Well great is a bit of an overstatement. It was as good as a first day could've went... kind of. I went in, punching in and out was easy, and I started training. The trainer was nice, but I feel like she slacked a little bit on some information. So that brings me here. Most of these questions have to do with fulfillment.
1.) Does your body (aka your feet) get used to the work? I worked 7 hours today and my feet are in so much pain. For fulfillment it’s just walking, walking, and more walking. And you want to be quick, too (my trainer was walking so fast that she was pretty much at a slow jog). I just know that I will not want to get out of bed in the morning.
2.) For fulfillment, can you take a break in the middle of a ship from store pick? I know you can’t for OPU bc you are timed, but I’m not sure for SFS. I ask this because I was in the middle of a pick and I could’ve used a break. I was getting restless, hungry, and dehydrated. I imagine that it will get easier for me to find a good break schedule after I’m done with training and not under constant pressure and supervision.
3.) Speaking of being dehydrated, how do you guys stay hydrated? I don’t think water bottles are aloud, and the water fountain sucks. My mouth literally had no moisture in it at one point. I guess I just need to get used to drinking a bunch on my breaks. For my meal break, I went across the street and got a huge water and chugged it in less than a minute, and I did the same when I got home.
4.) HOW DO YOU FIND CLOTHING? This is where my trainer went a little lazy. She didn’t explain the map of the store very well. When I was on my own, I would spend so many minutes trying to look for one piece of clothing. I know that I could ask the walkie, but i refuse to go on the walkie every time I need to find something. That would just annoy everybody. I could ask people that work in softline, but again, I don’t want to annoy them every 30 seconds trying to look for another item. It just sucks because the majority of the orders that I did was clothing. It’s so embarrassing because my TL probably thought that I should’ve been going a lot faster. It took me more than 4 hours to get just 2 orders done on my own because of clothing.
5.) They still didn’t have me fill out a W4. I wanted to ask HR about it, but they were very busy and gone by the time I got off. Should I just do it myself on paperlessemployee? I probably can’t get paid for any of the work I did since I don’t have the W4 filed.
Thats about it. I’m sure these things will get easier as I go on and get familiar with everything.
1.) Does your body (aka your feet) get used to the work? I worked 7 hours today and my feet are in so much pain. For fulfillment it’s just walking, walking, and more walking. And you want to be quick, too (my trainer was walking so fast that she was pretty much at a slow jog). I just know that I will not want to get out of bed in the morning.
2.) For fulfillment, can you take a break in the middle of a ship from store pick? I know you can’t for OPU bc you are timed, but I’m not sure for SFS. I ask this because I was in the middle of a pick and I could’ve used a break. I was getting restless, hungry, and dehydrated. I imagine that it will get easier for me to find a good break schedule after I’m done with training and not under constant pressure and supervision.
3.) Speaking of being dehydrated, how do you guys stay hydrated? I don’t think water bottles are aloud, and the water fountain sucks. My mouth literally had no moisture in it at one point. I guess I just need to get used to drinking a bunch on my breaks. For my meal break, I went across the street and got a huge water and chugged it in less than a minute, and I did the same when I got home.
4.) HOW DO YOU FIND CLOTHING? This is where my trainer went a little lazy. She didn’t explain the map of the store very well. When I was on my own, I would spend so many minutes trying to look for one piece of clothing. I know that I could ask the walkie, but i refuse to go on the walkie every time I need to find something. That would just annoy everybody. I could ask people that work in softline, but again, I don’t want to annoy them every 30 seconds trying to look for another item. It just sucks because the majority of the orders that I did was clothing. It’s so embarrassing because my TL probably thought that I should’ve been going a lot faster. It took me more than 4 hours to get just 2 orders done on my own because of clothing.
5.) They still didn’t have me fill out a W4. I wanted to ask HR about it, but they were very busy and gone by the time I got off. Should I just do it myself on paperlessemployee? I probably can’t get paid for any of the work I did since I don’t have the W4 filed.
Thats about it. I’m sure these things will get easier as I go on and get familiar with everything.
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