4:04 pm
10/3/25
What a fuck show this week has been. Work has been a DISASTER. I mean, my team is doing fine as a whole, but Wednesday they sent us 31 pallets. 28 if you take out the 3 water pallets. That may not sound like much until you realize that you have to load in each item individually. We left 4 pallets and around 18 carts worth of freight. Yesterday we got 21 pallets, plus the 4 pallets we had left over from Wednesday AND the 18 carts.
We left 5 pallets and 18 carts.
Then three of my workers got mad at me or hot headed because some kid who isn’t even a manager asked me if I could move my frozen pallet and carts so he can get to his totes; because his team lead told him to get those. Something like that.
I said sure, I’ll move it into the freezer hallway but it’s stuffed.
I moved it and he got his totes and then three of my workers got mad. They said I can’t let people push me around. Excuse me? I failed to see their point.
As a team lead, I make a lot. A lot for what I do.
My department is very important. If we don’t do our part, the whole system falls apart. There’s no items for online orders and if we don’t stock the system then everyone’s else that depends on those items fails. It’s like we are the fuel in a car. Everyone else does their part in the car, but the car fails as a whole if you don’t have any fuel. Or oil. You get the picture.
Our job is so easy and for what we make, it’s ridiculous.
We do not work hard.
We do, but like work-work.
Okay, pretend that you have to make sure each package is facing the correct way. That’s all you do, the whole time, for all your shift. Now everyone else has to pick up heavy packages and deliver them in this amount of time. You get paid the same, but you work WAY less and your job is more important than the guy picking up a heavy box to deliver. Your job is to make sure the boxes don’t jam up the machine.
Does that make sense? Then I come in making twice as much and I have to lead, not work, and rely on my team to get the job done. Understand?
So when an associate from another department makes a big deal over some fucking empty totes, do I bitch? Or do I help and understand than A) I make twice as much as their associate with a title and none of the management pay and it’s the most work I’ll do my entire shift, or B) move it because I have nothing to do?
Would you be mad that you made the same amount of money and worked three times as hard as my team? You look over and my team is putting meat into food safety bags or checking eggs to make sure none of them are broken, and you’re all man, I have to be in the sun loading these cars and they’re over there watching TV as they check each egg.
Then you see me, the team lead, eating a snack as I jam out to my giant speaker, hanging out with my team.
I want to say that the other team leads are a little angry because my department is so, comfy. It’s so easy. High paced but easy.
I have to have a team meeting today to explain it to them. That it isn’t worth getting riled up because some associate from another department gets mad that we have some shit in their way. We make more than them and work 90 percent less hard than them. Of course they’ll hate us. I know the other leads look at me all mad and shit and I’m all, damn, sucks to be you but that’s why you have that job that involves people.
I also forgot to pay my rent again. I didn’t get my money order so I went to the store and they couldn’t sell me one because my ID has expired. For fucks sake!!!
And of course, OF COURSE my apartment doesn’t do it online. I can but it wouldn’t accept my card since it’s a work card. They pay me three days ahead of payday. Now I have a $100 dollar late fee. Lovely.
Oh and a few of my associates told me to tell them to fuck off but we have a no bully policy.
I want to get my team something for all their hard work. Sodas and ice? I can have the store do their thing to make it come out of their pocket. SOMETHING. SOMETHING to tell them that I appreciate all their work. We nailed it last night.
One guy said that if anyone yells at me they’ll punch them. DAMN DUDE. He is DOWN to fight. I keep telling him that he needs to redirect that energy into his work. Nice guy, but he gets riled up easily. The less hands on I am, the better. At least that’s what upper management tells me.
I like it when I come to work and everyone is off doing their own thing all huddled together, laughing it up. And working of course. Everyone gets a long 99 percent of the time. There’s that one percent when someone will say so and so doesn’t work and I’ll have a team meeting about doing your part. When everyone does 5 percent, the work is easier for everyone else as a team. When someone does 25 and one does 5 percent, no, it isn’t fair. That shit doesn’t fly on my team.
I see too many team leads not holding their workers responsible for their work, all the while relying on the ones who do more than everyone else because they’re picking up the slack.
That girl that looked like Mariana no longer works there. Bye secret work crush. I was sad Wednesday but, people go where the money is at. Or get fired. I don’t know…
This has been a long ass entry. I have to get ready for work now. Time to go be the best with the best team. We have such a bad ass job. Chill, easy, and fun.
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