A few years ago, my wife’s cousin worked for a large lingerie company and had a 30% staff discount. During all this time, my wife only asked to use this discount once or twice – unlike her many friends. Needless to say, she no longer works for this company.

Perhaps, if theuser LadyGarcia, the author of our story today, had known about this earlier, she would not have allowed all her relatives, friends and even acquaintances to clearly abuse her own staff discount. But here the situation has gone too far. So, let’s just read on.

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The author of the post works for a British luxury brand and has a very generous staff discount

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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The woman has always tried not to misuse it and to only get gifts for her mom, sisters and sister-in-law from time to time

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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But recently the author’s sister-in-law spilled the beans to her cousin – and really launched a “domino effect”

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Since then many people have asked the woman to use her staff discount – and she just couldn’t refuse them

So, the Original Poster (OP)worksfor a luxury British brand and, in her own words, has a very generous staff discount. For quite a long time, the author had used this discount quite rationally – for herself, sometimes for her mother, sisters andsister-in-law. But, according to the laws of the genre, sooner or later such prosperity had to end…

And so it happened – one fine day the SIL blabbed to her cousin, who urgently needed a gift for her daughter’s birthday. And our heroine, as a kind and soft-hearted person, could not refuse. And didn’t even reproach her SIL for not keeping the secret. As it turned out later, this did not lead to anything good.

A real “domino effect” resulted – since then, both the SIL and her cousin, and also their numerous friends, many of whom the woman knew only superficially, have approached the original poster with various requests. And she didn’t actually refuse anyone.

It even got to the point that this very cousin and her sister were planning a trip abroad, and asked the author to allow them to use her discount separately, so that they couldbuy giftsfor their friends! And this, of course, irritated our heroine incredibly. Also because she actually doesn’t receive anything in return for such generosity – not even a single word of gratitude.

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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Yes, that’s right – it’s considered theft. After all, in fact, a staff discount is given to an employee as a kind of incentive for working for this company, for being loyal to it for a long time. And when discounts are handed out left and right to people who have nothing to do with the company, this can technically be regarded as stealing money from the company.

Moreover, this is a verycommon problemworldwide. “In fact,the NRFrecently pegged the cost at approximately $100 billion per year. With roughly 1/3 of shrink being employee theft, it’s safe to say that sweetheart is costing businesses billions of dollars annually,” Solink’s dedicatedarticle claims. And many companies have strict anti-fraud policies aimed at preventing sweethearting on the part of their staff.

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

Relatives Harass Woman By Constantly Using Her Staff Discount At Luxury Store, She Has Had Enough

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