math oops

[Broomjockey]

The rule where I work is, if your till is off by $20 or more, you get written up.

I almost got my first write up last night. After I cashed off, I was off by $30.30.
The manager recounted my final drop to see if I counted it correctly. She said I did. The managers said they'd look around and see if they could find it, but I was currently looking at a write up when I came in the next day.

I told them to call me if they found it.
About an hour after I left, I get a call. It's one of the managers, saying they found the money, because the safe was over by $30, so they rechecked all the money drops. When the second manager looked at my final deposit, she found the mistake that both I and the other manager missed.

Apparently, 6 times 10 is not 30.

Go figure.

[powerboy]

I done the same thing, when I worked at Office Max

[Zombi]

See, this is why I'm glad we don't do our own tills. My maths skills (lol, skillz), are non-existent. I can handle geometry and trig, but basic counting and multiplication - umm...no.

[Anakah]

The most I've ever been short was $75 but that's because I counted poker chips wrong and paid out waay more than I was supposed too. My drawer is 50,000. And when I first started there and heard this my mouth dropped and my eyes bugged out. Four months later I am now balancing lol We only get 30mins to count out though... The paper work is ridiculous.
I'm glad you didn't get written up though.

[Anakah]

This man came to my window he had two quicket tickets (the little vouchers people get when they win some money out of a slot machine) and some chips. Well, he had one ticket for 1000 and the other for 1001. And me, being the stupid one. I though oh hey this is easy I can just add it in with the chips. The first time I counted the chips they came to 254.

Well, somehow as I started counting out the hundreds I got to 22 and thought I did something wrong. I re-looked at the chips and got 154. I then gave him his money and thought all was fine until I looked into my drawer as I was putting away the chips and I had a sinking feeling that I did something wrong. I had. Turns out the first total was right and I ripped him off a hundred dollars.

There was no way to be sure unless he realized it. Had he realized it we could've watched the tapes and all would have been well.... Unfortunately he didn't. I felt so bad. I found out at the end of the night when my normal 80,000 drawer was a hundred over. I was so upset.

And to the post above if it looks odd. My drawer used to be 50,000 but the company recently upped the drawers due to the increase of customers.