to be upset/embarrassed that colleague took a photo of my receipt?

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I work in a chain supermarket, but in quite a small store (30 of us work there, some just weekend staff, some morning and some evenings - but we all know each other.)

One girl (think shes about 19/20) only works at the weekends. I finished work last weekend and did my shopping, I was having a movie night and did end up buying a lot of snacks (£20ish worth)

Anyway I paid for it and went home. Came into work today and a colleague told me that the girl had taken a photo on her phone of my receipt (just of the items bought) and she had overheard her laughing and joking about it with another girl at work (roughly the same age) - the girl who didn't take the photo was daring her to put it on facebook and tag me in it (she obviously didn't though)

I am a large woman but aibu to be upset by this?

I woludn't approach her first, she might get wind of what a bloody stupid thing this was to do and delete the evidence photo.

she can absolutely not take a photo of a customer's receipt and post it on Facebook. What the hell is she thinking? It could have card details on, it could have had very personal items listed on it - pregnancy tests, cystitis treatment etc If they had been in amongst the crisps, would they have been fair game as well?

Just go to your manager with this, and stress to him the issues of a) her bullying a colleague and b) breach of data protection for a customer.

Your manager needs to know about this to enforce a "no phones on the shop floor" policy.

cow!

If you confront her though and she denies it, she then has the possibility of covering her tracks if this is indeed what she has done. In your shoes i would report what you've been told and ask what they suggest. My guess is they would look into it. It is a serious issue and i would want my workplace to know abiut it, deal with it and support me. You are not responsible for her behaviour nor for any discipline.

She didn't post it on Facebook. There is a danger of making too much of this. The girl was being unpleasant but she was doing it privately.

That's irrelevant, Hully, you know it is.

The girl was being unpleasant but she was doing it privately.

No she wasn't! She was talking and laughing about the OP in front of at least two people - the one who told the OP, and the one egging her on.

This is straightforward bullying, I hope you decide to report her OP.

That's a twatish thing to ask

i don't know Mintyy if I was in a supermarket and discovered that the cashier had photographed my receipt before she'd given it to me, I'd be knocking on the manager's door so fast, they wouldn't know what hit them.

She thought that what she was doing was taking the piss out of an overweight colleague for a laugh with her mate.

Unfortunately, when you're at work, this counts as bullying, sets you up for permanent shift patterns away from your mate, and open cans of worms about data protection - she shouldn't be photographing anyone's receipt or have her phone with her at work.

She's a nasty cow.

Please do something about it, whether through your line manager or by confronting her yourself. Don't put up with her behaviour.

Oh thats horrible, poor you, I`d be really upset. I think you should talk to your manager.

I'm assuming that this is a supermarket? I've worked in a few and all of them have considered having your phone on you during your working hours as unacceptable.

She needs to be pulled up for that alone.
As a customer I would be horrified by this, the personal security issues alone would stop me ever shopping there again.

And if she was my workmate shed get the sharp side of my tongue.

Report it. If she is stupid enough to do this again and get caught it won't look good that you knew she was doing this and didn't report. I advise my colleague to also report. Again for her safety.

True, she didn't actually post it on FB but photographing the receipt is pretty bad, IMO.

But if I ran a shop i would be very unhappy to know that my staff were photographong customers' receipts and mocking their purchases.

OP, I would confront her directly and say "just as a matter of interest you might like to know that photographing customers' reciepts and laughing about their purchases is not likely to go down well with * shop, or on your on your CV should it ever become officially known". I wouldn't alude to feeling hurt.

The silly cow sounds a bit thick - if thats the only thing she has to talk to her stupid mates about at age 19 then she's a sad bastard as well as a bitch. For you

Ooh yes OP How large are you? Lets see if we can put a smidge of the blame for her behaviour on to you.

Welcome to Mumsnet.

This is horrible behaviour. I imagine how humiliated and hurt I would feel if this happened to me.

Please try not to be too upset - get angry!! Just go to your manager and ask for action to be taken. How dare she do this. It is absolutely nothing to do with her what you eat or spend you money on.

She is an utter bitch and you would be doing her a favour by getting her pulled up by her behaviour sooner rather than later.

Blu's suggestion is a good one.

But it is worth considering reporting her if only for the fact she broke two huge rules - she had her phone on the shop floor, and she photographed a customer receipt. My dad is a store manager and he said that if any of his staff had done this, they would be given at least an informal disciplinary hearing if not worse. The behaviour is unacceptable as a member of staff.

I would report it or confront her. I would not be shy about it either.

Thats terrible I am taking it that she opened up the till and photographed the roll as all tills (or older ones) have a duplicate of transactions incase the float doesnt tally

I hope you get the apology your looking for

I didn't understand how she'd get a copy of the receipt to photo either madbengal.
I suppose that might explain it, though if you're on a busy shift in a supermarket why would you bother?
I expect the op will come back and let us know though.

It's up to you but I would encourage a friend who was in that situation to report it and take it as far as needed. Not just horrid but offensive and degrading and as someone with PCOS, sometimes I like to buy loads of crap. I have a gastric band now but still buy lots of shit but look thinner, does that make it ok? Fuck them, are they perfect? I wish MN could send a task force down to then to ask if their bodies were utterly perfect.

it's bullying. what a pathetic excuse for a human being she is