EVERYONE taking advantage of my staff discount

[LadyGarcia]

I work for a luxury British brand, and we receive a very generous staff discount. When I first joined the company, I kept this discount between me, my mum, sisters, and sister-in-law. Unfortunately, my sister-in-law couldn't keep it quiet and told her sisters. Soon enough, I started receiving shopping lists from them (SILs sisters) with all the things they wanted to buy using my staff discount, this is ongoing and I still get requests from them every now and again - just to add instead of asking me directly, they go through my sister-in-law, which is frustrating and rude.

My mum nor my sisters have ever asked me to use my discount - probably because they know anything I gift them will be from work, haha!

With my sister-in-law's loose lips, she let it slip to my cousin one day who then asked to use it, so I agreed because it was a present for her daughter. Recently, this cousin and her sister who are travelling abroad soon, asked me separately to use my discount so they could buy gifts for their friends. This really irritates me.

I'm sick a tired of people wanting to use my discount and I'm angry at my SIL for telling everyone about the discount and I get nothing in return from anyone for it.

Am I being unreasonable?

I'm curious about why you wouldn't just let people use it?

Well seeing as the OP hasn't been back to clarify, no-one knows whether there are rules about the discount - many are limited on number of items (DP used to work in a bike shop and they were allowed to buy up to two bikes a year at half price) or the discount is for immediate household only.

Because otherwise there would be the temptation to sell on for a profit, or get so many discounted items that it affected sales at the store the OP works at. Imagine if every cousin, sister in law, friend, friend of friend etc of every sales assistant at every store got the discount? It wouldn't be long before it wouldn't ever be necessary to buy a full price item, because everyone would know someone who knew someone who could get the discount.

You can get sacked for this. Which is easier - saying No or losing your job? And if you do get sacked, they'll lose their freebies in any case.

@LadyGarcia - have you decided what to do or say?

Hi everyone
Work is cracking down on the use of discount code. I now only have a limited spend which obviously I will use myself.

Simple, tell everybody you are restricting discount to mom and sisters. Take any crap you might receive, they'll gey over it.

What? You are letting your SiL’s cousins access your discount! Where are you going to draw the line @LadyGarcia Maybe stop when it the cousin’s cousins thrice removed next door neighbour?

you need to put a stop to these cheeky-feckers

@kkloo is make a profit of the CFs

Way to Really invite dismissal if found out, and just dishonest if not !

Next time someone askes you tell them you have exceeded your discount amount as others have been using it & you up to your limited amount. Say your company has been cracking down on discount use as other employees have been taking the mick a bit & buying for lots of family members so it's harder mow to order as much stuff using your discount. Say Sorry but you'll not be able to order on their behalf anymore. If there's something they really want then you'd be happy to buy it as a birthday or Christmas gift for them.