I think I've seen both extremes at my store. It was a gentleman's agreement to sign everything out when I first started 2 and a half years ago. Then, after it was found that TM's were hiding equipment away (where I have no idea), management decided to start locking the equipment room to enforce accountability. That was a royal pain for the LOD's to be called for not only keys, but equipment as well, so that idea quickly dissolved. Very few TM's including myself ever sign stuff out now....
Now add in the fact that flow starts at 6am recently. We simply don't have enough walkies, PDA's, or LPDA's to go around when the doors open on truck days.
GSTL's/GSA's, Guest Service, Fitting Room/Operator, Cart Attendant, and Electronics TM's all are left begging for several hours for a walkie, let alone a PDA at the least. At Guest Service, we have a Flexible Fulfillment PDA that is only supposed to be for Guest Service to fulfill orders and used at the Service Desk. We are instructed to lock it away every night in the photo closet or we get in trouble. Our Log ETL steals it from us every morning for the flow team anyway. Go figure.
It took us 3 hours after open yesterday to get one LPDA to share for the entire front end.
If you are going to change these times fine, just give us enough equipment!!