Has anyone heard how this new schedule will affect high tier clubs and their receiving overnight crews? Has it been a seamless transition? I don’t mind the new schedule, worked it before, just wondering how freight will get run in a timely manner.
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Safety issues big time... our club is on new day stocking schedule. You go from having 7 hrs (with both 15 min and 30 min lunch break) to 3 hrs in morning (probably less then that cause you still have vendors coming in so you have to stop to check them in. Now mind you it's now 1 person instead of 2 so 1 water or paper truck gets to steel . You still have paper,soda ,Fed ex ,UPS and other deliveries (candy, books and tires) ok now you have too account for the size dock in your club small one your not getting a DC on with everything else. Large one yes if you still have time after receiving everything correctly . So that leaves the DC's for the 3 -1130 shift, but if there isn't space to leave or put one on dock DC's get behind cause 3-1130 leaves another 3 hrs to run that's if at 830 the members are all out of your club. Main point here is the product that is getting put out is being done faster and by newer drivers too cause most clubs have lost many of their long term drivers.
Just found out for sure my night shift is going to days. Don’t know the date yet but we will have a 6 week notice. I’ve been on nights 16 years and welcome the change but it seems like it’s going to be a pain being we have a small receiving dock and get 2 to 3 Sam’s a night. That’s not counting paper water and freezer.
17 years, congrats! I grew up in a blue collar town that back in the day meant that you didn’t have to go to college to make a descent living, work at the factory that dad spent 30 years at. Then the manufacturing bubble in America went POP, and I was just out of high school with no ability to go to college. I am thankful for the career I have had at Sam’s, and I hope my kids who are in college Nd getting ready to go to college, find a good job when they graduate. I cannot image going to college, graduating and not having a job to start to pay back the tens of thousands of dollars in student loans my kids generation now face.
I have put in my notice twice in the many years I have worked at Sam’s, and once I sat down at the exit interview but was talked out of leaving by one of my early managers. I am glad I stuck around, and while the company has changed a lot, it may not be right for some of my fellow associates to stay with Sam’s.
I’ve been with them for 17 years and I’ve seen A LOT of change myself in those years. I can only imagine what all you’ve seen. I’m not a fan about the switch but it is what it is. Like you said, I make a decent wage and the PTO is nice but I’m still debating on trying to get out.
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I have not heard about how the high volume clubs are doing with the switch, hopefully someone can fill you in. Congratulations on having a positive attitude about the changes, I have worked both shifts and know that it can be stressful work, but in the end I make a fair wage and have been treated well over the 20+ years I have worked at Sam’s.