Have any other divisions had to deal with this? Recently Corpo (CEO reports to Ops Vp, Kroger bought us out but we are still running interdependently in terms of systems n policies, cept payroll which is now integrated.) has had the great idea of having the compactor locked at all times and requiring a MOD to sign off on your garbage before having it ran.
Am I one of the people who just goes WTF at this ****?? It irked me a freaking lot, I don't feel like having to hunt down the MOD every single time we need to have the crap ran as there is no set schedule for garbage just times that are usual within a general time block sometimes, but not always)
I only found this out Saturday morning, of which time Corpo apparently sent the word to us, and finding out through the Receiver while waiting on him to disarm the alarm so the compactor can be opened.
EDIT: Also is it ever correct to just throw EcoLab chlorine that is still in the bottle down the compactor??? Previous warehouse and OSHA training tells me that's a large no-no as that's Hazmat material, and under no circumstances shall any cleaners (turn from corrosive to gas, etc.) be dumped in with the regular load. MOD for the night wanted to, so I told him I had to be off the clock, thus washing my hands of it as I'm not going to take a risk of causing a fire / evacuation.
-- Edited by UC151 on Wednesday 13th of July 2016 03:17:07 AM
It has always been locked since I started at Kroger. Generally, there will be an announcement several times a day for "sanitation". That is when a comanager unlocks the compactor and everyone is supposed to get it out then.
I work nights and have the key to unlock it so it doesn't effect me. I have access to the key to compact it. I don't throw anything in there unless it is a package full of maggots after I scan it out.
I heard that back in the 80s all stores had an indoor access chute. Vendors are paid when their product is delivered to the back room. A vendor was caught on video throwing all their product in the compactor instead of filling it to the shelf. That is when Kroger went to outdoor access to the compactor and put everything under lock and key.
It is a Loss Prevention issue to keep disgruntled employees and vendors from throwing backstock in the compactor.
It is a liability issue to keep the public out of the dumpster so they don't get sick on possible contaminated products.
It is a safety issue to keep some of these kids out of the dumpster. I have known CCs to get fired for trying to sneak beer out the back door while "taking the trash" out. The comanager got suspicious when the teen always wanted to take out the garbage.
One of our CCs was training a new CC from another store that Kroger bought. They threw a box of glass and bathroom garbage in the cardboard baler. I can't believe the two of them didn't have enough brain cells to rub together to figure out it didn't go there.
I heard that back in the 80s all stores had an indoor access chute. Vendors are paid when their product is delivered to the back room. A vendor was caught on video throwing all their product in the compactor instead of filling it to the shelf. That is when Kroger went to outdoor access to the compactor and put everything under lock and key.
My store was built in like 2000 and the compactor is like this in the back room. We actually had vendors doing that recently, and now there's a padlock on it (but half the time i see it, it isn't locked). Luckily i know where the key is, most employees do, hopefully the vendor doesn't.
I heard that back in the 80s all stores had an indoor access chute. Vendors are paid when their product is delivered to the back room. A vendor was caught on video throwing all their product in the compactor instead of filling it to the shelf. That is when Kroger went to outdoor access to the compactor and put everything under lock and key.
One of our CCs was training a new CC from another store that Kroger bought. They threw a box of glass and bathroom garbage in the cardboard baler. I can't believe the two of them didn't have enough brain cells to rub together to figure out it didn't go there.
Ours are still indoor, hence why it's tied into the alarm for the back door for that side of the building.
And I thought mopping water and soaking the anti-fatigue mat to the point it's seeping under it at the cashier station to "clean a spill" by a new UC was bad... Good lord...
