In my defense, who counterfeits $10 bills?
It was fairly busy at the beginning of my shift, so by the time I got a chance to drop money into the safe, I had a lot of money in my drawer. I went to drop a stack of $10s, and one of them kept getting spit out by the bill reader. Normally when it does that it's because the bill is wrinkled or faded, but this one looked fine. It did look a little discolored, though, so I held it up to look for the watermark, and there wasn't one. Uh oh. So I check it with the counterfeit pen, and it dries brown. Yeah, it's a fake.
I show it to my CW, and she agrees that it's phony. She calls the boss to let him know, and he wants to know if I remember who gave it to me or when. No, I don't remember. Nobody stuck out to me as being suspicious, and the bill was a good enough forgery that I didn't notice it until I looked closely at it, which obviously I don't do to every bill when we've got a line out the door.
I doubt I'm going to get in any trouble for it; store policy is that we only have to use the counterfeit pens on $50s and $100s, and like I said it looked fine at first glance. I'm just really irritated about it.
It was fairly busy at the beginning of my shift, so by the time I got a chance to drop money into the safe, I had a lot of money in my drawer. I went to drop a stack of $10s, and one of them kept getting spit out by the bill reader. Normally when it does that it's because the bill is wrinkled or faded, but this one looked fine. It did look a little discolored, though, so I held it up to look for the watermark, and there wasn't one. Uh oh. So I check it with the counterfeit pen, and it dries brown. Yeah, it's a fake.
I show it to my CW, and she agrees that it's phony. She calls the boss to let him know, and he wants to know if I remember who gave it to me or when. No, I don't remember. Nobody stuck out to me as being suspicious, and the bill was a good enough forgery that I didn't notice it until I looked closely at it, which obviously I don't do to every bill when we've got a line out the door.
I doubt I'm going to get in any trouble for it; store policy is that we only have to use the counterfeit pens on $50s and $100s, and like I said it looked fine at first glance. I'm just really irritated about it.
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