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Malicious Compliance

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My neighbor come to shop at the store. He specifically called for me, as I don't stay at the front lines of retail but behind, doing other stuff, and jokingly asked, "can I get neighbor discount?". I said sure, and while he's in front of me, I call the supervisor at the phone to approve that. Not even ten seconds pass that he's shouting in my face "can you hurry with that price? I have something else to do!!".

I hung up the phone, sorry, you asked discount, I had to approve that, your price is $LIST_PRICE

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

i was ok doing the discount but i had no idea of which margins there are on the cashier because usually i'm on the back doing IT, not the cashier - so the call