About a week ago, the store manager banned the use of earbuds/headphones while working; previously we could use one ear to listen to music while we work. The reason for it was someone in one of the Canada stores losing an arm in a baling machine, because the person right next to them had both earbuds in, and supposedly couldn't hear them screaming for help. The story sounds like bullshit; I'm not saying it didn't happen, in fact I totally believe it did, especially given our store's adherence to safety policies, it's just the circumstances described sound very sketchy.
That's not what the problem is. It's just that people took his allowance of people listening to a low-volume music player at their station as "blast it as loud as possible". Today I asked the manager to tell them to turn it down. His response to that is to turn off the store radio(taking away not only the music, but announcements, pages, etc.), and has them turn it up even more. I'm not even joking here, it was so loud that I, more than halfway across the building and wearing noise-reducing earmuffs, could not even concentrate on what I was doing. Oh, and I had a migraine and a possible minor ear infection.
Almost forgot(due to sonic concussion), I was accosted by a customer while I was working. Said customer barged into the back area where I work, past the closed double-doors that both say "Employees only past this point", past the half-dozen or so other employees he could have gone to(or at least, they should have
stopped him), bee-lining right for me for some reason.
Eh, the name isn't a WTF. The scope of what she did is terrifying, though. I'm actually surprised she got off with so little punishment.
It's pretty usual fare for police forces, even if her job was to just pick up calls. A slap on the wrist and a scolding is what she got, basically.
Maybe I can get her a job where I work, because being 100% counterproductive is exactly the talent we look for in our employees.