I work in a store that offers 4c/litre off of petrol to customers when they spend $120. The store is owned by a multi-national parent company based in the US.
On an average day, we get maybe 20 out of the hundreds of customers who spend that much. My process is to offer the petrol deal to everyone who qualifies. Only one or two per day on average ever take the offer up, as they either forget to bring the card required for scanning, don't have membership to the program that offers it, or can't be bothered with the discount, as the prices at the only gas station chain it can be used at are by far higher than everyone else.
If a customer declines the discount offer, I have taken to scanning my own card. It costs the customer nothing.
I now have a letter from HR saying that me doing so is “double dipping”, and warned me to “cease this practice immediately”. They claim the company pays EACH TIME a discount is taken up, which seems to go against their policy of us reminding customers of the discount in the first place.
I have inside knowledge, though, that the company ACTUALLY pays a flat fee for being part of the fuel savings program.
At this point, I want to make it clear that I could live without the fuel discount. I have a fuel budget and I stick to it. I just think its all kinds of petty from my employer to wag their finger at me like this. They will give execs of the company fuel cards but lowly serfs like myself can't be given an inch.
Rant over.
TL;DR – work is making me stop taking benefits for myself even though it costs them nothing more than what they already pay.