Today, one of the managers calls back to receiving and asks if I have the store mail back there. I explained that I took the store mail, which included our paychecks and W2 tax information, and put it in the locked cashroom after it arrived yesterday.
She has checked the cashroom, she's checked the uber's office, and she has checked the locked drawer up front where we keep our paychecks. Of course, the drawer is locked so that it isn't easy to get into and so not just anyone could get their hands on these things.
After much looking, it was discovered that the closing manager from the night before had handed out checks to employees so they obviously were found by someone and taken out of the cashroom. A call was made to the closing manager. Eventually this person called back.
Seems the manager decided to assign the task of stapling w2's to the paychecks to one of the employees. The employee didn't finish so they just left the w2's and the checks shoved in a random drawer at our information/customer service desk. You know, the information desk that is out in the middle of the store that anyone could walk into and fiddle around (especially when a certain evil employee is the main info person and is no where to be found). Brilliant!! The employee didn't bother to give the checks back to the manager and the manager didn't bother to check and see where the checks were. Damn. We're good.
It's just this sort of attention to detail and concern for security that is strong in our store. Oh, did I mention our music dept. has reached a high theft classification and warranted a visit from the regional loss prevention manager. I'm not sure what color this threat level would classify as, but I would like to suggest burnt sienna.
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The last 2 Fridays I have gotten to enjoy a respite from floor action whilst our receiving manager used vacation days he had to burn. Not that I totally didn't before, but I now appreciate much more how much physical effort goes into working receiving.
Also, in the realm of high theft is our Graphic Novels area, which happens to be in our HUMONGOUS zone 7, of which I am the lead. We've lost at least 15 items in the past week and a half, so after helping shelve in the morning for a couple hours until our shipment arrived, receiving our 1,000 lbs. w/ Aaron (our other receiver), I then spent another 90 minutes shifting GNs and Manga around to get the GNs in view of one of the many cameras we have around the store in case of theft. Such fun! Bonus: I get to work tomorrow morning and help shelve what I just helped receive today. We'll see how it goes from here...
Looks like some things never change...
Mish, when are you going to be store manager? I might just move back to Peoria for that...
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