I work as a specialist at a particular orange home improvement store , been there a month now, still barely trained, my coworkers assist and teach me here and there, however supervisors haven’t formally trained me or set me up for success at all. today they were short staffed in the receiving department where goods are unloaded from trailer trucks, and i was demanded by one of the assistant managers to go there and help them, i was never informed during my hiring process of this “draft” possibility nor was i trained for it, there are no safety measures in place here nor was i properly instructed what to do.

The Assistant managers that took me there left as quick as he placed me there, in that moment i was very confused and dumbfounded how i could be removed from my department to a different one, being unsupervised and untrained, i could’ve injured myself with the countless 50+ lbs items inside the trailer, but our dearest Assistant manager wouldn’t be there to know.

After an hour and some change, my back started to hurt and im overly sweating, this was a much different pace than the task and role i signed up and “trained” for. i finally found the AM pop his head in, i go over to explain my situation and he insisted i stayed, he berated me about how “ the overnight crew shouldn’t have to suffer while the department i’m in (flooring, 7 aisles, 2 current workers including me) has enough. At this point i walked out of his face and went to my department performing my usual duties till i closed. I did afterwards apologized to the overnight crew for leaving them, but i explained how pushing my body to where im physically in pain was pushing what i came tot he job to do, and i was put here with no supervision , what to do, or how to safely do things.

I’m shocked how this situation was handled, and the lack of care or communication on someone who’s an Assistant manager, mind you, if he cared for the overnight/loading crew, one would expect him to be aiding them himself but he delegated such tasks to new untrained employees, Am i in the wrong for walking out, what should i have done here?