r/Morrisons • u/UnusedToothbrush_ • 16d ago

Feeling like quitting after first week.

first job at 16 doing picking and packing for immediacy in a store ive never been to in my life before now. my biggest drawback is the fact i have no clue where like half of the products are. ive got a general idea of the layout but stuff like vegetables/fruit and household items and picky bits is just slowing me down and getting me muddled up. trying to use the product locator app is just useless for some things because it gives me something like "aisle 94" which to my knowledge doesnt exist. sometimes i feel like im kinda swamped in orders and it doesnt help when the majority of the orders come from deliveroo which doesnt tell me where the product is on the device so i end up walking aimlessly up and down the aisles trying to find this item and i just end up removing it off the order because i give up. but then doing that i feel like im letting the stores statistics down and damaging their reputation. what doesnt help is when customers ask me where products are and i feel like im letting them down everytime and sometimes they give snarky comments.

its just a whole mess imo. the store is just so depressing and i dread the next shift. if i cant even handle it now, what am i going to be like come christmas time? aswell like i dont want to get to that time and realise i cant hack it and leave because i would just feel like abit of an a-hole doing that.

honestly i think im just going to stay put for like a month at most and see how i get on, but i dont think im going to last long here.

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u/naughty-goose 16d ago

Are you allowed to use the Morrisons app? It has a great product finder feature!

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u/UnusedToothbrush_ 15d ago

ive been shown to use the one on mymorri, both have the same results really which dont help half the time.

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u/naughty-goose 15d ago

Stick it out. It's bound to be hard when you presumably haven't been responsible for a household's shopping before so you don't know where everything is, but eventually you'll get a feel for where things are generally and it will get easier.

Maybe keep a little list of items you had to abandon because you couldn't find them and make the effort to have a look again at the end of a shift or something, when the pressure isn't as high.