When I was a teenager, I worked games at Six Flags. We were 16 year olds entrusted with a TON of cash in little pouches around our waists. We’d all take enough to go party after work at midnight. I also once stole about 300 from my next job at a grocery store. I got busted because my till was short. But I was told that if I wasn’t so trustworthy, I’d be in more trouble, but they actually believed me when I said it was a math error. That one freaked me out so bad that I never stole again.
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Okay…..lesson learned here. Getting caught was a blessing!
When you know better you do better!! Keep moving forward with a strong moral compass!! 💪💪💪
This wouldn’t happen to be at 6 Flags Over Texas and in Boomtown would it.
Turns out $300 is the going rate for a ‘math error’ and a reality check.
I stole so much money from my job. It was crazy that I didn’t get caught bc i did it on camera! I didn’t get paid enough for what I was doing. I couldn’t afford diapers and basic expenses. So, I did what any underpaid worker would do in this situation. I took what I needed and made sure all of the drawers were correct when I was done. I did this daily! Ik I walked out with $300 cash in my pocket one night, which was about a week’s paycheck for me back then. I stole thousands of dollars from that place before I quit when I was offered a different job at a different company.
I guess you could say you got a reality check—both figuratively and literally.
Damn lol
How could they not see the money was short?
Work fast food work your way into manager or supervisor, kill the cash register camera by any means necessary and assign a newbie cashier on it and blame the variance on them or fix the receipts towards the end of the shift when it dies down and you start sending people home early pocket the cash but to get real money you need a whole solid team working together in one building, it could be done at any retail or fast food joint.
When I was a teenager I worked at JC Penney. My friend was also working there and she got caught stealing from the register. I remember seeing her handcuffed out of the store. I was never willing to chance anything like that. It ruined her life and it took her a long time to get past it.
I had an ex-boyfriend that worked at Golden Gate Park and he would steal from there all the time, because if it was someone paying with cash to buy a ticket, he would simply pocket the cash and then give them the ticket, because they didn’t have a system or way of keeping track of how many paper tickets were sold a day other than just trusting the worker to be honest.
So he could steal anything from 100 bucks to I think as much as 800 bucks in a day. He never got caught, even when people tried to snitch, since I guess he had the charm to him and seemed relatively timid so no one would suspect him. I think he said he eventually got caught, but for all I know he might still work there.
Yeah I did this at Subway, I knew exactly how much certain sandwiches or combos were so when customers would pay for an 8.94 sandwhich with a with a $20 I would give them $11.06 and keep the 8.94 and put the 20 in the drawer so it always came out even. Sometimes I’d take home 80-90 bucks cash after a busy night and the district manager never caught on because I always wrote the ingredients from those sandwiches on the waste log at the end of the night so it never showed up as a loss on inventory.