Corporate sent us too few Zebras to begin with back when our sales were much shittier and before we had DriveUp, and they failed to replace the lost ones and dead ones that we sent back, or send us extra to account for the extra workload that comes with a huge comp % and e2e. Zebras get lost or die, that's just a fact. Equipment control only means that whoever loses one might get in trouble or fired, but it's not going to make a lost Zebra reappear in a puff of white smoke. Sometimes they get dropped too many times and stop working, accidents happen. If you work at a company that issues laptops and your laptop shits out on you, you just call IT and they'll issue you a new one. Target on the other hand says "lmao idk figure it out."
What's annoying about it is that you are expected to complete many tasks that are much more difficult or impossible without a Zebra of your own, but naturally they don't give us the equipment we need to do it. "Hey everybody, we're end-to-end now so you'll be responsible for your own backstock" Ok great, let me just use my Zebra to...oh wait, Guest Service snatched it for DriveUp because the one they had died on them and won't boot even with a new battery. No big deal, I see Danielle has one that I might be able to borrow for an hour, oh wait she's using it for pricing. No big deal, let me just connect to the WLAN with my brain waves and scan the waco labels with my eyeballs instead.