We haven't received our gloves and masks yet. How does this work? Is it one pair of gloves and a mask per 8 hour shift?
We haven't received our gloves and masks yet. How does this work? Is it one pair of gloves and a mask per 8 hour shift?
As for the hotline, surely you are joking. The likelihood of retaliation against the "anonymous" caller is extremely high.Use the hotline as a last resort....
Talk to the PML
Talk to your leader
Talk to HR
Talk to your ETL
Talk to your SD
Hell...if you AP doesn't hate you talk to them
Then call the hotline if it doesn't get put up...
It’s not that I mind doing it. I don’t. But between LOAs and people quitting somehow I am one of the more senior people who close and unless I stay late, I don’t have time to do it. TherAs far as the break room goes and other cleaning... If it is bothering you so much, ask to spend a few hours cleaning. I've done it. It is a nice change of pace. When I have done it, I started in the break room.
If you don't have cleaner in your break room, ask an ETL where you can get some cleaner to put in the break room. If you ask if you can do it, they are not likely to say no. If they start to say no, just mention corona.
I didn’t mean that just cleaning and having masks and gloves is going to keep everyone perfectly healthy. I’m not stupid or naive. We have team members who have tested positive for COVID-19. Would cleaning more have prevented them from getting sick? Probably not. Will it stop anyone else from getting sick? No. Will it help to minimize the number of people who could get sick? Along with doing things like washing your hands, wearing a mask, and staying home if you’re sick, I think we can minimize it. Maybe I am stupid and naive but it sounds like other stores are able to do what I would like my store to do.Yes, there should be cleaning precautions in place but I hate it when people act like if x, y, z is done, then people won't get sick, instead of saying if x, y, z is done we'll keep the numbers below catastrophic.
People act like they aren't going to get sick with cleaning rather than acknowledge everyone is getting sick since no one has immunity, it's simply when, not if. The cleaning is needed to flatten the curve, cleaning can't do anything more.
Do people remember about flattening the curve? Or have people garbled the message and think that cleaning and social distancing will make it go away?
As for the hotline, surely you are joking. The likelihood of retaliation against the "anonymous" caller is extremely high.
I didn’t mean that just cleaning and having masks and gloves is going to keep everyone perfectly healthy. I’m not stupid or naive. We have team members who have tested positive for COVID-19. Would cleaning more have prevented them from getting sick? Probably not. Will it stop anyone else from getting sick? No. Will it help to minimize the number of people who could get sick? Along with doing things like washing your hands, wearing a mask, and staying home if you’re sick, I think we can minimize it. Maybe I am stupid and naive but it sounds like other stores are able to do what I would like my store to do.
Well there you go. @tracemick8824 just wants their store to take this seriously and follow best practices. I was not happy with the way things were going at my store and therefore finally had to take an LOA. I held out as long as I could. People have the right to feel safe at their jobs. I did not feel safe. If there are people who don't care about getting the virus or who believe "What's the use, we are all going to get it anyway", well it's their prerogative to play fast and loose with their own well-being, but when the well-being of others is in play they need to step up or step off. Simple as that.How exactly does that happen? Do you have to give your name or TM number to the hotline?
What the masks do is keep someone who doesn't know they have the virus from passing it on to others, basically your health becomes lower priority than others. Masks increases a healthy person's risk of getting it from others, reduces a sick but asymptomatic person's risk of passing it on.
Gloves mostly keep your hands uninfected if used properly, so that when you grab your purse after your shift any trace amount of viruses on your hands is so low that risk of transferring from your hands to your purse strap is almost none. (Any other women out there get the heebie jeebies while shopping about needing to grab your phone, or reaching in to your purse to grab your wallet and then inside the wallet to get your card, or grabbing your keys to unlock your car door after a shopping run?)
Disinfecting surfaces shortens the time that the virus is on that surface. Cumulative effect means a lot of items have a very short time that a virus is potentially on them, reducing each person's risk of grabbing it while the virus is still alive.
Sneeze guards are more than just sneezes, it's supposed to reduce the amount of water vapor from normal breathing that gets to the person on the other side. Water vapor also contains the virus, this particular illness a high amounts of viruses are present before symptoms show.
So yeah, everything when done right will reduce the opportunity the virus has of getting a host, therefore reducing the risk of getting sick, which means less people will get sick.
Got our register shields up, waiting for photon torpedoes & phasers.
At my DC, one of the two bathroom paper towel dispensers was empty when I left at end of shift and when I came back in to begin my shift the next day.... it was still empty.Our store has a few people wiping things down around the floor, but when it comes to the break room, no one comes in to wipe it down and there are no wipes, sprays or paper towels in sight to do it ourselves. This shows how serious they really care about US. Sure you can separate the tables 6 feet apart, but when they are all covered in COVID-19 that’s not very effective. The cleaning show is just for the guests!
As for the hotline, surely you are joking. The likelihood of retaliation against the "anonymous" caller is extremely high.
At my DC, one of the two bathroom paper towel dispensers was empty when I left at end of shift and when I came back in to begin my shift the next day.... it was still empty.
So, when in the course of this extra advanced cleaning schedule do they check paper towel dispensers? Is that a never?
Oh, and same crumbs in same spots on same breakroom tables.
So. Advanced. This touchless cleaning system!
Cleaning the high touch points in the bathroom doesn't mean changing the toilet paper or paper towels.
Your logic really takes the joy out of complaining.
And to be fair, it's not the official cleaning crew that does it. They forced our Engineering & Facilities people to do high volume extra cleaning. Just like grocery stores having people constantly clean carts now, even though they never had to before. I'd probably just hose it all down. Like they did to Rambo. What a blast from the past.
*nerd on*
Transfer full power to forward deflector shields! Go to Red Alert! Duck down & hide behind the counter from possibly covid contaminated enemy guests via stolen Romulan War Bird tech. Beam me up Scotty! LOA LOA LOA!
*nerd off*
I usually wear maroon/burgundy, so I'm good, right? 🙏We're ALL wearing red shirts! 🤪
*nerd on*
Transfer full power to forward deflector shields! Go to Red Alert! Duck down & hide behind the counter from possibly covid contaminated enemy guests via stolen Romulan War Bird tech. Beam me up Scotty! LOA LOA LOA!
*nerd off*
To my knowledge, no, you do not have to provide your name or TM number to the hotline. I believe the hotline staff maintain confidentiality. The real problem is when the store, DC or other work center receives the complaint report from the Hotline. While the SD or other boss will promise to solve the problem, and under this situation, often the workcenter's problem will be resolved in some fashion, the tendency of many bosses and leaders in an insular "yes-man" corporate culture is to then investigate WHO contacted the Hotline. The boss/leader sometimes can read between the lines of the complaint to figure out likely culprits, and then find clever ways to casually ask around (using the pretext of "we don't want this problem to happen again") to eventually figure out the "perp". In other situations, the boss/leader will use their network contacts within the company to use some snooping skills using the internal HR file notes and other tools so they can pinpoint who is the likely "perp".How exactly does that happen? Do you have to give your name or TM number to the hotline?
So now we're gonna die....😎We're ALL wearing red shirts! 🤪
Meh. Red worked for Scotty.So now we're gonna die....😎
In other situations, the boss/leader will use their network contacts within the company to use some snooping skills using the internal HR file notes and other tools so they can pinpoint who is the likely "perp".
Waaaait? I can requisition stuff with my numbers????? I thoight i could only approve my own price matches...Guests keep stealing the wipes I put in the OPU hold location for fulfillment and GS's use. Fulfillment touches absolutely everything in the store (except registers). We need the wipes for a quick clean of our carts between batches. I'll be damned if anyone at the store ever tells me I can't requisition more. Should have thought of that before giving me supervisor access to the registers.