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Been working at the big A for four months now. The shine of it has worn off, there are days I find the work tedious, but the paycheck makes it less tedious. Between it and RMSI am clearing almost $3000 a month so it makes saving money a lot easier. With tax refund received I have $3300 to put toward a car and am seeking a loan with my credit union to see if I can get my dream Jeep Renegade. Of course it helps that when you work 7 days a week all over night shifts, all you think about is sleeping so there's not a lot of shopping being done lol.
Two main jobs I do is scanning and binning. Over holiday season did a few shifts doing gift wrap and was trained for a day on packing but haven't done packing since. I think it was mainly to get someone trained when they're desperate for people. Binning is pretty easy and a no brainer, push a button, light comes on, put item in that slot. Rinse and repeat. Scanning can be more problematic as the "sensitive" scanner is only really sensitive when you don't want it to be, like when you accidentally bring another item close to the tray containing an item you just scanned, and the machine has changed its designation so it will tell you the item is now overage, while the one speeding merrily along the line is no longer designated as the item it actually is. SIGH. Or it will make you scan a UPC code several times and all of a sudden decide the same fucking code you've scanned multiple times is now okay.
One of its problem has always been recognizing a new tote. The machine is all, yes, you have practically shoved that tote up my ass but I still don't see it, la la la. And a new thing it's been doing is flashing the message that the item is waiting for a tray. What do you think the fucking item is sitting in, a moat??? This is especially annoying when you're on a roll and you've just added in another item to the tray that doesn't belong there, because you expect the tray to have already gone on its way. Yes, they will tell you quality is a big part of it but they're also wanting certain numbers and there's the sense of competition with others to get a better number. One lady I work with, they will only let her do the binning because she was too slow on the scanning. Not realizing that she built up to the speed she has on binning and might have been able to do it with scanning too if they gave her a chance. I was counseled on my production number falling which happened during the holiday season and I was feeling in a funk so that did affect my performance. Haven't heard anything since other than that I'm doing a great job, so I guess I'm okay production number wise?
On Christmas Eve or rather the eve of Christmas Eve, they loaned some of us to the incoming department to scan in items and load them into the dreaded robot carts. NEVER AGAIN. Some of the items have a VERY SPECIFIC SPOT they can be into, and that spot will hold maybe two of them so to empty out the one carton of the items, you have to hit the button to cycle through carts in the hopes you can find a slot the robot cart will let you use. SIGHHHH. They want you to be able to load an item in 11 seconds, which you can't do if you've only got big things and they'll only fit in certain spots.
But I've found what could be the perfect shift, if I could get on to it. It's called the donut shift, you work Monday and Tuesday, have Wednesday off, work Thursday and Friday, with the weekend off. Only working TWO DAYS in a row! That'd be great! I could do stuff with family again! Would also have to give up RMSI and the extra $900 a month but I could also try a delivery service job if I get my Jeep.
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Two main jobs I do is scanning and binning. Over holiday season did a few shifts doing gift wrap and was trained for a day on packing but haven't done packing since. I think it was mainly to get someone trained when they're desperate for people. Binning is pretty easy and a no brainer, push a button, light comes on, put item in that slot. Rinse and repeat. Scanning can be more problematic as the "sensitive" scanner is only really sensitive when you don't want it to be, like when you accidentally bring another item close to the tray containing an item you just scanned, and the machine has changed its designation so it will tell you the item is now overage, while the one speeding merrily along the line is no longer designated as the item it actually is. SIGH. Or it will make you scan a UPC code several times and all of a sudden decide the same fucking code you've scanned multiple times is now okay.
One of its problem has always been recognizing a new tote. The machine is all, yes, you have practically shoved that tote up my ass but I still don't see it, la la la. And a new thing it's been doing is flashing the message that the item is waiting for a tray. What do you think the fucking item is sitting in, a moat??? This is especially annoying when you're on a roll and you've just added in another item to the tray that doesn't belong there, because you expect the tray to have already gone on its way. Yes, they will tell you quality is a big part of it but they're also wanting certain numbers and there's the sense of competition with others to get a better number. One lady I work with, they will only let her do the binning because she was too slow on the scanning. Not realizing that she built up to the speed she has on binning and might have been able to do it with scanning too if they gave her a chance. I was counseled on my production number falling which happened during the holiday season and I was feeling in a funk so that did affect my performance. Haven't heard anything since other than that I'm doing a great job, so I guess I'm okay production number wise?
On Christmas Eve or rather the eve of Christmas Eve, they loaned some of us to the incoming department to scan in items and load them into the dreaded robot carts. NEVER AGAIN. Some of the items have a VERY SPECIFIC SPOT they can be into, and that spot will hold maybe two of them so to empty out the one carton of the items, you have to hit the button to cycle through carts in the hopes you can find a slot the robot cart will let you use. SIGHHHH. They want you to be able to load an item in 11 seconds, which you can't do if you've only got big things and they'll only fit in certain spots.
But I've found what could be the perfect shift, if I could get on to it. It's called the donut shift, you work Monday and Tuesday, have Wednesday off, work Thursday and Friday, with the weekend off. Only working TWO DAYS in a row! That'd be great! I could do stuff with family again! Would also have to give up RMSI and the extra $900 a month but I could also try a delivery service job if I get my Jeep.
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