Do you have to hide one so you have it when you need it? You would think adults would be more responsible. We're suppose to sign them out every day. We keep the same two in our department and sign them out every day. I can't say the same for everyone else. The store has 18 RF units but if you get one by 7:00, you're out of luck. That's why we hide ours. Other departments hide them too but the difference is one person hides one. Then, when someone in that department needs one, they get another one and hide it too. Meat department is especially bad. They hide them in boots and microwave ovens. Another thing that happens is someone will borrow one and lay it down somewhere for someone else to pick up. That's why we never let other departments use ours. You can't trust them to return them.
Batteries are also a problem. We have two chargers with six slots each. The other day I went to exchange a battery and there wasn't a single battery to be found. People grab two at a time so they don't have to walk to where the charging units are whenever they have to put a new battery in the RF unit. Then, they forget they have an extra battery and end up taking it home or losing it.
Oh yea, we for sure hide our's in the bakery for sure. Cause even though we typically share them with Deli. Sometimes we still have to hide one from them. Cause it seems like regardless if they get folks that come in early to open their side of the dept. Nobody ever seems to remember to pick one up or a printer. And have to borrow ours. And then they never take them back upstairs to be re-charged. Thankfully one our back up assistant managers makes sure they get back upstairs for the night. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure a ton of us in both depts. would get written up, as folks don't remember to take them back upstairs And I definitely do NOT value getting a write up over something that silly.
All the guns are located by our management offices. Our lead store manager would come down with Old Testament style wrath if you hid stuff.
Regarding meat department, yeah they do that a lot with trash bags and all. Here's what you do: find their stash spots, tell everyone relevant that would need to know about it, except the meat guys, that way you always know where they are hiding stuff.
Not as good as everybody leaving stuff in the proper supply area, but you learn to work with what you got and can get away with.
All it takes is one person or department hiding a handheld to start to process. Everyone else sees it as, well the meat department is hiding 2, so its ok for me to hide one. At NO time is it ok to hide a handheld. They belong to Kroger not to a certain person or department. If everyone just put them up everyday, there would be plenty, trust me.
All it takes is one person or department hiding a handheld to start to process. Everyone else sees it as, well the meat department is hiding 2, so its ok for me to hide one. At NO time is it ok to hide a handheld. They belong to Kroger not to a certain person or department. If everyone just put them up everyday, there would be plenty, trust me.
Here's the problem. Someone from another department suddenly realizes they need to put on an order or something and they don't want to go upstairs to get an RF unit. So they ask another department, who has one that was properly checked out by that department, if they could borrow it for fifteen minutes. You let them use yours but they lay it down somewhere and can't remember where they put it. Another person comes along, sees it and takes it. We check ours out and we keep track of it. If other people didn't keep misplacing theirs, there wouldn't be a problem.
