Originally Posted by
Pendulous
So, how was my first day in produce? It was stupid. I get there, and all they really had me do was work backstock. Ok, fine. But I know how to stock things. To be fair, I had to learn how to stock certain things because it's produce. I learned how to shuck corn. Or, I learned the definition of shucking. But like, these people don't know how to train. They all leave, and it's me and a fairly new guy who transferred from the deli. I was teaching him stocking tricks.
And then, they pulled him to work in deli for two hours. I mean, if they needed him, fine, whatever, but they left a brand new guy, me, in produce for two hours on his own. You just don't do that. I was seriously scared to fuck anything up, because it's produce, apparently the most important department in the store.
So, I know how to stock. I know how to clean, but I needed specifics on what to clean, and hell, where the goddamn cleaning supplies are (I assume they keep their own and don't have to use maintenance's shit). We didn't cull, which is going to the floor and finding all the bad shit and taking it back to the dump bins. Also how to input all that information in, so it can be registered as "damaged". This is all the stuff I needed to know. But we didn't have time to cull, we didn't zone, and I spent the last, oh, 45 minutes holding up a goddamn fence post. Wait, what? Yeah, see the fresh area manager got an idea to build a fence around the pallets of watermelons, open up one end so they fall into the bottom pallet, and maybe even a little slide they can slide down. Whatever. But while they're putting it together, me and the grocery support manager had to hold the shit up while they drilled it all in. Oh, and of course they messed it up.
Maybe I'm just upset because I'm used to going to work and knowing it so well I can basically shut my brain off. And because I can't learn everything in one day. BUt damn, they wanted help over there. They should, I don't know, maybe focus on that help.