Staff discount
A school mate had a saturday job at Next. However Next employees had to buy their own uniforms from Next stock and rather unfairly it seemed had to have stuff from the current season.

So my mate was rather miffed that after a few months of working there he had to buy new clothes, but to cushion the blow staff get 25% off.

So we hatched a plan. We set off with £1.20 one day travelcards into central london armed with his current tie. We carefully unpicked a 6 inch section of stiching and I went into the Brent cross store (our first port of call) and returned the "faulty" tie for it's £16 purchase price.

Then in went my mate to purchase another tie for £12 using his staff card. This we then set about damaging in a similar manner whilst on the bus to another branch where we again repeated the return and purchase scam each time netting £4.

By the end of the day we'd hit every Next store we could find around London and netted about £36 in cash as well as a current season tie for my mate to use for work.

Being naive little idiots we spent it on fizzy drinks, onion ring crisps and music from WHSmiths (who never seem to have a decent price for stuff).
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 11:30, 3 replies)

Really?
They made you pay for the privilege of being told what to wear?

Aresholes.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 11:57, closed)

Gap do this as well
make you buy their clothes to work in their store for minimum wage! At least the supermarkets provide the uniforms (even if the style is somewhat ... naff).
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 1 Aug 2008, 13:44, closed)

@Wee Witch
It's not just style, it's the height of fashion I'll have you know. I used to work for Sainsbury's. Just thinking about the nylon, high waisted, tapered leg, navy trousers makes me thing of the catwalks of Paris...
( El Lazarus is calm now, Ish,, Sun 3 Aug 2008, 19:23, closed)