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Originally Posted by El Diablo
Springs,So you were a THIEF not ringing up customers and STEALING from your employer.
***HOW***** if I ******PUT THE MONEY IN THE REGISTER**********, HUH? I NEVER ONCE TOOK IT. I did that so he wouldn't make me the 5 cents or 25 cents or 10 cents someone was short. After $2, which it was often we were short, especially the weekends when you'd have 4-6 working and during the week if you worked the 6a.m-2p.m. shift you'd have 2 people M-thurs, and 3 people on friday morning working with you. So that means more chances for the other people to make it a mistake that ALL of us counter help girls would have to have split taken out of our checks.
So I wasn't going to let my boss STEAL from me. That was not going to happen. What happened is if someone was short, I refused to serve them, because hey, they didn't have the right amount of money, so it's only fair.
Once, an ******* customer didn't want to break his precious $20 bill asked if the large coffee and the dozen of donuts could be $5.57 instead of $5.58, I told him "NO, because I have to pay for shortages in the register. Can you believe these customers that they HAD the money, but didn't want to break their bills, that's SELFISH AND VERY ASSHOLISH. What kind of people is this? I sure the hell made him break his money.
A number of other people did the same thing too. When I first started in 1998, some ***** lady wanted to have 25 cents back( a quarter) to use the payphone, but her change was 24 cents. I told her "Sorry, but I can't do that." Customers wanted to steal all the time asking for free samples which we did NOT have to a customer that was a regular that acted like it was a sin to charge her 10 cents plus tax for a donut hole when *********EVERYONE ELSE HAD TO PAY FOR THEIRS**************. I couldn't stand this lady.
Another time, some man was mad again that ordered something to-go that I made him break his $20 bill. It's like RIDICULOUS that people think that they don't owe **EXACT MONEY** when buying something that EVERYTHING IS FREE. I COULDN'T STAND THAT **** that people thought the world should be UNFAIR and give them a DISCOUNT, BUT EVERYONE ELSE had to pay for what 100% FULL TO THE PENNY PRICE, but NOT THEM.
Another story at the donut shop/diner:
I worked a donut shop/diner as counter help back between 1998-2002 off and on a little over 2yrs worth altogether during my college years.
One time a co-worker that packed boxes of donuts for wholesale in the kitchen area during the afternoon shift decided to ask a REGULAR customer(came in just about every day almost) that dined inside that just ordered a large coffee sitting at the counter if he wanted 2 donuts which were just cooked. He said yes. I feel she had NO RIGHT to do this. Anyway, I told him before he left the price he owed me and he got all mad. He ended up paying for it. I was very pissed because I feel that just because she asked him if he wanted 2 donuts DOESN'T mean it is FREE. I am NOT quite sure WHY anyone should expect it for free that KNOWS the EMPLOYEES THERE(he did at that time). I was responsible for ANYTHING that left the donut shop since I was the only person working the register at the 2p.m. - 10p.m. shift. I don't care that he was mad because he should have ASSUMED that he had to pay like EVERYBODY ELSE in the world. I know to him it may have appeared that she was just giving the donuts to him for free, but HE KNEW she had NO AUTHORITY to do so. My boss wasn't there because he usually was doing wholesale at another place that was in the different town. He usually wouldn't be at the donut shop at the 2p.m.-10p.m. shift. My point is, I MADE people pay as EVERYONE ELSE has to, it’s only right. NO ONE has a right to steal. She was just another employee, NOT a manager or owner to give food away.
Question is, WWYD(WHAT WOULD YOU DO) if that were YOU?
Would you have given away free stuff and risked your job? I also feel it's the PRINCIPLE of it that Joe Schmoe has to pay for his donuts, so does John Doe. It's only fair that everyone pays considering nothing went wrong with the food or service. How do you all feel? I bet some people will say I was in the wrong, but I wasn't I feel, because it's not fair if YOU order 2 donuts you have to pay for them, but not someone else.
Some people I have written this story to acted like I should have charged my co-worker wholesale lady for the donuts. I couldn't have anyways, because we got them FREE on the clock so it's not like I could charge her honestly, I couldn't have, because she had them for free. I don't feel she should have had to pay even if we didn't get them for free since she didn't consume them and he KNEW she didn't have ANY AUTHORITY to give away anything. He also knew she didn't pay for those.
Anyway, how do you all feel? I feel if you know the person that is giving you the donuts is only the wholesale lady, you know they don't have the authority to give away something for free. As I said, the thing is, I couldn't have charged her since she was an employee that got free donuts on the clock as I did. That doesn't mean I had a right to give away donuts because I got them for free, nor did she.
What pisses me off about this situation is that the customer assumed he didn't have to pay for them. I understand how it "APPEARED", but he also knew the employees VERY WELL since he was ALWAYS in the place almost if not every day or every week. Not my place to give away food and once the boss I had there had told me when we had sold beer(we had video poker at one time there), that the cook couldn't just take beers to make sure he pays for them my boss said, so I feel that's why I wasn't about to disobey my boss and do the right thing by charging *EVERY* customer as it is supposed to be UNLESS something wrong happened.
Do you understand that things should be ***FAIR** and I *********HAD THE CONTROL TO MAKE THEM FAIR**********, HUH??
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If they did not pay the full amount, you should still ring them up HONESTLY because that is your JOB and RESPONSIBILITY.
It was NOT my responsibility to pay for a customer's shortage of money in my register. I shouldn't have had to pay for someone's 5 cents they didn't either bring with them or as I pointed out, selfish *******s who felt they didn't want to break bigger bills.
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If some of this was due to not charging them for like two cents on a 10.02 bill, then you should keep a record of the nickels and dimes you didn't charge them and request that short amount not be taken from your check.
They would have said NO, and said if I wanted to keep working here I'd have to put up with the stealing. NO WAY would they have gone for that crap and you know it.
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That is what an HONEST person does
My boss wasn't being honest though to think it was OK to take it out of my check when a customer was short change. He was even mad at me one time when a regular customer I refused to serve him a cup of coffee, because he forgot his wallet. That's not fair if Joe Schmoe has to pay for his coffee, so should EVERYONE. I *****SERVED FAIRLY**********, NOT UNFAIRLY**************! It's not fair and I NEVER ONCE thought that one person should get something free, but not the other. My boss was like he said I could have taken it out my tips. WHOA did that **** piss me off. I told him "Are you crazy, that it's my money?" He was just an ******* boss and only cared about the donut shop/diner making money, but NOT about his employee's money. He was SELFISH about it. He wasn't being fair. If the regular customer forgot his wallet, first off, my boss had praised me before about that I didn't let people leave without paying. Like one time, a guy ordered a muffin and milk went to the pay phone(remember this is 1998-1999), then walked out. I went OUTSIDE to tell him "You owe ....", so the guy paid. I made sure NOBODY STOLE from the company. So when as I said I didn't serve him coffee, the regular customer reported that and my boss was mad at me, which is CRAZY AS F** HELL, because it makes NO SENSE. One time, a while back as I said above about it in the wholesale donut story, we had sold beer cans when they had video poker in 1998, well that wasn't free and some cooks in the back sometimes according to my boss didn't pay for their beers, so he told me compared it to a clothing store that I was responsible for making sure the employees paid for their beer. So as I said it came time to do the same for customers, I was fussed, GO ****ING FIGURE??? It makes no sense. I didn't have to charge the regular, but the employee I did, WTF???? He was just so strange to not have one set of rules. He acted like I should be unfair that one person should pay, but not the other and that's where we had issues. It sucked.
My point is though, if he was honest, my boss would have PRAISED ME for deciding not to serve him coffee if he didn't have his money. My boss wasn't a fair or honest person himself. He was an UNFAIR person. He made the analogy of the clothing store yet when it came time to do the morally right thing by making EVERY PERSON PAY EXACT AMOUNTS, I couldn't and that didn't make any sense whether it was the regular who forgot his wallet to the people that didn't have the right amount of coin change.
SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIM TO MAKE THINGS UNFAIR! I made things fair and that's how I did it. I had control over that and did what I could to make EVERYONE PAY EVERY CENT that EVERYONE ELSE had to.
Once, a man wanted the amount he owed for something(I don't remember what he ordered, but I do remember he ordered a milk), he asked could he take the penny out our tip jar so it could be $2 and not $2.01. I said **NO, that's our tips*****. We had a few other customers do that with other amounts of money that they thought they could not have to pay the EXACT AMOUNT EVERYONE**********EVERYONE ELSE*************** pays.
The world is not a fair place, but when I served, I **TRIED*** MY VERY DARNEST******* to make at least purchasing items there fair.
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instead of ILLEGALLY not ringing up sales and STEALING from the business.
I **NEVER STOLE IDIOT*** since I ***PUT THE MONEY IN THE REGISTER. The *****CUSTOMER STOLE BY NOT GIVING THE RIGHT AMOUNT like 5 cents or whatever). That's not my responsibility to pay for a customer's shortage.
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You are an IMMORAL person and a CRIMINAL!
No I am NEITHER! What's good for the customer to take money away from an employee and not return an overage is good for the employer to the same. That is MORALLY RIGHT to BE ******FAIR*********** and *************EQUAL***************!
Last edited by Springs1; 04-08-2017 at 10:36 AM.
