You buy something. In the car you find the clerk gave you a 50 instead of a 10.

[Gary_Robson]

@chaparralv8

I kept an eagle eye on the cash drawer and mentally ran a tally when I worked in retail. If I knew I was $10 short, I knew I’d have to use my sleight-of-hand to shortchange 8 customers a dollar each and 8 other customers a quarter each. If I were $50 short, I’d have had to shortchange every customer for an hour.

This has got to be a whoosh.

If you ever did actually pull something like this, I almost agree with Bambi Hassenpfeffer. I say “almost” because I’d make you track down any customers you did that to that we could track down, apologize to them, and give them the correct change. Then I’d fire you.

[Cartooniverse]

I have no doubt but that this is entirely true.

You angry manager-types, you gonna scan the fuzzy B&W low-resolution video to catch just where this person shortchanged to make it up? And, then, miraculously track down the CASH TRANSACTION customers one by one so the aforementioned bad cashier can hand them their stolen money back?

:rolleyes:

[chaparralv8]

@InvisibleWombat

This has got to be a whoosh.

If you ever did actually pull something like this, I almost agree with Bambi Hassenpfeffer. I say “almost” because I’d make you track down any customers you did that to that we could track down, apologize to them, and give them the correct change. Then I’d fire you.

Yes, it is a whoosh. My hands are bad enough that I fumble for change at every tollbooth. They’re bad enough that I cannot catch a perfectly-thrown football, baseball, or basketball that the thrower wants me to have. If I ever tried to shortchange somebody, they’d probably end up a dollar or two long - and I’d have to slip 'em a buck to make them think they were getting honest change. I’ve never worked retail and hopefully never will.

It’s just that I don’t believe that 80% percent of people would return a bunch of extra money if they found it - even if they’re feeling flush right now. I also find it even more difficult to believe that the other 20% would openly admit that they were dishonest - isn’t stealing $40 just as wrong as stealing $1 forty times?

[Gary_Robson]

@chaparralv8

It’s just that I don’t believe that 80% percent of people would return a bunch of extra money if they found it - even if they’re feeling flush right now. I also find it even more difficult to believe that the other 20% would openly admit that they were dishonest - isn’t stealing $40 just as wrong as stealing $1 forty times?

I really don’t know about the percentages. I just know that there are both types of people in the world and many in between. I have a retail store. A kid came in to buy some cards a couple of weeks ago, and couldn’t find his money. He was really upset. He had $5, and he just couldn’t find it. An hour later, I was putting some things away and found a $5 bill on the floor. I set it aside, and when the kid came in the next day with more money, I handed him his $5. It made his day, and that made me feel a heck of a lot better than the $5 would have made me feel.

And finding it difficult to believe people would admit to stealing money? I have no trouble believing it. Some dishonest people try to fool themselves into thinking they’re honest, and some folks seem to be downright proud of their dishonesty.