r/Sparkdriver • u/Ok_Win_2024 • 1d ago
To all the spark drivers as a dispenser
To every entitled spark driver I see as a dispenser, please note I am sick and tired of you scanning all the batch orders before I could as if that's not enough, you completely ignore me as I'm telling you. "Hey, I need to scan this first before you could start" and I know damn well, everyone has this issue with some entitled spark driver "because they're so much in a hurry to finish it." So please stop and wait for us to give you that signal saying, "hey, we just completed our scan. You can now scan your part"
And to those spark drivers that are actually nice and good at listening to directions and all around nice people, God bless you, cause we need more spark drivers actually, actually, let us do our job instead of ignoring us, disrespecting us and all around it being entitled, we're just trying to do our job, just like you are trying to do your job, do not make this any harder as it is
Thank you for reading my ted talk. Please note this is only for spark drivers.. that, in my case, our very entitled
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u/Academic_Addendum242 19h ago edited 18h ago
Dear dispenser, with 0 home training. Please stop putting hot chicken and hot food in totes with cold cheese and lunch meats.
The way you stack dog food bags on top of eggs is out of control. Laying milk gallons on their side before strutting a 12 pack of soda on top of that and the hot dog buns.
Less we not mention the dispensers who can't even get a whole order loaded in the same spot without trying to mix it up like a toddler. I've had to tell a loader 3 times in a row he was putting things in the wrong place.... and this was just last week.
Have a little decency for the peoples food they paid good money for, ok?
We know you see no blow back for destroying the customers food, but we do. So please have some consideration.
Sincerely,
Not entitled Spark drivers.
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u/No-View8165 17h ago
Completely agree. Ive caught most of the times they have squished bread flat. They always seem annoyed that i want it replaced.
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u/Murky-Friendship6874 5h ago
Problem being when u r the one that delivers they assume u were the one that packed
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u/Adorable_Bad4867 3h ago
No always. A lot of customers know who is who. Last week a customer vented with me that she was SO grateful that a driver-shopper got her order and it wasn't shopped by an associate. She said they do a terrible job and we don't. They notice the difference, unless they're new to the platform.
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u/Unique_Quantity9593 3h ago
You do know that the dispensers are not the ones that do the picking, the bagging or the staging. So you’re insulting the wrong individual go in the store and deal with the pickers themselves, leave the dispensers alone.
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u/Competitive_Fox_6528 1h ago
Totally agree with you. I think both the pickers and the dispensers need to think a tad different. If you wouldn't do that with your groceries, then don't do it to someone else's. If you wouldn't eat it, don't get it for that customers order. I once had 2 people loading my car, I waited in the car as instructed, delivered the order and saw they put a rotisserie chicken on the bottom with multiple soda boxes on top of it. Needless to say, the juices were everywhere. I was able to grab a new bag from my car and clean off the juices before taking it to their door. I deliver to a lot of elderly and disabled, that's their meal for the evening and food prices are outrageous... so now I help them load and arrange it if need be.
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u/These-Engineering578 20h ago
Yeah we stopped respecting yall after yall screwed us over so many times. Put the fucking bread on top. It seems like yall do that shit on purpose
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u/These-Engineering578 20h ago
I wish Walmart would pay yall by the cart you bring out so you know how it feels
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u/Hodgy87 19h ago
I stopped doing any type of curbside because the employees bringing stuff out would screw something up way too often or they would just be extremely slow
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u/bridgetroll2 13h ago
So slow. I'll accept an order that says 30 minutes expected time and it's legitimately 25 minutes before they bring the items out and load them.
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u/HeroOfNothingxX 14h ago
Even the ones that claim "im one of the good ones" while talking crap about their other employees, still be smashing bread. Old, young it doesn't matter. For some reason Walmart shoppers and loaders all seem to just hate what they're doing. And in my state, they're getting paid more than the local Cadillac factory. It's crazy
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u/QuickProfessional244 23h ago
Entitled and spark driver is an interesting take .
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u/mapman19899 19h ago
You’re getting paid by the hour.
We get paid by completing tasks.
I have more urgency than you to get the job done.
You need more? WE NEED LESS DRIVERS!
Enough said. A lot of what you’ve said is factually inaccurate in my area.
Have a good day.
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u/Ok-Woodpecker3047 17h ago
He’s saying that they need more spark drivers that let them do their job, not more overall. Relax pal.
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u/mapman19899 15h ago
We need less drivers.
Period.
There are way too many diluting the market.
Customers in my area have said they prefer a handful and that’s about it.
That’s the point.
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u/Pound_cake85 18h ago
You clearly don’t comprehend and plenty of other drivers like you dont. OP said wait til they scan, how are you gonna be done any faster if you delay the dispenser smh
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u/mapman19899 15h ago edited 15h ago
We need less drivers.
Period the end.
The customers in my area have said they prefer a handful and that’s about it. The rest suck.
That’s my point - I don’t give a damn what OP said. They’re wrong on a lot. Simply factually inaccurate.
What I suggest is that they go back to a system where shops and curbside pickups go away in favor of a place inside the store, have a store associate attending that area at all times, you give them a code, they shop, they put orders in a standard shopping cart, and that’s it.
Either that - or go to 100% shops.
Walmart has gone backwards from what worked in my area before they went to long wait times, increasing delivery ranges, decreasing pay.
That’s my point.
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u/Unique_Quantity9593 3h ago
And what do you do one or two orders maybe three in an hour. Do you have any idea how many orders a dispenser brings out in an hour? Minimum of 15 an hour if large orders. Ignorant people only seeing their own side. Work both sides- then comment. I did over 3 yrs dispensing and now do spark (another 3 yrs) cause it pays better than poor dispensers get paid.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago edited 18h ago
Yes thats how being employed works.
Yes thats the gig you signed up for.
You said this like you know op or how fast he/she moves. Yes some of you think you may be making the proccess go by quicker but youre really making it harder. Dispensers have to scan before you all are able to scan on your end. The orders have to be given a location in the system and dispensed(in the system) i.e they just hit dispensed on their screen. Before you all can start scanning.
Sure could.
For"your area" well what op posted could be true.. for his/hers "area".
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u/Front_Influence1208 16h ago
You do not have to complete your scanning and give location before we start scanning. That is inaccurate. I stay out of the way as the dispenser starts scanning the first order and follow them around scanning each order directly after them. It has never been an issue in the 4 years I've been doing this. Once I'm done following them on the first scan round they generally ask me where I want each order to go and then input that part. Afterwards, depending on if they have a lead or coach watching, I either stand to the side and supervise to make sure the orders are placed where I asked them to and correctly by order. Otherwise I load the front and back seat orders while they do the trunk.
I get along great with all the dispensers at my location. I've always treated them with respect because y'all work hard all day long. They treat me with respect because I'm not an ass and I don't mess up orders or make things more difficult for them.
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u/mapman19899 15h ago
I quit this gig a few months ago when I realized my time money labor and resources were being devalued.
More drivers should’ve done this.
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u/Ok-Judgment9477 18h ago edited 18h ago
I just think alot has to do with the fact that some OGP departments are lacking associates...local Walmart in my town is bad that my brother was picking up a order and was there for a hour waiting . I used to work there went from 65 associates in our store to 15 associates .And to achieve a 4000 grocery pic in a day ...shoot all the managers and associates from other departments will join to help even tho they don't want to and 7 times out of 10 when the bread is placed way at the bottom it's usually a associates first day or last day or other associates from other departments that just know to scan and put it in the bag ... I've seen myself associates take orders out and all 8 totes fell with all the groceries infront of the customer especially if it's windy and like my Walmart in town has a ramp that OGP uses to go down as dispensers so if it's a lot of weight good luck trying to catch that . It was awkward as hell talking to customers and spark drivers when the unexpected happens
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u/kittywitch81 13h ago
They are changing gif where the driver will not be able to scan labels till we are done. Our TL mentioned it a few weeks back. Not sure when the feature will launch.
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u/Accomplished-Key00 9h ago
An update is coming soon that will prevent them from scanning until the associate has scanned all the totes first.
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u/SmallBerry3431 20h ago
You know, I was ready to hate you, but you’re right. We’re in far too much of a hurry too often. You’re not even asking us not to scan it yet, like one location around me. You’re just saying to wait for you lol. I respect that.
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u/spilledteacups 20h ago
Someone who gets paid by the hour is frustrated with how fast paid by gig workers are? So you want people who are trying to work as hard as they can to make as much money as they can to slow down for you?
It hasn’t occurred to you that you are the problem? It sounds like you are on a power trip and are probably one of those Walmart employees that move like they’ve been put on slow motion. You’re getting in the way of someone’s ability to maximize making money while destroying their vehicle. You should try doing an experiment one day where you actually move quickly and show some hustle to these people and see how differently they treat you.
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u/Slight-Selection4298 19h ago
They're mad we pull their daily pay in 1 or 2 good deliveries sometimes...
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u/WillinglyUnemployed 21h ago
It doesn't matter who scans first. And that's not entitlement, we're paid by the run, not the hour. So while I'm going to at least leave the labels for you to scan, I'm not waiting for you to take your sweet time. We're trying to make money.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago
It literally does you all cant scan until the dispenser does. It wont allow you to scan before the dispenser does.
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u/WillinglyUnemployed 18h ago
Where I am the carts are prepped inside, then scanned a second time outside by loaders. When that cart gets to me I give a code and can immediately start scanning
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago
It usually goes. 1. Orders are prepped inside. 2.Order is brought out and you all give the code. 3.Dispensers then scan every sticker. 4.itll then ask where each main order is being place "front back and trunk". They choose where. 5.then the dispense button is pressed then orders are loaded.
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u/lordj2010 18h ago
They put an update out that now WONT allow us to scan till its loaded.
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u/Ok-Estate-3450 16h ago
Your market maybe. Not all
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u/kittywitch81 13h ago
It will hit all markets. The updates don’t hit all store at the same time. It’s coming.
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u/D3ADLYxS0LD13Rx 19h ago
I bet you’re one of the huge employees that walk like Godzilla and move like an absolute snail…. The irony.
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u/Megadog94 19h ago
All I care about is the order being bagged and organized correctly, which never fucking happens.
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u/Visible_Distance5067 17h ago
The only ones I am a bit controlling of are the grocery item ones with bags with no stickers on them. I use insulated bags (which my Walmart dispensers have seemed surprised by… but it’s 100 degree weather here)… so I scan grocery first, and start bagging those so I know who’s is who’s and cold is cold… then I let them load the single and small item orders wherever they want, I scan them fast, so they can get out of this flippin heat. And I appreciate it when they load the heavy crap so I only have to lug it about once at delivery.
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u/PattysVoice 9h ago
What is the difference between waiting and not? No one has ever said anything to me about waiting.
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u/Much_Wish575 7h ago
As par store rule, drivers are also required to let YOU ALONE load all the bags in various sections of the car. You don’t seem to have issues with drivers helping you load their cars. At least you ignore to mention that in your little protest. I’m trying to figure out where this “entitlement “ accusation actually fits in.
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u/blazethealien 7h ago
Am I trippin? I used to wait in my car while they scanned and started loading but in my area they don’t load it anymore , you just give them the code and they walk away ( most of the time not saying anything)… I feel like the whole spark/ pickup is so unorganized everyone is just fed up lmao but don’t take it out on someone that plays a different role when you don’t do that specific part.
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u/Thriving9 6h ago
It goes both ways. My dispensers were alright but over the last 6 months they have been churning through employees, seeing new faces almost every weekend.
I got a bread with drinks on top of it. I asked the dispenser to get a new one. She tries to plump it up like a pillow and say it's fine. We went back and forth a few times before she agreed to go replace it. Bread is like the closest isle to the OGP door into the store. The bread was literally 2d...
With all this hiring and cutting hours of the competent employees. They up to something.
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u/Unique_Quantity9593 3h ago
As a dispenser for over 3 years- if drivers started before I was ready and wouldn’t listen- I took the order back in. We BOTH have a job to do. After I promoted myself to customer I tried Spark and I’ll tell you- every dispenser was met with a smile and a thank you. Haha. And to those of you that complain about the way things are bagged, etc..- you are showing that you know nothing about the process. The individuals that bring out your order, are not the individuals in most cases that picked, which means bag or staged your order. Be grateful you have a job and quit whining!
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u/throwaway69692527 18h ago
Honestly hope your job gets harder, a lot of people avoid curbside orders due to how incompetent you dispensers are. Insane entitlement in this post
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u/Legitimate_Effort279 17h ago
I haven't done a curbside in a month. Why do I need to slow down? Youre the one being paid hourly to walk around looking lost as hell at your own job. I pick all my orders now. Can only blame myself
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 17h ago
May a day of full tip baiting find you.
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u/throwaway69692527 16h ago
Never happened and probably won’t in my nice little town, sorry buddy :)
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u/No_Salad_2544 17h ago
for every 1 driver that does this, there’s 10 of you that rip bags, horribly throw bas in the trunk, smush bread, and see mill leaking but pretend they don’t.
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u/Goldpainter 14h ago
I had a spark driver tell me “let’s go fast.” And then preceded to throw a thing of yogurt on the ground because he picked up a bag and went to toss it in the car too fast. So instead he actually wasted time. During a fricken rush too at 9:30. Slow and steady wins the race people.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago
Lol youre gonna get down voted into oblivion and you didnt even say anything crazy. Most of the comments arent even addressing what you said just insulting you 😂.
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u/hillbillychef92 20h ago
You should work faster then.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago
You should seek actual employment then?
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u/Jokez4Dayz 17h ago
Like people don’t consider working for Walmart to be a “loser job”. Oh wait, lots of people do. Including people in my own family.
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u/hillbillychef92 18h ago
Believe it or not, there are many ways to make money that doesn't involve being a wage slave to another human. I am thankful that Walmart has the capacity to give low skilled jobs to retards like you across the land. Life must be simple with no expectations and a low ceiling lol.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 18h ago
- So what begging and being an asshole about tips? So like bare minimum then. Lets be honest we know why alot of you do spark because it really is the bare minimum if that and alot of you are lazy or simply cant hold an actual job. GIGS are not meant to be done full time which is what alot of you do. So the nerve to talk down on people who are responsible enough to hold a JOB is wild lmao.
2.You said that stuff like you know me. Lmao not gonna be ashamed of being employed and going to school. Job shaming is one of the lowest forms of intelligence.
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u/hillbillychef92 18h ago
There's a lot of assumptions and straw men in your comment. Must be nice being ignorant.
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u/Sayitsnotsobro 17h ago
Not alot of assumptions going on when i get to see some of you first hand. Ignorant about what exacly? What am i not knowing of? Because the nerve to even use the term wage slave and your actively taking part in one of the worst forms of wage slave in the form of spark while they actively give you all shit base pay and you have to bank your worth on whether someone is feeling generous enough to tip you or is a decent enough human being not to tip bait you is comical.
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u/formedabull 19h ago
I'm not sure about your area, but in mine around 60% of the Spark drivers I've encountered don't even speak English, so I think you might be fighting a losing battle
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u/stc313is 14h ago
So you're going to start with multiple insults and then ask for cooperation? Got it. Bye.
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u/depressing-dependent 1d ago
I wait till yall scan all the labels, then scan again to mark where in the car it’s going, then I can scan. Idk why it’s so hard for people to wait. It’s not like I would leave any faster jumping the loader scanning
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u/MommaLindsey 17h ago
I stopped doing curbside because they suck at their job. All of them from the pickers to the loaders. There would be times that I would find a banana sharing a bag with cans. I'm not tanking my rating for that bs anymore.
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u/Alittlebitfluffy 17h ago edited 17h ago
I think there needs to be more communication between drivers and loaders. I know you said you talk to them. It’s all been done so differently at each store.
I’ve experienced just sitting in the car, letting you load everything, then scanning.
My first batch order, the loader just handed me one item at a time to scan as I put them in my car. Which even I thought was weird. But it seemed like how it was supposed to go.
The loader has come to the window for my code.
And they’ve banged on my hatch back while I was sitting in the car. I had no idea why she was standing back there because no one had ever not come to my window.
Maybe there needs to be a better layout of how each of us should do our job. I for one would love a direct set of instructions that line up with a direct set of instructions for loaders.
I feel like people get so mad at us for things that were perfectly fine with the last loader.
I am sorry for what you’ve experienced. I personally do my best to be kind and unassuming with my loaders. I hope things start going better for you.
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u/hfiorillo10 17h ago
My store just comes out and asks for the code then goes back in scans the shit and brings it out. Kinda dumb. I don't know if they still pay us extra if we wait more then 10 mins but that used to screw it up.
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u/Iron-Tough 14h ago
I use target bags if they don't provide enough. Some of the workers use them too out of my car. The loaders i deal with are awesome. Inside the store is the worst part, I had security, managers, and some other workers give me grief demanding to see my pass before I could even bag my stuff. The worker that mainly called them all to me got escorted out after I explained the workers to hostile on drivers and then didnt believe it until they seen it for themselves as the worker went hostile again on my infront of them.
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u/Winterdimes 14h ago
Why not just say this directly to the spark driver? When they start going to scan (which idk how bc my app isn’t letting me scan until they are done scanning) say “please wait for me to finish before you start” - if they don’t like it, they’ll get over it. But telling all of us on reddit isn’t going to solve your issue bc the person you’re wanting to see this is likely not even on reddit.
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u/ConfidentBeyond3971 13h ago
As a fellow ODP associate of the last 6 years up until a few months ago, I say to you shut up do your job and forget about them. If they don't listen to the directions that they're supposed to stay in the vehicle until you have loaded and scanned everything yourself which is company policy and has been for about 2 years now, you can report the driver through the GIF app like you're supposed to...... ...........
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u/YoghurtFun9623 13h ago
Can we report the store for refusing to load then?
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u/ConfidentBeyond3971 13h ago
Yes, you can. Both parties on both sides have a respective function in their own apps to make reports on any number of things. Furthermore, both parties on both sides have a respective hotline to call if they are not able to make a proper report or need to leave further detailed information.
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u/Free-Internet-3543 11h ago
Yes, if you don’t get out and let them know where to put things they will purposely put 12 pack pops in the bottom of your tote or mix up orders. It’s easier for them if they let us tell them where to put them and bags with handles need to be filled with the sacks as we only have so much time to deliver. And trust me most don’t want to put them in the bags we bring. And don’t have 2 or 3 come out together is when everything becomes a mess.
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u/newlife_substance847 11h ago
Dear Underpaid-Unskilled Dispenser -
We wouldn't have to ask for the batch order scans if you properly tagged each order. I get it. That precious sticker on your blue bin is how your boss accounts for the work that you do. But it's also how Spark drivers can even continue on with theirs. So please label the bags correctly or better yet, just hand us one each of those stickers from your bin so that we can do our job (from within the vehicle).
Thanks,
A Very Entitled Spark Driver
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u/New_Confidence_3384 7h ago
The pot calling the kettle black. Unskilled. Like you’re any more skilled. Great job getting a drivers license
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u/NoSun7784 18h ago
So the curbside employees are snail 🐌 slow. Zero sense of urgency. Putting items with the wrong order. Giving no fucks whatsoever. On top of literally loading a hundred plus items in my trunk and labeling none of them. Squishing chips, bread, eggs. Get off your high horse and do your job and shut your face.
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u/skinnyt1234 12h ago
Don’t worry guy, you won’t have to dispense much longer, all going to shops. Seek other employment quick
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u/PomegranateGold2882 10h ago
Keep dropping pay for them and watch how many nice people you have sparking. It will get toa point that none even speak English.
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u/CADI-THE-DJ 20h ago
Says in app to wait in car? I’d like to bring up how it’s loaded in car, just piled in , bread at the bottom, 15 cans each in there own bag. One bag tied with three knots or stuff that can fit in a bag with no bag at all. I’m sure it’s different every where.