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Show of hands, please.
How many people have gotten into trouble at work over a $30.00 error?
When I worked in fast food if we were off on our tills by more than $0.05 per $100 we were fired on the spot.
Sams club in highschool. They used janky things to count bills- by weight. The thing is, a new bill weighs substantially more than an old bill.
Enough that across 500 in 20’s because they didn’t come around early as often as they’re supposed to, it’s enough to be off by a few bills. Never mind all the ones.
They spent weeks arguing, insisting we were stealing- every single cashier was on average off by about the same margins. The same margin, incidentally, that was the margin of error on the machines…
We counted our bills by hand luckily, but there were more than a few occasions where some change ended up getting shuffled about in the tray which led to some errors
The worst was seeing someone get fired and then when the new till was being put in we figured out the $20 bill that was missing got caught in the register some time during the day
or the cash office people, were the ones looting it the entire time. They had their fingers in every one's drawers and got to see all the camera angles.
Shit covered money weighs more too, what kind of smooth brained fuckboi MBA thought this was a good idea?
the kind that winds up working for Walmart Inc.
The kind of asshole that creates a reason to fire anyone at anytime they feel like it, even if the state laws are not "at will", and if they are, they save on unemployment insurance.
Back in the 80s my McD manager was an ex-Marine, real tough guy type. Chewed out a poor, dumb 16-yo over a $10 discrepancy, accused me of stealing it, threatened to fire me.
LOL, I was scared to death but I managed to stutter something like, "$10 is less than 3-hours pay. Why would I risk my job over what I make in half a shift?"
The amount of power tripping assholes in the fast food industry is astounding
I saw my fair share of them in the almost 3 years I worked at Burger King
Even at 16, I was thinking, "If you made it through the Marine Corp, fuck are you doing as an assistant manager at McDonalds bossing around high school kids?"
I'm a former Marine and the Corps is really bad at preparing a person for life after serving, especially if they are in combat arms. Also some of the dumbest people I've met were Marines and they usually made rank because promotions are heavily based on physical fitness and rifle score, and not on technical expertise or leadership skills.
$30 error gets you in trouble.
$650,000 error, you phone up the vendor and laugh about it.
I was fired from a job over an error of about that much. After working there for 5 years.
Then they fought me on unemployment. The judge was not amused with them
No, but I was almost shot in the back over a matter of $80. Thankfully, some guy in a pastel leather jacket named Clint Eastwood helped me out.
That's heavy, did a horse throw a shoe or something?
So, the jacket was named Clint Eastwood. Did you get the man's name, too?
So if Clint was good, and your manager bad.
What does that make you?
I had a boss jump down my ass for buying a $3.00 web cam to allow for our radio show hosts to see each other during a broadcast.
No errors, but when I was a cashier at Kroger I got in trouble because I wasn't doing my job fast enough
If your till was off by $20 or more, including overages, at the theater they would review the footage for your shift. If it was if an accident you'd get written up. Deliberate you'd be fired and possibly charged if it was enough.