Tales from Retail: Best and Worst Walmart Departments to Work
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- čas přidán 4. 11. 2019
- I discuss all of the different departments I had to work in at Walmart and which were the best and worst!
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Electronics had to be the easiest department considering everytime I go into Walmart there's nobody in that department
There's nobody there because they sent them all to other departments XD
@@FANTAVISION I checked out at electronics thinking that they'd have the mag lock key for the razors my wife wanted, they didn't.
They had to run back to the pickup desk if I'd have known that if have just gone and checked out there.
Electronics was a nightmare for my 1 day I was over there. Worst day I ever had at walmart
they probably send them to other departments on a whim, ego tripping managers seeing you having too much of a regular good night, NO! you dont look miserable enough! To register!
@@horseblinderson4747 that does happen...for some really stupid reason tey keep that thing allll the way up front and any time somebody needs to unlock an item its the same shit, especially at the superstores this is annoying even for employees because it makes no sense whatsoever as to why that problem and problems like it are never attended to.
Hands down the worst position at Walmart now is the new door greeter. You have to constantly flag people down to check their receipt. A handful of people are nice and understanding but most are just mean about it.
Whenever they call me to host I never check their receipt I just chill at the podium
They should be
1.50 more than everyone else to sit poor things
i was a cart pusher but they put me as apch yeah it blows lol i don’t even bother checking anymore just for tvs and big stuff so they won’t tell me nun and if they don’t wanna show me anything idc i ain’t about to go running after them
@@bgx3232 Thank you. I stand in a long check-out line...pay for my stuff...all to be treated like a shoplifter as I leave.
I swear when you have someone to work with and talk to when there's nothing to do, it makes the day drag less.
Cashier is just very stressful. I quit and got a txt from HR and got hired back at the garden center, hope it works out.
How is it?
TO WALMART MANAGEMENT: why is hard work only noticed when it's NOT being done ?
hi, you agree?
Fr I am a cart pusher and they only realize your work when your not there
@@thatguyjy7704 can you be 16 and work as cart pusher?? And also how much do you make
@@moneygamer4308 11
@@moneygamer4308 Over here you make $13 an hour as cart pusher. I’m overnights so I make $16 but yes I’m pretty sure you can get hired at 16
I worked as a Customer Host (door greeter) and literally stood there and did absolutely nothing for 8 hours
Door greeter is 🤾🏾♀️🗑
I worked there when I first started out, Then I moved to dairy/ Frozen foods. And Wow are they so Diffrent, one you stand, the other is actual hard work.
ik this is a year later but would you recommend that position?
@@edsnluv it's a LONG 8 hours, boredom really gets to you. I guess it's better than unloading trucks or labor though
@@MrDylanPatrick thank you
I just got hired for janitor position. Went from 7.25$ at wendy's to 12.00$ and im beyond happy it's crazy.
Congrats
What are your duties?... How do you know what areas to focus on besides bathroom.. Were you trained?
I just got hired in electronics went from 7.5 at Texas Roadhouse to $14 I’m literally acstatic
*$7.25 an hour? When in 1962? Minimum wage has been $11 to $13 for a decade.*
@@Littlesaintfortnite In kentucky its 7.25$ min wage. Sadly
I just quit my job at walmart as a pets department manager. I was constantly pulled and then management got mad i wasn’t getting my stuff done. I had to constantly fight with management and now that ive turned in my notice that runs out in 3 days, no one wants the job because how miserable I was. The icing on the cake was they would tell me to help other department managers but no one was ever sent to help me
CAP1 didn’t help ya pets area?? Tht muss suck cause at my store we help Cosmetics/ HBA/ Pets/ Infants, Stationary we even went to Dairy, Frozen, and Produce and still had to rush to do our own job stocking
This is what I’m going through but not at Walmart. I ran a stage where no one wants. It’s hard work. I was moved but the guy who was put in my position quit about 9 months in. Now they want someone there and I said I don’t. I did way more than the guy that just left and another new guy don’t want it but he acts like a big shot and I tell him go there bro you got shit but he’s just bluffing. They’ve been putting me in there and I’m not in good terms with the team lead and mostly everyone there so I’m thinking of going to Walmart but there’s just too many bad reviews of working there. I was offered cap 2 but I hate 2-11. What do you think? I’m sure the work won’t be as hard as what I do now.
My best experiences at Wal-Mart were when I got into a role where I was hidden away in an office in the front or back of the store, away from customers. Worlds better.
what department is this!??????????
@@willXR sounds like personal or ap lol
what department is this bro?
Ogp if you see a position open take it immediately
OPD, so basically online order fulfillment@@willXR
I used to work as a cashier at Walmart and it was awful. We were stuck on the registers because the CSM’s wouldn’t give us our breaks on time and then a rush of customers came. When there were no customers, we weren’t allowed to at least speak to the cashiers at the registers next to us. The customers always complained about stuff that we had no control over. Whenever I would tell them their total, they would question me about the price of everything they picked up and give me dirty looks as if I did something wrong. They always picked up items from the wrong spots and wanted to use the cheaper price for their item that costed way more. Or they would find the one item in the entire store that had no price tag or barcode, so we would have to wait for a CSM to do a price check, which always made my line super long! I was often questioned about how come I didn’t know the price as if I was trained to memorize every single item in the store. Most of the customers are rude AND incompetent, but would try to belittle me. So true about all of the noise being in the front! There was just so much noise and chaos in the front of the store. It was really stressful being there. And don’t get me started on the scammers and constant stealing!!! 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Omg same!!! I been working only 4 fucking days and I hate it so much!! Rude costumers are the worst, Wic transactions, Walmart gift cards and people paying with change after I already did the total transactions like what do you want me to do...uhhh but at least the CSM are some kind of nice and have compassion but sometimes I hit action code for change and nobody comes!! I’m gonna try to change to another position... I see some employees having fun at the back and at other sections but been a cashier is so soul eating job.
@@lasuperchilindrina8736 felt this until they got rid of the csm system at my walmart so now we only have the overhead managers😂
@@sasha3116 shit sucks without the Csms cause some nights we got nobody
@@thisawsomeguy123 that part! And now the managers cant even get breaks and shit, and there’s added pressure on the cashiers and self checkout hosts. Yeah im in the process of trying to switch departments but they’re trying to stop me from switching😒
The front end can absolutely be chaotic. I'm a front end team lead for Walmart and I see the pressure my associates are under each day.....which puts the challenge on ME to make sure my associates are taken care of, and get their breaks on time. If THEY aren't happy, I can't expect them to give their all to take care of our customers. It's a challenge, but even amidst the chaos and all.....I love my job and love my associates
I work in cap 2 as a stocker and its not so bad other than the fact the only thing they play on the radio is Taylor swift and wearing headphones is apparently a war crime
broo hahah i’ve been working cap 2 or stocking TA now and they literally get on to anyone who has an earbud in it’s so dumb. I’m switching to pharmacy dept since i have my license now.
@ALIF KHAN do you still need help with it?
Everyone at my store does anyway so I started doing it as a personal shopper. We’ve been told not to but I’m not stopping until the stockers stop 🤷🏻♂️ maybe my store is just super laid back
@@tylercoleman2995 my store used to be the same way
@ALIF KHAN After about 6 months you can request to transfer from one department to another. You can also transfer locations after 6 months apparently
I loved unloading trucks. It was such hard work, but it was like a big party too. Music, joking around, etc.
For the unloading is that all you would be doing?
@@JoshuaTheEnlightened No. It used to last 4 hours. They got a larger crew and made it 2 hours. After that, we were pretty much stocking the shelves the rest of the day...the not as fun part. I liked it better when we unloaded for 4 hours. It's called Cap 2 team, 2-11pm usually.
So....pretty much a stock person who unloads a truck from 2-4.
@@000000Kimo Well I know what I'm applying for, unloading sounds awesome.
@@Victor-qe3zg we used to get to unload for 4 hours. Later they got a bigger crew so we could do it in 2 hours then stock shelves for 6 hours. I liked the 4 hrs better. 😕
@Chris do they drug test new hires ? i’m applying for stocking and unloading so I was wondering.
Can confirm us Deli Clerks were blessed until closing time or during football season. I felt so bad for everyone during black friday, we had to stay in the deli just in case people wanted hot food.
For anyone considering being a door greeter/host DONT DO IT unless you like getting cussed at accused of being racist for checking receipts or blamed for shit that isn’t in your control oh and standing there for HOURS at a time
I worked as an overnight maintenance associate for 10 years until they decided that is was cheaper to hire an outside company for half the pay. They loved using my department as not only the clean up crew but the back up crew. In 10 years I did every single job title with exception of any sort of management. That company uses people til they brake.
Sounds about right
As the janitor what duties did you do first after you punched in?
sounds like a cashier too, ah the wonders of the miscellaneous part we sign in our work contract
@@MMTwins8 For me, in the summer, I usually go outside to check on the trashcans and deal with them first. Unless my manager is feeling particularly micromanage-y, in which I'm pulled to do the bathrooms first and constantly asked how the bathrooms are. It makes me feel like he sees me as incompetent, even though I'm the only maintenance guy on the floor(Sadly that has become the norm.)
I do those online orders at target and it’s amazing the down time is always there and not dealing with ppl is a plus. Even when there’s a lot of orders it’s still cool to just be walking around
Working in Walmart honestly sounds like a horror game, the customers be creepy ash
I used to volunteer to do clearance and seasonal. In our store no one wanted to do those so I could take all day and not be bothered because they were just happy someone was doing it.
Trust me man I did cashiering for 2 years at Walmart and it lead to 2 suicide attempts and many emotional breakdowns
I've now quit that job and can't find a new one
Damn bro
I am a cashier at a really shitty grocery store, and I can relate man. There’s been days where I come home wanting to kill myself, have had multiple mental and emotional breakdowns, as well as anxiety attacks, cried myself to sleep a couple nights. My last day is next week, after that, I’m NEVER working for a grocery store again, let alone setting foot in that store again.
@@ForgoMem don’t let these jobs get to you like this 🥺❤️ I hope your next job is MUCH BETTER
@@ForgoMemwhat happened that caused u to feel that way?
What made you feel that way? What happened?
That’s exactly what being a cashier at any supermarket, not just Walmart, is like. It’s repetitive and boring and you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t want to go through self-checkout, especially if you’re the only lane that’s open. If customer has a screaming toddler you have deal with that too even though you really don’t want to. It’s a boring sucky job and it’s retail so you don’t even get consistent hours.
Currently sitting outside of Walmart for orientation Fanta please bless me I’ll start working electronics well at least I’ll be getting paid as much as my dollar store manager job -21m
ianthebat we gotta do what we gotta do, just keep on the lookout for something better
Dollar tree Managers pay sucks. I know the assistants managers get paid the same as a Walmart associate.
Run while you can they're nice at first but eventually will beat you to the ground and kick you to the curb.
I worked in dairy for about 6 months. I absolutely hated it. My task was basically refilling milks and the juice wall. The milks weren't that bad but can be hectic on Sundays. Juices were a pain because you had to dig through pallets to find a specific juice. That would often leave a mess, and many times what you were looking for wasn't there. Come to find out. The DM did a poor job at sales rates to keep the shelves filled, so you had to fill empty spaces with excess inventory where they didn't belong. Working at Walmart was just a total nightmare. Going into work was the worse and having to deal with condescending managers just made it a deplorable experience.
IM glad you touched on that topic of when the customers swipe their debit cards because those little machines work only about 70 % of the time and they always blame the employee. They seriously act as if they know how to use the cashier better than you only because they shop there regularly. Ridiculous.
Oh my gosh, when you started talking about the customers being slow as crap at the registers I lmfao so hard! 🤣👏 I myself have worked as cashier and out on the floor as a cap1 about 3 years, I get it, this video is so relatable! Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I could give you story times about fashion. Like finding an empty vodka bottle in the fitting room lmfao.
fallon wow that sure was a good story.
bombfirst157 you must have a sad home life lol. It ain’t that serious
So someone stole it from grocery and opened it in there to pour into a bottle to smuggle it out or they chugged it in there lol I'm surprised that isn't constantly done.
Reminds me of when you see fresh fried chicken in the hair spray isle because somebody decided they no longer wanted it but didn't want to take it back to the other side of the store so they figure just let it rot lmao
cronicjointpain we don’t sell liquor in grocery stores in Canada. Someone brought it there haha
@@fallonschannel Oh lol even funnier then but also sad cause they're probably an alcoholic
I work in stationary/celebration/fabrics and yeah it's a complete mess. Takes super long to zone since there is so many little items everywhere. Also doesn't help if I'm pretty much the only one or if I also needed to cover hardware/sporting goods/toys.
Worked as a head cashier and cashier at Lowe's. My favorite department to work was probably Hardware because there was always something to do.
That is one thing I did enjoy about working at Target back in 2013 in terms of accomplishment. I was assigned to the A and B sections the most because they trusted me to get those areas done zoneing wise before closing, since I was able to most nights, with some exceptions. With that, along with stocking items that they put in those line carts in the back, I really did get a sense of accomplishment and is what made me leave my shift feeling Content. Plus the team and managers they had at the time really did feel like family, and that is what made those two years the most cherished in retail for me. Like, I was always willing to go above and beyond for my Team Leads because I respected them, and I know they respected me. I never got that feeling working anywhere else. And even when I tried working at a different Target for a few months, it didn't feel the same.
Wholesome
I've worked in basically every department in walmart it's always great to learn new things and it's easy to move up in position I went from unloader to team lead assistant manager in just a little over a year I find that it's a pretty good job if your willing to go 100% and try everything.
what are you doing now
I work in fabrics/crafts/celebration, seasonal, stationary, sporting goods for fishing licenses, and paint. I zone hardware too. Love my job! I keep it neat and tidy! Always busy!
I start in Hardlines next week. I only have to do it for 15 months before I retire (of course I didn't tell then that). Think I can make for 15 months?
@@LynyrdSkynyrdFan like all jobs, a positive attitude makes it more enjoyable. You may even decide to stay part time after retirement! I believe you can do it for sure! My customers show much appreciation for the time I take with them and comment on the orderliness of the depts I work in. The elderly are used to being ignored and we older associates seem to have a higher standard of customer service. I also love encouraging my fellow associates, since sadly management seems to fail in this area. I encourage you to be a bright spot in someone's days! It will make your day fly by and put pep in your step! The job is not difficult and can be a lot of fun! I pray the Lord bless all you put your hand to!
@@FranBH4 Thank you for the positive words and solid advice. I've only had two jobs in my life (automotive aftermarket) so its going to be different for me. I'm a hard worker and customer service is my specialty. Thanks again and God bless.
I remember the employees being so much happier and helpful in the 90’s when our store wasn’t a Super Center! When it became one it all went to shit! Electronics department was top notch back then. Now you have to hunt someone down if you need something unlocked. Feel bad for them…
Supermarket cashier here.
I’m not sure if it’s like this in other stores but where I work there is some sort of accomplishment. My manager tells me to scan 20 items a minute and my goal get 30 items a minute and ngl I have fun doing it. The cashier that can scan the most items a minute in that week wins a 10$ gift card. Whenever I’m not busy, I help my co-workers bag, organize my station or whatever is a mess. I’ve been working there for nearly five months now and I still love it.
KevSomeone: That's the way to do it. If you set goals and give yourself deadlines, or they do, it makes the time go faster. I couldn't handle cashiering because I have some social anxiety, etc. Way too many people to deal with.
After getting my business administration degree i worked at walmart as Dept Manager for 12 years before finally achieving my dream job as a Accountant.. my salary at Walmart as Dept Manager started with $14 an hour and it stopped at $20 an hour, my salary ranged from 32k to 40k a year, it was only once i made 40k from working extra shifts, i now make nearly 80k a year from my Accountant job with a local charity business that receives revenue from donations, fundraising, grants, etc..
Congratulations
Did you had any internships or work experiences to show before you became a Dept Manager?
@@Saimulles while I was in high school and post secondary I worked in several retail stores part time and I was a Supervisor for 2 years at a different grocery store for their produce and dairy departments. I mostly worked during the evenings and weekends while in school. After I graduated I applied for the dept manager position and was hired on the spot. And I also did accounting internship to.
I was in fresh cap when that department was created and I wanted to blow my brains out the whole time. I just started electronics a few days ago and it’s so far much better.
I worked in the Electronics section of another rather infamous 'Mart department store and yea. Working in "Electronics" essentially meant you worked everywhere in the store, but our electronics section was very rarely dead enough to get anything done, so often new PoGs would remain unfinished for days at a time because you and your coworkers got pulled to a busy Layaway, or Front End for hours on end.
The day I switched to the Pricing Team was my first day of calm, as I was no longer tied to any department and could often choose which one(s) I went to to change the signs each day. Finding a Gun/printer combo I could rely on was often the biggest snag since both were 2000 years old, or missing.
I never worked retail but I have a friend who has worked at Wal-Mart the past 20+ years (he started while still in high school). Based on what he's told me:
-Shoes - At the time he was kind of embarrassed to be working in shoes but he looks back on it and says it wasn't bad - the shift flew by as he was super busy the entire time.
-Paint - He didn't mind paint. I think he takes pride in the fact he knows how to mix paint and his managers (including the store manager) don't know how to do it.
-Lawn & Garden - He liked working outside though he would complain about being tired or beaten up from moving heavy bags of mulch, sand, etc. around.
-Outdoors - He currently works this section along with toys. He's an outdoorsy hunter type of dude and he likes working behind the counter giving people fishing and hunting licenses and talking about the subject with others.
-Toys- His favorite part about working toys are getting to talk to good-looking moms.
I don't think he's worked any other departments. And from time to time they make him clean the bathroom when some clown makes a mess and the maintenance guy hasn't yet come in. Poor dude.
Tales from Retail: How Retail changes my retail behaviors
I get upset if I'm with someone and they decide they don't want an item any just lay it down anywhere. No! Put it back up!
@@dunkinnatalie That's what Zoner and Recovery (Customer Experience - Salesfloor) Associates are for, there; it's their job to put things back at where they belong in location! [I *_know_* this because that's what I do in the Paper and Chemicals; Pets; and (occasionally) Infants departments/areas.] *_*However,*_* I *_do_* know on how you feel there and thus sense your frustration when customers don't put things back at where they belong in location!
@@StevenVillman is that a job code at your store or something?
Lawn and garden was by far the best as long as the register wasn't busy imo
Just got hired to do this. I hope its physical
Start on Saturday in lawn and garden!!
Little late here but the garden department will be my first job. Any tips?
I was a cart-pusher and just got rehired again. I love the job. If you can handle the weather. its great
How do you apply for that also I'm 16 trying to get a job
@@awoo_good_boah their website
do they let you have an earbud in while doing the carts?
@@yessur7619 no, not me anyway or the other pushers
@@joshuat20k thanks
My favorite department was the one I was hired to work. Cosmetics. Yeah, it was always trashed. Yeah, it had the highest rate of theft in the store. But my supervisor was absolutely wonderful and I loved the shifts when I worked with her. I dreaded the 2-11 shift because it would die down and she'd be gone and I would be bored out of my mind trying to face my tiny department to perfection but it beat being in health and beauty. I hated the 2-11 shifts because they either dragged on forever or I got dragged to other departments, but weekends shifts went really fast because the teenage girls and middle aged women who think they're too good to be good to Walmart merchandise would either trash the department, steal, or both, and I would be busy from the second my shift started til the second it finished
I used to work at Walmart while I was a senior in highschool and freshman year in college. My position was a TLE. Tire Lube Express department.. Good ole days. Now I am a software developer. Somehow I came across this video out of blue ..
I'd imagine home would be the easiest one. Stock stuff, sweep up broken glass and ceramics, rub your face on all the soft towels and sheets, tell people what is popular
From my local Walmart I have noticed the same associates are in electronics which is a good thing.
I work cashier and self checkout at Walmart. Occasionally I do put stuff back that people leave around and the stuff that people take back and I also occasionally go and do cart crew outside and I’d have to say I like cart crew the most unless it’s hot outside. The one I hate the most is cashier.
just be happy your not checking recipes.
Checking recipes is the worst you always get rude customers.
But there is also a lot of rude customers in customer service but there seems to be rude customers everywhere especially the front end.
Managers move pallet jacks around all day and ideas are thrown out on the regular to make the store look "better" . Some times they ignore whats on the schematic and make it look however they want.
one thing u forgot to mention about photos is seeing the weird ass shit that people want to print out but u cant and some insane photos that will haunt u forever
Positively you get to learn so many thing which could be helpful in your future ventures . Everyday you learn new things . Good 👍🏼
I have a grandma that has an iPhone which surprised me coming from a person who's only used a flip phone for years and finally getting a smartphone. I asked why she chose apple, it was merely for the camera and calling and learning how to text without the aggravation of T9 style texting.
Worst department, seasonal, around a major holiday. Worst part of that, zoning the costume aisle during Halloween. As you straighten things up, you look behind you and see the customers screwing it up faster than you can straighten!
People love to throw shit around especially kids..they dont care
I am not kidding, i would do a year long tour in Iraq before i ever go to wal mart and stock over night grocery.
I dont blame you dude. I didnt work in that department but the dudes i saw working down there were hauling serious ass and the boss always spoke louder than he needed to. Its one of the most degrading jobs at walmart.
At my store cap 2 is responsible for stocking food
you could make your statement without being racist about it lol
@@abraaralsilwadi4222 how is that racist?
@@redstarthunder12 he's trying to find out a way to be offended somehow
as a disabled person, door is so much better physically than cashier. but you constantly are belittled and teased by customers about how easy your job is and how you’re getting paid to do nothing, then you got the people mad at you for checking their reciept, and when youre caught not checking a reciept the supervisor will nag you about it. but being on cashier is so horrible too because people just abuse u all day, its the most stressful part of shopping for customers, so they take it out on you. dont even get me started on the disgusting rotten smelling meat, ive had whole puddles of chicken juice on the register. also, when youre not 18, you cant sell alcohol so you have to get a supervisor to sell it to them and it holds up your line, makes the customer confused and angry… and once youre finally off work, you shut your light off while finishing up with your last customer, and here come a couple more people asking if i can check them out real quick, and even though i was the only register open, i have to tell them no i cannot check them out, im off work. if i were to check them out really quick and make an acception, more people will show up thinking im still open then im out of work 15 minutes late when my body already couldnt physically handle my shift
HBA is my department, alot of zoneing and reshop with makeup but easy days. Plus I like looking at different bath soap 👍
Man, cashiering was my favorite thing to do. Especially the overnight shift. Overnights rarely got busy, so I spent a lot of time cleaning the front end, and I got to gather the shopping carts from the outdoor corrals. Only took me an hour to get them all, but it was the last hour of my shift, and I got to enjoy seeing the sunrise everyday. I liked doung it so much, I asked if it could do it every night. We had a rotation on who did it, and i was the only one who enjoyed it lol.
I currently work meat and produce. Its easy work when everyone comes to work. You cant count on everyone showing up on a day to day basis. They think 2 people can get meat produxe truck done,culled,capped,scan outs,price changes, etc
do a video on how working retail makes u think differently when u actually shop retail. like i use to work at kohl’s so if i’m at a store and i see clothes on the ground from a rack i would probs try to put them back... or is it just me..
just got hired in apparel and they straight up told me at my interview that I'll be working in jewelry and room too lol. I originally applied for the order pickup position but a location closer to my house wanted to hire me in apparel so for commute reasons I chose the one closer to my house.
I loved working in jewelry. By far my favorite position in the store.
Cap 2 gm unloads the unsong hero of the store. If people only knew how there stuff came in the store. Most people are shocked when they see it the first time.
I worked Health and beauty I hated it specialy because we had cosmetics behind doors had to run back and forth just to open the doors. I had to take care of my whole department and having people pull me to other departments I never have enough time to finish my department
VERY QUALITY VIDEO THANK YOU
I was a cashier who worked both front registers as well as seasonal. It was fun to work in seasonal cause I’d get to help with plants and be outside for some of my shift when warm then get to decorate and show ppl xmas merchandise during the winter
Sometimes I’d help with taking care of fish in the pet dept and the only thing I disliked about that is sometimes having to handle those slimy eel like fish....still grosses me out thinking about it
Had a really annoying experience with the Photo peeps at walmart one time while i was volunteering at a wildlife care center. Went in to get some photos printed for an educational poster about the animals we had and the employee wouldnt let us print. His baloney excuse was the pictures were "too nice" and must not have been taken by us even when he saw us take the dang sd card out of the camera that took the pictures in front of him!
The closest I came to working at Wal-Mart was as a bell ringer at Christmas time. Even then I was employed by Salvation Army. Not them.
Honestly electronics saved me from being a mini support manager while being paid $12 an hour lol. Couldn’t stay in any other department because I’d end up being pulled to run half the store://
Haven't seen Eric in awhile, maybe make another TFR episode with him, funny dude.
I worked overnight as a stocker. I've worked at 2 locations. The first location was good. I got along with most of my coworkers and it was okay. I'm quitting this new location because of just how bad it is. Usually you'd think the supercenters are the good ones but they actually suck. They are so bad and so strict. I never want to work at another Walmart again.
Im a dairy and frozen associate at walmart, i love it so much, your never hot while working
me too, but I hate it, do you ever get pulled?
The Wal-Mart I work at it's currently hard for anyone to switch positions because the stockers make 15 hourly and everyone else makes 11.
Ha, I get the feeling
I held out on Walmart over a nickel and told them don't call me in a month or two on account of people calling out high or skipping for football.
They called at a year, year and a half, two years, finally three years.
I'm glad I never worked there.
I started out as a stocker in the Garden Center, in Phoenix, in June. Then I went to HBA and Pets. Then an unloader, maintenance, and now I'm a sales associate in Sporting Goods. My favorite was HBA.
Next would be maintenence, though it is really boring. I also hate hardware and paint.
I'm thinking about going to Claims next. Anyone have any input about claims?
I work seasonal toy and garden, so far I like it but it gets boring af especially the last hours. I haven’t really have had to do Garden yet though because of the season so worried about that.
OGP is one of the best depts, so easy.
What’s the best shifts for this job
@@superior9360 when ever its not too busy 😂
@@superior9360 I work 12-8 and it’s easy because you shop the first half of the day, and dispense to people/close everything down (including mopping, restocking carts, etc) the second half. But this summer I am going to do 9-5 so I can get out earlier which is a plus. With this shift you’ll spend a lot of time shopping.
@USMAN AZHAR it’s very simple. there’s a lot to do as well. with cashiering you do the same thing each day but with OGP you have a lot of variety! you can shop, dispense, prep, stage, clean, etc. lots to do so it doesn’t get old.
@USMAN AZHAR it has its days. It can busy and slow. When it’s busy you have to do your pick fast to get orders on time but when it’s slow they have you dispense or clean. If you’re a dispenser when it’s slow they make you clean after that time goes by slow because you’re just standing doing nothing. If your managers are nice they let you go home early as long as there are not many orders left.
I started overnight cashier that was the best, then I went to inventory control manager *unloading trucks that was the worst, then produce manager that was ok but there was no place to put back stock
Ok so I feel ya about Paint/Hardware it's the department I've been working in for a year and honestly it sucks well the bosses make it suck. They yell at me for not getting freight done when I got a crap load of paint to mix plus doing returns and recently got wrote up for some bs reason that wasn't my fault but 3rd shifts. Then people think its totally ok to leave things from other departments in mine and that includes lube yes the ky jelly vibrators and stuff in my area not anywhere else just mine. Lightbulbs are always a mess. The command strips I could zone one minute then after I walk away for like 10 mins it somehow magically messes itself up again. Tools are always stolen. Oh and the lightbulbs they get broken all the time like every day I find a broken bulb shoved back behind other bulbs. And the worst thing about my department is the god awful spray paint. Not only do they not spray the strips that we take the time to put out they end up spraying the pricing strips and not only that we get a freaking high off of the spray paint (well maybe that can be a good thing). Anyway I listen to other people complain about their freight I'm like dude have you even worked paint. We're not just some regular sized supercenter either its like Sam's club size. But yea felt good to get that off my chest.
Fuck the light bulb isle man...
I feel like just watching cans of paint is marginally worse than watching it dry haha
I worked at wal mart for a few years. Worked lawn and garden and unloader. And helped transition from old style to super center which was a very interesting experience! I could go on and on lol
The closest I came to working at Wal-Mart was as a bell ringer at Christmas time. And even then I was employed by Salvation Army. Not them.
I just got a job in the garden department so I'm happy to hear that someone reviewed it!
how is it?
@@baka5835 So, I only found out later on that "Lawn and Garden" actually includes toys and seasonal. So you are part of 3 departments. I think this change happened during Christmas because that's when Walmart got rid of Department Managers and their assistants. Instead they have team leads that get paid more but oversee 3 or more departments. Toy customers are the best because no one gets upset with you. Instead people are yelling at their kids. It is, however, an area that constantly gets messy because kids fling toys all over the place. With Lawn Garden, there are a lot of Soccer Moms, older people and dads that only are there for grills. You do a lot of heavy lifting with fertilizer, bird seed, mulch and grills. Luckily you use palette jacks to haul them around. A lot of the Garden Center people come with one brand in mind and hate it when people don't know everything about plants and gardening. Your best bet is to just read the packaging and direct them to general locations so they can find things themselves. Other companies place and display the plants so, if people come with a specific plant in mind, just be honest that you aren't sure where it' is. Also, always water at night if possible. If water gets on the leaves or flowers it can sunburn the plant and kill it prematurely. You are supposed to only water the soil during the day but this is very time consuming and hard in the heat. Doing it at night allows you to be more liberal with the water and you can get it done rather quickly. As for seasonal, the customers there are chill. It's a small section and they are there for pool stuff, holiday decorations or back to school items. So they typically don't ask a lot of questions but since this aisle is right in front of the store, it gets a lot of traffic and it gets messy quick. All in all, Lawn and Garden is a good place to be in comparison to Sporting Goods and Cosmetics which are the neighboring departments.
@@hannahh7903 so is it a lot of work like in a single shift ? my orientation is on thursday?
@@baka5835 it depends on when you’re manager works, lol. I personally prefer second shift. First shift usually has to stock shelves with product (freight) and load product from the back room on palettes. Usually higher ups work morning shift so they can pull you aside to do work in other areas. You also are expected to “zone” (means to organize product to match label and pull old or top stock forward), get returns from services, check customers out. With second shift the focus is watering the plants in the evening, checking out customers, zoning, returns and moving displays (grills and stuff). I personally prefer to haul grills than to stock shelves because half the time there is no room on the shelf for the product so you have to put it back or top stock it. Weekends are the busiest because people are out and about. Hope this helped and good luck! Orientation should be computer training for two whole shifts which will be long and tiring! Easy money though!
@@hannahh7903 i work from 3pm - 12am so i guess i got the good shift?
You are being honest and sarcastic at the same time. LOL!
Your details really help, if U are seeking employment.
Cap 2 is not only the hardest and the backbone, but the most under appreciated
Pfff...PRODUCE!
Produce is also the backbone along with cap 2
nah cart pushing
Bro at my walmart, they call all of us in cap 2 whenever theres no more carts in the bay and it's so dumb bc it's usually when we're unloading the truck
@@Ayo.Bruh. yeah ik, no one wants to do the job 😂
I worked as an overnight stocker. Was originally hired on as holiday help but managed to do well enough they kept me. Household or whatever the fuck that department is called is where I started stocking. I hated that department. Then came hardware. It was super easy but insanely plugged. I found myself spending more time fixing the plugged items and mixing paint from time to time. The final department I worked was 8 (pets). For the most part it wasn't too bad despite the heavy volume. I was left alone over there and even managed to get a couple awards for doing a good job. I made the zoning in there look amazing. Got lots of compliments about it.
Even though I stopped working at Malwart Supercenter in North Scottsdale almost 16 years ago, I can't say I miss my time there.
The cash register thing, there doing that “choir” things remember that?
Academy is best department tbh
You get paid more than almost everyone else to half ass things all the time
Cap 2 I never get to work in infants unless it’s trashed! Every time I get to work there it looks like some one took a bat to the diaper isles
I used to work at Walmart for five years I worked overnight stocking, I worked grocery department and the fresh department I hated it I would have to work in both meat department and produce department every day.
I worked in Lawn & Garden for my entire 3 years at my store.
Most of my co-workers were pretty good to work with, save for one (who took longer lunches and breaks [didn't have a medical reason to justify it either] and was a severe Jesus freak that thought everything outside of the Church was unholy and sinful).
The department managers that were in charge... my first and third department managers were pretty chill, the second one was a severe tight ass who yelled at you over the slightest issue.
The tasks in that department varied from pretty easy to downright ludicrous. Watering the flowers was nice, but expecting me to sweep the entire second parking lot of mulch and other trash within an hour? Simply, it's impossible.
However, when the pandemic first started, the next couple of months after (which were also my last months since I quit in June) were shit.
Now just to clarify, even in the state of Virginia, our summer months can still see temps reach as high as the low 100s and as low as the low 90s / high 80s. It just so happened that for at least half of every week, our temps reach those high and low temps.
Now for more clarification - I'm fat. I'm very fat. I'm not as crazy fat as some of my co-workers that I worked with there, but I'm fat. Wearing a mask every day for practically my entire day made working in Lawn & Garden horrible. I got talked to by managers because they'd notice my mask was below my nose (even if I was outside and away from people).
The worst thing that happened, before the incident that made me resign, was when my department manager (the third one, who was chill) pulled me aside and told me a customer had reported me to him and showed him a picture of me with my mask below my nose when I was outside of the store helping to load up mulch into another customer's trailer.
A customer took a picture of me (without my knowledge), and reported me to my manager...
I honestly just conceded and admitted that I did indeed have my mask below my nose outside, and my manager was cool enough to just let me off with a warning since he knew it was hot outside.
After that incident though, I hated the customers at Walmart. Before it was just an indifference marred by a few bad eggs here and there... but after that incident, I hated all of them. Any one of them could've have been the customer that reported me.
I wish I had asked my department manager what that customer looked like, but I'm pretty sure he'd decline answering that question.
I'll say this - if I end up meeting the customer that reported me... I'll give them rightful hell. I'd personally like to tip their grocery cart filled with groceries over and ruin their grocery trip, or snatch their purse and pull out all their cash and cards and flush them in a toilet.
Voodoo Ranger is a surprisingly good brewer .. Oskar Blues .. Parish .. Weihenstephaner .. are also very good.
Shoutout my fellow cap 2 peeps
Hardest workers!!!!
starting monday 😳
Shout out to anyone thowers who average over 20 boxes a min
lol seeing these comments make me a lil scared to be a stocker
Even though it's probably among the most messy isles, I would like working in crafts 😆 I love anything and everything involving crafts and like helping people find what they're looking for in that realm of things or even finding alternatives if we didn't have something (was a retail associate at a dollar store). A big plus: talking to customers about the projects they were working on!
I'd rather be in that sole department than register honestly 😩 I was actually cross trained for both register and freight/stocking but when I started out, i was mainly working register first. Even though this was a dollar store and not a Walmart, you'd be surprised about the LITTLEST THINGS that would make customers mad and take it out on you 👀 I literally had some random middle aged/old dude storm in during the Christmas season, face red as a tomato with a newspaper in hand all like, "I WAS GIVEN THE WRONG DATE!!!! 😡" I was like, "...... ok 😐" and handed him the latest one. Thankfully he didn't escalate things further but it was honestly funny how peeved he got about it. Like, it's just newspaper, for one. And for two, you can literally look up the news on the internet now 🤷🏼♀️
And don't even get me STARTED on the go backs!!!! Once again, we weren't a Walmart but MAN. That is a whole monster all on it's own. I have a love/hate relationship with this. On the one hand, I love when I get to do it during my shift because I don't have to deal with customers as much (especially on days where I'm just not feeling it). On the other, THERE'S SO MUCH SHIT TO PUT BACK! It literally takes nothing for the amount of stuff there to grow and overflow, ESPECIALLY during the holidays.
It’s funny how I stumbled upon this video especially because I just left electronics after 4 years of being there. 🥴 I’m now doing online shopping which is so far not as bad as electronics was. 🤗 My pay also went up so I’m happy $16
updates?
Please, updates.
“Fun to be NSA for a day” i had to laugh at how true that is 😂
So when can i move positions? I applied for online order filling but i got cashier and i hate it
I worked at *unnamed office supply retailer* and the whole getting stuck in random departments for the day thing is complete bullshit. To all big corporations: PAY PEOPLE WELL WITHOUT US HAVING TO MANDATE A MINIMUM WAGE AND YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SUCH A HIGH TURNOVER RATE.
The comment on front end couldn’t be more real. Applied for produce but they made me cashier and self-checkout host. Front end is loud, bright, busy, yet it’s so *_BORING_* it drives you insane.
You can’t even leave your register or bullpoint when a customer insists THIS is the correct price of their misplaced item. You gotta wait for the CSM, during which the customer takes out their frustration on you on the one minute wait time. Still, the job is so boring that I would rather have a customer complaining than nothing
Okay I don’t know who’s reading this right now but I started my first day at electronics (my friend who worked their told me it’s the easiest job you can get for 14 an hour) I started and they gave me like 10 different things we had to do, they showed me how to print pictures(which I didn’t get) they showed me how to use the cash register (which I didn’t get) the only real thing I knew that was simple enough was stocking. Now my question is to people who have worked in electronics, do I really need to know all those skills or can I survive just stocking and helping customers out?
I'm a cart pusher at WalMart and my 6 months is rapidly approaching, and I really want to move inside the store. I'm thinking about trying to get into Electronics, should I do Electronics or Cashier?
where did you go?
Sounds of silence, love that SONG
I work in HBA (Health and beauty) but just like you some days I work pets, pharmacy, cosmetics and HBA... I’ve been there for 3 years now it’s alright I guess I just try my best
I just have a question is HBA its own department because I work at Walmart I was hired for grocery and I keep getting put in HBA and pharmacy pets I'm pretty good with zoning and stocking pets
ID'ing people for Spray Paint... Because in Walmart's stunted world view only people under 18 are tagger's.
I agree garden is the best. Grocery is one of the worst. Only slightly better than the front end.
garden center is always my favorite tbh