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This is a partial CoC as well, for sheer stupidity, but the person in question didn't work at my store.
These tales happened a number of moons ago at the Ye Olde Random Craft Store. I still was doing the cashiering part over the weekends but was in the early mornings as well, before I went to early mornings only. The morals of these two stories is after each story.
Story the First:
This happened right around the time I started the morning shifts but also happened on a weekend. It was on a Sunday because me and C did the ad-set (as we always do on Sundays), it was after we opened, and we were talking about the things needed to be done in the mornings. Now our direct manager has a name that can be used for either gender so it's not clear if we're talking about a male or female if you don't know this person.
I get called up to the register at one point and help out this dude that I've never seen before. He says he works for the Random Craft Store chain, in fact he works for THIS particular store, and would like to use his employee discount. I'll admit that even then there were a few co-workers that I either have not worked with before or worked with once, only once, and never worked with again because of different schedules and whatnot. So I may not have worked with him before but maybe someone else has and can verify what he is saying.
So I ask him what his name is and what part of the store he works for. Says he's *name I've never heard of*, works, GASP, in the morning crew, and says *my manager* is a great guy to work with. I tell him that unless *my manager* has had a sex change on Saturday, *my manager* is quite clearly a female. And that I've never seen him before in the morning. So unless he can pull out an employee discount card, or someone else in the store can vouch for him, he's getting zilch in the way of employee discounts.
Dude never got his discount, paid for his purchase, and left. Don't know if he ever came back after that but if he did, it was never when I was working even though I only work one day when the store is open so it's possible he has.
Moral of Story: If you're going to lie about working on the same team as someone, make sure that you don't get in the line that said someone is running register on. Because you WILL get shot down and laughed at.
Story the Second:
This happened much longer ago, and I may or may not have mentioned it before. If I have, I'll post it anyways.
Again I was on a register, it's summertime-ish and because I live in a nice, touristy place, we get a lot of tourists. This in itself isn't so bad in general, most are decent people and such; glad when it's over but whatever.
This girl and her mother get into my line, girl says she works for Random Craft Store in *store in town several hours away* but is on a weekend vacation in my town. I ask for her employee card, she doesn't have it; I ask for the phone number for her store, she doesn't know that. Thankfully I can get the number for it since, at the time, this store is in the same district as my store. Girl didn't like that, got all nervous when I called the MOD to call to verify the employment of this chick by calling the store in question.
Please note at the time of this transaction, our upper management wanted all cashiers to make sure we verified employment of people claiming to be employees of Random Craft Store. Unless we worked with them or we knew for a fact someone did work for the Random Craft Store chain, we could not just hand out employee discounts like that. We could've gotten in serious trouble for it.
MOD comes out of the office, says this girl is an employee but that maybe it's not a good idea to tell her boss she's sick, can't come in, then come to another store in the same chain she works in. Mother looks shocked, thought that her daughter had gotten this weekend off, and didn't look too happy when they left.
Moral of Story: If you're going to lie about being sick to your boss, make sure that you don't head to another store in the same chain you work in several hours away and claim to be an employee. You never know if they'll call up YOUR store to verify your employment. Also don't tell your mother you have the weekend off and really don't, but had called in sick.
These tales happened a number of moons ago at the Ye Olde Random Craft Store. I still was doing the cashiering part over the weekends but was in the early mornings as well, before I went to early mornings only. The morals of these two stories is after each story.
Story the First:
This happened right around the time I started the morning shifts but also happened on a weekend. It was on a Sunday because me and C did the ad-set (as we always do on Sundays), it was after we opened, and we were talking about the things needed to be done in the mornings. Now our direct manager has a name that can be used for either gender so it's not clear if we're talking about a male or female if you don't know this person.
I get called up to the register at one point and help out this dude that I've never seen before. He says he works for the Random Craft Store chain, in fact he works for THIS particular store, and would like to use his employee discount. I'll admit that even then there were a few co-workers that I either have not worked with before or worked with once, only once, and never worked with again because of different schedules and whatnot. So I may not have worked with him before but maybe someone else has and can verify what he is saying.
So I ask him what his name is and what part of the store he works for. Says he's *name I've never heard of*, works, GASP, in the morning crew, and says *my manager* is a great guy to work with. I tell him that unless *my manager* has had a sex change on Saturday, *my manager* is quite clearly a female. And that I've never seen him before in the morning. So unless he can pull out an employee discount card, or someone else in the store can vouch for him, he's getting zilch in the way of employee discounts.
Dude never got his discount, paid for his purchase, and left. Don't know if he ever came back after that but if he did, it was never when I was working even though I only work one day when the store is open so it's possible he has.
Moral of Story: If you're going to lie about working on the same team as someone, make sure that you don't get in the line that said someone is running register on. Because you WILL get shot down and laughed at.
Story the Second:
This happened much longer ago, and I may or may not have mentioned it before. If I have, I'll post it anyways.
Again I was on a register, it's summertime-ish and because I live in a nice, touristy place, we get a lot of tourists. This in itself isn't so bad in general, most are decent people and such; glad when it's over but whatever.
This girl and her mother get into my line, girl says she works for Random Craft Store in *store in town several hours away* but is on a weekend vacation in my town. I ask for her employee card, she doesn't have it; I ask for the phone number for her store, she doesn't know that. Thankfully I can get the number for it since, at the time, this store is in the same district as my store. Girl didn't like that, got all nervous when I called the MOD to call to verify the employment of this chick by calling the store in question.
Please note at the time of this transaction, our upper management wanted all cashiers to make sure we verified employment of people claiming to be employees of Random Craft Store. Unless we worked with them or we knew for a fact someone did work for the Random Craft Store chain, we could not just hand out employee discounts like that. We could've gotten in serious trouble for it.
MOD comes out of the office, says this girl is an employee but that maybe it's not a good idea to tell her boss she's sick, can't come in, then come to another store in the same chain she works in. Mother looks shocked, thought that her daughter had gotten this weekend off, and didn't look too happy when they left.
Moral of Story: If you're going to lie about being sick to your boss, make sure that you don't head to another store in the same chain you work in several hours away and claim to be an employee. You never know if they'll call up YOUR store to verify your employment. Also don't tell your mother you have the weekend off and really don't, but had called in sick.
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