Current Events > Work related conundrum.

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I just ran out of pennies in the register, so I grabbed another roll out of the safe. It felt a little weird (more flexible than usual), but it said pennies so I didn't question it. But when I tore it open and dumped it into the register drawer, out came about 10 pennies and the rest were dimes. O_o

So now I have a bit of a conundrum. See...I could leave the pennies in the drawer along with 4 of the dimes, giving me the 50 cents in my drawer that was expected, but leaving me with about $4 worth of dimes extra. Now the thing is, this roll has been in the safe for probably a couple weeks. It's been counted dozens of times as if it was 50 cents. So as long as I put 50 cents into the drawer, the store won't actually know there was anything other than 50 pennies. I could pocket the extra dimes and nobody would be the wiser.

But I don't generally steal from my employers as that obviously tends to turn out poorly in every case I've witnessed. But in this case, am I really stealing from my employer? I mean...they expected 50 cents and that's exactly what they'd get. So the only person actually losing anything here would be the bank we get our change from, who would be losing it regardless of my choice.

What would you do? Would you keep the extra, or would you just put it all in the drawer?

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Literally risking your job for the price of a Chipotle burrito.

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just put the dimes in the damn drawer, there's no conundrum

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Free money brah
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Thats like less than $5 dude

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AlisLandale posted...

Literally risking your job for the price of a Chipotle burrito.

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AlisLandale posted...

Literally risking your job for the price of a Chipotle burrito.

I mean...it's really not a risk. There's no way for anybody to know, since I work solo and the drawer comes out exactly as expected. And that's ignoring the fact that the owner employed my predecessor on this night shift for over 20 years despite the guy stealing from the store literally every shift.

So I guess the question is better phrased as "If there's no risk of being caught, would you keep the extra 4 bucks or leave it in the drawer?"

I meant it to be more of a moral dilemma than an actual question about risk/reward and consequences.

Blue_Dream87 posted...

Thats like less than $5 dude

But it's a free "less than $5 dude". And everybody knows free things are objectively better than their paid counterparts, even if they're identical.

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why even ask CE

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viewmaster_pi posted...

why even ask CE

Because I thought it would be interesting to see what people thought. Though the question didn't get interpreted the way I was intending, and that's my fault for not wording it better and making it clear the potential consequences weren't part of the dilemma.

I just think that it's a small enough sum of money that I wondered if people would be more or less inclined to keep it. It won't affect the business at all because it's so small, but it's big enough that an individual might think "hey, that's a free lunch tomorrow" or something along those lines.

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wdlp posted...

Free money brah

Thiiiiiiis. I'd pocket it.

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