Alright Yea Forums I need some advice.
>Be me
>working cashier
>Give customer wrong change even after counting it twice
>Oops.jpg
>Kind of hate my job
>Make a comment about how the customer should have kept the extra money so I could get fired
> Yeah I'm a retard
> Fast forward a few weeks gossip is going around that the store I work at is looking into pressing charges
Am I fucked Yea Forums or am I over reacting?
Just quit.
Talk to your manager and tell him to take you off the register. You don't want to get fired and end up in jail
david?
Is what I did even illegal though? Like my intent was definitely not to give people extra cash. It sounds like it, but my comment was totally retrospective. I legit thought the lady was messing with me. Like two bills must have stuck together or something.
Not illegal. Not even worth their time to press charges. The more likely outcome is they will talk to you/ discipline you, and if they really hate your ass, fire you.
I'm always paranoid because I'm your typical engineering major prick. Like people have legit reason to hate me so I always go through anxiety when I mess up on things. I guess I'm just a fucking autist.
Giving the customers money that isn't yours because of your lack of competence is illegal.
Yeah? How so?
You're taking money that does not belong to you (it belongs to the company) and giving it away is theft. If you're short money at the end of the day it has to come out of your check.
There are legal protections for cashiers who make simple mistakes. As long as there isn't, like, a recording of some kind, you're good -- the worst they can do is fire you for having a short drawer.
this is illegal in america, actually
It's not illegal unless he did it on purpose, but they can fire him for it.
It is however illegal to take the missing cash out of your pay.
There are witnesses to my statement and a camera recording of my reaction to a customer handing me money then putting it in my till.
They most likely want to fire him for degrading himself.
I'm worried about my statement being interpreted as proof of intent rather than retrospective. I just don't know practically how to the law reacts to situations like this.
It's as easy as literally just talking to your manager about it. Stop being a pussy and own it. Jesus. Just apologize for the comment and offer to pay what money was missing if any was missing.
If it really gets back to them that you said that, just say it was a joke in poor taste and that you didnt intentionally give them too much money. This shit happens every day at nearly every retail location you can think of. If they fired or sued every training cashier for fucking up like this, they wouldn't have a pool of cashiers big enough to staff their registers. Proof: I worked retail for 10 fucking years, often times in some managerial capacity. unless your are grossly incompetent repeatedly or flagrantly saying you are trying to fuck the company, you're fine.
quit being a fucking idiot
then get a new job
Doesn't paying the money admit guilt though? I definitely don't want to do that. Like it's obvious I did what I did, it's about my intent being misconstrued. I didn't intentionally do anything, but the state may have a case otherwise.
Also, get the fuck out of retail. No matter where you go, they'll pretty much treat you like shit, pay you next to nothing, or both, and at best it's a mediocre dead end job. You'll thank me later.
No, I'm temp for the summer so I make it known to management that they can't treat me like the other employees or I'll just walk. I'm also kind of a prick irl so I have that going for me.
If you didn't do anything, just fucking say that. It would also do you good to think about what you say in front of people.
If you’re in the US, legitimately wtf are they going to do? It’s not worth the stores time and money to arrest you for accidentally giving someone the wrong change. Drawers are over and short all the time, nobody cares as long as you’re not an idiot who’s stealing or otherwise being retarded and not doing your job.
I’m upper management above managers and cashiers in a different field and I promise you we would never press charges on anyone unless they were caught stealing.
Sorry wrong David, I'm a mechanic.
This. Exactly this.