I walked into a GOB store from the mall yesterday and it immediately felt much warmer and much more humid. The place was like a sweat box. Is this a one off? Is it like this in normal stores or just GOB?
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Another building engineer that got dragged into the QMT program here. Nothing but a dog and pony show formed to thin the ranks and prop up the useless groups of management that wasted money on endless "store enhancements"
While Walmart was handing Sears it's lunch, Sears was playing musical displays and picking out paint colors. What a shame.
Just put a space heater in front of the thermostat in the summer and your store will hit "80" within 10 minutes of opening. Then set it to cycle on and off until you get the store to 70-72 degrees. It is not unusual for Kmart to hit 80 degrees at the front end and wherever electronics are plugged in and running. Summer is always a bigger problem than winter.
I was a bldg. engr. for sears, then fsa when the levels changed then became a qmt for the next 13 years and kept things as corporate mandated, albeit; we never froze the customers nor baked them in the summer months. you simply cannot retain a customer base with temps in the eighties in the summer with humidity levels at a high point, they will leave. admittedly, I jumpered units from time to time to maintain high levels of cooling and the customers stayed in the store. true, it cost losts more for southern California Edison bills but the customer base was still there. although the 134 costs were really high in my base store, the revenue generation was still there. no one, I mean no one is shopping where the temps. are too high. persons speak of presentation for the units, however; presentation is not only visual, it is temperate as well. too hot, too cold, they leave the unit. fast eddie is still looking to sell properties, not generate revenues apparently. thanks for 42 years of 40 hours each week and I loved the old company and did my best. not the brightest light on the porch but felt I gave 50 hrs. work each week for 40 hrs. pay to help the company.
c. daniels
this thread is sad and humorous, especially the homeless taking up camp
Come on people!!! We must ALL do our part to ensure ESL is able to air condition the "Fountainhead".....His ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR YACHT.
You don't need fans, coffee makers, or air conditioned stores when our dear CEO is forced to economize with Russian caviar instead of Beluga......Do you think I'm kidding?
I don't know why you all complain and moan when we should ALL be doing our part...
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I brought in my Humidistat one day and the relative humidity in our store was 79% and the temp was 83 degrees F. Talk about uncomfortable.
Last winter our store was so cold you could see your breath and most people would not shop here. And many complained they could not hold on the shopping cart because the metal was too cold.
Our manager said that in the winter most people had coats and they would just keep them on to shop. While I can see the logic in that, if you see your breath that means it is cold.
We had a pedestal fan in the corner of our appliance department. The CAC had a pair of clip on fans. The hub office had a couple fans and the backroom had a box fan. Then came the energy audit and all the fans were taken away and thrown in the compactor. I am more upset at the fact that they didn't even bother donating them than the fact that they took them away.
Ever since we had the energy audit we have to go around the building every single night to turn off all the LCD monitors of all the kiosks and workstations in every department and all the offices. That's about 30 total. The funny thing is that the computer units are all left on and those use more electricity than the LCD monitors.
We are not allowed to plug in any phone or tablet chargers in the breakroom. I guess 0.95 watts will send the power bill through the roof. I'm surprised they haven't taken away our microwave, TV, fridge and Keurig machine. Because of the audit, we did lose our water cooler that we won from that credit contest a while back. The district facilities manager and QMT said it wasn't allowed. Now it's sitting in the corner of our breakroom collecting dust.
Because of the audit, all the lights inside are turned off when we leave the store for the night, making it pitch black. If the police ever needed to respond to a break in or something in the middle of the night, they wouldn't be able to see inside, where before, they'd have a pretty clear view inside since the lights closest to the entrances and a few other random lights were kept on overnight. But now? Not anymore. Most of our parking lot and all of our lighting on the exterior of the store is turned off, even our signage. It's not a coincidence that we've been broken into twice and have been tagged numerous times by vandals overnight since they cracked down on the lights. We even had a few homeless who occupied a dark, enclosed corner outside the back of our store, which is not lit at all. It was lit until the audit. They would leave their trash and excrement for our cleaning guy to deal with the next morning. No joke.
It s---s working in a hot store especially on Sundays 3 hours before the unit kicks on right when the store opens at 11!!
At least during the week it’s only an hour since we can’t clock in until 9am
The larger stores were originally built and designed for an on site maintenance crew. Back in the 80s and 90s, the all either got laid off or became roaming QMTs. It takes a lot to keep those plants running. Not just occasional visits .
I laughed when I read the original post. In fact, still laughing. Our reality for years has been a very, very warm and muggy store in the summer. And don't try taking a fan off the counter and plugging it in to create a breeze. You'll hear about it from the QMT. A lot of our customers complain about the heat and cut their shopping trip short because of it, or just stop coming in altogether.
I always wonder if the energy savings is enough to offset the loss in sales.
i assume GOB is Going Out of Business
Yup, all stores are going to be warm, some more than others, depending on your local climate. Thermostats are set to kick on when the inside temperature hits 80, and don't think that you'll be getting AC when it does. The QMTs programmed the HVAC systems to turn the fans on first and only use the AC if absolutely necessary. Managers will be raked over the coals if they lower the thermostat.
What's GOB, by the way? In the world of Sears acronyms, I've never heard of that one.
This is normal. Seniors wont even come into our store because it is so hot and humid. They say they cant breath