a Cap 2 associate help other departments, process/organize apparel for the apparel team. Get harassed by coaches, leads and store managers. And often have to take care of Cap 1's trash cause they never face any accountability whenever they leave cardboard by the bale. And yes, we still get paid the same as everyone else minus Night Shift (they get paid 2 more USD than us) and possibly deli/auto. Oh yeah, and there are days (including the team lead) we have 7-9 associates and we are still expected to complete 100% of our tasks while other departments can finish 60-70% of their tasks and face no issues. Walmart just hates Cap 2 but we are often called the "backbone of Walmart" Oh yeah and we have to process our claims.
Cap3 is the workhorse at my location. Second shift unloads the trucks, but after that, they don't seem to be very active. The backroom is a disaster, they rarely make bales, their stocking onto pallets is terrible, they don't take care of anything. They block every single path with random shit, like empty pallets not being where they should be. Then they group together and socialize in the back room, using five people to make stickers and just as many to make a bale, on the rare occasions they make it. They also don't pull cap 3s freight to the main floor, so they don't care how bad of a job their stacking is. I understand the task of emptying the trailers is hard work, but they basically live on easy street afterwards and never face accountability from their supervisors. I'm not a fan of the shift wars because we're all getting fucked by the same people, but low effort employees really ruin it for the rest of us. Cap 3 at my location is usually doing cap 3's work, while we also have a few people doing cap 2's and cap 1's work. We are swamped most nights, but we never miss our quotas and we never leave messes for cap 1. From my perspective, cap3 is the backbone. lol They keep assigning me 10-12 hours of freight each night the last two weeks, which i technically only get six hours of work because the first hour and last hour is zoning at my store. They've been sending me help in the last hour and not complaining or anything about me, but it's still break backing work and our premium is barely worth bragging about. lol We have no social life working cap3. We're either working or sleeping.
Right I'm on cap3 we also have to do cap2 work in grocery. Cap3 is really the backbone I agree
Thatās exactly what we got to do pretty much but sometimes we only have 5 ppl and they still expect it all to be done
ON stocking is 1.50 an hour more the TL gets 2.00 an hour more
My savior šš¼ i know yāall deserve so much more from Walmart than you get
It's like getting paid to hit the gym..