This is a consider a " Informal verbal warning "  next is suppose to be a Written Warning

Burgermeister now you have me reading English 101 lol

The first attestation of verbal meaning “composed of words” comes in either 1530 or 1589.* And the first attestation of verbal meaning “conveyed by speech” comes in 1617:

fdarn wrote:

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dictionary.com gives this definition of "verbal"

expressed in spoken words; oral rather than written.

I would get so used to seeing notices at the time clock I would stop reading them. I would definitely get a write up from this store. I don't mind parking in the back as long as there are available parking spaces. I worked in some stores with designated employee parking areas that never had enough spaces for the employees.

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 Sometimes your car,  or the contents of your car isn't/arent safe in the back. I don't want to sound sexist, but this is common sense. If you get off work after dark, it might not be wise for some people to park in the back. I feel safe, but women might not feel safe parking so far back. I think some rape or mugging prevention literature or classes may advise against parking far from the front of a store at night. 

I wonder if a store has ever been successfully sued over this by someone who was attacked? 

Thats a very good point. I worked the night shift in a rough areas several years ago. I do remember being nervous walking to my car at midnight. These concerns should be raised. When I park anywhere I like to be able to see my car from the window of the establishment. During the day time when the store is at its busiest parking in the back makes sense if there are spaces to park in. Maybe a security guard who focuses on that area should be mandatory.


A lot of the cutters I worked with were armed too. Especially when I worked in Flint, Michigan.

Coalcracker wrote:

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Hey BugerM. I heard this funny joke and I think it applies to your question. LOL> My boss just called me into his office.

He said, "You've already had a verbal warning about your lateness and now I'm giving you a written warning. If you're late again I promise that there will be no more warnings!"

I'm going to purposely be late everyday next week, just to see if he keeps to his promise.

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 Ha! That's a good one. Made me laugh at the end of my workday (moonlighting on what should have been my day off again)

it could only be a verbal warning if you read it out loud to yourself...LOL

   At my company it is policy to give a verbal warning,then a written verbal warning,then a disciplinary report, then another disciplinary report with suspension, then another for termination, which protects the company from paying unemployment benefits to the said disciplined person.They are  common at my company,also Georgia is anb at will employment state with no union so technically your boss can just walk up and say we don't need you any more and you cant do squat about it!

I agree newbernbers a terrible message if a child can use an iphone there is no need for that terrible font and underlining as for 2 explanation marks isnt one enough and thats management typing makes my typing seem ok

the parking thing made me think i dont drive but the store had a policy of employees parking on sidestreets or behind the store.

anyhow the bus stop was behind it too and at the crossing the signal said walk and my eyes saw the lady who decided to turn the corner with dinner balanced on the steering wheel eating it with a fork my legs thought different. crazy houston drivers.

also sat at the bus stop and one driver cut one up at speed the other breaked and spun about 2 ft from my face luckily there were no other cars to crashed into the guy who braked 90 degrees. i felt myself move in slow motion out of the busstop seat

Burgermeister wrote:

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I saw this notice next to the time clock at a Safeway store where I worked back in May, I think it was.

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 In our company a verbal warning was one that was still documented in the employee's file, but did not require the employee to read and sign it.  A written warning was just that. It was a statement put in writing, read to the employee in a disciplinary meeting then handed to the employee who was told to read it and sign it.  Of course we always refused to sign it.  Our union's policy was that the only thing we had to sign was our paycheck. I never had a disciplinary meeting but there were other cases where we were given new policy statements that we were told to sign off on and we would refuse to sign those.  I remember one time when the company did actually get over on me.  It was some new policy that I had to watch a video about and I refused to sign.  A few weeks later I got a notice from the Post Office that I had a package by Registered Mail. I went to the P.O. and though I was not expecting anything, like a dummy I signed for it to get my mail. BAM!  It was that video tape!  There were some things we had to sign for, i.e. deliveries but we were instructed to make our signatures illegible.  Mine were, and appeared different every time I signed.

Every company I ever worked for had a parking policy requiring us to park as far away from the store as possible.  Personally I never had a problem with that, but I did note the difference in that when I went to college, the best parking spaces were reserved for Professors (employees) and the students (customers) were required to park in the far away spaces. The same with hospitals where the best spaces are reserved for doctors and not the patients.  And yes I was always armed as were many of my crew.

The last chain I worked for (Pathmark) also had the policy that if you wished you could request another employee escort you to your car. I never felt I needed that but since my wife works there now I wish she would insist on that.  The reality is that help has been cut back so much that there really is no one available to do that.  So she parks as close to the store as possible and again because the help is so light there really is no one who has the time to check on where employees park. The previous store she worked in also had a large underground parking garage for customers only and she would always park there and there was no one who ever caught her or had the time to even check..