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Originally Posted by QuiltMom1980
It is policy with every fabric purchase, each piece must be checked for "forgotten" items. Employees are even tested for this each month. Now the manager going out the back door is very suspicious. No one is to be going out the back door except to throw trash and all employees are required to park in the front of the store at the outer perimeter. Strange. Strange. Strange.
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Yes, it is store policy. I worked for a Husqvarna dealer for 3 years inside a JoAnn's and they do have to show their purses. They also have to look in any bag you have. They couldn't 'require' me or my staff to show our purses but we did so voluntarily.
Those folks have it harder than many of you realize. And, yesterday all the ladies at the cutting counter were pleasant and interested. A lady working in patterns escorted me to where they moved the felt (she said, "I'll take you there, it's really hard to find".) They have to work all night Sunday night when the 'reset' the store. They have 'mandatory meetings' at 7 a.m. in the morning (some of the guys came in their sleep pants, snow boots and heavy jackets.) They had posters in the break room of a big thumb with the captions "thumb mistakes are costly". They're not supposed to give even an extra thumb's width of fabric. Yes, sometimes they are crabby or not helpful but all things considered most of the time they do a pretty decent job! |
It probably was store policy. Unfortunately we live in a society where most people are not trustworthy, and retail theft is a huge problem. A friend of mine worked at a major, high end store, store policy was that the only things they could bring into the store was what they could put in a clear plastic, zippered bag. The reason was employee theft.
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I worked for Viking inside a Jo-Ann store and yes they do require employee's purses to be check before leaving the store. Viking employee's were check as well.
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Originally Posted by CircleSquare
Originally Posted by linken
I worked at Home Depot for 10 years. Same policy.It's a fact of life that a certain percentage of employees steal because they feel they are overworked and underpaid. We used to joke as to how many 2x4's you could fit in a backpack!!! LOL
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yes it is their policy. I work at JoAnns in Waco Part time and they check your bags and some will even check a closed container. Like a travel water bottle you cant see through. There all kind of people and they do the bad things that make companys make these search policy. If we buy something on break we have to leave it at the front counter until time to leave. But if you don't steel you really don't mind.
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
reminds me of a joke
There’s a story about a security guard at a Russian factory. One day this guard stopped a worker who was walking out of the factory gates pushing a wheelbarrow with a suspicious looking package in it. The guard opened the package up and found it contained nothing but some old bits of rubbish, sawdust and floor-sweepings. The next day he stopped the same worker who was again pushing a wheelbarrow containing a suspicious looking package. Once more it contained nothing of value. The same thing happened many days on the trot, until the guard finally said, "OK, I give up. I know you are up to something, but I just can’t tell what. Please, I promise not to arrest you, but put me out of my misery - tell me what you are stealing." "Wheelbarrows," smiled the worker, "I’m stealing wheelbarrows." |
The place I worked at searched our lunch pails, purses, bags of any kind. we had to open our coats, and sometimes empty our pockets. It became annoying to me so I started putting things in my bag that I thought might be embaressing to the checker. Got to where I would watch the look on their face. At times i can be onery.
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I don't work retail but witnessed something yesterday. A woman with her kids were checking out (Target) with a large basket of many different things. When the employee got to the binders and opend those there were those dividers that are used to keep different sections. She said to the mother, I will need to charge you for these unless you don't need them. The mother just looked a little shocked and said nothing.
I am a little surprised and how people come up with ways to steal and what they will try to steal. |
Originally Posted by Sandee
As a former retail manager of 22 yrs, I can tell you that is the policy of many stores. Bag, purse, packpack & locker searches can be done at anytime & often are done as the employees leave. There are a lot of small & expensive items in all stores & employee theft is the major form of theft and the most costly for all companis. Most employees have to sign a statement agreeing to searches before they are hired. Some store search in front of cameras each day.
At one store I worked at, over all retail theft cost us $100,000 a yr!!!!!! I assure you, where I'm working or not, I'm not stealing and it really hits me wrong to think I'm a suspect the second I walk thru a door. |
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