Multiple departments are either short staffed, or have no employees, but management wants everything done as if they were fully staffed. Usually with the “back in my day” spiel about how 15 years ago they single handedly worked every piece of merchandise on their own, with no OT, an hour required lunch and mandatory breaks. All while one guy breaks down freight on the sales floor while shoppers are just staring at the boss reprimanding the guy working instead of actually helping and showing him how “it used to be done”.
I always thought management should be able to do the tasks they assign their subordinates to do. For example, “it takes 15 minutes to stock this section, I'll demonstrate.” instead of pointing to a piece of paper written by someone in an office who's an “expert” or something.