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Post by kent on Jul 20, 2015 11:15:27 GMT -5
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 20, 2015 11:19:27 GMT -5
NO good deed goes unpunished.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 20, 2015 11:21:21 GMT -5
He was probably a Russian spy that was just outted.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 20, 2015 11:43:25 GMT -5
He did that to balance his register after realizing he didn't charge them enough. So if he hadn't and was short at the end of his shift what would they have done? Fire him maybe. Geeez
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Post by The Captain on Jul 20, 2015 11:50:52 GMT -5
Any of you guys ever worked as a cashier? I have at several jobs.
You don't mess with register totals. He would have been better off turning in short and owning the mistake rather than trying to cover it up.
He didn't pay someone else's toll. He undercharged and didn't balance. Then tried to cover it up.
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Post by lexxy703 on Jul 20, 2015 11:57:16 GMT -5
He's worked there for 30 years. Unless this wasn't the first time it happened.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 20, 2015 16:21:11 GMT -5
Crazy! But we shouldn't be surprised based on the other stuff that goes on these days.
The 21st Century: where the assholes get rewarded and good deeds get punished.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 20, 2015 17:35:51 GMT -5
Probably gonna fire him and take away his pension if he receives one. Replace him with a kid making minimum wage. Can't draw UE and will wind up on the streets homeless.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 19:01:24 GMT -5
You know what's surprising to me?
That it doesn't surprise me...
And that makes me sad.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 20, 2015 19:07:53 GMT -5
There's either a whole lot more to this story, or a whole lot less.
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Post by joemilitary on Jul 20, 2015 21:17:43 GMT -5
Any of you guys ever worked as a cashier? I have at several jobs. You don't mess with register totals. He would have been better off turning in short and owning the mistake rather than trying to cover it up. He didn't pay someone else's toll. He undercharged and didn't balance. Then tried to cover it up.
I'm confused.....He realized he made a mistake, and decided to voluntarily take responsibility by paying money from his own pocket to cover the mistake......
If this is the only thing he did and was only a first or 2nd offense , I don't see anything wrong
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Post by kent on Jul 20, 2015 21:55:36 GMT -5
Apparently some people didn't read the entire article.
She also said that he wasn't fired immediately, but was instead offered the option of working two days a week.
He refused the offer.
"If I can't be trusted for five days, how can I be trusted for two days?" he told the NBC station.
If he was offered a two-day option then it was not a dischargeable offense in the first place now was it? There has to be more to this story or the employer has a bunch of loons running the HR unit.
Tenn - help me out here........
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Post by kent on Jul 20, 2015 21:56:30 GMT -5
Crazy! But we shouldn't be surprised based on the other stuff that goes on these days. The 21st Century: where the assholes get rewarded and good deeds get punished. times 10,000
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 20, 2015 22:02:45 GMT -5
My first guess (before your latest update) was that whoever first surveyed the video, assumed he was lifting money from the till - rather than making up a shortage.
I'm wondering if the 2 days a week that he was offered was a probationary move and meant to be a temporary disciplinary action.
There's more to this story that's missing.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 20, 2015 22:50:10 GMT -5
Apparently some people didn't read the entire article.
She also said that he wasn't fired immediately, but was instead offered the option of working two days a week.
He refused the offer.
"If I can't be trusted for five days, how can I be trusted for two days?" he told the NBC station.
If he was offered a two-day option then it was not a dischargeable offense in the first place now was it? There has to be more to this story or the employer has a bunch of loons running the HR unit.
Tenn - help me out here........
You have to use the tag function to get another poster's attention. Fortunately I just opened this thread. Little to go on here. I learned there were always two sides of the story. We are only hearing one side here. My take: he was not fired but demoted to part-time. It is possible this is not the first time (second, third or more...) he screwed up and made up for his error by paying the difference out of his own pocket. My guess is he paid the difference because he got in trouble a previous time for doing the same thing. This means his employer has to pay him back to make him whole. Should he be terminated, the business would not want him going to collect UI and telling the agency he paid out of his own pocket for his errors and his employer did not pay him back. I believe his heart is in the right place but I believe he cannot or will not follow company rules. Because he has been there for almost 30 years, he was demoted to part-time and not fired. Just a fewcquick thoughts.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 20, 2015 23:30:17 GMT -5
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 21, 2015 7:05:16 GMT -5
Apparently some people didn't read the entire article.
She also said that he wasn't fired immediately, but was instead offered the option of working two days a week.
He refused the offer.
"If I can't be trusted for five days, how can I be trusted for two days?" he told the NBC station.
If he was offered a two-day option then it was not a dischargeable offense in the first place now was it? There has to be more to this story or the employer has a bunch of loons running the HR unit.
Tenn - help me out here........
You have to use the tag function to get another poster's attention. Fortunately I just opened this thread. Little to go on here. I learned there were always two sides of the story. We are only hearing one side here. My take: he was not fired but demoted to part-time. It is possible this is not the first time (second, third or more...) he screwed up and made up for his error by paying the difference out of his own pocket. My guess is he paid the difference because he got in trouble a previous time for doing the same thing. This means his employer has to pay him back to make him whole. Should he be terminated, the business would not want him going to collect UI and telling the agency he paid out of his own pocket for his errors and his employer did not pay him back. I believe his heart is in the right place but I believe he cannot or will not follow company rules. Because he has been there for almost 30 years, he was demoted to part-time and not fired. Just a fewcquick thoughts. Guess being demoted to PT would mean the company no longer had to provide any benefits and he lost all that? Funny how that works.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 21, 2015 9:15:23 GMT -5
So that's really it? They're firing him for fixing his mistakes. Somebody please find a debunker article proving he was really fired for skimming off the toll or giving drivers the finger or something. Please. Bureaucratic idiocy cannot possibly run this deep.
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 21, 2015 9:21:19 GMT -5
So that's really it? They're firing him for fixing his mistakes. Somebody please find a debunker article proving he was really fired for skimming off the toll or giving drivers the finger or something. Please. Bureaucratic idiocy cannot possibly run this deep. Sure it can.
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Post by Ryan on Jul 21, 2015 9:31:10 GMT -5
I'm sure there is more to the story, but either way it's not that surprising to me. These places are looking for integrity when it comes to handling the cash and balancing the drawer. Someone that puts $5.50 into the drawer is probably as likely to pull out $5.50 when they are over.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 23, 2015 15:57:37 GMT -5
If he was fired based on his job performance and his history warranted it, I can understand it. If, on the other hand, he was fired based on trumped up, or mickey mouse charges, because it's cheaper to pay 2 part time employees, than it is to pay 1 full time employee who has earned promotions and raises and receives benefits, that's just plain wrong. If it's cuz he started using benefits, I think that's wrong too, but employers get away with it all the time. They're not benefits, if you can't use them.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 23, 2015 16:13:47 GMT -5
I'm sure there is more to the story, but either way it's not that surprising to me. These places are looking for integrity when it comes to handling the cash and balancing the drawer. Someone that puts $5.50 into the drawer is probably as likely to pull out $5.50 when they are over. Bingo!
When I worked a register, you never messed with the money. Someone who is willing to try to cover a mistake by putting more in is just as likely to try to cover a mistake by taking some out. And the people willing to do those things can also be the ones that are ok with overcharging or not giving back correct change & putting the difference in their pocket. You don't want someone ok with messing with the money regardless of why they are doing it. It's just a huge no-no. If he makes that many mistakes then he should go, not be paying for them out of pocket.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 23, 2015 17:00:47 GMT -5
I'm sure there is more to the story, but either way it's not that surprising to me. These places are looking for integrity when it comes to handling the cash and balancing the drawer. Someone that puts $5.50 into the drawer is probably as likely to pull out $5.50 when they are over. Bingo!
When I worked a register, you never messed with the money. Someone who is willing to try to cover a mistake by putting more in is just as likely to try to cover a mistake by taking some out. And the people willing to do those things can also be the ones that are ok with overcharging or not giving back correct change & putting the difference in their pocket. You don't want someone ok with messing with the money regardless of why they are doing it. It's just a huge no-no. If he makes that many mistakes then he should go, not be paying for them out of pocket.
Yeesh. Remind me to never fix my mistakes if I undercharge somebody.
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 23, 2015 17:05:31 GMT -5
Bingo!
When I worked a register, you never messed with the money. Someone who is willing to try to cover a mistake by putting more in is just as likely to try to cover a mistake by taking some out. And the people willing to do those things can also be the ones that are ok with overcharging or not giving back correct change & putting the difference in their pocket. You don't want someone ok with messing with the money regardless of why they are doing it. It's just a huge no-no. If he makes that many mistakes then he should go, not be paying for them out of pocket.
Yeesh. Remind me to never fix my mistakes if I undercharge somebody. I am not even sure how the state would know he undercharged the vehicle. If the system is that smart, why not charge electronically rather than manual.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 23, 2015 17:08:27 GMT -5
If I got caught paying people's premiums, I would get fired because it's illegal. They probably just have a zero tolerance law like we do.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 23, 2015 17:19:44 GMT -5
Yeesh. Remind me to never fix my mistakes if I undercharge somebody. I am not even sure how the state would know he undercharged the vehicle. If the system is that smart, why not charge electronically rather than manual. The state wouldn't know. The only logical reason to put money back in the till is because he takes pride in doing his job well. He's been a toll booth collector for 30 years, there's only so much you can do to go above and beyond. You can be friendly (which he apparently is), you can be accommodating (such as loaning people cash to pay the toll), and you can be 100% efficient in toll collection (by paying out of pocket in the event you undercharge somebody). Hence every bit of evidence we have suggests this fellow takes pride in his job and really wants to do it well. We can't have that, so: fire him and put in somebody who knows well enough not to put the pride of a job well done before bureaucratic protocol. And the new guy probably won't be a dirty thief either.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 23, 2015 17:24:06 GMT -5
The messed up thing is, if he had realized it and then just side "my bad, my till is short $5.50" he probably would still have a job. But because he wanted to right his wrong and not cheat anyone out of any money, he gets to stand in the unemployment line.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 23, 2015 17:24:08 GMT -5
He'd been previously warned about making up for shortages.
He'd made mistakes in the past and was reprimanded, and this time was caught on video slipping money into the till to make up his shortage, so what are they to do?
It's unfortunate since he's likely close to retirement - and he's a long-time employee.
I'm wondering if they're trying to get out of paying him a retirement package or any benefits/pension he may have accrued.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 23, 2015 17:33:18 GMT -5
He'd been previously warned about making up for shortages.
He'd made mistakes in the past and was reprimanded, and this time was caught on video slipping money into the till to make up his shortage, so what are they to do?
It's unfortunate since he's likely close to retirement - and he's a long-time employee.
I'm wondering if they're trying to get out of paying him a retirement package or any benefits/pension he may have accrued. That's why it's not a clean-cut issue, unfortunately. If you've been warned not to break a stupid rule and you break the stupid rule anyway, what should happen to you? Normally we fall back to 'let the punishment fit the crime', but in this case the rule is so stupid that doing so would entail giving the guy extra money to compensate him for his hypervigilance. I suppose if they told him "if you do this again, we'll fire you", then he had it coming, but I get the impression he expected a slap on the wrist because it's a stupid rule. Going from 'slap on the wrist' to 'firing just short of retirement' just to make an example of him is flat-out poor management.
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Post by kent on Jul 23, 2015 18:42:17 GMT -5
This is why some HR departments are referred to as:
A. The Anti-Personnel Department or,
B. The Inhuman Resources Department
Just saying
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