HomebaseFor some reason homebase used to have a policy when using the tannoy everything was called 'code **'
Code 10 was telephone call
Code 20 was to ask a member of staff to a partiucualr place
As if middle aged couples shopping for fucking paint on a sunday would freak out if they new the manager had a telephone call so they had to disguise it.
code 69 was a shoplifter i kid you not.
ps i was fired for throwing up on new years day whilst unpacking light bulbs
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Sat 23 Nov 2002, 16:17,
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Code 10 was telephone call
Code 20 was to ask a member of staff to a partiucualr place
As if middle aged couples shopping for fucking paint on a sunday would freak out if they new the manager had a telephone call so they had to disguise it.
code 69 was a shoplifter i kid you not.
ps i was fired for throwing up on new years day whilst unpacking light bulbs
Fantastic threadHope this goes in the right place this time ... I can't believe someone doesn't maintain a list somewhere of coded emergency announcements. But I just Googled "Inspector Sands" and I couldn't find one.
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Sun 24 Nov 2002, 1:26,
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BudgensAn announcement of 'code 2' across the tannoy in Budgens means there's a shoplifter in the store.
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Sun 24 Nov 2002, 14:36,
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In Currys..a "customer service code 10" means theres a suspected shoplifter in the store. Should we really be revealing all these things?!
Hilt
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Sun 24 Nov 2002, 16:18,
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Hilt
HomebaseIt's now "Service 100" for shoplifters (at which point "every able-bodied, male member of staff" legs it because nothing brightens up a dull day shelf-stacking than the opertunity to use "reasonable force" on some shoplifter!)
Oh and the "Time Check" thing applies to John Lewis to. If you hear it get out, there's been a bomb threat!
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Sun 24 Nov 2002, 18:39,
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Oh and the "Time Check" thing applies to John Lewis to. If you hear it get out, there's been a bomb threat!
Where I work..I work in a trendy cafe/bar. We have codes for everything! If someone yells "50" behind the bar, all the bartenders have to lean forward, because '50' is the code for "i'm going to throw something to the skip-rat at the other end of the bar." saves time walking there, doesn't it?
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