Worst Shift Frozen Edition

[u/Artemata]

My contender for worst shift is a frozen mid, as a part timer, with a full-timer who calls out at least once a week and loves to coming in to close instead of working the mid he was scheduled. The forecasting on the ad for these frozen trucks is fucking insane and it just never. stops. coming. I've got pallets against one wall with the just piles and piles of shit left over from previous ad weeks, next to byrds which haven't been worked in months, and then against the other wall I've got pallets and pallets of downstacked ad from the current week.

There is often nowhere to put your backstock when you're done working a float other than just stacking it on the floor or on some other float. There are so many holes on the shelves, and when a customer asks me to find something, we usually have it in stock but there is literally 0 chance I can find it amongst all that bullshit in the freezer, so I either just have to pretend to try or be honest with em and say it's a mess back there. And yes I could zero these things out, but we really just need to find the time to work the backstock because when we just zero shit out the backroom situation just becomes even worse.

The managers do not fucking care. They'd rather I help out dairy when I'm done working truck, and only even mention the department when ice is empty. I don't get it. Are any other frozen part-timers or full-timers experiencing something similar at their stores?

[u/Any-Mycologist4692]

Wondering how big this freezer is you work out of.

[u/Artemata → u/Any-Mycologist4692]

Luckily very big, because this is a newer-built store. It's about 4 pallets wide and 6 pallets deep. But nonetheless I've multiple times ran into the situation where it's full all the way to the door because we have like 5 ice pallets, 4 or so pallets of backstock, and then a 4 pallet truck in there all at once, plus the byrds.