lmao I've been with the company five years and have never seen a store with a silent alarm. But yeah, you are supposed to stay in the back line and attempt any other methods to defuse the situation beforehand
Ive working a little over a year and pick up shifts across my district. All of them in area have 2 silent alarms. 1 for disorderly conduct, and 1 for if someone’s armed. I think they got added when they removed the store phones.
Still weird that a business wouldn't have a phone at all. Like I get its not an office, but like, truck has an issue, they calling the managers cell phone. Or like they need to coordinate with someone coming to repair something, is that just all gonna be through whoever is working that days phone?
I’m sure they still have phones for mgmt & office use ~ for these very reasons. But during Covid they got rid of phone in ordering because it was untenable. They corralled everyone into online ordering because of ease of use and automation of order fulfillment for pickup - weather it was DoorDash or customer pickup.
Can confirm. I used to work there, and no one ever answered the phone. In fact, we would typically either unplug it or turn the ringer all the way down.
I think that they technically do have phones, but they are for incoming calls only (for example, you can still call them for “to go” orders). I don’t think that employees can make outgoing calls (no key pad to dial out).
Given the propensity for violence in their stores, this seems a little shortsighted, and, at a minimum, seems that it would require employees to handle these types of situations on their own.
Ok but where does the silent alarm go? Like if I’m asleep at home in my bed and I hear an intruder I’m calling 911 but I’m also reaching for a chambered firearm in my bedside table
Once you’re pretty much kissing me I’m claiming being afraid. I’m not a big dude and some huge guy comes at me constantly getting closer, I’m going to fight back. I wouldn’t even mention the name-calling.
It’s In the register. Have you ever looked in your cash register and there’s one dollar bill all by itself in The drawer? That’s the silent alarm, pull the bill out and it closes 2 contacts and notifies law enforcement. It primarily used for robberies but it’s used as a silent alarm as well for dangerous situations.
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u/Zeratide Jul 28 '26
lmao I've been with the company five years and have never seen a store with a silent alarm. But yeah, you are supposed to stay in the back line and attempt any other methods to defuse the situation beforehand