Corporate Policies ?

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Denvermike

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After reading this you may think it should have been the joke section. The sad truth is all this is TRUE.
I work for a BIG well known retailer. These are for real. If you try to detain a shoplifter, you will be fired on the spot. No questions asked. A while they took out the alarms at the exists that go off if the anti-thief devices are still active. The company said the noise was bothering the customers. If we have an active shooter in the building, one of the things the training video said we can do is to attack the person with the gun. The training video doesn't say to use a 10-32 machine screw, a roll of duck tape, or a 2x4. There a LOT of Lithium batteries around. No mention of these in any of the training. Also no Type D Fire extinguishers any where around. Some of the poeple in my dept. have had their hours cut. We were told it was seasonal adjustments. The same day a new hire started work. We sell about a hundred 20lb. Propane tanks a week. Someone forget to check stock last week. We ran out last Sat. Still wainting for the delivery.
Sort of makes you wonder doesn't.
Mike
 
Corporate America seems to be run by idiots. It makes you wonder how any of them stay in business? When we do our level one safety brief before a meeting, we do the active shooter reminder also. We have modified ours from the standard Run, Hide, or Fight to, Push an idiot manager towards the shooter, Run, Hide, or fight...lol. And yes, we do it with managers in the room!
 
Lunatics running the asylum: We have a computer program dispatch out or jobs in the morning and through out the day. We used to have a warm body do that for us , sometimes even with a courtesy call. Now its "The System"...no idea where jobs are in relation to where you are. My first job Monday was in Wilmington (12 miles west of office), 2nd was in Long Beach (9 miles east of that, getting closer) , third was in Laguna Beach, 34 miles SW and a 62 minute drive! GTFO, I wasn't even to the job yet and my phone gave me an alert that I had only 20 minutes to complete the job! F that. It took me another 30 minutes to pump out and ventilate the manhole! Management doesn't want to hear it as "they have no control over dispatch". There really should be some "jump" meetings where its the guys in the trenches talking directly to the regional directors, no management present so we can tell them WTF is going on out here.
 
If you think that you are working for or around idiots, get work at a different company.
Today, about every employer in the US is looking for qualified and capable employees at all levels.
Remember, while the perspective employer is interviewing you, it is your responsibility to interview them, to make sure it is a good match.
There are also numerous ways to use the internet, stock holder reports, networking with others in your employment field, to get information about a perspective employer.
If you think everyone in Corp America is an idiot, maybe it’s time for you to start your own business and make your mark.
Being so smart it should be easy.
 
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Doesn't surprise me a bit. When I got out of the USAF in 1993 (20 year career officer), I worked at Western Auto (car parts, service and tires chain mostly in the Midwest) for 5 years while I went back to school and got an MBA. Their official policy was "GIVE THE STORE AWAY ON A SILVER PLATTER". I'd hear, "I bought tires here yesterday and now my radio doesn't work!" So what did the district manager force me to do? Give him a brand new radio, of course. "This damn starter is no good, I want my money back." The starter would have a stamp from another auto parts chain and was clearly not ours, but we had to give them their money back anyway. It was terrible. No wonder they went out of business before I left in 1998. One time I interviewed the company's CFO for a big paper I wrote. He said he would really like to see the paper when I was done with it. Since it was about the horrible management policies at Western Auto and how they were destroying the company, I thought it best not to let him see it. I got an A on that paper.
 
Shortly after a Large Corporation bought the Gas Company I worked for they put up signs on the doors "No firearms permitted" .Two weeks later our office got robbed for the first time in over 50 years. When asked why the signs had to stay after this the short answer was " Corporate Policy "
 
I love the term “ efficiency of the private sector “. People are people regardless of whether they work for the Government or private companies... stupidity flourishes !

I have yet to work for an efficient company.
 
mbaird said:
I love the term “ efficiency of the private sector “. People are people regardless of whether they work for the Government or private companies... stupidity flourishes !

I have yet to work for an efficient company.
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Sure is a lot of it coming out of colleges now tho---------
 
I walked into an Advanced Auto Part's last spring it was 80 degrees outside and the heat was going full blast in the store. It must have been 90 in there and they said they couldn't control the thermostat in the store in was done remotely at corporate headquarters in bumtickel some place. Now that makes sence.
 
I work for a bunch of idiots who decided we needed to raise the starting wage for new hires, and give some to people who had been there for a while, get them to the "market mid" level of pay. The people who got money (no logic to it) got $2/hr, one guy got $5/hr, and has only been there two years. He is a pay grade below me, and makes more than I do, and I have earned two "levels" that should out me way above his pay. The acting plant manager (from a plant they close) said we need to reduce the gap in pay. So screw over the guys and gals who have been there for a long time and pay the new people who don't know ****, more than we make? Time to look for a new job I think. It's like they just threw darts at a board and went with those names, no rhyme or reason. Makes a guy really not want to work.
 
The Corporate world is run by accounts who are more worried about the bottom line, instead of the people who make that bottom line stay in the black. I have worked for a big company, got tired of it & retired after 22 years. I worked for a few small companies until my last gig. I stayed at my last job until I could retire at 66 years of age. The last 13 months were tough because they were trying to play in the big corporate world. They began worrying about building profits, cutting the loss, & making more & more demands on the work force that was overwhelmed. I'm glad I don't have to fight that rat race any longer, I still work part time for 3 different companies & I work if I want to and if I don't want the job, I tell them to send it to the next person in line.
 
Many businesses stay afloat or grow despite upper management/ownership rather than because of them. Mostly due to hard working base...
 
Oldiron440 said:
I walked into an Advanced Auto Part's last spring it was 80 degrees outside and the heat was going full blast in the store. It must have been 90 in there and they said they couldn't control the thermostat in the store in was done remotely at corporate headquarters in bumtickel some place. Now that makes sence.
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Hummmm......... Seems to me that if I was working there I could find out pretty quickly and easily how to shut down power to that furnace. To hell with the "remote thermostat".
 
I think corporate america has figured out that the middle class customer will support loss due to theft. It's easier and causes less conflict to simply eat the loss and pass that along to those customers that do pay.

No chasing people out the door, no possibly violent confrontation, no lawyers and those costs, no negative perception from bystanding customers.

Last week at wally's (our first time there in months), a male teenager had his little brother try to butt in line to pay for one item, they tried several different lines interrupting the cashier while in the middle checking out other customers. Finally the CSM came over and said they had to wait like everyone else. As soon as she turned around (but was still less than 5 feet away), the teen put the item in his back pocket and walked out.

I saw it unfolding and motioned in the direction while staring the cashier in the eye and clearing my throat.

No response.

Why would the supervisor turn her back? She had nothing else to do and seemed to be aimlessly walking slowly and specifically NOT looking at the trouble causing teen.
 
I almost forgot- on the same trip as we were coming in, their "loss prevention person" (formerly greeter), got up from his seat and asked an exiting customer to check their items, which they seem to only do if someone is leaving with one or more items not bagged.

The customer said loudly "I decline" and started pushing the cart faster towards the door.

The employee simply sat back down.
 
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