Use of Pockets Forbidden

Pockets are NEVER, NEVER, NEVER used as a storage place for money, loose diamonds or any other valuables while working in the store.

While at the counter showing stones, the proper method is to show the stone you want to show with the stone paper out on the counter, and the diamond in the diamond displayer. (Diamonds are sold loose most of the time, when they are loose they are kept in “diamond papers”; they are white sheets folded up into a pocket to store the diamond into.) When a stone has been eliminated as a choice, put it in its OWN stone paper, NOT on the counter, and put the eliminated stone in the diamond box. DO NOT turn your back and leave the other stone unattended.

When handling money it should be counted on the counter in front of the customer, and then collected and taken away to be counted. Never is it put in your pocket.

That you are busy IS NOT a justification for leaving money lying around or sticking valuables in your pocket to handle later. It is just too easy to forget, and then have your clothes go through the laundry or the dry cleaners, and then there goes the goods!

Due to the severity of the consequences of this, anyone discovered to have put diamonds, money, or other store valuables in a pocket will be reviewed for fitness to work here.