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If the customers don't screw you over, the company will.
15/07/08 12:50 Filed in: Stories
This must be the month for unfair disciplinary and dismissal.
I read today that someone got the sack from Old Navy for a completely trivial reason. Read the whole thing here.
Then I go into work on Sunday and we all get two warnings:
1) There’s a new rota up for cleaning the cantine, and above the rota is a little note saying that anyone who doesn’t do their cleaning duties will face disciplinary action. LOL! I’d like to see them try that. Yeah, let me just check if that’s in my contract....um, no!
The rote is divided between departments and arts & crafts conveniently falls on a Friday night....when I’m in. To be honest, I don’t even mind because it keeps me off the shop floor and I can just pretend to clean while actually reading a weeks worth of agony aunt pages. I previously spent over 2 hours cleaning it one night, when it wasn’t even my turn, and I did the inside of the cupboards and everything. It was so disgusting, I can’t even describe it.
The most annoying thing is that I hardly use the cantine and I’m cleaning it, whereas the people who are making all the mess won’t touch a mop and bucket with a 10 foot barge pole.
2) Everyone was reminded that when they started, they signed a form stating that any losses from the tills will be recovered from the member of staff using the till at that time. Whats been happening is people have been refunding customers parking by just giving them money out the till instead of taking the parking coupon off the end of the bill. So the tills have been so many quid down with loads of random parking coupons everywhere but nothing on the system to say they’ve been refunded.
Fortunately, I’v never known how to open the till without putting a transaction through so I’v always taken the parking off the end of the bill, but I know at least one person is having a disciplinary because they’d already been warned once to refund the parking properly.
Basically, the company sees it as theft. If the till is opened without putting through a transaction and then the till turns out to be down at the end of the day, you’re going to lose your job. And we’ve been told that if we see anybody else doing it we have to tell the management. “You’re not being a grass, you’re just protecting your job”.
I can undertsand it though really. I don’t think any of the till staff would steal from the till, but it’s not the same case for the rest of the staff, and the rest of the company.
I read today that someone got the sack from Old Navy for a completely trivial reason. Read the whole thing here.
Then I go into work on Sunday and we all get two warnings:
1) There’s a new rota up for cleaning the cantine, and above the rota is a little note saying that anyone who doesn’t do their cleaning duties will face disciplinary action. LOL! I’d like to see them try that. Yeah, let me just check if that’s in my contract....um, no!
The rote is divided between departments and arts & crafts conveniently falls on a Friday night....when I’m in. To be honest, I don’t even mind because it keeps me off the shop floor and I can just pretend to clean while actually reading a weeks worth of agony aunt pages. I previously spent over 2 hours cleaning it one night, when it wasn’t even my turn, and I did the inside of the cupboards and everything. It was so disgusting, I can’t even describe it.
The most annoying thing is that I hardly use the cantine and I’m cleaning it, whereas the people who are making all the mess won’t touch a mop and bucket with a 10 foot barge pole.
2) Everyone was reminded that when they started, they signed a form stating that any losses from the tills will be recovered from the member of staff using the till at that time. Whats been happening is people have been refunding customers parking by just giving them money out the till instead of taking the parking coupon off the end of the bill. So the tills have been so many quid down with loads of random parking coupons everywhere but nothing on the system to say they’ve been refunded.
Fortunately, I’v never known how to open the till without putting a transaction through so I’v always taken the parking off the end of the bill, but I know at least one person is having a disciplinary because they’d already been warned once to refund the parking properly.
Basically, the company sees it as theft. If the till is opened without putting through a transaction and then the till turns out to be down at the end of the day, you’re going to lose your job. And we’ve been told that if we see anybody else doing it we have to tell the management. “You’re not being a grass, you’re just protecting your job”.
I can undertsand it though really. I don’t think any of the till staff would steal from the till, but it’s not the same case for the rest of the staff, and the rest of the company.
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