Or maybe you’re just somewhat higher on the “lack of integrity” scale than your average human being.
I never count change. I don’t care. Being short by a dollar or two isn’t going to break the bank and being a change counter means that I’ll have to spend the time every time when I buy something to count. I just consider any short change I have the cost of freeing me up not to waste the time to count change.
I watch the cashier take the change out and can usually see what I’m getting back, since I have cashiered in the past. The most recent error I received was from a Walmart self-service machine- it tried to short me $10.
For all the cashiers out there reading this thread- put the coins in the customer’s hand first. Piling them on top of the bills and receipt is awkward and annoying from the customer’s side of things. It also slows down your line.
Depends on the customer. 
I prefer bills first, then coins.
Yes, I always count my change. And when I took my first job, we were taught to count back the customer’s change to them, so they couldn’t accuse of us short-changing.
As for thinking other cashiers regularly steal from customers, well, consider the source. Don’t try and justify it with, “I was young”. I was young when I had my first job and I knew stealing was wrong too.
I started delivering newspapers and handling collections around age 12, and I’ve tended bar and worked a cash register. I never tried to steal from my employers or customers. And if you’re not proud of it, why are you bragging about it?
Not all the actors are in Hollywood.
Me, I prefer the cashier who slips my change into my pocket.
I’d rather just be given a check. Less chance of an error.
Just to be clear, the job of cashiers was never to steal from their customers.
Hey, as long as they put their hand in my pocket I don’t care what format the change comes in.
I always check my bills (C’mon people, it takes about 1 second to glance at your bills and make sure they’re right, and hell, if I’m going to put them in my wallet anyway, I’ll have to sort them. :P) and I glance at my coins - truthfully I don’t care if I got 68 cents back instead of 69, but if I was expecting 75 cents and got a quarter, someone made a mistake.
I can’t remember if I’ve EVER caught anyone trying to shortchange me; The only time I can even remember -thinking- there was an error was just me thinking I’d handed over a 20 when it had only been a 10 (verified by checking against the bills I had remaining.).
So yeah. Sorry OP, but I think you’re just morally bankrupt. 
Edit: If someone WAS going to swindle me, it’d be a lot easier for them to misreport the amount owed (though I do tend to check what they say it is against what the screen says, if there is one, though this is more because sometimes I have trouble understanding what they said the total was than out of any paranoia.) or charge me for, I dunno, two pounds of broccoli instead of one, because I -don’t- check my receipts to see that I only got charged for what I bought, but I suspect the latter would play havoc with the store’s inventory management, so…
I can’t imagine not checking change - it’s not difficult. Like others, I can’t recall ever being short-changed, but can think right off the top of my head of three instances in the last several years where I’ve been given too much change by cashiers (and yes, each time I pointed it out and made it right.)
I also tended bar from age 17-21; this was before cash registers did any of the calculations. Never occurred to me to cheat anyone, and it was a point of personal pride that my till was almost always dead-on, even on a hectic 7-hour weekend shift. So “being young” is absolutely no excuse.
I don’t recall short-changing customers ever being a thing amongst co-workers, although certainly some employees would steal bottles or even kegs from the establishment.
I’m thinking Charlie Wayne was raised in a much different culture than most people were, to regard this sort of thing as normal or excusable.
Thank you! I hate when they put the bills in your hand, then the change on top of that… it just slides off onto the floor! How do cashiers not figure this out on their first day on the job?
If they put the bills in my hand first, I yank the hand and bills away when they come with the coins, and offer my other palm.
I had to think about it for a bit because it’s not something that concerns me, but in most cases I get bills first and then coin. Why would coin fall on the floor under those circumstances? Hold your hand properly and there should be no reason for them to slide anywhere.
Now our new polymer (“plastic”) bills are a serious pain in the ass, but it’s usually me that is a klutz with those, not the cashier.
I watch. I count. And if it seems wrong I call them on it. But to be honest, I’m half blind and my hands/fingers don’t work so good any more. I don’t know how many times cashiers/vendors have handed me back money, telling me it’s too much. I appreciate it.
But about twenty five years ago I bought my kid a T-shirt at the circus and the grifter shorted me two bucks. I didn’t realize it till we were back up in the stands.
It still pisses me off.
So I watch. And count.
I man the registers upon occasion. Most of my job is tech work but I do cover the cashier position if needed. I have been doing cashier work for. … hell, more than 20 years. I have never stolen from a customer. I make sure my drawer is as close to perfect as humanly possible. What era did you work cashier that this was standard practice?
I mostly pay electronically nowadays, but I certainly count my change on the occasions when I do pay cash. I’ve always done it. I don’t want to be short-changed, whether by accident or design. Very infrequently I’ll be given too much change. If so, I hand back the extra.
Interesting username/post combo!
I’ve worked the cash registers at a couple of jobs and never intentionally stolen from a customer. Years ago, before cash registers told you how much change to give, I got berated by a manager because my cash drawer came out 6 cents over.:rolleyes: I still think that was going overboard.
I usually watch the cashier as she get my change from the cash drawer and give it a quick glance when it is handed over. At the bank, I will count the cash I am given before I leave the teller or drive through. This is a matter of counting 5 or 10 20s so it only takes a few seconds. I have had some bank tellers give me the evil eye, but I still do it.
I glance at it and see if it looks close enough.
I was thinking that maybe he’s from a third-world economy, too, if cashiers were able to triple their salary by simply short-changing people.