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I know this is pretty much the exact opposite of what this site is about, but there's nothing wrong with admitting your own mistakes from time to time, as none of us are perfect.
Anyway, when I lived in Hawaii, I worked as a delivery driver for a pizza chain. At the end of the night, when the managers were cashing you out, they'd collect the exact amount of money from you, and whatever was leftover was yours to keep as your tips. We accepted credit cards for orders also, and if we accepted a credit payment, we were supposed to take a credit slip with us, take an impression of the card, have them leave a tip amount and sign, then be on our merry way. I must have fallen asleep/not paid attention during this portion of the training, because at the time I took out my first credit order, I didn't know this.
I must have had a severe mental lapse at the time, because the thought never really occurred to me that without the credit slip and signature, we had no legal way of charging the customer for their order. So, I took this order out, gave them their pizzas ($35 worth), and returned to the store empty-handed, thinking nothing of it (they had tipped me in cash as well).
So it came to the end of my shift to cash out, and the manager asked for the credit slip for that order, and I had no idea what she was talking about. To make a long story short, I unwittingly had to pay for that person's order out of my tip money, since I technically was responsible for giving that person their pizza for free. Somewhat luckily for me, the manager gave the order an arbitrary 50% discount so it only cost me $17.50.
A couple weeks later, I also forgot a credit slip completely, but since the order was only $9 I let it go again (the manager did the 50% thing for me again, luckily, so I only lost $4.50 over that one).
On my next shift, I took about 100 credit slips and shoved them in the glove compartment of my car. I actually quit that job before I came anywhere close to running out. I still have about 50 credit slips from that place floating around somewhere, I like to keep them around to laugh at myself from time to time.
I sometimes wonder if those two customers ever looked at their credit card statements and wondered why they were never charged for their order.
Also, just on a side note, I also forgot to bring change with me a few times when delivering. The only time it ever became a problem was when someone's order total was $22 or so, and the customer only had two 20-dollar bills. I accepted $20 for the order in that situation.
Anyway, when I lived in Hawaii, I worked as a delivery driver for a pizza chain. At the end of the night, when the managers were cashing you out, they'd collect the exact amount of money from you, and whatever was leftover was yours to keep as your tips. We accepted credit cards for orders also, and if we accepted a credit payment, we were supposed to take a credit slip with us, take an impression of the card, have them leave a tip amount and sign, then be on our merry way. I must have fallen asleep/not paid attention during this portion of the training, because at the time I took out my first credit order, I didn't know this.
I must have had a severe mental lapse at the time, because the thought never really occurred to me that without the credit slip and signature, we had no legal way of charging the customer for their order. So, I took this order out, gave them their pizzas ($35 worth), and returned to the store empty-handed, thinking nothing of it (they had tipped me in cash as well).
So it came to the end of my shift to cash out, and the manager asked for the credit slip for that order, and I had no idea what she was talking about. To make a long story short, I unwittingly had to pay for that person's order out of my tip money, since I technically was responsible for giving that person their pizza for free. Somewhat luckily for me, the manager gave the order an arbitrary 50% discount so it only cost me $17.50.
A couple weeks later, I also forgot a credit slip completely, but since the order was only $9 I let it go again (the manager did the 50% thing for me again, luckily, so I only lost $4.50 over that one).
On my next shift, I took about 100 credit slips and shoved them in the glove compartment of my car. I actually quit that job before I came anywhere close to running out. I still have about 50 credit slips from that place floating around somewhere, I like to keep them around to laugh at myself from time to time.
I sometimes wonder if those two customers ever looked at their credit card statements and wondered why they were never charged for their order.
Also, just on a side note, I also forgot to bring change with me a few times when delivering. The only time it ever became a problem was when someone's order total was $22 or so, and the customer only had two 20-dollar bills. I accepted $20 for the order in that situation.