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11 years ago
WELL, I haven't been keeping anyone up to date on anything because I've been super busy and also super in pain.
So, a few months ago, or like a month ago, I don't remember really, my cat broke my laptop screen. (How? I had my tablet pen resting inbetween the hinge part- where the screen meets where the speakers usually are up top.) and he jumped on it and crack, there it went.
Still haven't gotten it replaced, had lots of shit come up.
I managed to get a job in October. It absolutely sucked. Walmart works you until you're actually dead. Metaphorically and literally. I kid you not. It has happened.
So, with that being said, I worked as an unloader. Which- no. The truck isn't hard to do. Tedious and stressful, yeah. But hard? Definitely not.
What's hard about it is the fact that they expect you to know where everything needs to go the day you get there. (I am not kidding.) My supervisor, to put it nicely, was a cunt. A cold hard, old, smelly, bitchy, dirty cunt. Now, I'm not one to pussy out of hard things, but I could not stay there anymore. You have to lift boxes (upwards of 50 lbs or 22kg) by yourself. Which is an OSHA violation, mind you. And I am a female. And they do not give you time to lift properly, so lifting 50 lbs boxes (depends on what we had in the truck. Least amount of boxes was 800 in a truck. The most boxes we had was probably 6000.) and that all together is lifting anywhere from 48000lbs (21772kg) to 360000lbs (163293kg) a day. Just from unloading- and that was usually the first hour or two. For the remaining we would take pallets out into the aisles. (If you've ever been to a walmart or any other big type store and youve seen those displays in the middle of aisles.. the ones on wood slabs or those displays, those are called pallets. Like this https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5025.....6b9c64ff9c.jpg ) And depending on the type, they would way upwards of 500lbs (220kg) themselves. And we would have to pull out anywhere from 10-40 of those for two hours. And then we had to stock which wasn't hard, it was just super boring. But this went on for 8 hours a day, every day.
I didn't have time to be on the internet and recover before heading back to work for like a month or so. And the days I was off, I was in bed in horrible pain or asleep. So that's why I've been so inactive, and I apologize. (and also because Super Smash Bros. 4 and Omega Ruby.) But, you may say "Mushroom, why are you using past tense for this?" Well. I quit.
My supervisor did nothing to "train" me at all. I was always in the dark. I was literally called a "retard" once. (Which is super unprofessional might I add.) Plus, doing all that on my period is a disaster. (Haha, just kidding. I didn't bleed through once.) But for real, they threatened me with termination if I didn't move faster. I'm strong for a woman, but let me tell you that pulling 1k lbs of cans of beans to aisle 3 was definitely a trip.
I now have the beginning of fallen arches because of that place and my back is horribly fucked up. I made a doctors appointment, and I'll follow up with an update.
Also, when I WAS on the sales floor, everyone was an ASSHOLE to me. Like customers can be huge jerkwads, and they need to stop. Be considerate.
Also, I was sexually harassed more than once in the store by both employees AND customers. I did go to management about it and they told me there was no proof so they couldn't do anything. I told them "fine, here's your proof." And I left.
Walmart (at least here) is beyond unprofessional, they're horrible to their employees, and honestly, they suck.
Also, I'm working on art again. Doing the pokemon challenge to hopefully knock my art block. Will have all commissions finished soon! Thanks for reading.
So, a few months ago, or like a month ago, I don't remember really, my cat broke my laptop screen. (How? I had my tablet pen resting inbetween the hinge part- where the screen meets where the speakers usually are up top.) and he jumped on it and crack, there it went.
Still haven't gotten it replaced, had lots of shit come up.
I managed to get a job in October. It absolutely sucked. Walmart works you until you're actually dead. Metaphorically and literally. I kid you not. It has happened.
So, with that being said, I worked as an unloader. Which- no. The truck isn't hard to do. Tedious and stressful, yeah. But hard? Definitely not.
What's hard about it is the fact that they expect you to know where everything needs to go the day you get there. (I am not kidding.) My supervisor, to put it nicely, was a cunt. A cold hard, old, smelly, bitchy, dirty cunt. Now, I'm not one to pussy out of hard things, but I could not stay there anymore. You have to lift boxes (upwards of 50 lbs or 22kg) by yourself. Which is an OSHA violation, mind you. And I am a female. And they do not give you time to lift properly, so lifting 50 lbs boxes (depends on what we had in the truck. Least amount of boxes was 800 in a truck. The most boxes we had was probably 6000.) and that all together is lifting anywhere from 48000lbs (21772kg) to 360000lbs (163293kg) a day. Just from unloading- and that was usually the first hour or two. For the remaining we would take pallets out into the aisles. (If you've ever been to a walmart or any other big type store and youve seen those displays in the middle of aisles.. the ones on wood slabs or those displays, those are called pallets. Like this https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5025.....6b9c64ff9c.jpg ) And depending on the type, they would way upwards of 500lbs (220kg) themselves. And we would have to pull out anywhere from 10-40 of those for two hours. And then we had to stock which wasn't hard, it was just super boring. But this went on for 8 hours a day, every day.
I didn't have time to be on the internet and recover before heading back to work for like a month or so. And the days I was off, I was in bed in horrible pain or asleep. So that's why I've been so inactive, and I apologize. (and also because Super Smash Bros. 4 and Omega Ruby.) But, you may say "Mushroom, why are you using past tense for this?" Well. I quit.
My supervisor did nothing to "train" me at all. I was always in the dark. I was literally called a "retard" once. (Which is super unprofessional might I add.) Plus, doing all that on my period is a disaster. (Haha, just kidding. I didn't bleed through once.) But for real, they threatened me with termination if I didn't move faster. I'm strong for a woman, but let me tell you that pulling 1k lbs of cans of beans to aisle 3 was definitely a trip.
I now have the beginning of fallen arches because of that place and my back is horribly fucked up. I made a doctors appointment, and I'll follow up with an update.
Also, when I WAS on the sales floor, everyone was an ASSHOLE to me. Like customers can be huge jerkwads, and they need to stop. Be considerate.
Also, I was sexually harassed more than once in the store by both employees AND customers. I did go to management about it and they told me there was no proof so they couldn't do anything. I told them "fine, here's your proof." And I left.
Walmart (at least here) is beyond unprofessional, they're horrible to their employees, and honestly, they suck.
Also, I'm working on art again. Doing the pokemon challenge to hopefully knock my art block. Will have all commissions finished soon! Thanks for reading.
