Backroom associates are on a lift 90% of their shifts yet they won’t be getting a raise for being on a lift like the “forklift drivers” are for driving a lift for just three or four hours in the AM or the PM? Backroom unloads trucks and bins them in the reserve, helps stock out of stocks when unloading live loads, unloads fresh trucks and takes them to the coolers and freezers and drive lifts for basically anything and everything after the clubs open. Not quite sure what the reasoning is for them not getting the same $17 minimum as the forklift drivers on the floor that drive far, far less. That’s not even mentioning the astronomical amount of other tasks and responsibilities that Backroom has to deal with and take care of.
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I agree with the person who gave the detailed list of what back room involves. It is everything that involves maintenance, inventory, quality, cleanliness, too much, not enough, wrong item, broken. Any problem all comes back to us, and specifically me, who has 30 years experience.
Backroom is insane in a high volume club! 4 Dc’s a day, on top of Pepsi, water GP, P&G, water trucks fed ex/fed ex express ups. There is barely time to get a lunch in. None of us ever get a 2nd break. PM shift is same, dock is packed to the doors and with only 1 afternoon backroom associate it’s hard for them to do trucks and get the dock cleared. It ends up to be a snowball effect, so when the am associates come in they have to clear the dock before they even start on 1 of the 4 dc trucks that are back logging outside and other trucks lining up to be unloaded. And checking in the stupid vendors, Oh, and, loading members for club pickup (we have NO club pickup associates that drive forklift). And claims. It’s the worst position in the club. Then we have a person that likes to call off and leave early all the time. Then when they call of so do others in retaliations. It is the most messed up area and I know because I’ve worked several other areas and been here for years. It just keeps getting worse.
Strange Backroom you must have. Our club’s Backroom slots DC trucks, Serta trucks, Coke trucks, Pepsi trucks, Dr Pepper trucks, Georgia Pacific trucks, Member’s Mark paper trucks, Procter & Gamble trucks, water trucks, etc. Rarely are our Backroom associates NOT on a forklift.
It’s because the backroom doesn’t slot merch! It’s a safety incentive for steel standard. And most back rooms are computer work. You don’t have multiple trucks everyday. Most DCs are night unloads. Back rooms go home at 12-12:30.
I wonder if media solutions thinks our club is closed, we haven’t sold a new magazine in 10 weeks. They are all on a pallet in back. Safe to say the Acosta partnership has been a failure. This has been going so well let’s also give them books, I wonder how that will go? :)
Backroom can do all the mixed pallets.
So wonder what they will do with the backroom associates if they do away with the position
oh, ok, You should ask to be transferred back to the register instead of crying about how hard it is hiding in the back all day.
Acosta is a friggin’ joke. They are totally worthless. They don’t even know ho to use a pallet jack. Lol.
To the person that said “calm down”,: I was a cashier for a year and a half and then receiving/backroom for 5 years. I’d choose being a cashier every second of the day. Go to the backroom and then come talk
You have almost 0 member face time. Calm down..
BAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! (Acosta)
I agree that something strange is going on with the Backroom position.
But for those that think that it will be going away - what will be taking it's place?
There are so many moving parts with that job - Receiving, Claims, Auditing, Invoicing, Merchandising, Accounts Payable, Haz-Waste, Shipping, Ordering Supplies, Ordering pallet trailers, Ordering bale trailers, Submitting Service Channel requests, Clearing the journal, Writing and keying MTRs, Liquidation, Making bales, Running freight and binning it in the steel, Stocking water. Loading palletized Orders, Loading Donations, Keying and processing damages, Watering the forklifts, Pre-opping the Forklifts. ( And what ever special project that the managers fell like assigning to the backroom associates).
And that is just a typical Tuesday...
Serious question- who/ what job code do you think the backroom will be absorbed into?
Or, is Acosta going to take it over?
I agree, the people that are making these decisions must have never actually worked in a club, Recieving is always helping all other who are unwilling to get a forklift license, complete 💩
I’m pretty sure they’re going to be eliminating the position here soon
Maybe the job is going away?