Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

It was in the contract - you were stocked in (as it was called) and after that point you were responsible for the wet and dry stock, and the cash.

Awesome.

We weren't there for long, but it was our first Patagonia trek - we did a short two night trek to Laguna Azul. Would have loved to have been there for a while, or during ski season.

But can you actually make an employee liable for losses due to theft?

I was under the same type of contract in the tool shop, the most I ever had was £20k after a bank holiday. I’d ride the 3 miles on my bike with the money inside my jacket. Their policy was you were covered for the money up to the banking point I think it was about £6k but after that it was your fault for not going to the bank with that £6k. You can’t leave the shop single manned and you can’t close the shop. So?¿? Bastards.

Back in the 99s there was a courier company that mainly recruited Aussie travellers. Gave them an insured BMW and paid them a pittance.
One of their riders picked up a job and the customer says be careful there is £20k in cash in that box.
Couple of hours later Heathrow Police phone the courier company about a BMW abandoned at the airport.
The guy was living in a shared house the his now drunk housemates knew nothing and hadn’t seen him since he picked up his passport.
His driving licence actually belonged to another Aussie who had passed through years ago and it had been handed down many times

I think ‘responsible’ rather than ‘liable’ sure, the contract will be designed to make it clear that you are in control, so that if you were, for example, reckless with the money to be banked, there may be an avenue of recourse - but blanket liable for theft if you were acting reasonably? Extremely doubt it. NAL though…

Not unlike the money market in Kabul in the noughties. No premises (or chairs or pallets), just guys standing around with sat phones and bundles of notes.

I don’t know, in all honesty- I imaging liability would in practice be limited to what they owed you in pay and leave.

Wasn't that an urban myth? Sure I've heard different versions of that of the years.

One of my summer jobs as a teenager was working in an icecream hut at an outdoor pool. We'd take thousands of pounds a day in cash, and I was expected to bring that cash back to the office of the leisure centre that owned it, some miles away. A 17 year old, with £5-6k in cash in a backpack, walking alone, along a mostly deserted riverside footpath, daily.

How I never got robbed/didn't think to orchestrate something myself...

I have 1 usd in my wallet right now. It's been there since 2019, along with 5 NZD

https://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-Dollar-Bill-to-Make-a-Finger-Ring

Cash it in before the election vinegar strokes!

To make it worse, it was a two seater sports car with a soft top. A cabriolet, if you will.

The person who told me was very reliable and had some accurate detail I’ve left out.

I used to pick up fairly weighty gold bars from a place in Hatton Garden, and bags of foreign currency from Travelex.

And of course lots of drugs

Reminds me of being in Iran and the money changers having a wheelbarrow full of cash

Not sure that urban myth is the right phrase, but know of the licence thing and the id being someone else's.

When I couriered, they were some companies that paid less and asked less questions. Could see that happening. Back in the late 90s 20k was a great deal to some.

Back in the late 90s 20k was a great deal

That made me laugh, thank you.

Perfect for this thread.

Milan San Remo will go very nicely with power blasting the decking

Sorry, Power brush as it turned out actually.

^^^^^ Really like the cash talk, I schlepped what the film crews used to get paid with.

Carrying larger amounts of cash and what happens then is fictionalized (set in free Tangiers) in Paul Bowles 'Let it come down'. And from the thief's perspective in Michael Mann and Meg Gardiners 'Heat2'.

When I used to play in bands that toured Europe a lot, we'd end up saving all of the cash we made on the gigs and merch to exchange when we got home. Sometimes we'd be carrying €100, maybe €150 at the end of a 5 week stint. Scary stuff.

I remember hearing that for shows where you have cash they have to use real cash due to counterfeiting laws. There was some Stephen Fry experiment thing where they saw what people would do if they found a bag of cash.

It gave me the idea of a heighst movie where an aging faded producer was struggling to finance their film and robs a TV show with the help of a talented, but under appreciated/estimated runner.

Lock-Stock with loveies set in Soho.

My buddies were to appear on SM:TV a kids Saturday morning show. Their manager negotiated £600 a minute per band member whenever they were on screen. They were due to play a 3 minute song and then the singer would be on a panel for a quiz for 4 minutes. The whole band spent most of the show appearing in frame in the background. It was the biggest payday of their career, the bassist put a deposit on a house after that

Not sure that urban myth is the right phrase, but know of the licence thing and the id being someone else's.

When I couriered, they were some companies that paid less and asked less questions. Could see that happening. Back in the late 90s 20k was a great deal to some.

The ID and license thing are entirely possible I had a close friend who worked for the same company under 3 names as he lost his and 2 brothers licenses.

There were also Ghost riders who I knew had left the country but still appeared to have cancelled or duplicated jobs allocated them they were paid with a cashable cheque

(I was a very junior controller who whiled away boring solo Saturday shifts finding the scams)