Today at work, my boss stopped by and told me that I have to do one hour of sensitivity training at the agency's local office. It's really to cover both our asses in case the Area Vice President finds out so I think it's a good idea. Will probably have to see a video or something.
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Originally posted by Johnny JJ View PostThey'll make you hold hands with a guy for an hour
Seriously, you're employed to ensure your clients SOP's are enforced/applied, the fact that you not only applied an unfair standard you also displayed your personal opinions before the client's staff in an unprofessional tone/manner... would you have made a female surrender their purse prior to entry? BTW never hear of Man bags? (70's trend)
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Our yearly sensitivity training is not one but two lawyers lecturing us for an hour on what you can and cannot say to a customer or to a fellow employee, what a supervisor can and cannot say to you, what rights you legally have as an employee, where to go to complain (Human Resources), what legal rights you have if Human Resources doesn't do anything, and where you go to file a legal complaint against the company.
Followed by 30-45 minutes of my beloved fellow employees asking the craziest, raunchiest, most insane questions they can think of, follwoed by "...so, is that allowed?". This goes on until someone cracks up and the boss chases us out.The CCTV Blog.
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[QUOTE=Maelstrom;70958]Perhaps the guy you discriminated against? LOL
... would you have made a female surrender their purse prior to entry? QUOTE]
As I stated earlier, I would love to be able to pull everybody's purse that enters the store to provide an obstacle for shoplifters (women with huge purses are among the worst) but the management of the stores I work at does not allow me to do that.
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[QUOTE=The Enforcer;70988]Originally posted by Maelstrom View PostPerhaps the guy you discriminated against? LOL
... would you have made a female surrender their purse prior to entry? QUOTE]
As I stated earlier, I would love to be able to pull everybody's purse that enters the store to provide an obstacle for shoplifters (women with huge purses are among the worst) but the management of the stores I work at does not allow me to do that.
Bottom line - if your policies require their customers to leave their bags at a service desk you (the company) is responsible for claims of missing items.
Not a good idea.Retail Security Consultant / Expert Witness
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[QUOTE=Curtis Baillie;71024]Originally posted by The Enforcer View PostWho would be responsible for the purses? Picture this! From a female customer, after receiving her purse back when leaving the store ....... Someone ..... quick call the police. I had a $10,000 ring in my purse and now it's gone. Here's my receipt for the ring. (Pulling it from her pocket). Guess who has a problem? BTW - this really happened. The chain no longer requires customers to leave bags at the service desk.
Bottom line - if your policies require their customers to leave their bags at a service desk you (the company) is responsible for claims of missing items.
Not a good idea.
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[QUOTE=The Enforcer;71036]Originally posted by Curtis Baillie View Post
Techinically when I take any bag, per company policy, neither the agency nor the store assumes responsibility for the bag in question or the items in it (as I was told by several store managers). It is the customer's choice whether they want to bring bags into the store (presently excluding females with purses due to the many complaints it elicits). If they want to shop in the store without being constantly monitored and followed by me at a three foot radius until they are finished, they will leave the bags up front and I will store them in a safe place. There was, however, one manager that was concerned about the store's liability for customers' items and simply made me check everybody's bags on the way in and out without taking them.Retail Security Consultant / Expert Witness
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[QUOTE=The Enforcer;71036]Originally posted by Curtis Baillie View Post
Techinically when I take any bag, per company policy, neither the agency nor the store assumes responsibility for the bag in question or the items in it (as I was told by several store managers). It is the customer's choice whether they want to bring bags into the store (presently excluding females with purses due to the many complaints it elicits). If they want to shop in the store without being constantly monitored and followed by me at a three foot radius until they are finished, they will leave the bags up front and I will store them in a safe place. There was, however, one manager that was concerned about the store's liability for customers' items and simply made me check everybody's bags on the way in and out without taking them.Are you serious?
When you take possesion, you assume responsibility. I fully agree with Mr. Baillie.
Apparently a HUGE cop wannabe...
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[QUOTE=sgtnewby;71053]Originally posted by The Enforcer View Post
OMG, wake up...Are you serious?
When you take possesion, you assume responsibility. I fully agree with Mr. Baillie.
In the same vein, it used to be common for nightclubs to have "hat-check" or "coat-check" service, and the ticket you got for your property always had a similar denial of responsibility printed on it.
How can the parking garage/store/nightclub do this? Well, a bailment is essentially a special form of contract that both parties must agree to in order to be created, and all they have to do is to specifically deny that any such agreement will be implied on their part by the fact that you have temporarily placed your property in their custody. In other words, they basically refuse to accept possession, in a legal sense. Absent such a bailment, which if created would have to specifically state exactly what responsibility the possessor is assuming, by the way, there is no transfer of possession for safekeeping...in the legal sense of possession. There is no such thing as a unilateral transfer of possession (where one party forces possession on another), because all it takes is for one party to refuse to accept legal possession.
Have such terms been challenged? Yes, but such challenges are rarely successful unless there is shown to be some very egregious form of negligence on the part of management.
Check it out for yourself. Next time you park in a lot, tell the attendant that your digital camera was stolen out of your car and you want the garage to pay for it. (Be sure to wear cotton in your ears so the attendant's laughter doesn't damage your hearing.)Last edited by SecTrainer; 08-20-2008, 12:48 PM."Every betrayal begins with trust." - Brian Jacques
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