Foebane72
Prominent Member
How does that even work?
On Wednesday, a fellow volunteer bought a box of potato chips and offered some to me as there were too many for her. I had some and then left the box on the table, then offered them to some other volunteers later on still.
The next time I come in on Friday, I find a disciplinary opened against me by the shop manager (I saw the form) over what appears to be the chip incident, and how I apparently said some inappropriate things to the offerees! I was asked by the assistant manager to give my side of the story, and I did - that I was just offering chips. They were cold at the time, I figured it was a Heath & Safety thing, that I was offering mouldy chips, even though I never SAID the word.
***?? Isn't this all rather petty?
The point is it doesn't matter, I stressed about it last night and this morning and went down to the shop when the manager was in, but he was not prepared to discuss it on a busy Saturday. So now I have to fret all weekend over it until he talks it over with me then.
The volunteer group at this particular shop have been dominated by this family from East London for the last few months, and this is the second time they have made a complaint against me over something they misunderstood from my actions.
I've been told that charity shops are a racket in any case, and that it doesn't help that the manager was once in retail in a computer store, and whose wife is in politics (Tory, I think).
But a DISCIPLINARY against a CHARITY SHOP VOLUNTEER??
I used to love going to that shop back in the day, but in the last six months or so it has just become bad. I think I should just hand in my notice-- err. just leave once I hear the story about why this has happened.
It's apparently company policy at the moment, and the new area manager is really doing things by the book, but this is (I think) ridiculous.
What do you all think about this?
On Wednesday, a fellow volunteer bought a box of potato chips and offered some to me as there were too many for her. I had some and then left the box on the table, then offered them to some other volunteers later on still.
The next time I come in on Friday, I find a disciplinary opened against me by the shop manager (I saw the form) over what appears to be the chip incident, and how I apparently said some inappropriate things to the offerees! I was asked by the assistant manager to give my side of the story, and I did - that I was just offering chips. They were cold at the time, I figured it was a Heath & Safety thing, that I was offering mouldy chips, even though I never SAID the word.
***?? Isn't this all rather petty?
The point is it doesn't matter, I stressed about it last night and this morning and went down to the shop when the manager was in, but he was not prepared to discuss it on a busy Saturday. So now I have to fret all weekend over it until he talks it over with me then.
The volunteer group at this particular shop have been dominated by this family from East London for the last few months, and this is the second time they have made a complaint against me over something they misunderstood from my actions.
I've been told that charity shops are a racket in any case, and that it doesn't help that the manager was once in retail in a computer store, and whose wife is in politics (Tory, I think).
But a DISCIPLINARY against a CHARITY SHOP VOLUNTEER??
I used to love going to that shop back in the day, but in the last six months or so it has just become bad. I think I should just hand in my notice-- err. just leave once I hear the story about why this has happened.
It's apparently company policy at the moment, and the new area manager is really doing things by the book, but this is (I think) ridiculous.
What do you all think about this?