Right to Search

Sambucus_Nigra

Wheel of Misfortune, surely?

jamespir

do a random search once a week not being funny but wheel of fortune things sounds daft

teajug

How are the managers going to be searched, you should do it as you would like done to you as a manager search.

Googlewhacker

I agree with Ohreally really, in principle it has a place but realistically it does the following

1) Places distrust in your employees
2) Creates bad feeling towards you
3) Is an emotionally difficult thing to do on the actual day, I would hate to do it myself to my staff
4) Ultimately 99.99% of staff are good and honest, if someone is a thieving git you will find out eventually without hacking of all the other staff and to be fair most staff would say if someone is thieving.

So, my idea of how to do it fairly is to NOT do it.

xxJudexx

I work in a shop and we have always been searched but they have stepped up their searches in the last couple of weeks. It is really intrusive and I hate the fact that they only search people at the end of the day. Most people don't work from store opening to store close so it is always the same people being searched so I would much prefer if they picked names from a deck of cards. At least then everyone has the same chance of being searched.

Googlewhacker

xxJudexx wrote: »

I work in a shop and we have always been searched but they have stepped up their searches in the last couple of weeks. It is really intrusive and I hate the fact that they only search people at the end of the day. Most people don't work from store opening to store close so it is always the same people being searched so I would much prefer if they picked names from a deck of cards. At least then everyone has the same chance of being searched.

As long as its not a rigged deck!

Northerness

The wheel isn't random, for example you would need to decide when it was spun. Who would decide this? There could still be prejudice involved in this method.

I worked in a well-known shop for several years throughout university. There were two instances of theft that we knew about - and both were the manager (one obviously replaced the first shop manager and then the replacement was also sacked for theft spotted through hidden cameras from the head office).

The only way searches can be truly random is for an external company/security to conduct them. You contract a company for a year and they decide who is to be searched and when. I presume most shops can't do this - but it could be an idea you to raise at a regional management meeting when discussing loss prevention, and would probably get you brownie points for your transparency.

bluenoseam

Last place i worked in had a system red ball & green ball - got red you got searched, green to go. That being said i believe that particular system failed!

HMV we just used to get searched every time we left the building, i don't believe it caused a sense of mistrust, but certainly kept us right & avoided any doubt.

hcb42

I agree with googlewhacker, I abhor this kind of management (and it exists in my industry unfortunately).

I will never return to work another day in a company that decides it is going to search my bag on departure, and if the company does not search my bag (I am in management myself) and then thinks it is ok to search the bags of junior staff then that is even worse than calling us all thieves.

PasturesNew

If I worked there I'd walk to work and turn up without a bag. That'd shove your Wheel of Fortune up your disposal chute.