Cash drawer hijinks

[edible_hat]

A co-worker, while starting her shift, counted up her cash drawer. It came up around $20 under what it should have been, so she counted again and got the same result. So I counted it and my count was $15 over, a re-count got the same result. So we got the manager to count it, he was $11.60 out (I don't know if it was over or under) and his recount got the same result. So we got somebody else to count it, he got a different result from the rest of us but he got the same result twice. All together 6 people counted the drawer at least twice each, each person got a different result but each of their counts was the same. Eventually the owner dumped out all the cash and refilled the drawer with cash that he knew added up to our standard starting float.

[Lingering Grin]

Was there a lot of new (crisp) bills in the drawer?

They have a tendency to stick together. Which means someone could miss one, or count one twice if it was stuck, then came loose, and the person lost track of it.

[purplecat41877]

Where I work, we have a money weighing machine in the cash room. When you put the money on the scale, it automatically counts it.

[Custard Chick]

The other day a coworker and I were counting out our drawers at the end of the shift. CW gets done first and gets our manager to verify it's correct. Manager check print-out of her activity, finds her $200 under. CW freaks.

I finish my drawer, bring it back, manager checks print-out, finds me $200 over.

Manager then realizes that he didn't read the names correctly on the print-out and that both of our drawers are actually correct.

Silly manager...

[Becks]

Where I work, we have a money weighing machine in the cash room. When you put the money on the scale, it automatically counts it.

I don't think I'd like that.

I didn't even like working at the Dollar Tree because only managers could count out the cash drawers.

[Gerrinson]

I had the one day when my drawer was exactly $100 over. They were concerned that I had short changed someone, but I was working the courtesy desk on a slow day and only had 12 customers. Only 3 of those were over $20 and they were all employee paychecks. We verified that all the employees received the correct amount.

The really weird part is that neither the safe, nor any other drawers were short the money. And not even my department manager could figure out how my drawer wound up being over. But, I still got a write up for making $100 out of thin air.


I told them I should get a medal for making the store extra money.

[crazylegs]

At *last job* we had a weighing machine that not only weighed coin but also notes either banded or loose, that little machine saved around 8 hours work a day around christmas, the cash office guy balanced the safe down to the last penny for months at a time.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Where I work, we have a money weighing machine in the cash room. When you put the money on the scale, it automatically counts it.

Ours was EVIL INCARNATE. If you put more than 15 bills on it, it'd say (I swear to Dog it sounded like this) "screw you~!" in it's little beepy-sing-song-beep. Grr! I'd have full-length conversations with the stupid little machine just to get it to work (I also had fits with my register, seeing as IT was the one that was DROPPED when it was delivered and no one liked working the stupid thing until I got there. A couple threats involving it, a baseball bat, and the Hudson River and the stupid computer would work right up).

Yeah, out-dated Dollar Tree equipment. Fun~!

[Pedersen]

A couple threats involving it, a baseball bat, and the Hudson River and the stupid computer would work right up).

Yes! Someone else who has discovered the secret of making a computer behave. "I have a reformat disk, several tools to completely disassemble you, and know how to use both."

People swear I have a magic touch. I just tell them that the computer knows I will reformat its sorry ass if it misbehaves for me

[Bella_Vixen]

I don't think I'd like that.

I didn't even like working at the Dollar Tree because only managers could count out the cash drawers.

Ask me about that one.

[mattm04]

Our registers run on OS/2. They work, sort of, but the user interface for the cust, looks awful, think 16 colors, max. The keyboards that the cashier use are unresponsive, and the still keep putting this crap in new stores. Grrrrr. The screen image that is used when they are locked in in 256 colors, but their only two images. All the monitors are CRT's(new/remodels get LCDs) and they all have random burned in logos and images.

[edible_hat]

I had the one day when my drawer was exactly $100 over. They were concerned that I had short changed someone, but I was working the courtesy desk on a slow day and only had 12 customers. Only 3 of those were over $20 and they were all employee paychecks. We verified that all the employees received the correct amount.

The really weird part is that neither the safe, nor any other drawers were short the money. And not even my department manager could figure out how my drawer wound up being over. But, I still got a write up for making $100 out of thin air.


I told them I should get a medal for making the store extra money.

The last time that happened to me, one of my safe drops was $100 short. (I'd put in a bunch of $10s but counted them as $20s)

[VenomX]

Where I work we dont have a register. We use calculators. The owner counts all cash by hand each morning.

Its so funny when the bank calls and tells him his deposit is short. He tells them no its all there and goes down a list telling them how many of each type of bill he gave them. They hand count it and find out it was correct. He tells them next time to hand count it and not use the crappy counting machine. They never listen. lol

[technical.angel]

But, I still got a write up for making $100 out of thin air.

"Oh, lookit! Puppy!" Swipe "No more overage!"

Everyone's happy!

[edible_hat]

I had another one!

Came up $60 short at the end of Friday's shift. Triple counted my float and it seemed to be correct. Then yesterday I used the same cash drawer, didn't bother to count it because I'd counted it before, and at the end of the shift I was $60 over. (The main suspect is $200 is brand new $20s and the habit new notes have of sticking together).

Today I got the much coveted "result: $0.00" (as opposed to "under: $X.XX" or "over: $X.XX")

One place I worked at had a strange system for calculating how much over or under you were, about half the time you'd get "result: -$0.00". Negative zero!