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Similar experience in my time working the snack stop at Belfast Zoo. Never pinched a penny, even tho they took any discrepancies out of your wages. Did an 8 hr shift on a bank holiday without so much as a pee break and made less than a pound. I could and should have been skimming like a bastard. Most I ever took was a packet of Tudor crisps. And not even Tudor Specials. This lot (alright, their ‘friends’) are all scumbags.
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You probably know the bus/train station I'm talking about. I think the same folks still run the shops there. I was working there the day of 9/11. Had no idea until I got home as we just used to play Iron Maiden off copied CDs all day.
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Never pinched a penny, even tho they took any discrepancies out of your wages.
I remember not long after I started at Asda I got called in by the checkout supervisor to talk about the discrepancies on the tills I'd been on (I was a trolley boy but jumped on tills as and when required).
I didn't think it sounded very good straight off the bat but when they told me the tills I'd been on had been between about £50 and a hundred quid down I got pretty worried.
But this was a good news/job well done talk, they were more used to shortages of a couple hundred quid!
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Used to work in a newsagents that had two branches close to each other. One in the bus station and one in the connecting train station. They used to rake it in with their airportesque prices. Especially on a Friday when all the students were heading home, just a constant stream of people all day, paying cash (before contactless). I used to have to cash up and always thought it was very lax and would be very easy to skim a few hundred a week off the top (as a student that seemed like I would be minted). There was no counting done, just make sure the notes were the right way round for the bank and put it all in the lock box for the owners to collect at the end of the day (they were probably bigger crooks). But being a good boy and terrified of getting in trouble, worst I ever did was not pay for a bottle of coke every now and then.
Turns out I wasn't the only one who thought this and I found out that another member of staff was done not long after I left for pocketing about 20 grand over the course of 5 years. They must have been keeping closer tabs on it than I realised.
That job was great for mental arithmetic. You would be working out the punters' totals two or three down the queue so when they got to the till it was just "£3.40, next, £2.60, next, £4.20, next, etc."