Check the check

[sarasquirrel]

i dont know whats worse

the fact a customer wrote a check out to the wrong pharmacy chain

or that the cashier accepted it.

im leaning more towards the cashier because they also accepted a check written for the wrong amount, it was short about 16 bucks...

[Food Lady]

What?? Was the cashier sleeping?

[Bandit]

I'd be checking for a pulse from that cashier.....

B

[SG15Z]

I might not catch the "made out to" part, but the amount too?

[freeatlast]

I used to have 2 different pizza places that I ordered from regularly. I was working 2 jobs at the time and was very tired from working 40 hours that week at my full time job, 18 hours that weekend at my part time job and then spending Sunday cleaning house and buying groceries. I finished the last of my housework, took a shower and picked up the phone to order a pizza. I placed my order and told them which coupon I had. Because I had no cash at the time, I wrote a check (and included my tip) and waited for dinner to arrive. When the pizza guy got there I gave him my check and coupon and settled in to have dinner. That's when it hit me - I had ordered my usual from one of the places, but the pizza was from the other. I had given them a check made out to the other place along with the other place's coupon. The guy never said a word. They apparently cashed my check with no problem. The next time I ordered from that place, the same guy delivered the food. I asked him about it and he just laughed and said that I was not the first customer to do that.

[Cats]

I haven't run into it lately, but in one of my stores at least, the RX is notorious for that. Since you already have the patients info, they don't need to see their ID, just verify the info on the check.

I've seen so many checks with wrong amounts, written amounts not matching the numerical amount, and even both those and the actually transaction amount on the back all be different. It takes 3 seconds to verify the info on the check! Do it!

[sms001]

I had given them a check made out to the other place along with the other place's coupon.

I don't quite remember how (I think I may have started to write the check and then decided to pay cash...?) but I once paid for a delivery pizza with a check made out to "J.C. Penny's."

Went through so smoothly I didn't even know until I got the canceled check back and recognized the amount as my usual one-topping price.

[Bella_Vixen]

Um...well...I did the same thing a couple weeks ago.

I accepted a check for what apparently the customer thought was the *old* store name...AND the written amount was $4 less then the actual, numerical amount.



Sometimes the cashier is just on autopilot.


And no, I didn't get into trouble. I just caused everyone to go through a "What Is Wrong With This Check????" demo...and I was the *first* one to catch the amount discrepency.

[Summerfly413]

I've never taken a check with the wrong store name or amount.

Sometimes people get the date wrong, but I usually notice and have them fix it. Or they're off by a few cents because I guess sometimes I don't say things clearly.

[Fox One]

I'd be checking for a pulse from that cashier.....

B

*checks* This woman has been dead for hours! The cause of death seems to be an aneurysm following an elderly man attempting to return over $400 of heavily used merchandise he'd purchased five years prior. One can deduce that because even in death, her eye still twitches.