Being understaffed and how much can be expected when you're trying to do a lot on your own. Sometimes I feel Walmart is unreasonable when it comes to expectations.

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we've been short staffed in electronics, photo center only has 2 employees and one has been gone for military training, and only 1 person in connection center. one person quit for the summer and the AM took another person to sporting goods.

i get there at 1 today and theres me, 4 other associates, and 2 DMs, one for cc/photo and one for electronics. one dm is forced to cashier for 3 hours because there are no cashiers today, and one electronics associate. that leaves me, a photo center person and 2 others. we were doing the TV mods because they just changed.

i got yelled at by my DM today because there was no one in connection center, no one in photo center(well there was but she will disappear for 30+ minutes at a time, outside of her break or lunch, and when she is there, she doesn't do anything.. i dont understand)

I was running between connection center and photo, because I was the only person there that knows how to do post paid accounts and specialty prints(canvas or w/e), but the DM yelled at me to do MY job and to stop "dicking off"

do I just tell the customer "please come back tomorrow, we may have someone scheduled then, but I'm not allowed to assist you because this department is not my job title"? honestly, what do you do?

at one point the AM came up to ask me the situation on the pc software mod status. I say i'm not sure, but the DM was pulling a few labels and replacing them earlier. the am checked it and said no you're wrong. why aren't they done? i went to go print off the labels to do them, and the mod was confirmed by the DM.. today. the am starts to yell at me asking why the DM confirmed the mod but didn't do them right. like goddamn idk lol

i got there at 1 pm, and tv mods weren't finished until 7 pm. the only 2 people pulling the tvs down and putting them up were me and some other guy. i'm 130 pounds, 5'8 and 15% bf..i cant lift much, and another guy thats even scrawnier than me. you know how hard it is to lift a 65" inch tv thats above your shoulders? -.-

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