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Do you agree with my company's policy?

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Yossarian

Lifer
I work for a toy manufacturer. We have a factory outlet store that is open to the public. I would like to buy stuff, without using any kind of employee discount, and resell it on ebay. HR says no way. Do you agree with them?
 
Would you buy it on your own time, during store hours, when the product is on the shelves and available for purchase by anyone else?
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Would you buy it on your own time, during store hours, when the product is on the shelves and available for purchase by anyone else?
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yep. like during my unpaid lunch break, for example.
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
I work for a toy manufacturer. We have a factory outlet store that is open to the public. I would like to buy stuff, without using any kind of employee discount, and resell it on ebay. HR says no way. Do you agree with them?
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no, but why would you need their permission if you are acting as a regular customer 😕
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Originally posted by: mugs
Would you buy it on your own time, during store hours, when the product is on the shelves and available for purchase by anyone else?
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yep. like during my unpaid lunch break, for example.
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Then I personally think it's a dumb policy, but apparantly they feel it is more important to have the product available for customers to buy than to allow an employee to make a few bucks on the side.
 
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Conflict of Interest

If the company I worked for sold computers, and I sold computers on the side (even if I bought them from the company I work for) it would still be a conflict of interest as I would essentially be competing with my own company.
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
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Conflict of Interest

If the company I worked for sold computers, and I sold computers on the side (even if I bought them from the company I work for) it would still be a conflict of interest as I would essentially be competing with my own company.
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You are on the right track. .. but I'm not sure if its exactly true.. he is after all selling THEIR toys...
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
3 words

Conflict of Interest

If the company I worked for sold computers, and I sold computers on the side (even if I bought them from the company I work for) it would still be a conflict of interest as I would essentially be competing with my own company.
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It's an uninformed HR department covering their ass.

If he's selling the product on e-bay and THEY AREN'T (which isn't said in the OP) then there's no conflict of interest AND the company is getting free marketing and expanding their consumer base, which they should be grateful for.

It's a stupid illogical bureaucratic decision. Welcome to corporate America.
 
Quick guess is that the company is more concerned that you will be using their resources or time, eventually. Even if you say it will be on your lunch hour using your own laptop etc. to post up at ebay, the potential for abuse is their concern. I have seen this kind of thing before and 9 out of 10 people will end up using or abusing company assets.
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
3 words

Conflict of Interest

If the company I worked for sold computers, and I sold computers on the side (even if I bought them from the company I work for) it would still be a conflict of interest as I would essentially be competing with my own company.
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It's an uninformed HR department covering their ass.

If he's selling the product on e-bay and THEY AREN'T (which isn't said in the OP) then there's no conflict of interest AND the company is getting free marketing and expanding their consumer base, which they should be grateful for.

It's a stupid illogical bureaucratic decision. Welcome to corporate America.
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they don't have an ebay presence. I suppose I can see the point, kind of. but it's kind of like the piracy argument. if I sell a product at 50% off, someone may buy it from me that would normally have bought it at retail from one of our big customers. but if the price hadn't been low would the person have bought it in the first place?
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
3 words

Conflict of Interest

If the company I worked for sold computers, and I sold computers on the side (even if I bought them from the company I work for) it would still be a conflict of interest as I would essentially be competing with my own company.
Click to expand...

It's an uninformed HR department covering their ass.

If he's selling the product on e-bay and THEY AREN'T (which isn't said in the OP) then there's no conflict of interest AND the company is getting free marketing and expanding their consumer base, which they should be grateful for.

It's a stupid illogical bureaucratic decision. Welcome to corporate America.
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they don't have an ebay presence. I suppose I can see the point, kind of. but it's kind of like the piracy argument. if I sell a product at 50% off, someone may buy it from me that would normally have bought it at retail from one of our big customers. but if the price hadn't been low would the person have bought it in the first place?
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The point is they DIDN'T buy it in the retail store AND they DID buy it, which means they DIDN'T buy a competitor's product.

What's so hard to understand about that.
 
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