MAC.BID Reviews

The powers that be here do everything in their power to make sure their employees don’t make too much money. My first day here I learned from the girl training me (not management) that you get raises based on how many scans you get. Cool, right? Don’t get too excited. Management will interrupt scanners for regular meetings, where they lecture you about accuracy and no matter what you do, it’s never enough information. Info too easy to find? No worries, here comes a Lowe’s truck, from which you have to spend 15 minutes researching what just came down your line because nobody vets returns and people can just bring anything back no matter what condition it’s in. Turns out that $800 Husqvarna covered in blood and guts and fragments of skull Lowe’s doesn’t even sell through their website (or anymore, anyway) so you have to make your own listing. More time wasted. On some items you just gotta give up. People unloading the trucks don’t pay attention and if you call them out on it, you get yelled at. They just keep mindlessly overloading your line and you’re a big meanie for side-eyeing them for trying to stack a treadmill on top of a mirror or big clunky car parts higher than you can comfortably reach. That’s the ones who aren’t invading your personal space to “load your line” while you’re trying to capture a decent camera angle of your box. Suppose you’re new there and you’re on a good streak…well, that streak’s gonna come to an abrupt halt when the manager screams at everyone to quit scanning for 40 minutes, and then within an hour of resuming your work, you’re told to quit scanning an hour and a half early to “consolidate”. So, naturally, because everyone working there is in some kind of clique, that means they get to stand around and socialize for the last hour and a half when people who like to actually like to work and feel productive and want to prove themselves are bored out of their skulls trying to make the most of that time while rude customers shove past you as you’re trying to get the aisles looking presentable. Then everyone gets yelled at for doing nothing else with their “extra time” for standing around talking, but I hate to say it - as much as I hate cliques, it’s extremely boring. I didn’t apply to consolidate. I applied as a scanner, which is what I assumed I’d be doing from 8:30 to 5:00, excluding my assigned breaks. Crazy! (What am I gonna do with a 40 minute break? I don’t have any friends there and there’s nothing around. I don’t drive and I don’t have anywhere to walk. It’s in an isolated industrial park.) I think, though, what really annoys me is if they aren’t gonna let us scan past a certain time because apparently “consolidating” is more important, they should at least offer us the option to let us make more money through overtime. I got yelled at for punching in early because I depend on someone else to ride me into work and I don’t wanna have to sit there doing nothing for an hour before being allowed to clock in, when I could really be doing something useful with that time. So, we can’t make extra money through that raise they (kinda) dangle over our heads because it lowers our scan count, and we can’t make extra money through coming in to start work early. It’s Christmas. Lots of people are really strapped for cash right now, but I guess upper management’s bonuses are more important or maybe they can’t afford to pay us all. So let’s keep everyone making the same exact paycheck, even if some of us do work harder than others.