B*tch Better Have My Money

[Rapscallion]

The other week I got an extra £10 back in my change from a shop.

I did something similar at a fast food joint in the White Rose shopping centre. The meal was £6.XX, I gave a ten, and there was a five in the change. Took him three goes to get the right change.

The look on his manager's face said it all. The entire chain closed within six months, but I somehow doubt it was all down to him...

Rapscallion

[Melicious Motormouth]

I'm guessing the plan is that it won't be there at the end of the shift.

Yeah that's what I was kind of thinking, too.

But now that I've seen everyone's comments on my OP, I'm wondering if I was overreacting.

It's just that she was so fake when I initially brought up the issue. And I can't help but think that if she genuinely thought I was trying to scam her, she would have offered to count her till if she had nothing to hide. But again, maybe I just misjudged the situation entirely.

[wagegoth]

I don't think you overreacted. They should have volunteered to count the drawer down right then.

One day, a woman went ballistic on me, claiming I had shorted her fifty-seven cents. I remember the exact amount, because she was such a harridan over this tiny bit of change. I counted the drawer down right then with my supervisor and found I balanced to the penny. The next customer came up and told me she saw the harridan put the change in a side pocket of her purse while the harridan was talking to her friend.

[Anakah]

Every place needs a camera. But I know its expensive and time consuming. If there are ever any disputes where I work, that's the first place we go to find out what the hell really happened. Granted I am in a casino but they are very helpful.

[Seshat]

Also, the cashier should have put the money either on top of the till, or sideways in the cash drawer until you both agreed on the amount of change.

That way the money you gave her is *right there*, and it's easy to figure out.


Isn't that sort of separation of 'money offered' and 'balance of till' standard practice?

[Melicious Motormouth]

Also, the cashier should have put the money either on top of the till, or sideways in the cash drawer until you both agreed on the amount of change.

That way the money you gave her is *right there*, and it's easy to figure out.


Isn't that sort of separation of 'money offered' and 'balance of till' standard practice?

That seems to be the best way to prevent scenarios such as this, but I see very few cashiers do this. Hell, I rarely did that when I was a cashier - if at all. So from what I've see, it's not standard practice at all. But it should be!

[Kogarashi]

I probably would be more willing to do that as a cashier if I had a safe place to put the money, especially with large amounts. The way Walmart registers are set up, if I'm not watching that loose money like a hawk while I'm counting out change, someone else could lean over/reach around and just snatch it away and run before I even realized what happened. That would make such a scenario much simpler, though.

[protege]

Off-topic, but did anyone else think of the "Pimp of the Year" scene from I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, when reading the title?