I'm confused. Why can't the time clock just do as the discount does but also be able to select the function with the corresponding barcodes?
Because if you accidentally scan the wrong function key barcode, that's it. There isn't a safety. There isn't a 'Back' option like accidentally touching the screen and hitting 'Start Meal' and you go, "Oh crap, that's the wrong one, let me go back and select the 'End Meal' instead." Instead you get to have a quick conversation with HR about an incorrect Meal Punch and having to do a correction. Times that by 1878 stores. (1890 I think soon with 12 new stores opening?)
Essentially the onos is put on the TM to correctly select the right function and to keep corrections down to an absolute minimum. Time wasted on HR's end and time wasted on TM's doing corrections = $. I think you know where this going.
It's an extremely, extremely small demographic that would take advantage of something like this. The typical turnover at store level is just hard to justify making an extra option like this even harder to sell to the upper senior managers. Yes, you could present the case by saying that you would save time and money by having TM's being able to scan a barcode that immediately clocks them out for lunch without any further action. The push back you would receive is, "Are you really saving that much time versus pressing the time clock screen once and using the standard discount barcode? Is the possible time saved is being lost by having to load up an app and carefully select the correct barcode versus just pulling out their discount card and scanning that quickly (this alone would require its own time study). How much time would HR teams chain-wide spend on following up on corrections? How much more workload would they incur? How much time would be lost by TM's doing said corrections? Is overall liability and ownership placed on the myTimeclock application? 3rd party application? Team members?
I get it, and I'll just shutup about the politics side. Trust me, the business owners and project managers have likely thought about it as well while drawing up the initial planning phase and conceded that currently adding the automatic 'SW/SM/EM/EW' barcodes did not meet justification (and is over my paygrade mind you to make such decisions). Maybe that'll change, who knows. But in the end it's a business decision that involves cost and money somewhere where this extra function was left out.
And as to informing the team to utilize discount codes to scan in/out, it'll come after full chain rollout is complete. Plus lets be real, there's enough tech saavy people at each store now that they've likely figured it out by now (pending if they've already been installed yet) and would spread information like this to the rest of their team (especially if it makes everyone's life easier to use it.)
