The suits are looking for every penny!
Pretty sad when the dam thing cannot be turned on a few minutes before opening for employees that work upstairs! Not everyone can climb stairs as they expect!
Sears would be well served by installing some kind of automatic thing that detects when people are approaching and it turns on automatically....kind of like most doors automatically open when people approach
Any intelligent company would have automated this including safety features and fired the bean counter who cares about nonsense metrics, but that's how Eddie lost $18B on this mess. A dollar spent today is a billion you don't have to spend fixing your mistakes tomorrow. Eddie's a world class mo--n who has never for a moment understood the nature of physical capital, it's just numbers where execution happens magically by wishful thinking.
Think of it as a fitness club that you don't have to pay for.
Escalator costs around $40 an hour to run
And there's at least 2
Gotta squeeze the blood out of that rock .
In our store for as long as I can remember we always turn on the escalator right when the store open.
I don’t know why this would be an inconvenience because if someone can’t climb the escalator they can take the passenger elevator every store must have one.
You think that was bad, we could only run the trash compactor twice per day--once before open and once after close. We weren't allowed to use the cardboard baler unless it was a truck day, so we'd rush and get as many boxes open as we could just so that our backroom didn't have a mountain of boxes. Otherwise, we'd literally be stuck with those boxes until the next week and then we'd have that current week's cardboard to deal with in top of that. No exceptions were made.
The higher ups also made a huge deal about the flatscreen PC monitors being switched off before close in our district, so we'd have to wander all over the store and turn off any monitors on kiosks or on workstations (but left the computer unit running 24/7. Common sense says that the actual computers draw more electricity than the LCD monitors connected to them). If just one monitor was missed, like at a random kiosk or a random PC in the PMT room deep in the bowels of the back room, we'd hear the SM complain about it at the rally meeting the next day.
The store won a water cooler too from some credit contest but lost it a month later because it drew electricity, they had an "energy audit" and it had to go. Also, the QMT had to unplug the refrigerated water fountain in our back room because it drew electricity, so we no longer had cold water after sweating our tails off from unloading a truck. We couldn't even think about a running an old box fan which we found deep in the bowels of junk in the warehouse or opening a bay door to get a breeze. The SM threw the fan away and forbade us from cracking open the bay door.
The escalators in our store always sounded like they were about to fall apart....making loud clunking sounds as they operated....At least one of the two was often out of service so it would be barricaded off and the second one would be shut off so that people could walk up and down on one escalator while the other was out of service.
I can remember as far back as 10 years ago before all the bankruptcy excitement, our store didn't turn on the escalator until right before we opened the doors. If it cuts down on the wear and tear and extends the life, so be it. Not much of a sacrifice