There is a decal on the local Walmart entrance that says “Code Adam”. I seem to recall seeing a similar sign on other Walmarts. I gotta know what this means. Don’t ask me why. I guess because it seems like a secret.
Snopes to the rescue, again.
http://www.snopes2.com/
If the actual link doesn’t come up, just search for “code adam.”
Snopes lists the URL at the bottom of each page. http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/codeadam.htm
Wal-Mart has a buch of “secret” codes. I only remember one of them from working there in high school besides Code Adam. Code Blue means there’s a person with a gun in the store.
Huh. I woulda bet that code blue meant there was a spy from Kmart in the store.
let me guess - ‘security’ is a number - one number for dealing with locks, another for shoplifters?
ah, memories…
At the hospital I worked at, “Code Adam” was the signal to immediately lock all the exits at once, the theory being that whoever had the kid wouldn’t be able to get out with him/her (assuming he hadn’t done so already).
What’s funny about that is managers actually encouraged employees to “scout” the local K-Mart and report back items that were on sale. I swear that place had an atmosphere that bordered on being in a cult. Before our shift, they’d round everyone up and make us recite this weird chant as we clapped our hands. I kid you not. And then there’s “coaching” or re-education as I called it, if you screwed up or missed too many days.
What was one manager’s encourage was my requirement. I had to send my people out to price shop, make decisions about pricing based on the results, keep records, and produce them upon demand from my higher-ups. If the competition was selling an item below my cost, I had to send people out to buy it all out, add it to my stock, be reimbursed, and keep records on that too.
Wal-Mart plays very, very rough. They know the power that they have, and they know how to use it.
About the only thing that truly frightens Wal-Mart is unionization. They’ll fight that to the death.
I never worked at WalMart or KMart but I remember one occasion when our child barfed in Kmart, and they called
Code M in Aisle 6.
I suppose M for mess or mop? :eek:
Ohhhh, miatachris, watch what you say. Walmart may sue you. 
Didn’t Walmart sell guns until about 3 months ago?
Was it “Owah tastoo Jaiyam”?
Nah, they want me to come back too bad. There’s a shortage in my line, fortunately.
miatachris, D.Ph.
ex-Wal-Martian
The codes aren’t really “secret” as I just saw the list (about 3 feet long) in the lay-away department while taking my daughter to the bathroom. It must depend on the Wal-Mart you work in, and the management, as to how “cultish” it is. Several of my best friends worked their ways through college at Wally World and none of them would have ever put up with chanting or spying or other such rubbish.
I hate to be the bearer of such news, k2dave, but Wal-Mart still sells guns. At least they do at the Super-Wal-Mart in Bristol, VA and the regular Wal-Mart in Bristol, TN. I have seen it myself within the last week. Not handguns, mind you, but guns (“long guns”, as my father the hunter would say) nonetheless.
Why do they want to be ionized? You touch something metallic or a co-worker and ZAP! Pisses a lot of people being zapped. Being unionized is much better.
My father would agree with that, and he disagrees with everything. He hates being ionized and bitches for about 30 minutes after each deionization event.
See what we did? One person didn’t know about the strange things that go on inside Wal-Mart, and now my Dad’s bitching again. The internet is truly a marvel.
Every time I go to Wal-Mart I hear the Same woman’s voice saying the same thing, every time! I don’t know if it’s a recording or the lady works long hours, but she’s always saying “security, please scan aisle 7 and 8, tape and record”. What the heck is that? I do try to stay out of aisle 7 and 8 though!