My other coworkers and I have started to notice that this girl we work with flirts A LOT with our customers… which isn't a problem I guess… until they start buying gifts for her and taking her out on dates, that is.
Two weeks ago, she went to lunch with one customer. Last week, a man brought her a brand new purse and a 14K gold heart-shaped necklace. Today, a MARRIED customer brought her a heart and diamond bracelet. Needless to say, my other coworkers and I have had enough.
We told her she needed to stop accepting gifts from these men before she lost her job over it. She became really worried, so went to our manager and gave him the bracelet, saying she "didn't want to lose her job because of dirty men buying her gifts." What the…?
Are we being unreasonable for feeling this way about her? She's very young - 20 - and men call the store for her all the time. When she's not there, they come in asking for her. When will it end?!?
Yes, at my job, it IS against company policy to accept gifts in excess of $50 from a customer.
AND… no, my coworkers and I are not jealous of this girl… we're just tired of people coming up to us all the time asking for her and calling the store all the time asking for her, asking us for her number, asking us if she's available, asking us how old she is, etc.
The customers walk right past us to get to her and ask her questions about products in the store, and then she turns right to us and asks us. It's just annoying. Not jealousy, annoyance.
I don't think you're being unreasonable at all. This exact same situation happened at my job (I work at a bank) and we aren't allowed to accept gifts from customers at ALL.
The girl and I are the same age (but I'm around 6 months younger) and she flirts with a lot of the male customers and accepted gifts from them all the time ranging from jars of homemade apple butter, to energy drinks, to a necklace! She is a very beautiful girl, and men gawk at her constantly. Its not jealousy at all, it just gets annoying when you are trying to conduct business with a male customer and they are zoned out staring at someone or they stand in line and wait until she is open to wait on them. I got offered gifts too (candy, cookies, a longaberger basket, even a lipgloss I was telling a guy that I liked, he went and BOUGHT me one!!) but I politely declined because its against company policy. I kept my mouth shut about it, because its not her fault that she's pretty and attracts attention (although I did notice her shamelessly flirting about 89% of the time) but someone went to the supervisors and branch manager and told them what was going on and they accused her of jealousy, so nothing got done about it. To this DAY it is still going on, and she even gets gifts, balloons, and flowers from our male COWORKERS. All this girl has to do is flip her hair and smile and she'll have you wrapped around her little finger. Only a few people have been able to see past it, unfortunately, its no one that has enough power to do something about it. Right now she has been working there less than a year (started out a part-time teller) and is now the Assistant to the President of our bank. He's married, but takes her out to lunch every day, and sometimes they go places together after work as well. My advice is to ignore it. If you speak up, you're just going to get accused of being jealous, and even if you know thats not the case, not many people will realize that. It may be hard, but she will reap what she sows, and its only a matter of time before what she's doing will catch up with her. You just worry about doing your own job right and be the best you can be. Hope everything works out….
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