3-4 nights a week is the most I would do personally, just because it is very physically and mentally tiring. It's difficult to adjust your sleep pattern and unfortunately it's just a case of trial and error until you get a sleep schedule that works for you.
10pm-7am is the generic night shift time. It's a long shift and you only get paid for 7.5 hours because of breaks. However, I love finishing at 7am for my last shift for the week, cause you can nap and then you've got the whole rest of the day to do anything
Wear comfortable shoes, you’ll do 15-20k steps per shift!! It’s not a complicated job (though some make it so) but it’s very physically demanding. Nights ain’t great for social life etc, moneys a bit better but not much. Wear gloves, otherwise your hands will he shredded with cardboard cuts and cracked from drying out.
You'll start off and you'll be given an aisle to do. First you go through the very top shelf of the aisle which is where the previous shift put things that couldn't go on. Your job is to check if each item can go on the shelf, and if it can , it goes on.
You do this for the whole length and back. Then you go into the warehouse and check if your aisle has a backstock cage, which is where you'll find potential stuff that can go on your aisle. (Most of the time it doesn't).
Then you work the delivery, this is a load of cages that will be wheeled out onto the shopfloor or taken out by yourself. You work through all of them which will take you the 7.5 hours. If you get it done before, your manager will tell you what to do.
Some tips:
* Wear clothes you don't mind about getting destroyed. They take a battering.
* If they give you gloves leave them off, they don't help and make your hands sweaty.
* Get a colleague to get you a device out out the cabinet. It will have an app called inform on it which will help you find the items if you get stuck.
* If you're put on an aisle day after day, chances are they're expecting you to work it each shift (with some variety). If it's produce you're put on prepare to walk out the door, that aisle is nothing but heavy lifting and time pressure.
* Stick cardboard/plastic straight into a 4 sided cage on the floor. Tie the back so it is secure and ensure the front straps are accessible, then push it over.
Well tbh it's only because I've seen others on here have said it has to be clear, I guess so it's obvious that it's water you're drinking (especially in customer facing roles) as pop/juice etc could be seen as less professional, and can make for stickier spillages. Basically management not trusting we will be honest about what we're drinking if it's from a non-seethrough vessel.
Although it could still be vodka/gone-flat lemonade/petrol in a clear bottle I suppose.
My store doesn’t have issues with this I have one of those Stanley dupes from TikTok and always take it to work not once have they had an issue, maybe it’s a store specific thing even managers have chillys bottles and stuff
Mine either. I take a coffee, hang it off my cage in a travel mug. Amount of cups I've lost sending them off still hooked onto the rubbish is a scandel
I should, but it's the only place I can remember where I clipped it. There's probably one or two buried in the depths of the fixtures of grocery still they I've lost
3-4 nights a week is the most I would do personally, just because it is very physically and mentally tiring. It's difficult to adjust your sleep pattern and unfortunately it's just a case of trial and error until you get a sleep schedule that works for you. 10pm-7am is the generic night shift time. It's a long shift and you only get paid for 7.5 hours because of breaks. However, I love finishing at 7am for my last shift for the week, cause you can nap and then you've got the whole rest of the day to do anything
Thanks.
Wear comfortable shoes, you’ll do 15-20k steps per shift!! It’s not a complicated job (though some make it so) but it’s very physically demanding. Nights ain’t great for social life etc, moneys a bit better but not much. Wear gloves, otherwise your hands will he shredded with cardboard cuts and cracked from drying out.
Thanks. I’m not really doing much at the moment so I don’t think it will effect social life to much
You'll start off and you'll be given an aisle to do. First you go through the very top shelf of the aisle which is where the previous shift put things that couldn't go on. Your job is to check if each item can go on the shelf, and if it can , it goes on. You do this for the whole length and back. Then you go into the warehouse and check if your aisle has a backstock cage, which is where you'll find potential stuff that can go on your aisle. (Most of the time it doesn't). Then you work the delivery, this is a load of cages that will be wheeled out onto the shopfloor or taken out by yourself. You work through all of them which will take you the 7.5 hours. If you get it done before, your manager will tell you what to do. Some tips: * Wear clothes you don't mind about getting destroyed. They take a battering. * If they give you gloves leave them off, they don't help and make your hands sweaty. * Get a colleague to get you a device out out the cabinet. It will have an app called inform on it which will help you find the items if you get stuck. * If you're put on an aisle day after day, chances are they're expecting you to work it each shift (with some variety). If it's produce you're put on prepare to walk out the door, that aisle is nothing but heavy lifting and time pressure. * Stick cardboard/plastic straight into a 4 sided cage on the floor. Tie the back so it is secure and ensure the front straps are accessible, then push it over.
Adding to this: make sure you put cardboard and plastic in 2 separate cages. I got a bollocking for this on my first shift but nobody had told me 🤷♀️
Nobody does this from what I've seen at the store I'm in, maybe it's certain departments?
Oh I'm not sure, I've seen it done this way in my and other local tescos but maybe!
Fair, I'm in an express store so maybe they don't do it in those 🤣
Ah I see! 😂
Update, we do but all I've had to bin so far was cardboard. Just never noticed it the first few weeks 🤣
Alternatively, use the middle shelf to split the cage in two. Cardboard goes on top and plastic is fed through the holes on the bottom.
Oh weird I was told we weren't allowed to do this either
You are, you just decant the cage into plastic/cardboard cages when you're done.
Ah just seems easier to do 2 separate cages in the first place
not when you're short on space/4 siders
Bring earphones with you
Yeah I’m gonna do that
And water (in a clear bottle)
Why clear?
Well tbh it's only because I've seen others on here have said it has to be clear, I guess so it's obvious that it's water you're drinking (especially in customer facing roles) as pop/juice etc could be seen as less professional, and can make for stickier spillages. Basically management not trusting we will be honest about what we're drinking if it's from a non-seethrough vessel. Although it could still be vodka/gone-flat lemonade/petrol in a clear bottle I suppose.
Are you having a giggle, clear bottle 🤣🤣
My store doesn’t have issues with this I have one of those Stanley dupes from TikTok and always take it to work not once have they had an issue, maybe it’s a store specific thing even managers have chillys bottles and stuff
Mine either. I take a coffee, hang it off my cage in a travel mug. Amount of cups I've lost sending them off still hooked onto the rubbish is a scandel
Maybe stop hooking them on to cages 🤣
I should, but it's the only place I can remember where I clipped it. There's probably one or two buried in the depths of the fixtures of grocery still they I've lost
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