To wonder what a code 99 is?

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I'm in IKEA and there was a staff announcement saying there was a code 99 in the children's department and just now another announcement saying the code 99 had been terminated.

An ideas? DP thinks poop or a rat

No idea but I await the answer!

I think 💩

They are giving everyone in children's a Mr Whippy with a flake?

Lost child

I just Googled and it says it means a lost child in store.

Child having a mahoosive tantrum?

An ideas? DP thinks poop or a rat

Did Google not occur to him?

Wonder what the code is for lost adult?

Took me fucking ages to get our last time!

Lost child.

DP had no internet (he couldn't get on the wifi) and it was more fun guessing.

Yeah, looks like lost child. It's just phrasing was weird.

I had a summer job in a department store.... Code 17 was the way to ask a colleague to take over if you were desperate for a loo break..... Wonder what other codes are in use?

lost child That puts rather a sinister meaning on "code 99 terminated"!

Love a good old code system me.
In the care home I work at we have a code 22 which is fucking bingo is starting soon .

That puts rather a sinister meaning on "code 99 terminated"!

Woe betide the code 99 in ikea!

mere very sinister, could have said cancelled or something

janni nice

🤣 yetalkshitehen

A store I worked in had ‘tom cruise’ forba dogy cheque ‘tom cruise report to check outs’ and the department managers would all appear. We did have another celebrity for something else dodgy but the details escape me now.

I worked for a large supermarket 13 years ago when a code 10 went on the tannoy, we had to pretend our tills were frozen and keep customers in place.

Code 10 for that supermarket meant an armed robbery was taking place. Turned out they had shotguns. The police caught them a few days later.

Loving the 'codes' talk

@InsuranceGirl shotguns eeeeekkkkk

I worked at a swimming pool wanna guess what code brown was...

In my local Tesco “Mrs Robinson at customer service” means shoplifter in store all staff who fancy tackling them get to the front door. The trolley guys and warehouse staff were beside themselves with excitement!

And on a labour ward “Mrs Brown is fully” means cup of tea for you in the staff room.

A place I used to work called for Mrs Robinson to report to reception if there was a suspected shop lifter spotted.

Code 99 at a supermarket I worked at meant shoplifter. Code 20 or 30 was missing child (which happened surprisingly a lot !)

A couple of unofficial ones here...

'Theres a call for you in the office' is our code for saving a colleague from an irritating or tedious customer.

DH uses 'anyone fancy a beer tonight?' as code for 'this customer is a mahoosive twat, please help me'

At DH’s work a lost child is ‘Code Nemo’. Obviously very serious but still makes me chuckle a bit!