Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

On a normal night our receiving guy will unload 4-5 trucks a night including DC,water,paper, mattress,fresh. 3 nights a week there are two of them, otherwise it's 1 guy doing everything.

One unloader and one person runs the freight to the floor. All drivers gang slot all freight. No way one person could unload and slot everything at our club. 3 Walmarts 1 to 2 water a night, paper trucks 4 to 5 times a week fresh 7 days a week. Morning vendors start coming in around 2 am. Throw in Serta which is out of control they bring in as much as they want and Sodas 5 times a week and that pretty much wraps up his time and nope don't think any breaks are taken back there. Backroom is full and like most he spends first hour just making room to start his night.

7rgr ,I feel ya man. On most nights of the week the night receiver starts out alone never knowing if they are going to get help. We have similar nights to yours. Our night TL will watch the receiving person struggle and then bad mouth them to the floor workers if receiving needs help. He says idiotic things like the reason the unloader is behind is because of the order the trucks are unloaded. TL will walk around talking half the night while rec person is almost having a heart attack trying to get done.

Buried 4 deep one person too unload f/d , m/p , paper, 2 water trucks, 2 dcs , paper, on certain night add milk or eggs , and on certain night expected to drop for stocker too with no help in sight. Managers complaining that everything isn't getting done, of course most of them have their heads up their asses ...Don't complain either get on a lift or shut the hell up. Like to see one of them deal with what we are trying to deal with. Went from two full timers to one ...me no day time receiver just clerk so nothing on dock gets done and I know not all clerks sit on their a-- all day ,but ours does. Refuses to do consolidated and is allowed to get away with it. dcs sitting and auto receiving ,so floor people believe our on hands lol funny they look for things in steel when gee it's either sitting on one of the trucks or sitting in the pile of consolidated sitting on the dock they have as much of a clue as home office .

TX1acSo-5dfj Well said...I can not agree more...I can not start at 9 because I have to run stuff from the dock left from days first..sometimes as little as an hour but usually 1.5 hours. And that also means no fresh trucks before I start unloading. at least 3-4 nights a week 2 dock people are a must and there SHOULD be 2 at least 6 nights a week but management ALWAYS puts receiving one the way back burner as if it really is not important. .......................................an absolutely perfect DC can be done in a bit less than 2 hours yes...but mostly they take about 2.5 hours sometimes more....6 nights a week breaks are not possible and I wish I could skip lunch and just work throughout the night.........

An absolute no problem DC can be done in under 2 hours. I start at 9 and can sometimes finish a DC before 11 when we go to break. That said, a DC can generally take anywhere from 2-4 hours, you're typically at 2 minutes a pallet to unload and rack. The guy talking about how fast he is as a dock runner is probably doing almost no work. I have never heard anyone at any of the clubs I work at refer to receiving as a "dock runner". He probably doesn't unload anything, or if he does he doesn't rack anything.

Putting date labels on something doesn't sound hard, but it's added time you have to get off the lift, search for the date, and then tag the item that expires in two years because they send too much stuff and think attaching a date that no one looks at will actually help when no one rotates anything. They add work but never add people.

The one receiver near my location apparently walked out after sending an email to everyone he knew in the company telling them it was too much work and that he was asking for help for years without getting anywhere. From what I heard he's starting on a constructive dismissal claim trying to prove the company is overworking people to force them out of the higher paying jobs. I need the job or I'd leave too, let them try to find someone else to manage it.

if you are not getting help either you are not actually taking the freight off the trucks and are just a runner or you are in a low volume club. I like what I do too. Many years with the club. Top notch driver.

I will concede this one point. Each club has differences in volume , procedures . club layout etc that have an effect on the flow of work. That said though I have a pretty good understanding of what can and can not be done. Two DCs and fresh trucks is all that can reasonably be expected to get done by one person. In our club the first hour to an hour and a half is spent just clearing the dock so the first truck can even be started. Now add the clean up at the end of the night and it takes another half hour. If you take breaks that is another half hour. So now there is only about six hours of real unload and run time. One guy can not do more that a couple fresh and two DCs in that time. At least not on a consistent basis. A full freezer truck will take the better part of an hour if you are pulling the stickers yourself like you are supposed to.

You may think I am complaining and thus a poor worker. I am a top notch worker but also a realist.

Not proclaiming greatness. Been with the company almost 20yrs. Driven forklift for all of them. Just tired of coming on here and seeing people complain about how hard their job is and how no one helps them. Maybe not be a baby and just work instead of complaining. I eont ask for help and I dont expect help. Love what I do and love what the company does.

2.5 hours to unload a truck?? That you are a slow driver. No wonder you s--- at your job. No I'm not a manager. Just a very good forklift driver. Sorry the job is to hard for you. Maybe members champ or door greeter is ur speed.....................................this person is trolling.......likely they have only been on a lift a time or two if that....people who run around proclaiming their own greatness usually do so in order to hide their inadequacies from view...

To 2mrj

Don’t be so nasty in your comments. You do not know

if the person works in a club that does over $100,00,000.00 in sales or $60,000,000.00. HUGE difference in the amount of freight

that comes in.

ok speedy what ever you say...

2.5 hours to unload a truck?? That you are a slow driver. No wonder you s--- at your job. No I'm not a manager. Just a very good forklift driver. Sorry the job is to hard for you. Maybe members champ or door greeter is ur speed....

I am not complaining about the job, I am complaining about to much to do in one 8 hour period. Even the simplest and easiest job in the entire world can be turned into a nightmare if it requires more than can be done in a given time. A forklift is only capable of moving back and forth and up and down so many times in 8 hours. There is no physical way to make it do more. I do not care who you are or how well you drive there is no single human who can unload 3 DCs and a couple fresh trucks and run them to the steel in an 8 hour period. As has been said 2.5 hours AT LEAST to unload and run a single problem free DC to the steel. Three of them would be 7.5 hours. That plus breaks if you take them is 8 hours gone. No time for dock clean up , putting skids and bails away or wrapping and changing out bad skids. At our club the dock person also unloads all paper and water trucks plus runs all the stuff day shift unloads like pop and beer. Not to mention the awful mess left by day shift floor people and their skids they leave that need binned. We also receive the Mclanes which my itself is not bad but takes as much as half an hour or more if there are returns needing fetched from claims. If you by yourself can easily get everything done in 8 hours either you are not doing everything we do or you are not telling us about the help you get......I agree receiving is a great gig but even putting check marks on single sheets of paper would be monstrously difficult it you had to do it by hand at the rate of 2 reams an hour.............if you are going to continue telling me how easy it is then you must be a manager who only says how easy it is so you do not have to send your dock people any help..........

This is great. People b--ching about being a dock runner. You get paid more and you drive a forklift. Almost no physical labor, you drive a lift...if you get to hot from driving it has a fan...Oh no you have to do code dating. How horrible. Best job in the building. I love it...I enjoy my job everyday. In a high volume club. We average 2 to 3 DCs a night. 2 or 3 fresh trucks. All you gotta do is run them to the respected cooler or freezer....How hard is that....Bunch of cry babies. We have 2 dock runners. Sometimes two of us sometimes only 1. But it's still just driving. Stop b--chin

I was going to mention the stupid stupid stupid color tags but thought it might only be our Market and did not want to reveal where I am..lol..2 DCs and fresh are all can be done by one person ..a third would absolutely need another..unless some of you guys have a hyper fast lift ,,hahaha..indeed all the work we do as unloaders and we still get ridiculed if we need any help !!!..those who make us do it most have never done it and when / if they do they always do less than the expect us to do...........

Yup, only one person on our dock each night. 2DC's f/c and usually a m/p truck as well. Occasionally there is a 3rd dc to worry about too.

And yes, the dock driver bins the dc's, re-wraps when necessary, and NOW also has to do the ridiculous color-coded tagging on all the grocery items. AND THEY DON'T GET PAID ANY MORE THAN THE WINDOW LICKERS THAT PUSH PALLET JACKS, THAT PLAY WITH THIER PHONES ALL NIGHT! !!

2 DCs and fresh is ALL that can be done in one night by one person..and that is if there are ZERO problems..IE bunch of skids to re wrap..broken skids..tumbled skids etc...each night our dc sends stuff in poor condition ..things needing wrapped or restacked..our nights also unloads all paper and water and runs everything the day shift receives..each night the unloader begins not knowing if the are going to get any help at all or if so how much..can't afford breaks because that lost half hour is precious forklift time lost....but by golly they sure preach that breaks must be taken and then with a wink and a nod turn a blind eye to the unloader on the verge of a heart attack and ulcers.........

Lol.. it legit takes like 2.5 hrs to unload and bin a dc... our day time receiving helps run whatever water or paper we receive when they come in but usually 2 dcs a night and f/c trucks are no problem to get done

I don't think he takes his breaks. No time. I agree it's ridiculous but that's what they expect.

expecting 1 person to unload and rack everything is ridiculous....so does your one guy get his breaks ? how much does he have on average?..

Yes. We only have 1 receiving person a night. They are to unload all trucks and rack all of it. I'm the lead and I sometimes come in at 2 or 3 to help him when he is buried in trucks.

The rumored receiving and ON stocking changes I would assume.

if what rolls out to the clubs??

Ideally dock associate pulls merchandise off truck, separates lables, dates and runs freight to the floor and stages merchandise on hardlines or grocery side. Then Ideally the forklift drivers on the floor bin it while picking and bining the drop list. Unfortunately some clubs don't have enough stageing space or enough lift drivers. Other clubs don't have enough stockers so the lift drivers actually have to spend most of their time stocking. It will be interesting to see how it pans out, if it does roll out to the club's.