Today, I was working as a cashier at a restaurant. When I receive $50 and $100 bills I am required to have a manager check to make sure they are not counterfeit. Every manager I found yelled at me to find another manager because they were busy. Frustrated, I just accepted the bill. It was fake. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at work, a man bought a lot of really expensive stuff. He paid the large bill with cash, and the manager helped me count the money. When we were done, he handed me a $100 bill to thank me for all the help. We can't accept tips. The manager was next to me. I had to say no. FML
Today, a man came up to me and asked for a $50 bill in change. Being a good man, I said sure. I gave him the change and he gave me the $50 bill. After walking into Starbucks to buy a coffee, I handed the cashier my $50 bill. She called the cops. It was counterfeit. FML
Today, my boss bitched me out for accepting a fake £100 note. It was a genuine note, but he couldn't believed someone would actually use such a note at a KFC. When I protested, he took it further and deducted the “lost profits” from my pay. The man is an asshole. FML
Today, after weeks of allowing my parents to borrow money, I got a check for $2000. I took it to the bank only to find out it was fake. FML
Today, I went to a restaurant to order food with just a $100 bill. They no longer had what I came for, so I left. When I got to my car, I realized - no bill. I went back in for them to say they hadn't seen it, and they wouldn’t check the cameras. I know the lady working there picked it up since I was the only customer. FML
Today, a customer handed me a 100 dollar bill. He then told me that it was my tip for doing a good job. He snatched it away just as I touched it, laughed, and said, "Just kidding." He then took his money and left the store. FML
Today, I learned the hard way not to keep my own cash in my pocket while working as a cashier, when I was forced to give $30 to a scamming customer. FML
Today, I was waitering at the restaurant that I work at when I collected a credit card bill that was worth $120 and a big zero on the tip line. Angered, I turned to a co-worker and said "I knew this asshole wasn't going to tip me." The guy was standing right behind me with $30 in his hand. FML
Today, my boss is beginning to hate me. Why? Because people keep coming to my register with one or two dollars worth of stuff, then paying for it with hundred dollar bills, ignoring the sign saying not to do that. I’ve had to ask him to refill my till after every transaction. FML
Today, I went to the bank to deposit the cash I made waiting tables. While the teller was counting, I apologized for having so many small bills. She said "It's OK honey, I helped another one of your kind just the other day. You're lucky we take your dirty money." She thought I was a stripper. FML
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moni_09 0
That is your managers' faults for not paying attention to you. I hope you didn't get in trouble because of them.
NGM_47 0
I bet the person that gave you the money was pretty nervous too, in hopes that they wouldn't get caught. FYL.
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lifessoundtrack 0
@35 - it's the job of the managers to know how to recognize counterfeits, not the duty of the cashier... the OP was probably never taught how to check if a bill is fake or not.
tikimuppet 11
If no-one could check it, why not just tell the customer that you weren't allowed to accept it and ask if they had anything smaller?
b1a2n3a4n5a6s 0
When that happened to me, I just handed the bill back to the customer and sad "I'm sorry sir, but I can't accept this bill unless a manager checks it or I can be fired, and none of the managers will take five seconds to come verify this. Is there anything else you'd like to pay with?" Customer paid with debit, asked me what managers were working, then called the store owner and reported the managers. The store owner then came in and royally bitched them out. It was -hilarious-. I wasn't going to accept the bill because we -have- to have a manager check high bills. When they count the drawers/safe later, if they find an unaccounted for high bill, people can and have been fired over that.
gambol 10
For the win. This is exactly what should've happened. :)
Asstazztic 8
shit how many managers do u have? :P lol
PentiumBawls8 0
The managers are probably not even trained to decipher real currency from fake. It's actually everyones responsibillity to make sure they can discern real from fake. It's not a hard thing to do. A lot of people have a tendancy to believe old 100 bills are fake. Or 50s. If you want to go ahead and believe it's fake, take two things into consideration. Micro printing is very difficult to replicate. Well, i'm sure you would understand the pigmentation aspect of it lol
splitsides 4
"The managers are probably not even trained to decipher real currency from fake...It's not a hard thing to do." What on Earth are you even talking about? Managers HAVE to know, and as you pointed out, it's not hard to distinguish between the real and the fake. Why are you assuming they wouldn't know? I'm not following this "logic."
PentiumBawls8 0
Right, they have to know. But do they? Some are just lazy to even look at vital security features. They will look at them and and overlook it like they usually do. That's why I say managers are overrated.
sbjess 8
sounds like lack of training at your work...you probably SHOULD know how to check but if they are too lazy to train you right it's their own damn fault
perdix 31
YDI for getting all of the managers to hate you. The "customer" who passed the bogus bill is probably one of the managers' buddies. Chew on that when you're eating gubbermint cheese.
BikerMike 0
the managers did not want to take time to look at the bill, hope they did not blame you.
ShallowWerewolf 0
YDI for not knowing how to check a counterfeit bill and for not following procedure
HIJKay 0
But OP did follow procedure, it's not their fault if the managers were too preoccupied to check the bill.
JS000 0
She didn't follow procedure because she didn't wait. If they are busy, she needs to make the customer wait. It's bad business, but then it's the manager's fault. If I had called one manager already, I would have told that manager that the other one said they were too busy, and continued to call managers until I've called them all and then the first one again. Let them fight it out. And if the customer leaves without paying, then it's still not her fault. That's when you call the managers again and tell them the customer left without paying.
Laughing_Man 0
No matter what, Not Your Fault