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  • "cause you might put a TV in the trash compactor"

    It's a pain in the ass everyday at work to hunt down an assistant manager or a lead person with keys to the trash compactor so we can dump the trash we gather around the store & not have it just sit there stinking up the back.
    So we had our "Grass Roots" meeting today & I piped up & suggested that maintenance ought to have our own key to the trash compactor so it wouldn't be that hard to track somebody down with a key. They said it wouldn't be authorized cause of the possibility of having some shady person placing an object like a flat screen tv in the trash compactor only to retreive it later when nobody is looking. There were so many things wrong with that statement that I just didn't know what to say.
    What do you guys think? Shouldn't maintenance have their own key?
    Last edited by Bright_Star; 10-31-2008, 01:41 AM.

  • #2
    Oh wow...they just love their workers don't they?

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    • #3
      Yeah, because I am sure there is nowhere else to hide a flat screen if someone really wanted to.

      I would stop asking for the key. Maybe if it gets out of hand a few times they will realize that something needs to change.

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      • #4
        Head meet wall, wall meet head
        Otaku

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        • #5
          The big problem? They're speaking from experience. Even if we're talking about WM-style, compactor-has-only-one-way-in type compactors.

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          • #6
            I would not give a new retail worker keys to anything. nothing against new retail workers, but I want you to prove to me that you are honest and aren't an idiot before I give you keys to something that has the liability potential of the compactor. after probably 6 months of not doing anything that would get you insta-fired I'd trust you with certain keys, but wal mart preaches so much that seniority doesn't count, and the new hires would whine and get it taken away again anyways, and in maintenance there will always be new hires that you don't know if they can be trusted or not

            yes, it's a pain in the ass, but you've seen that it takes a while to weed out the bad apples that slip through the hiring process

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            • #7
              Quoth Bright_Star View Post
              So we had our "Grass Roots" meeting today & I piped up & suggested that maintenance ought to have our own key to the trash compactor so it wouldn't be that hard to track somebody down with a key. They said it wouldn't be authorized cause of the possibility of having some shady person placing an object like a flat screen tv in the trash compactor only to retreive it later when nobody is looking. There were so many things wrong with that statement that I just didn't know what to say.
              What do you guys think? Shouldn't maintenance have their own key?
              on management's excuse right there.

              Why would maintenance automatically be more likely to do something like that than a member of management would?

              Now granted, in my store we had a problem years ago with somebody stealing things by dumping them in the compactor and then dumpster-diving to retrieve them, and as a result the compactor was locked up. Sounds like management just doesn't trust the peons, even though they haven't been given a reason not to.

              At least in my store the managers aren't the only ones with keys to the compactor. The key carriers have them, and so does the receiving clerk.
              Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

              "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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              • #8
                Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                Why would maintenance automatically be more likely to do something like that than a member of management would?
                because maintenance is almost always hired off the street, management is selected because upper management trusts them with the authority that comes with being a manager. there are plenty of bad managers, but the people who need to be weeded out for honesty reasons usually don't get past their original job code

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