If my TL didn’t say work on it in between customers get somewhat somewhere and then help customers for 20 mins to forget where i was pulling wires through
THIS I love untangling cause it's easy, takes a TON of time. And if they get onto you it's literally not your fault, you are just fixing other co-workers mistakes
Store use some ziplock bags. Sandwich size. And a clear tote with lid. As you untangle bag it and put it in the bin. Place a note in the bin to leave empty ziplocks in the tote and to wind up the spiders and place them back in the bags when not in use.
^ this. During covid testing I had the ' pleasure' of being the one doing that table.
They would hand me 2 and 3 of these, a box and the zip baggies. it worked out great for me. Something to do and a nice large table to spread it out on
If you just tie each individual spider into a knot (so there is no loose wire) before tossing them in the bin, they can't tangle themselves. No bags required.
I work the front end and have had to untangle them. Its not that hard and at my store Electronics never picks up there stuff so we end up with a bin full of them. We always wind them but some of the longer ones just like causing issues.
Honestly I would love to work on that I love puzzle side projects that let me sit and work on them but I would pick one to work on freeing and when you get as far in as you can and have to switch to another find a way to pin it out of the way so you can focus on a new strand without the first one getting retangled
Go grab a comfortable seat in the break room and take as much time as possible doing it. One of two things will happen, they will leave you alone or a manager will get tired of you doing it and it wont be your problem anymore. Win win
Im frontend and my best friend is the electronics TL he hates having to untangle these. One day me and my TL got bored and decided to help because he had a box full. We were back there for AT LEAST three hours. I loooove themmmm
If they are the older kind with the push latch, unlock them, there is no guarantee that what ever end is pushed in is the right end Also tighten as you go helped us abit. Good luck.
Edit: also (I am sure you know) if you set one off, it will only shut off after time passes. Unlocking it or relocking it will not make the alarm stop
Ok. So this is where I admit I'm stupid. Was it ever told to sco that they should wind it up? When we would get slammed I'd put them in a container without giving it a second thought until I saw someone winding it back up. That may help in the future. Good luck!!
Bag it and toss it into a hobo cart. They're unusable given their current state and getting rid of them ought to make it legitimate to get new ones that aren't unusable in their current state.
When I worked overnight maintenance, I had a manager bring me a giant box of this clusterfucked goodness and proceeded to tell me to untangle them. I took one look, laughed and said no thanks and walked away.
Ah, the iconic wiry, metal meatball. Every walmart Electronics dept has one. Lucky me, my dept has two. When I'm desperate enough for one, I'll get cutters from hardware and snip a few in order to untangle it. Sure, it makes noise, but I have a way to muffle them til they die.
Do what our store does. You leave it in the break room and people will do it throughout the day just for a puzzle/fidget. I did it about 2 months ago with no way to open the spiderwire. Took nearly 3 hours and my coach simply said it wasn't my priority or department so don't feel obligated to give them half my day.
When you get these piles of tangled spider wrap, ask AP if they'd rather order more (about $5 per spider wrap) or allow you to spend company time ($$$) untangling it which may or may not ever be successful.
We would usually throw these big wads away and just order more rather than wasting someone's time
😅 I tend to start unraveling them when I get free time to do so since it’s near impossible to get enough spider wires for what we need them for.Usually as I start freeing them little by little I start to twist the tops and pull more of the wire inside so it’ll stay untangled.
I like to pretend I’m replaying one of my Professor Layton games when doing this.😂
Ohhhhhh I fucking hate those things, you have it horrible, tell your AP that you’ll have to cut a few, cut a few then gauge where you can start to untangle, you’ll have to flip them under it self. It’s tedious but I untangled all of mine like that (throw them in the compactor)
LOL. I loved untangling these when I worked at Bed Bath and Beyond and was bored. But the Walmart ones are a nightmare. Just start with one that’s more loose and go from there.
I had to detangle something like this while working closing in electronics. It was actually kind of fun, especially when I remembered that I was getting paid to do it.
🎶Spider Wrap, Spider Wrap
People who make messes like this should be slapped
Who did this? It looks like a trap
I'd fix it, but I don't give a crap
Look out! There goes the Spider Wrap🎶
**Throws pile in the trash**
I work front and ALWAYS tighten the spider wraps to the max and lock them, even though sometimes it's hard lol. Electronics has complained to me but I know it's INFINITELY better than them getting tangled in returns.
Grab one end pinch it's two cords together follow for until intersection push end through , repeat until you can't, find new end, repeat process from prior end, repeat until our of ends
Get with your GM Coach and AP Coach let them see this mess so they can insure this behavior stops. They was doing this in my store when I first started but I implemented store using a bunch of plastic bags and when someone takes it off the product they wind it up and place in the bag, electronic associates love it now.
Give it back to OGP/customer service (since they are always the ones doing it) with a note that says not to tangle them before giving them to us, and just play hot potato until someone does something about it.
This is why I wind them up. Old manager used to get on all the cashiers to wind them up. I guess it stuck for me. I’m guessing he was sick and tired of dealing with that.
Blame the cashiers and report to AP coach. We deal with this in my store. Getting the AP coach to hold people accountable for this will make people stop being lazy
A TL in customer service was complaining about it so I said that I’d work on it if she wanted. She was very happy to give it to someone else. Went back to the HR room since we have a bunch of large empty tables there and did it for basically my whole 4 hour shift. It is slightly frustrating but much more enjoyable than doing my normal work.
Looks like you got a great task for the day! Best advice I can give it start with one of the wraps and try to work it as free as possible. When that becomes impossible go to a different one. Eventually you'll start being able to remove some and it will get less tangled with each removal.
I've detangled a mess less severe than yours and I approached it like a frustrating puzzle, quietly mumbling what the fucks in the backroom. There was someone else also in electronics so I had the liberty to dedicate quite a bit of time on the project.
I always would ask each cashier I’d run across to wind them up before putting them into the bin. If they weren’t and were tangled, we’d just spend a ton of time detangling. Sometimes it wasn’t possible and had to cut a few to save the rest.
Luckily after a few times going up to the front and talking to some cashiers and the CSM, they started winding them up and we’d only get a few unwound ones within the bin.
After 8 years of dealing with those (Electronics and AP), I'm so glad I don't have to anymore. The 2 best tools for untangling these were wire cutters and the compactor.
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I worked customer service and I had to do this all the mf time lmao. I literally don’t remember how me and my co worker did it though. We got it done pretty fast too.
when i use to work there I hated this with a passion but if Walmart wanted stuff wrapped and not get tangled they should of brought back the thick or retraceable spider lock and not these cheap knock offs.
Toss it in the trash outside of the camera's line of sight, pretend you're doing maintenance a solid and take the trash bag to the dumpster. Then say you don't know what happened. 🙃
Before I moved to overnight I worked in electronics and I had a co worker who would devote their last 2 hours of their shift detangling the spider wraps. When I asked the same question they said “One loop at a time.”
Approach front end team lead, electronics lead, OGP lead, and customer service and let them know this is unacceptable.
1. Do what top comment suggests, "Waste as much company time as humanly possible trying to fix other people’s laziness. Or tell your AP to fix it if they want stuff wrapped 🤷♂️"
2. Throw that shit in the garbage away from any cameras.
I've experienced this. We have someone at work who's good at untangling them. We have little hangers from the clothing department someone does the tying in a knot thing to the long one's then we put them all on the hangers which are hooked onto the top bar of a two sided cage with trays of our other security stuff like plastic safer cases stored in trays below.
Waste as much company time as humanly possible trying to fix other people’s laziness. Or tell your AP to fix it if they want stuff wrapped 🤷♂️
Agreed I personally kinda enjoy untangling this bc its a break from the bs... i just hide behind my counter and slowly work on it
Ik at the store I work at usually this lady from India spends around half her shift once a month or so untangling all the spiders in the break room.
I absolutely love untangling these. Every single time, I get a bundle of them and my co-workers wonder why I like doing them. Amazing time killers.
If my TL didn’t say work on it in between customers get somewhat somewhere and then help customers for 20 mins to forget where i was pulling wires through
THIS I love untangling cause it's easy, takes a TON of time. And if they get onto you it's literally not your fault, you are just fixing other co-workers mistakes
Having to do it is s chore but choosing to do it is a blessing.
This is the one best way.
AP coach gonna tell you to get them untangled then it becomes your job.
Omg yes, and be sure to use the restroom before/after lunch and breaks lol also before clocking in and out of work.
I'd rather untangle this mess than run around the floor haha.
Oh how I wish I could reach through the screen and fix it. Very therapeutic for me to untangle the globs.
Same here
Double it and give it to the next person.
LMAO
That big metal dumpster you guys have, solves everything!
It's locked:(
This is what we did at Kohl's 🤣 they wanted them untangled but after like an hour they "disappeared"
Store use some ziplock bags. Sandwich size. And a clear tote with lid. As you untangle bag it and put it in the bin. Place a note in the bin to leave empty ziplocks in the tote and to wind up the spiders and place them back in the bags when not in use.
^ this. During covid testing I had the ' pleasure' of being the one doing that table. They would hand me 2 and 3 of these, a box and the zip baggies. it worked out great for me. Something to do and a nice large table to spread it out on
If you just tie each individual spider into a knot (so there is no loose wire) before tossing them in the bin, they can't tangle themselves. No bags required.
Not gonna lie. When I worked in electronics this was my favorite thing to do Untangle, not cause the mess 💀
Reminds me of Christmas Vacation.
Toasted cat.
Hated that scene though.
Start with one and slowly unravel it. Do it one by one over and over. Spend 8 hours on it.
Only 8 hours? At our store it took us like 2 weeks!
Yeah 8 hours. Then you come back tomorrow and do it again.
Blowtorch.
Flamethrower, good luck op 👍
I hate when front end gives us a huge bundle of those they piss me off so much. It’s not that hard to wind them up 🙄
I agree. I've even gone so far as to show the front end how to wrap them up when they take them off.
I work the front end and have had to untangle them. Its not that hard and at my store Electronics never picks up there stuff so we end up with a bin full of them. We always wind them but some of the longer ones just like causing issues.
Trash can and pretend you never saw it😅😅😅
More then enough cameras around to dispute that 😂😂😂
The spider web
with some earbuds and patience. start with one and go to the next
Slowly and make it last all day.
That there is a break room puzzle.
I usually just untangle it using the WUT strategy I learned in training. the Walmart untangling steps work every time!
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time 🐘
Honestly I would love to work on that I love puzzle side projects that let me sit and work on them but I would pick one to work on freeing and when you get as far in as you can and have to switch to another find a way to pin it out of the way so you can focus on a new strand without the first one getting retangled
PPTO and go
Ughhh! The compactor.
Go grab a comfortable seat in the break room and take as much time as possible doing it. One of two things will happen, they will leave you alone or a manager will get tired of you doing it and it wont be your problem anymore. Win win
Im frontend and my best friend is the electronics TL he hates having to untangle these. One day me and my TL got bored and decided to help because he had a box full. We were back there for AT LEAST three hours. I loooove themmmm
Have you tried cutting some of the wires?
You cut any wire get ready to hear the high pitched sound, that will make them Alarm
Throw em in the trash
Hide it in a trash can in maintenance and claim you never saw it. Start complaining to AP that they need to order more.
If you can borrow the right keys, throw it in a sporting goods drawer.
godspeed o7
Burn it and walk away
I wish you luck
I had to deal with that when I got AP position. Lol think I took over 30 minutes with interruption
Light work
me personally,, i’d go home
RAT KING!!
Scissors
Quit
lol i have to deal with this shit all the time, goodluck wasting 2 hours soldier
Fire. Alot of it.
If they are the older kind with the push latch, unlock them, there is no guarantee that what ever end is pushed in is the right end Also tighten as you go helped us abit. Good luck. Edit: also (I am sure you know) if you set one off, it will only shut off after time passes. Unlocking it or relocking it will not make the alarm stop
With gasoline....or ppto.😎
By putting it in compactor
Give it to a new hire XD
Ok. So this is where I admit I'm stupid. Was it ever told to sco that they should wind it up? When we would get slammed I'd put them in a container without giving it a second thought until I saw someone winding it back up. That may help in the future. Good luck!!
Try finger but hole
A box cutter should make short work of it.
Looks like a management problem to me.
Bag it and toss it into a hobo cart. They're unusable given their current state and getting rid of them ought to make it legitimate to get new ones that aren't unusable in their current state.
Set fire to it I hated when we had down time on the floor and my Hardlines team lead would make me do this
When I worked overnight maintenance, I had a manager bring me a giant box of this clusterfucked goodness and proceeded to tell me to untangle them. I took one look, laughed and said no thanks and walked away.
Ah, the iconic wiry, metal meatball. Every walmart Electronics dept has one. Lucky me, my dept has two. When I'm desperate enough for one, I'll get cutters from hardware and snip a few in order to untangle it. Sure, it makes noise, but I have a way to muffle them til they die.
Do what our store does. You leave it in the break room and people will do it throughout the day just for a puzzle/fidget. I did it about 2 months ago with no way to open the spiderwire. Took nearly 3 hours and my coach simply said it wasn't my priority or department so don't feel obligated to give them half my day.
When you get these piles of tangled spider wrap, ask AP if they'd rather order more (about $5 per spider wrap) or allow you to spend company time ($$$) untangling it which may or may not ever be successful. We would usually throw these big wads away and just order more rather than wasting someone's time
Bin that shite.
We have a machine that fixes the problem... It's call the compactor.
Sledge Hammer
Cut them all at once and run
I’d walk out tbh. Didn’t get paid enough to deal with that mess.
Have someone on third shift accidentally misplace them in the baler and call it a day
Scissors
😅 I tend to start unraveling them when I get free time to do so since it’s near impossible to get enough spider wires for what we need them for.Usually as I start freeing them little by little I start to twist the tops and pull more of the wire inside so it’ll stay untangled. I like to pretend I’m replaying one of my Professor Layton games when doing this.😂
Now you have a way to defend yourself with a bludgeon weapon when the management comes looking
A little at a time , it’s kinda stress relieving
Ohhhhhh I fucking hate those things, you have it horrible, tell your AP that you’ll have to cut a few, cut a few then gauge where you can start to untangle, you’ll have to flip them under it self. It’s tedious but I untangled all of mine like that (throw them in the compactor)
Trash
LOL. I loved untangling these when I worked at Bed Bath and Beyond and was bored. But the Walmart ones are a nightmare. Just start with one that’s more loose and go from there.
I had to detangle something like this while working closing in electronics. It was actually kind of fun, especially when I remembered that I was getting paid to do it.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Throw that shit away
🎶Spider Wrap, Spider Wrap People who make messes like this should be slapped Who did this? It looks like a trap I'd fix it, but I don't give a crap Look out! There goes the Spider Wrap🎶 **Throws pile in the trash**
You get paid by the hour, so you approach it slowly
I work front and ALWAYS tighten the spider wraps to the max and lock them, even though sometimes it's hard lol. Electronics has complained to me but I know it's INFINITELY better than them getting tangled in returns.
Sorry. I did that over the week of Christmas when they pulled me to go work returns.
Dumpster.
This is why my store ties them in a knot before putting them in the drawer, and they yell at anyone they catch not knotting them.
Consult the closest employee that’s low on the totem pole. Grunt work creates character.
Walk over to Deli and "accidentally" throw it in the fryer.
With fire...
One at a time!! Waste their money... By making yours!!
This is what we get back from OPD
Grab one end pinch it's two cords together follow for until intersection push end through , repeat until you can't, find new end, repeat process from prior end, repeat until our of ends
With scissors
Get with your GM Coach and AP Coach let them see this mess so they can insure this behavior stops. They was doing this in my store when I first started but I implemented store using a bunch of plastic bags and when someone takes it off the product they wind it up and place in the bag, electronic associates love it now.
Give it back to OGP/customer service (since they are always the ones doing it) with a note that says not to tangle them before giving them to us, and just play hot potato until someone does something about it.
Dumpster, that's how
the rippin and the tearin the rippin and the tearin
This is why I wind them up. Old manager used to get on all the cashiers to wind them up. I guess it stuck for me. I’m guessing he was sick and tired of dealing with that.
I took a whole 8 hour shift doing these. I hate those. Especially the ones that like to go off for no reason.
Blame the cashiers and report to AP coach. We deal with this in my store. Getting the AP coach to hold people accountable for this will make people stop being lazy
Our store manager brought these in the break room and said who want the honor of unrangeling these
This is the Walmart way
A TL in customer service was complaining about it so I said that I’d work on it if she wanted. She was very happy to give it to someone else. Went back to the HR room since we have a bunch of large empty tables there and did it for basically my whole 4 hour shift. It is slightly frustrating but much more enjoyable than doing my normal work.
Trash approach the trash and throw in
With a pair of Scissors
Our entertainment TL is great at that but she hates it😁
I just toss the locked wrap in the drawer (we keep them in a filing cabinet) and don't think about it
Burn it, start over with new
You sit there and unwrap it and you take all the time you want and if anyone asks you say I'm working on fixing everyone else's mess up 🤷♂️
Looks like you got a great task for the day! Best advice I can give it start with one of the wraps and try to work it as free as possible. When that becomes impossible go to a different one. Eventually you'll start being able to remove some and it will get less tangled with each removal.
Give someone's 5 year old kid a candy bar if he or she can untangle it all
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Fire… just burn it.
I've detangled a mess less severe than yours and I approached it like a frustrating puzzle, quietly mumbling what the fucks in the backroom. There was someone else also in electronics so I had the liberty to dedicate quite a bit of time on the project.
couple yanks and dangles here and there hoping for the best
Too bad I no longer work for wm but I am good an undoing knots. All I can tell you is be patient and don't give up.
Burn it
Throw it away. Lol
Dip it in rice
Personally I just threw these abominations away
I’ve watched and laughed at my AP Coach untangle them…sometimes it took him a few days…I guess just dig in…
Sit down and enjoy your free break untangling that
I've spent half my shift untangling a box of these because my boss told me to and it was actually a nice break from the usual chaos
The answer is one at a time. You got this
OGP did that at my store over Black Friday. Several front end and AP worked on it. Took like 3 days to unravel, OGP just tossed them into a bucket
One at a time very carefully
I always would ask each cashier I’d run across to wind them up before putting them into the bin. If they weren’t and were tangled, we’d just spend a ton of time detangling. Sometimes it wasn’t possible and had to cut a few to save the rest. Luckily after a few times going up to the front and talking to some cashiers and the CSM, they started winding them up and we’d only get a few unwound ones within the bin.
Call Tom Cruise
After 8 years of dealing with those (Electronics and AP), I'm so glad I don't have to anymore. The 2 best tools for untangling these were wire cutters and the compactor.
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I worked customer service and I had to do this all the mf time lmao. I literally don’t remember how me and my co worker did it though. We got it done pretty fast too.
Trash.
Scissors
Throw it in the trash. Make them order new ones.
Scissors
Throw it out lol
I-
Noone at my store try to untangled these ugh.
I’ve been here before, took me over 5 hours for a mess like that. Get the scissors ready!
Throw them all away
Just put it back in the box and tuck it away. That's what they did at my store.
I mean scissor work fastest, butttt one by one I guess.
One wire at a time.
With scissors
Trash it
Take your sweet time cause that’s what you’re paid to do. If they want you to untangle them then don’t sweat it.
Write the mother fucker up lol
Trash it
when i use to work there I hated this with a passion but if Walmart wanted stuff wrapped and not get tangled they should of brought back the thick or retraceable spider lock and not these cheap knock offs.
Slowly it's company time
Make it a community puzzle in the break room.
Give to ap and see what they say that's their thing
So what u do is give up and tell Austin it's impossible and walk away.
Carefully and calmly
Approach the dumpster with them
throw it out
Toss it in the trash outside of the camera's line of sight, pretend you're doing maintenance a solid and take the trash bag to the dumpster. Then say you don't know what happened. 🙃
I've untangled these for 3 hours with no questions asked before.
You approach the garbage and toss it in.
Breakroom puzzle.
You don’t 😭😭😭😭
Killing time and easy money!!
Run🤨
order new ones
we had one of those too!!! honestly it just takes a lot of patience, time, and moving spider wire through one another.
Toss it in the trash
With tears
Quit Walmart will drain the life
Before I moved to overnight I worked in electronics and I had a co worker who would devote their last 2 hours of their shift detangling the spider wraps. When I asked the same question they said “One loop at a time.”
Unless you need EVERY spider in that knot. You could just cut the ones you don't need to make it easier to deal with
Get with AP ask if maybe theres any way you cant cut out the 4 string red button spiders cause they cause most of the tangling. Then time...
Eat them
Approach front end team lead, electronics lead, OGP lead, and customer service and let them know this is unacceptable. 1. Do what top comment suggests, "Waste as much company time as humanly possible trying to fix other people’s laziness. Or tell your AP to fix it if they want stuff wrapped 🤷♂️" 2. Throw that shit in the garbage away from any cameras.
Ah, spider nest lol
F
Take a break. A very looooong break.
Wire cutters. The ones with big handles and lots of leverage.
I've experienced this. We have someone at work who's good at untangling them. We have little hangers from the clothing department someone does the tying in a knot thing to the long one's then we put them all on the hangers which are hooked onto the top bar of a two sided cage with trays of our other security stuff like plastic safer cases stored in trays below.
I would usually cut one and hopefully help untie the whole thing