What is the procedure of calling "CODE GREEN" at your store? Is the compactor (trash, not the cardboard baler) door left unlocked?
At our store, some store managers go through the hassle of calling a Code Green every few hours, but others leave the door open which is so much more convenient for workers who are rushed and in a hurry, trying to take care of their respective duties, and when they have a spare moment to dump the trash, can do so without waiting for a "special invitation".
I never say code green or code g or whatever it is. I'll say, " can a member of management please come to the back dock to unlock the trash compactor?" I prefer to get to the point.
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I never say code green or code g or whatever it is. I'll say, " can a member of management please come to the back dock to unlock the trash compactor?" I prefer to get to the point.
We're told not to say "trash" over the intercom. Instead, we're expected to say, "can I please get a manager to receiving with the key for an unlock, please?" and you just have to hope someone comes. Management goes back and forth at my store when it comes to locking the trash compactor. We'll go for long periods of time where it's just left unlocked all the time, and then we'll occasionally go through (relatively short) periods where management will announce over the intercom, "attention all departments, code T," at designated times during the day, before eventually going back to leaving it unlocked all the time.
Like with most things at Kroger, there's no consistency.
I just did a search of the internet and found out that in some stores or situations (not Kroger-related) , "Code Green" is a very serious code having to do with a "hostage situation". It's a wonder that we don't occasionally have customers hear the "Code Green" announcements, and get scared about some imagined occurrence!
My store used to have the compactor locked and do the time schedule thing until management got so badly inconsistent that the compactor was never unlocked during the right times and people would have to searching for the key. Sometimes they wouldn't find the key and people would literally leave their trash bags sitting outside the compactor door for the morning when management got there and could unlock the compactor. It was filthy and it happened about 7 times then management got sick of it and just started leaving it open. No problems since then.
it's called a "sanitation check" at my store, and yes, they lock our compactor too. we have no choice but to let our garbage pile up, and then get yelled at it when we can't do anything about it.
My store used to have the compactor locked and do the time schedule thing until management got so badly inconsistent that the compactor was never unlocked during the right times and people would have to searching for the key. Sometimes they wouldn't find the key and people would literally leave their trash bags sitting outside the compactor door for the morning when management got there and could unlock the compactor. It was filthy and it happened about 7 times then management got sick of it and just started leaving it open. No problems since then.
all we do is simply find a manager on day and get them as there are 4 of them usually floating or a dept head who can get the spare keyring from the office or we get handed the keys and we simply run it ourselves as ours is power and door locked now (if management trusts you AND you are over 18, otherwise big no no). Otherwise during night shift, where our Center Store Lead is the only manager, "name, to the back with a key please" works just fine. Most departments know to move their garbage's though when they hear that called over on nights as that means "hey its being opened." Otherwise we just let it pile and I or someone else will let CSL know and they take care of it whenever.
-- Edited by UC151 on Sunday 12th of February 2017 03:47:43 AM
At my store I have been there 23 years. I am a Utility Clerk and most days I have a key I keep because waiting certain times for the door to be opened does not work that way. I mean first thing in the morning I clean restrooms and get trash from restroom and break room. By that time I have the bin that rolls filled up. I have to go empty the bin in the compactor. Then I go around the store and parking lot to get trash. Depends on how much and if the night person got the trash but sometimes it takes 3 or 4 trips within an hour. Also I have to pick up trash around the compactor and wash that is why I need a key. I signed a paper once to be able to keep a key on me when I am there. This is just the way it is at my store it does not work on a time to dump trash schedule. The Managers seem to trust me and if I was going to steal something I would have already done it. And if they try to accuse me of stealing they will have to prove it and show me a video of me stealing.
