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Alex Transade | Is my boss breaking the rules or am I? What does this mean about employee discounts? ? |
In my company rules book it says that the employee discount is for your immediate discount. I always buy things for my family and my boss gets mad at me sometimes. It specifically says the discounts are for your immediate family. He always says it is only for your children or spouse but I do not have either of them. Since I do not think that he is following the rules I just buy my family things anyway. |
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stephaniej2888
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When i worked retail my rule book said the same thing, and my manager told me that if you didnt have a child or spouse then your "immediate" family would be considered mother & father, brothers & sisters. But you say that YOU are always buying them things and using the discount, if you are purchasing them with your money then he/she cant complain because they dont know if your buying if for yourself or for someone else unless you tell them. When i worked in retail if i was at work and my family came in to make a purchase i could give them my discount, but if i was buying they didnt know if it was for me or someone else so they cant say anything.......do you get what im saying? |
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rtfm
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It says "immediate family", not "extended family". If you don't have a spouse or children, then your "immediate family" would be your parents. Period. Aunts, uncles, cousins, and best friends do not fall into the category of "immediate family". |
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I Buy And Sell Houses
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He's right. You're wrong.
If the rules say the discount is for your "immediate family" and you're buying for others, then you're not obeying the rules.
Sorry: It doesn't matter if you don't have children or a spouse and others do. Example: Some companies provide health insurance to the immediate family of an employee. (Or they make it available at a reduced rate.) You can't use that coverage to bring in a cousin or aunt for medical treatment. Example: my sister and I both own houses, and we both pay property taxes. The property taxes are largely used to pay for public schools. I have a kid who goes to public school, and so he gets the benefit of the taxes I pay. My sister doesn't have a child. She would not be able to enroll someone else into the school.
The point is: Sometimes benefits just don't end up getting distributed perfectly evenly.
As for the "Answers" asking: "How is your boss going to know, so why does it matter?" Obviously, your boss knows that you don't have a spouse or children, so he logically figures you're using the employee discount for purchases for non-qualifying individuals. But even if he didn't, it's your obligation--as an employee--to obey the rules.
Why don't you talk to him and try to reach some sort of agreement? But right now, you're just making him angrier--you say he repeatedly tells you that the employee discount is for immediate family, and yet you keep buying the stuff. That's a bad pattern. You and he ought to resolve the issue.
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Doctor Deth
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if YOU are doing the actual buying - there is nothing he can do - tell him they are gifts - but you will run into trouble if you are spending more than you are making at that job, because then it has to be someone elses money - I would limit the purchases or you could get fired
IMMEDIATE FAMILY IS spouse and children, so it;s not HIM that is bending the rules
keep it up if you want to risk getting fired - HE IS the BOSS, not you |
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Northerly Wind
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Immediate family is like you share direct quote unquote "blood", meaning any siblings, children, parents, and also your spouse. Basically if you made a family tree, one that would have a direct line to yourself.
So your boss is just being mean/irrational. |
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xxguitarplayinxx
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You are technically breaking the rules. Your boss is correct. Just because you do not have immediate family does not give you the right to "steal" from the company. The discount was intended for you and your immediate family. Consider it a privilege and be thankful everyone else does not have your discount, otherwise, it would not be an employee discount. Although it is not acceptable, you could just leave out who you are buying the item for. Just don't say you are buying it for someone else. |
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katerbecker
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Look, unless there is someone else to whom you can take this issue (ie a "higher up" that you think will have a good chance of agreeing with you) you aren't going to win. Companies make the policy as to whether or not they'll even have an employee discount. If I were you I might have a chat with my boss about it to see what particular ooncerns he/she has in mind and try to get on the same page. If you are buying things for mom and dad, okay. If it's for your brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, indeed, I would say that is excessive. Your boss should give you a little room but you need to not take too much advantage of a good thing. Companies are in business to make money, not sell items at cost to their employees. You are also setting an example for other employees, they could look at how much you're buying (and remember, some of them with children could have been told "no" about buying things for their extended family.) Maybe the issue is the extent to which you're taking advantage of the discounts. And maybe there are other performance issues that you have (or a particular attitude toward work) that make your boss less likely to give you a break.
I worked at a restaurant where eventually the management had to limit the items on which people were able to have employee discounts. For instance, when people came in with their families and bought up all of the steaks because they could get them cheaply, and other customers couldn't order steak because the employee's party ordered it all, it wasn't good for the restaurant. If you work in retail, could it be that you're using your discount on a lot of high-demand items that the company would like to have in stock for promotional reasons?
Times are tough economically, so if I were you I'd not pick a fight with the boss if I could help it. Finding another job could take a while. Be grateful for your job and see how much more you get out of it when you give more, and don't have the "adversarial" atttitude, but more of a team player attitude. |
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peacefuldisaster
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Immediate family consists of the first degree of affinity, spouse and children, and consanguinity, parents and siblings. Other family members would not qualify as immediate. |
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jst4law
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how in the hell is he going to know who you are buying it for...it you are buying uncle Fred a scarf tell him it is for your dad and if it is because they are coming in the store tell them to tell you what they want and you will buy it later on your discount so you are not giving them one directly. i worked in a mall at a CD store and if someone wanted something they just told me and gave me the money and I bought it! simple as that. but if the book says imediate family that is what imediate means! so just don't argue with him and what he doesnt know won't hurt him |
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