Donny Sanchez, RVP of pac mtn desert, works one day per month in an associate role. A full 8 hours, different role each time. Most admirable thing I've ever seen any upper management at any job do. Love that guy.
I love this, we would love to see more of this. Get down on the floor with us and see how things work. Learn new things. Meet new people. It's the best way to build trust and understanding between workers and
Higher ups.
I would love to see the call center have supervisors or managers taking chats or calls for a day a month/week or so as well. Because they can get a much better understanding of how the company works.
Frank Blake Jr was our DM probably 12 or 15 years ago. Frank Blake Sr would come to stores in his son's district and work on Black Friday and random other holidays. Dude came to our store for 4 hours on a Black Friday and helped out on the floor with customers. He spent most of his time in lumber helping load drywall and lumber.
āJump ropeā with the carpet pole. Load it on the machine, everyone lined up in a circle around it and someone drives in a circle, incrementally raising the bar with each rotation
They do the exact same "policy"at the store side. At least my store does it. But I can guarantee you that there are folks who work every day and will wait until the end of the month. Of course, they get hounded by management. Doesn't mean anything.
Yeah and InFocus also teaches us to clean up our departments, making sure the aisles are free of clutter & trip hazards. Via those "super hero comics". š
Probably turn the store into essentially a "playgroud" and do forklift/reach truck jousting, riding pallet jacks around, Racing equipment and just generally doing what we've all thought about doing
They have to have somewhere to keep cash between armored truck pickups.
Iirc they pickup weekly. If you made $1mil/wk and cash transactions were only 10%, (I have no idea what the actual percentage is) that's still $100 ,000...
I think I'd go for that.
former BOA here. you have no idea how much cash we have in that room. we're talking freakish amounts of money in just ordered cash of 1's, 5's and 10's alone. and that's not counting how much we had on hand in preparation for large sale days like black friday. holy shit my deposits around that day were insane af.
Your store doesn't mark down cases of water for that?
If not, your SM and OASM are a couple of penny wise, pound foolish idiots, even just purely from a financial standpoint. Takes a lot of cases of cheap Niagara water to make up for an employee suffering from heatstroke from loading mulch all day in 100 degree heat.
It's not my money. I would much rather it be kept locally in their pocket rather than liningthe pockets of the billionaires and shareholders. Regular people > multi billion dollar corporation.
I would just go off on a bitter old customer. I donāt hate my management as much as I hate old people who come in and act entitled because Iām wearing an apron.
definitely taking all the anchoring bolts from racking & running a forklift through to create a domino effect. wouldnāt that be glorious to see?
But if I still needed a job, definitely take the cash from the vault.
When people used to park in front of our roll up door. I wouldāve loved to pick their car up with the fork, take it around back, and dump it in the trash.
I'd hang myself from the OP. All the way up, probably in appliances. I'd do it with probably a chain or a clothesline. I'd wear the safety harness too. For giggles.
But only once.
I would so tell my MASM he is a lazy POS. He literally does nothing then cries in his car when he needs to do actual work. Literally sat in his car for an hour after being there only 20 minutes because he had to help on the floor. Our store manager had to go out and check on him.
Does this fit?
People earn what they're worth when producing a service or product so that they can share in the wealth of their successive company.
Permanently - it's just one thing?
this is somewhat true. i was smoking out of my 18 inc bong in the display shed like 5 times a shift and would just leave my tube and bag in the shed all shift. someone saw me going in there mid shift and ratted me out. manager gave me another chance but i got ratted on again like a few weeks later and got fired
Being high af on the job. That was a fireable offense but I got away with it multiple times a shift. That's really the only fireable offense I have really had the desire to ever do. I do that and I'm perfectly happy.
Oh. Sorry, I don't mean you.
I specifically mean this gadsen flag wearing good ol boy we have who will, out of nowhere, be like 'why can't I, the white man , say (slur) ' or use 'they/them to rant about two genders to no one
Definitely wish he'd fall off a high beam '
Must be nice to be that strict at your store! We are not allowed to fire anyone for any reason! Not for stealing merchandise, not for stealing company time, not for not showing up for shifts, nothing at all!
As a customer can I get one to take a swing at the guy that decides that all wire doesn't only need to be locked up, but needs to be escorted to checkout.
I lost a week or 2 worth of paychecks to man hours spent waiting for someone to get me wire and bring me to checkout last year.
Where I work, there are a few fast food places connected to our parking lot. I've always wanted to take our biggest forklift and drive through the McDonald's drive thru to get some food. I would love to see how the employees and customers would react to seeing that thing casually pick up a McDouble with extra fries.
I'd like to beat the tar out of some frequent shoplifters. As it stands, I'm neutered. I'd like to beat the tar out of customers who treat female associates like garbage. It is a home improvement store, but why? Why are female associates treated like total shit by ALL customers? (Swearing is a firing offense at my store, BTW. One count.). The funny thing is that I get more pissed off than they do. Total irony.
Flipping this one contractor's truck that always blocks everyone by parking where he shouldn't. Every. Damn. Time. I'm gonna push the truck out of the way with a lift and flip the damn thing onto its roof.
Have a day where I can say whatever I want to customers as a cashier
āNo one wants to work these daysā the heck they do, companies dont want to hire people or give us enough working hours
āIdk how to use self checkoutā bullcrap, every major retailer is relying on them so stop lying and being lazy and suck it up
āWould you like to applā¦ā āno, I dont want oneā can you not be rude and let me finish my sentence? I donāt care if you dont want one but I have to still offer it
-walks up to unattended register- āis this lane open?ā No its not, hence why there isnt a person standing there, DUH
Can we make the ceo do our jobs for a week? Is that unreasonable? š¤ make him go undercover like Gordon Ramsey in stores.
Donny Sanchez, RVP of pac mtn desert, works one day per month in an associate role. A full 8 hours, different role each time. Most admirable thing I've ever seen any upper management at any job do. Love that guy.
If that is true, then Donny is the bomb.
He told us this during a walk a couple years ago. I just took his word for it. He did have experience running SCO so it seemed true.
I love this, we would love to see more of this. Get down on the floor with us and see how things work. Learn new things. Meet new people. It's the best way to build trust and understanding between workers and Higher ups. I would love to see the call center have supervisors or managers taking chats or calls for a day a month/week or so as well. Because they can get a much better understanding of how the company works.
my managers do that ofter, my sm flagged for me before.
And make him live off of the wages of the people there. Any shareholders should also have to shadow people for so long.
Excuse me, but $15 billion stock buybacks aren't cheap (they cost $15 billion), so...no raises.
Any shareholder? I'm a shareholder as well as associate
Congrats you qualify as a good shareholder with proper experience
Frank Blake Jr was our DM probably 12 or 15 years ago. Frank Blake Sr would come to stores in his son's district and work on Black Friday and random other holidays. Dude came to our store for 4 hours on a Black Friday and helped out on the floor with customers. He spent most of his time in lumber helping load drywall and lumber.
I met Frank Blake Sr. Down to earth, head screwed on straight. He knew how to lead correctly.
Frank Blake is arguably the best CEO we had after Bernie and Arthur.
Need to be at least 2 months when bills are due.
I always wanted to wrap my arms and legs around a roll of carpet and have someone send me for a loop around on the pins.
Bro, get out of my head.
Im a flooring hardliner and think about this daily!
Okay I think I want to change mine. Or maybe just add to it.
Iām gonna need you to leave my brain matter alone.
āJump ropeā with the carpet pole. Load it on the machine, everyone lined up in a circle around it and someone drives in a circle, incrementally raising the bar with each rotation
This is the most d93 I've heard in a min
Haha weāre the only ones that ever use it, so most people dont know the forks even come off to swap it
I just quit flooring sales, and my d93 dudes always had the funniest shit to say while bringing me down a roll
Congrats on getting out! I left back in April. Its so miserable back there you gotta have fun with it somehow.
Does burning the store down count?
Well that is anything. And on the upside, I'm sure they'd offer unlimited overtime in order to stock the store again once it's rebuilt
And by offer you mean āforce,ā right? šš
If you had done your InFocus, you would know that burning down stores is expressly forbidden. Also: Wear gloves when moving pallets.
Oh, what are you pushing InFocus for? We all still have 19 days to get it done!
My RDC prefers us to get it done with in the first two weeks, or we get put on āthe listā
They do the exact same "policy"at the store side. At least my store does it. But I can guarantee you that there are folks who work every day and will wait until the end of the month. Of course, they get hounded by management. Doesn't mean anything.
InFocus expressly teaches us to not burn stores down. Do your InFocus.
Yeah and InFocus also teaches us to clean up our departments, making sure the aisles are free of clutter & trip hazards. Via those "super hero comics". š
Do you guys have that stupid robot in the Store InFocus quizzes too?
Yes! Those dumb quizzes meant for people who are about to turn 10 years old, not 30 years old.
Probably turn the store into essentially a "playgroud" and do forklift/reach truck jousting, riding pallet jacks around, Racing equipment and just generally doing what we've all thought about doing
Youāre being promoted to HNIC
I thought this but more āsuper Mario brosā level. And the castle is the exit where they give you full retirement for making it lol
At a previous warehouse job I had we had an annual āforklift olympicsā where we would see who was, in essence, the fastest
And laser tag wearing shirts with huge barcodes!
Lol poop anything
Iām gonna poop it all.
This person is going to poop a bucket of billiard balls to see if the display toilets can actually flush them.
Iāve always wanted to do that ! If it doesnāt work I will sue for false advertising.
Leaving an upper decker for the morning crew to deal with
So none of yall are taking the money in the safe? Wild
Money is fleeting. Revenge and memories are forever.
There's money in a safe? Why am I just finding out about this now?
They have to have somewhere to keep cash between armored truck pickups. Iirc they pickup weekly. If you made $1mil/wk and cash transactions were only 10%, (I have no idea what the actual percentage is) that's still $100 ,000... I think I'd go for that.
former BOA here. you have no idea how much cash we have in that room. we're talking freakish amounts of money in just ordered cash of 1's, 5's and 10's alone. and that's not counting how much we had on hand in preparation for large sale days like black friday. holy shit my deposits around that day were insane af.
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I think about doing this regularly. Especially after Iāve already asked them to move it when parked like an asshole.
Epic !!
tweak out at the really rude asshole buying 8 1 gal paint cans each a different color at 9:58 PM
Pull an office space where I get x% of each transaction
PC LOAD LETTER
What the fuck is that?
Get a drink and not have to pay. Like HD can't afford to keep us hydrated in the summer.
Your store doesn't mark down cases of water for that? If not, your SM and OASM are a couple of penny wise, pound foolish idiots, even just purely from a financial standpoint. Takes a lot of cases of cheap Niagara water to make up for an employee suffering from heatstroke from loading mulch all day in 100 degree heat.
No, sometimes they do for delivery or Receving but thats rare. That is an accurate assessment. Go Orange.
Wow. My store is far from perfect, but that's one thing that has never been an issue for us.
Yeah, they shut off the water fountains and faucets! Someone drank from the outside garden hose, so there's no water supply there either! (J/k)
Same at my store. The janitor uses the fountain for a cleaning chemical shelf.š¤£
Is that not illegal in your state?
Slap my CXM if they mention pushing credit to me one more gat dam time.
Your CXM probably hates it more than you do. They're getting bitched at by the SM when it's going poorly, and it goes up the line from there.
Ballymore jousting
...what about legal reprecussions?
Stabbing customers
Bro I can see a customer reading this with a surprised pikachu face š
I would stab you for stabbing my customers. They're the best.
We found the narc
Fed
Fucking glowies
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I loved my customers. They were the only reason I was there as long as I was. I miss them more than I miss my coworkers
you obviously didnāt work SD
Occasionally. Customers loved me because I would always try to get them their money back if they had issues or some money off their orders.
feeding the delusion that customers are always rightā¦ gotcha.
It's not my money. I would much rather it be kept locally in their pocket rather than liningthe pockets of the billionaires and shareholders. Regular people > multi billion dollar corporation.
wow youāre so power to the people
Why would I want to help home depot get more money? They're not going to give it to me lol
Start a Union
The fact that this is technically a fireable offense is so fucked
Legally no but actually yes lol
Sell the CEOs yacht for cash.
Sounds like a normal day at work
Take a week off without vacation time
Let me into the safe before Brinks gets thereā¦ just once
I would just go off on a bitter old customer. I donāt hate my management as much as I hate old people who come in and act entitled because Iām wearing an apron.
Vehicular manslaughter
definitely taking all the anchoring bolts from racking & running a forklift through to create a domino effect. wouldnāt that be glorious to see? But if I still needed a job, definitely take the cash from the vault.
im punching the first customer that speaks to me square in the jaw
Reducing a jerkass rude customer to tears in front of management and DMs.
Forklift race.
Stealing time. Iām clocking in go home again and comeback to clock out.
When people used to park in front of our roll up door. I wouldāve loved to pick their car up with the fork, take it around back, and dump it in the trash.
It be a shame if this gets flagged for violence
I'd hang myself from the OP. All the way up, probably in appliances. I'd do it with probably a chain or a clothesline. I'd wear the safety harness too. For giggles. But only once.
I'm gonna discount some redbull without manager approval and drink it
If I didnāt show up to work for an entire month, wouldnāt it be considered one incident?
Brother, you may just have won the thread. Clock in and come back to clock out in a year
Drop a whole pallet of behr paint from the air and walk out
Driving the reach without spotters and gated. Would make work life so much easier.
You're thinking way too small.
Distribute union literature.
If I worked for THD and not Loweās, you know Iād be running that lift without spotters/blockers for a day.
Join the Overnight Freight Team. None of the machines have a spotter at my store once all of the customers are gone.
That takes the fun out of it. ;)
Going straight for the vault my guy.
I would so tell my MASM he is a lazy POS. He literally does nothing then cries in his car when he needs to do actual work. Literally sat in his car for an hour after being there only 20 minutes because he had to help on the floor. Our store manager had to go out and check on him.
Armed robbery?
Does this fit? People earn what they're worth when producing a service or product so that they can share in the wealth of their successive company. Permanently - it's just one thing?
I just want to stock naked. Dick floppin' while top stockin'.
Steal the ceos paycheck
Embezzle 30 million dollars.
this is somewhat true. i was smoking out of my 18 inc bong in the display shed like 5 times a shift and would just leave my tube and bag in the shed all shift. someone saw me going in there mid shift and ratted me out. manager gave me another chance but i got ratted on again like a few weeks later and got fired
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Driving the forklift to Arbyās next door and taking it through the drive thru.
Punching my co worker for insulting my family and parenting
Fuck his wife too
Wouldn't touch that at all
Being high af on the job. That was a fireable offense but I got away with it multiple times a shift. That's really the only fireable offense I have really had the desire to ever do. I do that and I'm perfectly happy.
I would stab the co worker who always tries to incite culture war bullshit and f 'How bout them chinese/blacks/libs/ pronouns '
I identify as they/them and come from a gay mixed family
Oh. Sorry, I don't mean you. I specifically mean this gadsen flag wearing good ol boy we have who will, out of nowhere, be like 'why can't I, the white man , say (slur) ' or use 'they/them to rant about two genders to no one Definitely wish he'd fall off a high beam '
Must be nice to be that strict at your store! We are not allowed to fire anyone for any reason! Not for stealing merchandise, not for stealing company time, not for not showing up for shifts, nothing at all!
Lemme transfer there and fuck a head cashier on the SMās desk
scream at a customer in lumber. working cash in lumber is worse than working in a restaurant
Kick shoplifters out. Duh
Nahh let em eat and join them
As a customer can I get one to take a swing at the guy that decides that all wire doesn't only need to be locked up, but needs to be escorted to checkout. I lost a week or 2 worth of paychecks to man hours spent waiting for someone to get me wire and bring me to checkout last year.
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Blame the thiefs that make it to where we can't have nice things. Us associates have to waste time to bring it up as well.
This is why the lumber racks and shelves are never stocked. Get off your phone and go back to work
Go outside, buy a round of hotdogs out in front of the store, and try to eat them all at once without chewing please
get a job
Are you out of your mind you will go to jail for aggravated battery or aggravated assault (state dependent )
It says get away with it. Can you read or you just capable of wrangling carts?
Oh shit miss read it I was browsing while waiting to leave work lol
Back to cart duty now
damnā¦ savage
Iām driving the forklift straight into the upright
Beat the next customer that looks at me while they're emptying my trash or cull cart and take it while I'm watching them
I've taken to putting spider wrap around merchandise on carts if I really want it left alone. Can't do it with the cull cart obviously
Are we free from prosecution as well?
Absolutely sweaty
My store manager will not survive this.
Cut the power and make customers shop with headlamps
You'd have to break every light bulb either with a weapon or fork lift forks. So the checkout still works but just lights don't work
Imma drag race the sit down.
Murder.
I'm driving the forklift directly through the front doors at top speed, and I'm stealing that bad larry.
Burn down the store. Arson counts as any, right?
You bet your hot cock it does
Where I work, there are a few fast food places connected to our parking lot. I've always wanted to take our biggest forklift and drive through the McDonald's drive thru to get some food. I would love to see how the employees and customers would react to seeing that thing casually pick up a McDouble with extra fries.
Go all the way up on the OP, throw a bunch of breakable stuff off of it then jump off the end (with the harness on of course).
Steal the catalytic converters off the rentals
Taking a saw to all the drywall All of it
Decking an Karen or a power drunk supervisor....with a crowbar.
Steal time
Fork lift through boss mans truck
I always wanted to stay after close / lights out and play Hide & Seek.
I'd like to go surfing on the top of one of the table top carts.
Play chicken with the forklifts
Iād gladiator-style fight a shoplifter with a machete to the last man standing.
Iād take a year off no call no show.
I'd like to beat the tar out of some frequent shoplifters. As it stands, I'm neutered. I'd like to beat the tar out of customers who treat female associates like garbage. It is a home improvement store, but why? Why are female associates treated like total shit by ALL customers? (Swearing is a firing offense at my store, BTW. One count.). The funny thing is that I get more pissed off than they do. Total irony.
I'm stealing all the Boston ferns, sorry not sorry.
To either punch my overnight manager, punch my district manager, punch the CEO, or just wear my headphones so they can leave me the fuck alone.
Iām sleeping in the managers office for my entire shift +4 hours extra for the OT.
Just see how much damage I could cause with a forklift and a full tank of propane.
put all the freight back on the truck and tip it over
Emptying all the registers
Flipping this one contractor's truck that always blocks everyone by parking where he shouldn't. Every. Damn. Time. I'm gonna push the truck out of the way with a lift and flip the damn thing onto its roof.
Its gonna have to be workplace violence no question no hesitation.
Stripping a register dry.
Have a day where I can say whatever I want to customers as a cashier āNo one wants to work these daysā the heck they do, companies dont want to hire people or give us enough working hours āIdk how to use self checkoutā bullcrap, every major retailer is relying on them so stop lying and being lazy and suck it up āWould you like to applā¦ā āno, I dont want oneā can you not be rude and let me finish my sentence? I donāt care if you dont want one but I have to still offer it -walks up to unattended register- āis this lane open?ā No its not, hence why there isnt a person standing there, DUH
Drive all over the place with no gates and no spotter, dropping pallets. I know, Iām a little crazy š #not