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When an incident happens and HR isn't in the room, ShiftCoach gives your managers step-by-step guidance grounded in your own handbook, and documents it as they go.

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Guidance cites your actual policy
ShiftCoach · live
Mon 8:42 PM · Store 114
JM
An employee just became aggressive with another team member on the floor.
Situation identified
Workplace conflict, escalating Handbook § 4.2 checked
Here's the clearest path forward.
01 Separate the two employees and move them out of view of guests.
02 Speak with each person individually, starting with what they observed.
03 Follow the conduct steps in Section 4.2 before deciding on any action.
04 Document what happened while it's fresh. ShiftCoach has started it for you.
Documentation created
Incident report · 8:44 PM · 2 employees · policy cited
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The reality

Managers are usually alone when it happens.

In industries where turnover is high and HR support is thin, the person on shift makes the call. Whatever they decide becomes the company's record of what happened.

Napkin note
customer yelled, told her sorry, moved table
Text thread
"just talk to him again i guess?"
Receipt
wrote it on the back of a receipt
Group chat
no call, no show. second time this month. not sure what to do.
How incidents get recorded today
8:41 PM
Something happens.

A shouted word, a shove, a walkout. The floor is full and the clock doesn't stop.

8:42 PM
HR isn't there.

The handbook is a PDF somewhere. The owner is asleep. The group chat won't answer for an hour.

8:43 PM
The manager decides anyway.

And two months later, that decision, and whatever was or wasn't written down, is the whole story.

The ShiftCoach moment

You're supported. Here's the clearest path forward.

ShiftCoach reads the situation your manager describes, checks it against the handbook you uploaded, and walks them through it one step at a time, calmly, in the order that protects everyone involved.

Describe
One sentence, in plain words.
Check policy
Matched to your handbook, section by section.
Guide
Ordered steps for the next ten minutes.
Document
The record writes itself as they go.
Protection through consistency

Every location handles it the same way.

Nine managers, nine judgment calls, nine kinds of paperwork. That's where exposure comes from. ShiftCoach routes every incident through the same policy-aligned process, so the record looks the same whether it happened on a Tuesday morning or a Saturday close.

A defensible paper trail created at the moment of the incident, not reconstructed later.
The same policy applied across managers, shifts, and locations.
Visibility for owners without hovering over every shift.
Store 114 · Jordan
Store 118 · Priya
Store 122 · Marc
Store 130 · Alina
One process
Your handbook, applied identically every time.
§ 4.2 Conduct
§ 6.1 Documentation
§ 6.4 Follow-up
52
seconds elapsed
0s Manager describes the situation
11s Policy sections matched and cited
36s First action on screen
52s Report started, follow-ups assigned
Real-time guidance

Fast enough to use while it's happening.

A manager standing in the walk-in with their phone out has about a minute before they have to go back out. ShiftCoach is built for that minute: expert-level guidance in under 60 seconds, with no forms to fill in first.

And it never gets less patient at 11 PM than it was at noon.

When HR isn't in the room, ShiftCoach is.

We're onboarding the first group of operators now. Upload your handbook, and your managers have coaching on their next shift.

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