A particular Ralph's in southern California apparently has their employees lie to the upper management. We're supposed to sign some papers every hour or so to "verify" that a few tasks are being done at regular intervals. I was yelled at for not signing my name for some cleaning tasks during opening hours. The catch is that I was neither assigned nor asked to do said cleaning. Five for six guys who looked like they were in their late 30s or so were mopping the floors thoroughly; I was supposed to take credit for their work so the sheets were all filled out and "looked good".
Is this company policy? We're supposed to outright lie so the numbers look nice? Is this something that happens all over the place?
Thank goodness I'm no longer working there. I despise dishonesty.
I sign a bathroom sheet 3 times per day (normally after i come back from a break). They are meant to be signed and completed every 1-2 hours. As long as I clean and mop them once at the beginning and end of my shift and just check in the middle from time to time it doesn't seem like too much of a problem. I just sign off on any times i may have missed.
You're not always going to remember to do such things and no one should really expect you to. I don't stress over it too much as long as I'm doing the best I can while i'm there.
I refuse to sign or sign for shift periods i was not there. Unless i can verify that it was up to my standards I'm not going to sign it and i'll be damned if they can make me. If you were there and it looked up to your standards then sign away otherwise stick to your morals.
Edit: Yes, I have been asked to forge other employees signatures so the supervisor wouldn't "get in trouble" and flat out refused. The conversation then went into the direction of "It's not like it's a legal document... it's a bathroom sheet." to which i responded "You go do it then" the supervisor wasn't too happy with me, but I'm not there to make friends or cover someones ass; I'm there to work.
-- Edited by BagBoy on Tuesday 8th of March 2011 12:45:13 AM
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While back, I was presented with a clipboard of those "cleaning task sheets" to sign every hour. I decided my time was better used trying to do my job than wasting it reporting to customer service every hour and signing a dumb sheet, so I ignored it.
Besides that, I did what actually needed to be done, rather than follow a redundant list.
Eventually, the sheets went away, and no one ever said any more about it.
sometimes if we have a new procedure on the front end we have to sign a sheet saying we'll do it or whatever. I and a lot of other people put RTS (refuse to sign) because if it's part of my job why should I have to sign a paper about it?
Lately, we're lucky if the bathroom log sheets ever get initialed at all. They used to ask me to fill it all in for them. It was then that I wondered what the point of the sheet was.
We lost an Assistant manager --- and good personal friend of mine -----over a similar issue. He was pressed to sign off fresh walk paper work (verification that all fresh food areas were properly maintained)......and the company turned right around and fired him.
This kind of no-win situation happens on all levels of employment, every where.
You all should report all of this to upper management, and keep going higher up in rank until something is done. You might want to be negative and say it is not going to help, but usually people don't do **** anyway. because if they did I would not have to say this. Forget about your traditions and comfort zones and grow some balls. I would not quit or let them fire me over silly ****.
