The one way aisles at stores are kind of a joke. Even the employees don't follow them at my local grocery store.
The signs say "SHOP THIS WAY" not "WORK THIS WAY". There's a reason for that.
If the idea is to keep people distant from each other, the employees should follow it too.
Well, that's part of it. However the executive order in NY states to wear masks anytime one is in public, particularly when unable to keep six feet distance from one another. Walmart itself mandates all customers and employees wear masks at all times [since we often realistically cannot keep six feet distance from one another].
Our announcements on the radio specifically state that this rule is to "make it easier for our employees to do enhanced cleaning" etc, which is exactly right - we are not open 24 hours anymore and most of our stores never will be again - that's a shift we've been pushing for in corporate apparently for some time - and overnight people are not stocking anymore, they're disinfecting. So we have to stock during the day while people shop, and when they go both ways then our stockers taking up one "lane" in each aisle turns into people thinking we are "blocking half the aisle" when in fact if they follow the directions and shop single file, we have our required space to stock the items that they are there to get.
Unfortunately so many people are acting so entitled to ignore our requests and instructions that they've made it oftentimes impossible for our stock people to do their job for large chunks of time, becuase htey have to just stand off to the side and wait for people to randomly wander through. Often the customers will try to squeeze into small spaces and then glare at employees who are only there through this because we need a paycheck because we didn't have jobs when this all started that would get us unemployment that is literally more than twice our paycheck each week, which is what these people are in there spending on big screen TVs, video games, and junk food from doors-open to doors-close.
Which is fine - that's a bigger MyShare payout we'll get each quarter as employees (Walmart is the best company I've ever worked for - we get quarterly bonuses based on company sales/stocks; we get quarterly bonuses on top of that just because of Covid - not big ones but any extra $150/$250 I find in a paycheck is welcome; we get the "$1 per day degree program" where walmart picks up the rest of the college cost; we get the "free microsoft certifications" for people who want to eventually go into the software/coding side of the company -- al things I'll be taking advantage of/am taking advantage of). But if they could do it WHILE following instructions so we can get more products on the shelves for their buying needs, that'd be great, mkay
People who are concerned about contracting covid-19 at walmart are strongly encouraged to use our online grocery pickup service or the online grocery ordering plus delivery service. That is my job - e-commerce fulfillment in the grocery section. You can stay in your car, not roll down your window at all, just pop your trunk and we do the rest. But if you CHOOSE to come inside, then please follow the rules and directions and help us to help you to have the essentials you require.
thanks, we appreciate you!
(I didn't have a job until med-april. I joined at the height of the pandemic in my own county, during a time when our store had employees testing positive. We hired an entire second staff as temps, because nearly everyone was out on either mandated quarantine, or optional leave of absence. I'm thankful for the job, but as a person with two autoimmune disorders among other things, I would be even more thankful if people would stop acting
entited to ignore directional markers and just care a bit more about their fellow humans.
all that said, most of us do follow the one-ways even though they're not for us. The stock guys really can't. Those pallets can't be taken around that many tight corners, they really require a straight-shot down main aisles as much as possible. But since I can take the corners, I do. thanks for the discussion.)
Topic: Bitch and whine about how COVID-19 is effing up your life (Read 10733 times)
