How embarrassing is this?

[Serena]

Ok, I've worked at my job for almost 2 years now. I was helping a new person learn how to run the register, what to do and what not.
Well, she accidently pushed a button and no big deal, I voided it and we started over.

We'll we learned at closing that I handed the lady back her check instead of putting it in the register.
The voided transaction was a cash trans. I spaced it and was thinking it was the check trans. It was the very worst I had done in the 2 years, and it was showing someone else what to do.

It was only $16 worth of stuff, but still. I had never done that before.

I told the girl later that I did that to show her that it's no big deal to make mistakes. To make her feel better.

But I'm still embarrassed about it. I'm not going to be able to live that one down any time soon.

 

[WillyJ]

That's awful Laurie!

I don't see any other option but for you to quit your job, move away, and change your name. . .

 

[TigerBear]

LOL Willy!

 

[Serena]

Willy,


Ok, maybe it wasn't all that bad. But I haaaate making mistakes, especially in front of someone.
yes, I'm whining here.

 

[Pop Daddy]

lol Willie

 

[Dan Murphy]

Willy, can you get Laurie into the Protection Program??

 

[FroggyinArk]

Originally posted by WillyJ
That's awful Laurie!

I don't see any other option but for you to quit your job, move away, and change your name. . .

you left out plastic surgery

 

[Serena]

Wait a minute, this protection program is looking better.

 

[suzannews]

I think the worst part was the lady wasn't honest enough to tell you that you gave her the check back and then she walked out of the store with the free merchandise.

 

[WillyJ]

I'm not sure Dan. . I know they'll take guys who were in the mafia, but this???









Oh and Laurie? You forgot to capitalize the first "Y" in the last sentence of your second post. . . but I'm sure no will notice. .

 

[Keli]

LOL, poor Laurie, I hate making mistakes too although I should be used to it by now. And I always seem to save my big ones for the times I have an audience, lol.

About the lady walking out of the store with her check, it is possible that she thought they were supposed to give it back. Around here at least, a lot of stores take your check and run it through like a debit transaction. Then they have you sign a receipt and give you your check back for your own records. It happens just often enough that if I were being absent-minded I might take the check back thinking that was what was going on.

 

[kejoda]

I think the only mistake you made was tell Willy about it Serena! He is just having too much fun.

 

[WillyJ]

 

[Serena]

well, i guess i asked for It posTing My mistak here.



As for the lady, I am sure she didn't think twice about accepting the check since I handed it to her and I was the one that was helping the new girl. She probably assumed I knew what I was doing. go figure. lol She probably thought about it later. And some stores are giving back the checks these days. They process it immediately and give it back.

 

[powellrj]

Originally posted by Serena
well, i guess i asked for It posTing My mistak here.



As for the lady, I am sure she didn't think twice about accepting the check since I handed it to her and I was the one that was helping the new girl. She probably assumed I knew what I was doing. go figure. lol She probably thought about it later. And some stores are giving back the checks these days. They process it immediately and give it back.

(((((HUGS))))) I hate when I do stupid things infront of other people. I am the queen of doing it so I guess I should be use to it. I don't write checks in stores anymore (except CVS for perscriptions) so I had no idea that they sometimes run them thru and give them back to you. Your mistake was a teaching lesson for many of us on the DIS, so we are now taking your mistake and making it a positive!! I will question but not be surpirsed if I ever write a check and they hand it back to me!!

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Don't feel too bad. I ALWAYS do something that I do all day long every day WRONG when I am training new employees.

Whether it's missing a simple detail that THEY end up catching , or just pressing the wrong keys on my computer....something always happens. But only when I'm training, of course.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

To quote Southwest Airlines : Do you want to get away?

 

[SC Minnie]

Old Navy gives the check back. I was in there last weekend and wrote a check. They ran it through, I signed the receipt, and they gave me the check back stapled to my receipt. When I got home I put the receipt on the table. DH asked me later if my check had bounced because they gave it back to me. I had to explain to him what the 'new' system was.

 

[WillyJ]

Okay, I spent the day making some calls with no luck, so finally I just called the Man himself, my old drinking buddy, John Ashcroft.


He answered on the second ring:

"Ashcroft here. State your business."

"Hello Johnny. . . long time no talk to. . ."

There was a long pause. I had nothing but time so I just waited.

"It's you. What do you want? In case you haven;t heard I'm a busy man. . "

"Yeah Johnny. . shredding the Constitution is hard work, but I need a favor for a friend and you're going to do it for me. .

"How dare you!" he cut in indignantly . "don't you know who I am?"

I waited a few seconds. . like I said, I had plenty of time.

"Sure Johnny, I know who you are. You're the guy in those pictures I have. . the one who back in '97 was with me at in Branson, Missouri at the Roy Clark Good Times Emporium and Ptomaine Buffet" waving a pack of black-market Canadian Sudafed around and wearing a "Hillary For President" T-shirt. . you know, Michael Moore would pay big bucks for that- maybe I should. .

"Stop. Stop! Okay you win. . what do you want?"


I laid out the whole tangled saga. . . the shame, the degradation . . . but he was unmoved.


"Geeezeee. . I thought those Corn People you hung out with were bad. . but this?"

I tried explaining some more, then cajoling, then I finally went with a card I didn't want to play, but knew would work. .

"Well see Johnny, as bad as my friend is, it's the woman she was teaching that I'm worried about. . "

"Oh is that so?"

"yeah.. see my friend might have terrible typing skills and might have disgraced herself in front of the whole retail community. . but the scary thing is that the woman she was teaching could hold a grudge against her over this. .

"Why is that a problem?"

"Well see Johnny, maybe it isn't. . but since she started this new job because the library she worked at was. . "

"What?? Oh my goodness!"

"That's right. . this dame is a former libraian.. used to handle Al Franken books. . I. . "

"Okay, hold tight! Every second counts. . my men are on the way to get her. . here;s what you tell your friend. . "


And that was that. Laurie is now in the Witness Protection Program courtesy of the US Justice Department.

Her new name is Shamus O' Leary and she's now a 17-year old boy from Sheep-Guts-On-Rye, Scotland and working at a K-Mart in DesMoines, Iowa. . but she's safe, and this horrible ordeal is behind her. . .

 

[FINFAN]

It's hard to be human Laurie!