Shop worker fired for telling child Santa Claus did not exist
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 @ 11:46 PM
A SALES assistant at El Corte Inglés department store in Santa Cruz de Tenerife has lost her case against her dismissal for telling a seven-year-old child that presents came from her parents rather than Father Christmas.
The undisclosed employee was fired in December 2015 and took the company to court, but El Corte Inglés said the incident was 'the last straw' in a series of major disciplinary issues of which the young woman was aware – and which had even led to her being suspended from her job for a week.
According to County Court Number 6 in the Canary Island city, the staff member – who worked on the jewellery counter – told a little girl who was with her parents to take her dad to the perfume section so her mother could 'buy dad a watch from Father Christmas'.
The rest of the conversation has not been revealed, but it appeared to be enough that the employee had made it clear to the little girl that the mythical red-coated festive figure did not exist, leaving her 'desolate' and the worker's supervisor 'extremely embarrassed' by the parents' complaints.
El Corte Inglés said that in September of the same year, the young woman had been suspended without pay for 16 days for 'maintaining a negative, passive, uncooperative and unprofessional attitude' when serving customers, which had led them to transfer her from the perfume department to the jewellery section in February in an attempt to give her greater job satisfaction.
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