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Honesty really is its own reward!
10 years ago
Because it can't afford anything else!
So... Did some shopping tonight and I see that the ATM has some odd screen flashing asking if the user wants to clear message to proceed with another transaction or not.
I needed to use it for something small so I cleared it, and?
A nice thick pile of $50 dollar bills comes out. Forty of them.
I mention to one of the managers passing by that this machine is throwing out cash, and he says, "Well, then take it!"
I try to get help from first the help desk and then another one nearby for paying bills and such. Both of them are crazy busy.
It slowly dawned on me that I could shove that $2000 there in front of me in my pocket and walk out with no one the wiser.
So of course instead I take it over to a front end manager and give it to her with an explanation of what happened. She looked at me blankly and said, "You could have just left with this."
"Yes, ma'am, I know. I'm giving it to you because it's not my money."
"No, seriously, you could have walked out the door with this and we'd never have known what happened to it."
"Yes, ma'am. I. Know."
She laughs and walks off shaking her head. I see to my groceries and on the way out pass by the office and see through the glass door her talking to the two store managers. I listen and I hear: "And he actually gave it back when he could have left with it -- what an idiot!" When I consider that I returned $2000 I kind of have to agree with that sentiment.
Look at it this way, whatever dumb thing you may do today, you weren't THAT dumb!
So... Did some shopping tonight and I see that the ATM has some odd screen flashing asking if the user wants to clear message to proceed with another transaction or not.
I needed to use it for something small so I cleared it, and?
A nice thick pile of $50 dollar bills comes out. Forty of them.
I mention to one of the managers passing by that this machine is throwing out cash, and he says, "Well, then take it!"
I try to get help from first the help desk and then another one nearby for paying bills and such. Both of them are crazy busy.
It slowly dawned on me that I could shove that $2000 there in front of me in my pocket and walk out with no one the wiser.
So of course instead I take it over to a front end manager and give it to her with an explanation of what happened. She looked at me blankly and said, "You could have just left with this."
"Yes, ma'am, I know. I'm giving it to you because it's not my money."
"No, seriously, you could have walked out the door with this and we'd never have known what happened to it."
"Yes, ma'am. I. Know."
She laughs and walks off shaking her head. I see to my groceries and on the way out pass by the office and see through the glass door her talking to the two store managers. I listen and I hear: "And he actually gave it back when he could have left with it -- what an idiot!" When I consider that I returned $2000 I kind of have to agree with that sentiment.
Look at it this way, whatever dumb thing you may do today, you weren't THAT dumb!
Besides, karma is a real b*tch if you screw with it!
Atta fur! *hugs*
Also, having worked retail more than once, I remember how this usually goes. You find the money and hand it in, the management promises to look for the owner, they post a small sign that somehow always ends up underneath other signs, and a month or so later it goes into the store manager's pocket.
Ah well.
But if it was intended as support and not joking, thanks.
But thanks for the advice.
You really should contact corporate about that matter, if only anonymously. It's not right for those managers to encourage you to take it, much less call you an idiot for not doing so. Just don't mention your name and tell it like it is.
Thanks but (a) it's not my work place, though I do have relatives working there, and (b) I tried something like many years ago now at a job I had on the promise of '100% total anonymity, no one will ever know' -- only for the store manager to walk up to me a day or so later and give me hell for going behind his back. I really don't want to cost family a job right now or ever. I'm going with laughing this off and treating it as experience.
But thanks for the support and advice, I do appreciate it