Posted on 06/30/2006 6:14:42 PM PDT by proud_yank
A scary crackdown. It's bad...
Our manager pulled the three of us aside tonight and laid down the law...
Don't worry--they're locked outside.
Put they next to this, er, lovely door-to-door salesman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1620250/posts?page=368#368
About the Evil Elecronics Department??!! What did he say??!!
No, it had nothing to do with them, sad-to-say.
The problem is with "safety hazards," a.k.a. "boxes that aren't stacked at least waste-high."
Thing is, in our store, we have what's called freight, which refers boxes to stuff that goes in our department that we stack on the edges of aisles, and gradually do it all as time goes by. Then we get a new truck coming in and get a whole bunch more. That's how we fill our shelves; we don't do overnight stocking (which works better).
Well, there's been a rash of accidents in other stores because of people tripping over boxes that aren't stacked high enough. We haven't had ANY at our store, but they're cracking down on us anyway.
And the thing is, they keep finding those boxes in our department, even though we're working hard to stack them high enough. They told us today that starting tomorrow, if they find ANY more not-high-enough stacks, we're going to start getting written up...and if it continues, heads just might roll.
That is just ridiculous.
Sounds like someone is coming down on your manager hard, who's head it is that may roll.
Well, what they're going to do is this:
The store manager is coming in EVERY morning and scanning our department like a hawk. If he finds any boxes not stacked waste-high (I'm not sure who's waste we're going by...some people are taller than others), then the person who worked till closing the previous night is automatically getting written up.
Me personally, I have to close only one night out of the week. But I don't want to see ANYone in my department get in trouble. It's the last thing we need. So I'm very worried about the guy who DOES have to close every night.
You don't think anyone would do anything to sabotage your department, do you?
No, I don't think that at all.
However, when people in other departments are bored and having nothing to do, they very often come over to us to help out. (Ours is the busiest department, hands-down).
Their help is great, but many of them don't understand the safety rules very well...and often, THEY are the ones who leave the messes.
Unstacked boxes are one thing, but empty boxes lying around was something we ALL almost got burned for. Fortunately, I think we've effectively stopped that, but the not-high-enough stacks are being treated just as unfavorably.
Hey everyone! Just here at Busch Stadium watching the Cardinals play - top of the 10th, tied 7-7.
Have a good evening!
*whew*
Hello all.
what's happening?
Just watching espn and drinking 7up(no caffeine here.)
It's 10:45 and I'm running the AC because it's 80 degrees both inside and out. Gotta love Florida sometimes. /s
I can understand it. Hit 90 up here...
Waiting for my Mac to upgrade to 9.1 and FReeping.
You two were falsely accused that night. ;0)
Dead thread?
It gets pretty bad when people are talking about the weather.
Definitely dead now.
True, true.
And I definitely don't want anyone else to deal with such a situation...8^)
Had to step out to guinea-pig the thing
Dang--9.1 won't boot. Looks like the max I can run is 9.0.4...
Hey! How's the weather?!
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