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About a month ago, I started a job at a supermarket. I have been doing generally fine, and the lady who we count out to told me I'm always accurate down to the penny. One day, about two weeks ago, I was suddenly 40 dollars short. The lady said "No way, not this girl, something must be wrong here." and just told me to go home. Apparently it was settled, as I didn't get a write up. Then today, I end up 20 dollars over? It's something that I'm not understanding. I know I'm not infalliable, but 20 dollars is a huge mistake, especially when I haven't made any other mistakes like that during my time at the supermarket. It makes me feel like I'm stupid when I know I'm not, besides I'm a Math major in college. It's my best subject and has always been. Also, I always triple count my money before I give it to customers(and I probably look like I have OCD doing it. lol.), because I'd rather be safe than sorry.
So the lady, a different one than my normal count out lady, says I'm going to get written up for it and I probably didn't give enough during a cash back or during a change exchange with a fellow cashier. I only did two cash backs today, and both of them involved me handing the customer a 50 dollar bill, which they requested, instead of 10s and 20s. I made change for a few cashiers today, but we always count and exchange the money right in front of each other to ensure we have no mixups.
I know I'm human and I make mistakes, but something in me isn't accepting this "mistake". We start with 50 a day, and I told the lady upstairs that my till was 20 cents short. My feeling is that they accidentally input 20 dollars short, and that is what made me 20 dollars over. I just have a strange feeling. It's a really defunct workplace, many of the cashiers do not speak and behave properly, as well as the people who work upstairs. This morning when I came in, my male co-worker said good morning and I did the same. As I was going upstairs to get my till, I heard one of the female front managers say "She's a triflin' little (something that rhymes with witch). She don't say Good Morning to me. She don't know who she's messin with." First off, I'm very quiet. I just started there and I'm very shy. I usually only speak when spoken to. If she would have said Good Morning I would have said it back, not to mention when he said it to me, my Good Morning back was addressed to everyone standing there. To call me that over a Good Morning? That's a bit much, especially when you have joked with me in the past about how silent I am. If it bothered her, she could have taken me aside and said to me "Hey, you never say anything when you come in. Like, good morning." and I'd make a mental note of it, but for a 40 something year old woman to curse about a 21 year old like that, who's simply shy...it's wrong, in my opinion.
Things like this are really making me want to leave this job, but this is my first job and I've applied to so many and got rejected. I got this job due to a family friend. I just simply don't know what to do here. Any suggestions?
So the lady, a different one than my normal count out lady, says I'm going to get written up for it and I probably didn't give enough during a cash back or during a change exchange with a fellow cashier. I only did two cash backs today, and both of them involved me handing the customer a 50 dollar bill, which they requested, instead of 10s and 20s. I made change for a few cashiers today, but we always count and exchange the money right in front of each other to ensure we have no mixups.
I know I'm human and I make mistakes, but something in me isn't accepting this "mistake". We start with 50 a day, and I told the lady upstairs that my till was 20 cents short. My feeling is that they accidentally input 20 dollars short, and that is what made me 20 dollars over. I just have a strange feeling. It's a really defunct workplace, many of the cashiers do not speak and behave properly, as well as the people who work upstairs. This morning when I came in, my male co-worker said good morning and I did the same. As I was going upstairs to get my till, I heard one of the female front managers say "She's a triflin' little (something that rhymes with witch). She don't say Good Morning to me. She don't know who she's messin with." First off, I'm very quiet. I just started there and I'm very shy. I usually only speak when spoken to. If she would have said Good Morning I would have said it back, not to mention when he said it to me, my Good Morning back was addressed to everyone standing there. To call me that over a Good Morning? That's a bit much, especially when you have joked with me in the past about how silent I am. If it bothered her, she could have taken me aside and said to me "Hey, you never say anything when you come in. Like, good morning." and I'd make a mental note of it, but for a 40 something year old woman to curse about a 21 year old like that, who's simply shy...it's wrong, in my opinion.
Things like this are really making me want to leave this job, but this is my first job and I've applied to so many and got rejected. I got this job due to a family friend. I just simply don't know what to do here. Any suggestions?
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