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This is a bit of a coworker rant also; you'll see!
My mall has a couple of stores that open earlier on the weekends than the rest of the mall, say 8am when the rest of the mall opens at 9am - by open I mean that the doors are unlocked at this time. Since only this store on the end is open, the door closest is unlocked, and a barricade is strung across the hallway so people can come in and just go to that store. But we have a large number of elderly who come in right at opening time to do their morning walk. They've now learned that this door will be open an hour early due to the store's hours, and this is where the suck begins.
Note that there is actually a SIGN on the barricade stating "the mall is closed, please exit through doors A or B."
Cleaning comes-in about an hour before the doors open so they can have the floors cleaned and dried before everyone wants to walk. Therefor they're mopping and running floor machines that leave a trail of water.
When they came through the barricade Saturday morning, they just let a bunch of mall walkers follow them on through. Those mall walkers then went to the other doors to let their friends in, and eventually there were a bunch of people trying to walk while cleaning was trying to clean the floors, with other people outside pissed because the doors were still locked, but yet they could see people inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I asked cleaning point-blank how those people got in. They just shrugged and said "they followed us through the barricade." Sooo, you guys didn't feel like telling them Sorry, we're employees here to clean? But then, inevitably, cleaning will bitch to me about all these people walking around while they're trying to clean! I have other duties in the morning and can't babysit this one store for an hour, but it sure doesn't help me when cleaning pretty much invites these people in. Not to mention when they clean the windows in the mornings they prop the doors open and don't say a word when people just walk in. They also prop doors open after the mall closes so they can take the trash out, but forget to close them after, thus we might get people wandering in at all times of the night.
That doesn't let these entitled mall walkers off the hook though. I've seen them walk right up to the barricade and start to open it and walk through and I tell them to turn right around and leave until the mall opens. It's for their safety and the mall's, but they grumble and bitch even though they're still getting to walk inside an hour early. By the way, my mall has had the same hours for 4-years, yet I still get people trying to argue the opening time with me. My heart is a rock concerning this issue; you're NOT coming into MY MALL early because I'M NOT GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU!!!
My mall has a couple of stores that open earlier on the weekends than the rest of the mall, say 8am when the rest of the mall opens at 9am - by open I mean that the doors are unlocked at this time. Since only this store on the end is open, the door closest is unlocked, and a barricade is strung across the hallway so people can come in and just go to that store. But we have a large number of elderly who come in right at opening time to do their morning walk. They've now learned that this door will be open an hour early due to the store's hours, and this is where the suck begins.
Note that there is actually a SIGN on the barricade stating "the mall is closed, please exit through doors A or B."Cleaning comes-in about an hour before the doors open so they can have the floors cleaned and dried before everyone wants to walk. Therefor they're mopping and running floor machines that leave a trail of water.
When they came through the barricade Saturday morning, they just let a bunch of mall walkers follow them on through. Those mall walkers then went to the other doors to let their friends in, and eventually there were a bunch of people trying to walk while cleaning was trying to clean the floors, with other people outside pissed because the doors were still locked, but yet they could see people inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I asked cleaning point-blank how those people got in. They just shrugged and said "they followed us through the barricade." Sooo, you guys didn't feel like telling them Sorry, we're employees here to clean? But then, inevitably, cleaning will bitch to me about all these people walking around while they're trying to clean! I have other duties in the morning and can't babysit this one store for an hour, but it sure doesn't help me when cleaning pretty much invites these people in. Not to mention when they clean the windows in the mornings they prop the doors open and don't say a word when people just walk in. They also prop doors open after the mall closes so they can take the trash out, but forget to close them after, thus we might get people wandering in at all times of the night.
That doesn't let these entitled mall walkers off the hook though. I've seen them walk right up to the barricade and start to open it and walk through and I tell them to turn right around and leave until the mall opens. It's for their safety and the mall's, but they grumble and bitch even though they're still getting to walk inside an hour early. By the way, my mall has had the same hours for 4-years, yet I still get people trying to argue the opening time with me. My heart is a rock concerning this issue; you're NOT coming into MY MALL early because I'M NOT GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU!!!
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