I've heard that working in a Kroger warehouse, much like a Kroger store, is not fun. While it's not an excuse, what I've been told is the warehouse workers are pushed to work fast all the while dealing with an overwhelming amount of work with a limited amount of people and not the best equipment. Sound familiar?
I've heard that working in a Kroger warehouse, much like a Kroger store, is not fun. While it's not an excuse, what I've been told is the warehouse workers are pushed to work fast all the while dealing with an overwhelming amount of work with a limited amount of people and not the best equipment. Sound familiar?
i've been told they get incentives and bonuses for getting the pallets stacked/wrapped quickly. Once it's on the trailer and the door is closed it's "not their problem" anymore.
I've heard that working in a Kroger warehouse, much like a Kroger store, is not fun. While it's not an excuse, what I've been told is the warehouse workers are pushed to work fast all the while dealing with an overwhelming amount of work with a limited amount of people and not the best equipment. Sound familiar?
i've been told they get incentives and bonuses for getting the pallets stacked/wrapped quickly. Once it's on the trailer and the door is closed it's "not their problem" anymore.
I used to work in a warehouse where we handled A&P (assembly and packaging) of basic things like nuts in bags to large orders (>100 / row if air filters to almost 10,000 / CD cases per row with over 600 air filters / 40,000 to a pallet) to doing machining for local companies and also handled DOD contracts for the military (we make the anti armor plating for the Humvees / Transports, and a few other products I cannot disclose) and by gosh they weigh a few tons when finished with an order of them, that both our riding forklifts go side by side out the door with them to be crane hooked into a trailer headed for the nearest military base) and I had to learn to wrap my own pallet once I completed it to store it in Shipping. We are taught to do it the right way. Some pallets our store gets I can tell off the bat if the warehouse did a **** job or not just by the way the wrapping is, and the amount of "touch testing" you do. If you are able to poke one hole with a pen in the first and second pallet wraps and contact the boxes of product easily without resistance, that by the standards I'm trained for in the warehouse I worked, would automatically fail the pre ship inspection before a truck ever gets it, n we'd get a write up n "retraining".
Idiot warehousers annoy the **** out of me since I worked for 4 years doing **** work like this above. Also, look at your boxes condition before you take it off the pallets to see if it's been mishandled. a "touch test" will work the same way except you use your fingers to feel the corners with your fingers and see if you can get them under. If you can or are able to look at the corner while tilting one end towards a light ad you see light out the other end, taping was poor on these and that's a sign that the box is possibly unstable for whats inside it (if its glass, that's a sign to put it on a u-boat and not to lift it off if you are unsure if it will break.) Lots of tips n tricks I learned of how to build a box and a pallet correctly and safely so there is little risk of injury to someone.
-- Edited by UC151 on Thursday 6th of October 2016 09:00:37 PM
-- Edited by UC151 on Thursday 6th of October 2016 09:01:10 PM
. . . the warehouse workers are pushed to work fast all the while dealing with an overwhelming amount of work with a limited amount of people and not the best equipment. Sound familiar?
Yes.
The warehouse is full of people just like us, folks just trying to make a living, pushed to go fast, fast, fast in a ****ty, hostile, dangerous environment, just so Krogrr can pay less in wages and more in management bonuses.
The corporation is the culprit, not your coworkers.
But this is the difference...if we **** up, it is our ass. People get fired all the time in stores. Every time you claim anything they deny and give you a bullshet excuse. We are the bottom of the line and we get shet on for their **** ups.
Seems like the warehouse needs more hours too. To take an extra 30 seconds to go around a pallet a couple extra times to make sure it's wrapped properly would save TONS of man hours in the store, picking up spilled pallets on a trailer. I always go slow off the trailer and if something looks unsteady, I've called others to come support it on its way off the trailer, but in many cases, pallets are already too far gone to save. Dumped. Maybe the driver is partly to blame, but in any case, it takes a long time to pick up an entire spilled pallet. Especially if it's something like milk that requires a mop (then the dairy guy has to wipe the spilled milk off the good bottles before he puts it on the shelf).
The little bit of time to prepare pallets properly more than outweighs the time spent cleaning up at the store.
