23 Things Only A Chocolate Shop Employee Will Understand

5. Everyone Wants To Use Your Discount

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However large or small it may be, the employee discount is a definite bonus of working with chocolate. Not only do you know it, but all your family, friends, and everyone you've ever met knows it, too. And after you've let a couple of mates use your discount, the floodgates will well and truly open, with friends of friends, vague acquaintances, and the weird guy who smells of fish on your bus to work all expecting to get half off their purchases.

This end in one of two ways. Either the manager comes down on you like a tonne of bricks for over-using your discount, or you start turning people down yourself. Either way, expect them to go from your best friends to your worst nightmare before you have time to say "I'm sorry, but..."

 
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