A glass office door’s been shattered.
You really should. I guess these days a lot of people may not get the joke, but the ones who do will love it.
In the store I work at, a page for “security” is intended to intimidate a person who’s trying to shoplift, but LP is busy with something else/off for the night/doesn’t have enough hard evidence to make a stop on them. We have a code name for our security people that we call them by instead of using their real names, so if we actually needed their attention we’d page for, say, “Mr. Wayne”, as in Bruce. (That’s not the actual name, but it’s similar.)
Doctors are rarely paged overhead any more, so that probably wouldn’t be an issue.
I worked for Rite Aid about 15 years ago, during and a bit after high school. There was a short time where the background music loop would occasionally insert prerecorded announcements like “Security to the front of the store” and “Manager to the monitor room”. Since the music was actually sent remotely I hypothesized every Rite Aid in the region played the same announcement simultaneously.
While beepers and cellphones get most of the action, we still probably average a few overhead pages a day.
My old hospital in th 60’s didn’t have a PA system. But we did have colored lights. Code Red was signled by the Red light. Code Blue was signaled by the Blue light. From memory, there was also Yellow and Green. I was only a visitor: I have no idea what the codes meant.
It must depend on where you work; I never heard one.
For some reason I particularly liked this one…
I just asked a friend who worked at Lowe’s as recently as last August. Code 3, Cash Register, Code 5, gather carts, code 50, loading assistance. They didn’t have a code 75, this was in Virginia.
When I worked at Woolworth’s, the code for shoplifting was 41 1/2 spoken over the PA…
“Forty-one and a half to sporting goods”.
Really weird.
“LP” ?
Loss Prevention
Loss prevention.
Most large retail stores have their own codes that are generally just made up. For example, it sounds better for a department store to have an announcement for a “Code 7” rather than announcing for the “10am Manager’s Meeting.” Otherwise you get potential thieves alerted that some of the floor staff will be away or you get customers who get snippy about service and complain that “all the managers are in a meeting” instead of helping people!
At Best Buy in the 90s we’d like to keep the employees aware where we were with our sales level for the day. So if we were at $254,000 for the day so far we would page “Attention Best Buy staff, please dial extension two five four.”
:slight hijack: What was a typical sales figure for a day?
Depends on the location and day. We were a high volume store and black friday weekend we were hitting over a million a day. The month of December $300-$400k per day. The rest of the year maybe $80-$120k. This was the late 90s when BBY had seen better days.
I hope it means “Birthday cake in the break room.” That would be nice.
What did customers say when the employees didn’t reach for the nearest phone?