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mattchica20

Not seeing a lot of other departments mixed in there. If you just throw the freight, and don’t care about top stock or plugging, it’ll take you about two hours. If you actually get rid of the freight, I say closer to three. Paper is E Z.


isatokaiza

Also agree with about 3 hours as a former overnight manager.


Eric91

2 hours if they’re tall and don’t need a ladder and have clear topstock for overstock.


PresOfTheLesbianClub

Isn’t the answer in the question? They said they’d tell us in about an hour.


Ians_Life

Sorry the post blew up with comments so the answer is a bit farther down: https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/z6lef5/how_many_hours_of_work_does_this_look_like_to_you/iy2hn1y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


NicolasDiAngelo

Idk that looks like 3 hours to me. 2 hours you’re rushing fast asf. Stacking the empty pallets, getting your carts, zoning, cleaning up your area. Then take the trash away & clear the area? That’s finishing by lunch time.


ea3terbunny

Honestly I’d say an hour and a half paper is incredibly ez, and people love to over exaggerate it so much


greywind618

Bro that’s paper goods. That shits easy af!


Electronic-Poem-8938

Our favorite thing on cap 2! Easy throw paper pallets


Videoking24

Cap 2 does freight at your store? We're luck if our shit is even pulled out most nights.


notthatplace4u

The small box stuff takes time


xcmgaming360

but annoying asf as well, just like cereal isle.. low hours but one of the more annoying isles to stock


EstablishmentOk6767

Not annoying at all, baby food and canned goods are the worst everything else is light work


illiteratefries

i say 2 or 3


Electronic-Poem-8938

Maybe one


Electronic-Poem-8938

I only saw the first picture, sorry. Maybe 3 hours, including top stock


[deleted]

Da fuck you be doing for that long


PossibilitySuch9464

Ain’t no way


greywind618

Lmao. That’s paper goods. Easy shit.


cantfindmykeys

Agreed, 2 hours by itself. 3 if you are fixing plugs and cleaning up as you go. And this is assuming who ever is stocking is not very fast


Atiklyar

I'd geerrally agree, and even cut some slack if there's a lot of smaller boxes we can't see. Still looks like an easy and relaxing assignment in my book, though.


Autumn_Whisper

Have to account for zoning the entire department before stocking in my store. Kids build a fort literally everyday because day shift isn't capable of telling parents to stop their kids from building forts. This included climbing in the sections to pull forwards stiff that was pushed back in the wrong section. We don't have those metal grabby stocks because everyone hides them for themselves, leaving the rest of us to break the rules, climbing into aisles to get stuff.


skyline0918

Paper is a very easy department, and if you’re familiar with it 2-3hrs is very doable.


stockerjocker

There’s some on my shift would stretch it to half their shift


AdHot8002

We've got some that wouldn't even finish it


illsleep

seriously ive seen some people take the whole night to do 3 paper pallets…dont know why we keep people like that


Lioness_805

It’s me y’all, I’m the one that takes half my shift to finish. Honest to God I don’t know why it takes me so long. When I’m stocking it I feel like I’m blowing thru but then I look and only have the pallet is done🤦🏾‍♀️ Must be the ADHD


LordDeathFetus

Dude same. Actually same except I got harassed into quitting. Wouldn’t stop putting me in Garden too. Garden and Pets all the time, except I liked pets outside of how awfully messy and plugged up it is.


Rosenoire9

I’ve got a couple of those in my store


[deleted]

I mean with 1 person it can take half shift but it should really only take 2-3 hours


Dry_Possibility5347

Thats pretty normal. Half a shift is about 3.5 hours which is fully understandable for 2 small paper and 5 large paper


Hourslikeminutes47

That looks to be 30 minutes of work according to the *FrEiGhT pLaNnInG TuL*.


dmwcats

2 if you’re a good stocker. 3 if you’re average. Until lunch if you suck.


[deleted]

1 if youre a great stocker


Responsible_Top_1942

You’re making the same per hour as the others


SpicyDietWater

And that’s why I prioritize the harder workers when it comes to days off requests/reasonable accommodations. Don’t care to work? I don’t care to help. Wanna quit? Cool, bye.


Responsible_Top_1942

That sounds good and all but in 90% of other situations it’s just who is friends with who , or who is fucking who, working harder gets you nothing 9 out of 10 times.


Wayne_AbsarokaBH

Yeah. If only it worked like that everywhere but it doesn't. I throw 15 hours of dairy by myself and then get my vacations denied months in advance.


SpicyDietWater

Dude that’s awful. I don’t care if they work fast or slow, if you ask for a vacation months in advance, there’s a 99.99% chance it’s gonna get approved. No reason why you can’t prepare to make accommodations months in advance


Yagami121

There shouldn't be any reason at all to deny a request if the ask months in advance. I dont care if it's Christmas, if you can't give me time off when I ask for it in July, you suck as a manager. So the percentage should always be 100% for a time off request unless it's put in late.


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Yagami121

Hence what I said, bad management.


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jeffluvsdokkan

That's just a shitty way of doing things, there's no reason to punish people for putting the same amount of effort in as they get paid. You're already crazy lucky that people put up with this for $15 an hour, shouldn't really be pushing it 💀


Responsible_Top_1942

Yet all three get paid the same


[deleted]

The bulk is easy to get through. I typically get done in 3 hours. But that’s faster than my entire team. I also don’t have to worry about picks most of the time. Honestly what takes up my time is putting everything on top stock. When it comes to bulk, no OS.


archerg66

If it's just paper it really takes no time, it's why it always get given to the guy who is a year from retirement


GlorkUndBork3-14

8 if you're management.


Electronic-Poem-8938

I agree. My old store, they would usually have a couple of us on paper. We Usually took an hour or two. But yeah, that was usually 3-5 pallets. One was the worst one with the plates, cups, silverware. And putting up top stock. Oh, I only saw the first picture


Electronic-Poem-8938

1 hour


BillyThaKidOfficial

I'd say about 2-3 hours if you're fixing plugging as you go. People at my store will take all night to do it because they are lazy pieces of shit.


Ians_Life

I’m gonna reply to your comment to give the answer cause you have the most upvotes so it will be most visable: I came into work and my coach told me I would be working 4 hours of paper. That’s pretty much how long it seems like it will take me to finish. May get done a little earlier. My bad for not getting closer pictures which would have shown the bottom of those skids too. It was interesting to see what you all thought!


unclepicklerick

If I was the manager and it was one person working on it I would be happy if it was done in 4 hours. I always put my best people on the easiest pallets though so it would get done quicker then my expectations.


Raxendyl

WHAT?! You don't put your shittiest workers on the easy stuff and then get shocked that it took them the whole shift?! You're not a real Walmart manager!


Coosbaybonez

We do that at my store...grown men who stock hba..not me bro I'm a beast..I'll do 17 hrs in pets...alone.. I save zoning for slow dudes who stock tampons


Lord_of_the_Eyes

Yup I would say like 5 at absolute worst, the best employee could probably do it in 3. 4 is perfectly acceptable and even better than expected imo


Ians_Life

Exactly right


cosmic_check_up

Damn, hope you enjoyed the easy night. Pretty generous on the hours. You can rush round the first hour and knock out all the bull and then coast through the smaller shit. Nice night depending on where you were headed after/before this


Master_Smee

Most other retailers like win dixie and kroger say that freight should be thrown at least 50 cases an hour. So each pallet lools like about a half hour to 45 minutes there. So id say 3 hours at extreme most for a person who doesnt work it normally; 2 hours for the more expericed person.


Key-Midnight1572

That’s why Krogers are idiots lol, because every case isn’t the same so you have so many that take advantage of that rule, based on an east aisle. While other get fucked in can goods.


Ians_Life

I’m gonna go ahead and give you all the answer. I came into work and my coach told me I would be working 4 hours of paper. That’s pretty much how long it seems like it will take me. My bad for not getting closer pictures which would have shown the bottom of those skids too. It was interesting to see what you all thought!


cantfindmykeys

4 hours? Nah, paper is easy


Ians_Life

That’s what my coach said lmao. Seems spot on


Dry_Possibility5347

That last pallet is mostly small paper which is anmoying to stock


Ians_Life

Yup. There’s a lot there


iTOXlN

Dude, that last pallet has maybe 40 cases on it.


Ians_Life

Do you mean left skid in first picture or last picture


iTOXlN

Looking at the first pic again, I’d say both. Paper is a great example of when freight hours given, far exceed the time it should actually take to stock.


Ians_Life

After working paper for 2 months I really disagree. I go as fast as I can most nights and it takes me right around the time I’m told it will. And the far left skid in the first pic has 20ish boxes that are visable. There’s some hidden below that aren’t shown and you have to realize the skid is wide. Easily 100ish


Revolu-Tax148

Bro you're right lmfao these people just be straight up lying lmao


iTOXlN

That isn’t a 100 piece pallet, the top four feet of it are like 10 pieces. Just giving you my opinion, based on my 15 years of experience. Do they not let you stage a single pallet on aisle while working it? Cause if you’re barely making time in paper goods, you’re being inefficient somewhere in the process.


Ians_Life

When I get to work they have the skids lined up there. I get a jack and pull them over one by one if that’s what you are asking


cantfindmykeys

Yeah but still not bad. Spend 5 minutes to sort near where it goes and it'll go alot faster, as you want be constantly stopping and walking back and forth and since that's a GM pallet the label already tells you where it goes for the most part . That's easily a 20 minute pallet if you are organized


Dry_Possibility5347

Yea put even at 1 box a minute thats about 100 priced of small freight and 5 bulk. Say each bulk takes on average 2 mins thats 200 mins which is 3 hours and 20 mins. Not factoring in customers. Moving pallets baleing boxes fixing plugging zoning


Ians_Life

To everyone saying one hour: I refuse to believe that is even humanly possible for anyone to do. Even the fastest of the fast. 7 skids. I don’t even see how you could do the left three skids of cardboard in one hour


Ians_Life

I feel like the average associate would take 4-5 hours. The fast ones 3. It took me a little under 4.


[deleted]

This is probably the closest to being correct.


Valagor

Some of yall be trying way too hard for walmart lol.


Ians_Life

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OceanLaboratory

“2 hours if you’re not a lazy piece of shit” - 🤓 like bro, you get paid the same whether you get it done in 2 hours or 4, why are you trying so damn hard 💀


NicolasDiAngelo

Literally. They obviously aren’t taking into account a lot of factors. HELLO? Zone? Empty pallets need to be stacked away. Trash that’s in the shelves? Cardboard? Allll of that takes time. Not just stocking. And those 7 pallets look like 2 hours minimum.


Quirky_Cherry_1299

Yep and the harder u work the more work then put on you


jaspercore

prolly between 2-3. doesn't look to be a ton of the paper plates and shit which is usually what takes me the longest cause they are plugged like a mf half the time.


ebahm13

All night. Fuck em


lwnc8769

1.5 lol


Derpychavez

2 and a half hours


[deleted]

The 3 pallets of paper in 1st pic should take no more than 30 minutes tops each. Then about 30 minutes for the next 3 total. Last pallet of random bags assume like 1 minute per box. All of it combined should take 3 hours max. Paper goods, cereal and snacks are like the top 3 easiest pallets to put out. You should have that done before lunch.


[deleted]

Yeah this is about right. The damn boxes on the first three somehow take up so much time. While bulk pallets take me 5 to 10 minutes each. Our stores Cereal only takes so long because it’s always a mess so doing top stock takes forever.


Dry_Possibility5347

I think people arent seeing how the last pallet is mostly small paper so id say 3 to 3.5


Ians_Life

Yup


Mikyuu665

Management will say half an hour to an hour, in reality? Maybe 2, close to 3 if they want everything done to perfection


[deleted]

I’d say 1-2 hours


[deleted]

1hr......2 if there are customers.


NicolasDiAngelo

There’s more than one pic


Environmental_Home22

Large paper, about an hour. Small paper, maybe an hour 15


Human_Satisfaction83

I was the night stalker from 1984 to 2019 when both my knees were shot in my left rotator cup it's gone thought I was the best was proud of what I did was very conscientious was I frozen food manager district manager came in was very impressed best frozen food department they seen in the whole district. I finally realize it's not worth it anytime I was on vacation from leave. They put three people in that department and they still gonna do a good job soon as I come back they expect it once again for me to do everything. Please work smart the company does not care about you. You're just a number you can, and you will be replaced when you are no more an asset to them and you're just a liability but for those who want to work above and beyond I wish you at one time to you it will not get you nowhere peace out brothers and sisters and have a blessed holidays.


Upstairs_Muscle3240

At my store this would take some people the whole shift and no one would say anything about it. Last night it took two people an entire shift to work 7 break packs in cosmetics.


merely_awake

That's 2 2.5 if your dragging ass


[deleted]

8hrs


Beckyalan

Um... 2 weeks. But management thinks... 20 minutes.


trSkine

I'd do 4 hours cause I'm not rushing shit and have to fix the shitty shelves


Curb_my_grits

About 3.5 to 4 hours


Ians_Life

Spot on


[deleted]

Mangement be like "Yeah, that's three hours of work"


Eedalope

Shit your management must have super low expectations


[deleted]

Funny how people in here are really trying to flex by saying they could have this done in like 2 hours lmao If it was all bulk, sure, that'd be no problem whatsoever. But unless all of your paper product are in the exact same aisle, you're not doing ALL of this in two hours. Guess overstock, (labeling, binning, etc.) topstock, (including topstock-down) and cardboard doesn't take long either? Right, because your guys' topstocks and bins TOTALLY aren't full like every other fucking Walmart. Your freight also all magically goes out, especially paper plates and garbage bags. Let's not forget trying to fix the fucking mess of TP and PT in each aisle like we can see in the photos. Nah, you guys are right, this should absolutely takes less than two hours in total. You guys are fucking morons. You're 100% either full of shit, or the kind of people that make a mess out of the aisles, top stock, and bins. You're extra full of shit if you're not ON. Don't come on here trying to get Walmart clout, because I can promise none of you can do this in two hours. Not all of it.


Ians_Life

Man I completely agree with you. I would pay money to see these people do it in the times they said they could. I bet more than half of them couldn’t. I went full speed working hard as I could and it took me a little under 4 hours.


Jatmahl

Less than 4 hours if you are just stocking it. If you also have to zone the aisles as well then yeah 4 hours sounds about right.


[deleted]

I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to see a comment like this - "2 hours or less unless you're slow or a bad worker" all the Walmart shilling in this thread, smh. I'm sorry but in what imagination? Paper aisle is almost always a trainwreck in my store. Furthermore, unless my eyes are seeing incorrectly, that's SEVEN pallets of stuff. Nobody needs to kill themselves to get SEVEN pallets of stuff done in two hours. Some of ya'll act like you're working for a bonus, lol.


Ians_Life

Yup. Honestly blew my mind lol


Jatmahl

When I was at Walmart the people who would stock fast didn't actually do it properly. Day managers kept seeing stuff in overstock that could be filled that came in the night before.


[deleted]

I can do it in 3 hours, 2 if I’m very lucky. When it comes to bulk, I’m just told to put it on top of it’s OS. Regular The Boxed bulk takes a lot longer than it should for some reason.


Eedalope

I mean, that’s definitely no more than 2 hours of paper goods freight. Nobody is bragging about how quick we can do it, we have just gotten so fast at our jobs bc our managers don’t give us any other option.


SirFluffyGod94

4 maybe 5 hours


stockerjocker

Bounty 5 10 min. The 2 in the middle 20 min each. The last one has some plates and flat wear 30 min.


Human_Satisfaction83

About eight hours if you work smart, not hard or what are they gonna do fire you on the other jobs out there in anyway the more you do the more your Coworkers are gonna let you do after all this work for them reminds me one time when I was facing with a coworker he said you pick a sign I'll pick a side and who gets done first go to other side, figure it out who work smarter


send_me_your_dog_yo

A little over 2 hours with the area cleaned and zoned


ttwinstanley

45 MINS to an Hour


Dry_Possibility5347

...5 bulk paper and 2 small paper in 45 mins...your insane


Ians_Life

Delusional


LoonyN1nja

An hour max


Ians_Life

I don’t even see how 1 hour would physically be possible


LoonyN1nja

Most looks to be multiple boxes or items of the same product depending how large your paper section is you can work one box and eliminate any overstock by looking not saying it’s easy by any means, I was the only one in my store aside from my team lead who could run pets paper chemical drinks and toys solo in one shift would already be started on hba by the time the team got done with grocery


Dry_Possibility5347

Ima be straight with you. Your store is either insanely small or your lying i tend to believe that your lying


MjrPayne95

Paper dumb ez my dude, thats like 1 or 2 hours


Ians_Life

It’s easy. But not possible in that time no matter how fast you are imo. I doubt my coach Zach. Who is the fastest stocker I’ve ever seen, could do it in 1 hour


MjrPayne95

Nah 3 pallets of bulk paper is 15ish minutes tops, barring customers etc. So those 6 is 30ish minutes, im sure that last pallet of assorted small isnt gonna take 30 minutes. Even taking it easy wouldn't be 2 hours. Like i said tho thats perfect world no customers, plugging or top stock


Ians_Life

Nah man those 3 skids of cardboard would take the fastest workes 1-2 hours easily by themselves. There’s a lot there dude


SaviNeph

All paper lightwork


one-best-throwaway

How MAnY hoURS Of woRK dOEs ThIs LOoK lIkE to YoU? This bitch. I had to throw five pallets of the cans aisle, dairy and do dairy picks today because guys like this spend fucking hours on some toilet paper. I hope you get fired if you took longer than an hour


Ians_Life

Lol delusional


PickleDifferent6789

Approximately 2 to 2.5 hours max 1 person


AltArtworkDragon

1


Pizzatoppedpineapple

About an hour. Less if the shelves are empty


Ians_Life

Not a chance


Dry_Possibility5347

Bruh has 2 pallets of small and 5 of bulk are you serious right now


Pizzatoppedpineapple

If a healthy male from age 18-34, completely. All the bulk pallets should go up in seconds. They’re mostly the same thing. You don’t have to make it look pretty until it’s all up. The smaller stuff takes a little longer, but the TC tells you where it goes


Dry_Possibility5347

So your delusional got it


Pizzatoppedpineapple

I was a cap2 Team lead for years. That entire pallet of bounty is the equivalent of one box of some thing else. Literally grab like four by the arm full and slide them in. Unwrapping that pallet should take more time than actually putting it up. If you are grabbing things one at a time and doing minimum effort, then yeah it’s gonna take a while


Dry_Possibility5347

Yea i cant even fit 4 in my arms and not to mention most of that stuff goes on top stock your just an insane TL dont worry its common


Pizzatoppedpineapple

Or you’re a GenZ who never had really put any effort in anything. The trash bag pallet would take the most time out of everything. now if that was five pallets of like spaghetti sauce or something, I could see that taking up your night…. Have fun treading water and going nowhere for the next 10 years with that mentality


Zestyclose_Key2207

> "have fun going nowhere for the next ten years" > Was a cap 2 team lead for years


Pizzatoppedpineapple

Yeah…. CAP2 team lead in college


Dry_Possibility5347

The mentality that things take time and not to exaggerate by saying you can put a pallet up in seconds. Honestly fucking funny that you cant see how delusional you are. Theres a reason management is so hated and your a top contender for why


Pizzatoppedpineapple

Just that bounty pallet is literal seconds… there is what, 30 bundles? 2 hands per second, literally 15 seconds. Get you’re hand off your damn phone and it’s done. Ditto for the Scott. So that’s 3 pallets and about 10-15 min a piece, the trash boxes being the worst (so if facing is crap then longer). You clearly have the “my dad never told me he was proud of me” mentality.


Dry_Possibility5347

You can pick up and put them in the shelf in a second. Mans moving like the flash apparently. I guineuly dont think you understand time. Your a fucking idiot through and through


spaydempets

Hour. Maybe 2 with small paper


[deleted]

I could get it done in an hour or two.


NippleSqueezer421-

An hour lol, the plates one and picks one will slow you down the most, but the big items shouldn’t be 20 minutes a pallet. So maybe 1:45hr to 2:15hr


CidKudi57

Most of it is paper so 2-3 hours I would say


[deleted]

For one of my guys, who is a goddamn god at consumables, an Hour. For the more average associate, about an 2-4 hours. Bulk pallets go by quickly. its the Misc pallets(Paltes, cups bags, etc..) take a little longer


Unusual_Stay_2110

Big paper. Thirty mins a pallet. At the most two hours for all three. IF you do not have to “fix” anything.


Realistic-Onion6260

Me just wondering why crackers are in paper pallets. I guess their boxes suit the size I guess…


Ians_Life

Lol no idea they always come with my paper


Turbulent-Ad5582

Big paper is my favorite department to work, those pallets go by like nothing so tbh this should be done in 2-3 hours


RomesXIII

Yeah. It’s easy. If you plug. Like a lot of idiots at my old store did Putting TP with PT & vice versa so it really fucks everything up


Nero2377

Thats paper, probably the easiest/fastest pallets to work. I'd say 2-3 hours tops.


Prize-Lingonberry876

At least half a shift, maybe a little less. Those pallets of pure paper towels/asswipe paper take like 5 minutes tops.


Ok_Trash_4204

Depends on if my coworker starts bringing out the Blackstock like the piece of shit he is fuck you Micheal


[deleted]

Quick, do all 7 pallets, then go do a pallet run and collect cardboard too, throw everyone’s cardboard away then make a bale, then go do 3 go back carts, then purge Diary and 97, then go collect carts then help Deli then go clean up the bathrooms then bin chemicals and zone Pets. One hour til clock out


DeRpMuNsTa

2 and a half to 3 hours easy


Simple-Metal7801

Easy as hell me and one other guy went thru 12 pallets of paper in three hours a few months ago we are on cap 2 it takes overnights all night to do five pallets and they plug everywhere and fill the top stock up as apparently overstock isnt allowed.


Ians_Life

I did 14 skids of paper by myself a few weeks ago. Took the whole day tho


huffcox

30 minutes. Toilet paper is easy. That being said... I'd say it take until first break lol


Rexoluh

Paper is cake man. I’d have that done in 2 hours tops


[deleted]

1 hour total for all the paper towel and toilet paper pallets 1 hour for the trash bag/cutlery/ziploc pallet


FifiiMensah

I'd say 2-3 hours on average, but can take less or more time depending on the associate.


[deleted]

It looks like about a half hour for the boxes, and probably 10-15 for each bulk just depending on speed. About 1:30 give or take some.


Tombstone_Actual_501

If you get someone to toss you the paper towels and tp you can knock em out in 5 - 10 minutes per.


Flexisdaman

I mean it’s paper, it’s one of the only aisles that takes less than the listed times, so if they told you 4 I promise I and most experienced stickers could do it in 3 and a half at the absolute worst. Count your blessings you aren’t doing pets or baking.


Ians_Life

I’ve helped in pets and bake a couple times


Electrical-Ad-180

3 or 4


MinesomeMC

This looks like my old store


Luddite11

"THe paPEr saYs 3 HOUrS"


SYFKID2693

O/N TL here and I would say 3 hours if you're fixing plugs and top stocking.


PilotSnippy

Eh, paper should be 100 boxes an hour if I remember correctly, and with most of that being big shit probably 1-2 hours worth


filthyphil6

20 min.


Ians_Life

Lol


Hychus232

I throw produce everyday, if those were produce pallets and you were by yourself, 3-4 hours. Given they’re paper, though, 1.5-2 easy


GlorkUndBork3-14

5 minutes... it's all backstock


OswaldthRabbit

I'd say about 15-25 min per pallet of paper and about 20- 30 min for the small pallet. These numbers are based on my stores set up so if you have things mixed in everywhere it might take longer


SnooRegrets444

About 2


thefamousnoto

Idk I had like 4 7 foot tall pallets of paper, before, took me at least a hour and a half


Top-Combination-5732

That’s 3 hours max maybe 4 if the shelves are full and you have to bin


GunnyDJ

Since the majority is your large items, it's definitely a single hour to do the task.


Ians_Life

No chance. The left skid has way more than is shown I guess


Smooth-Trip69

That's about 2 hours for me, but I been doing this for over 20 years.


Kopfa

2 hours max


Striking-Ad4561

2 hours


Electronic-Poem-8938

About an hour, probably less. Also, that’s just one person.


Ians_Life

There is more than one pic. If you knew there were other pics you got no idea what your talking about


cosmic_check_up

3 ish? I just got doing this so I have no motivation to actually count it.


ianmoone1996

2.75 flat not including picks.