Fired.

[darkwing_duck1]

Well if the money keeps disappearing you could be reinstated.

I'm sure it will continue to disappear. Apparently the drawer was short one of the 3 days I wasn't there. So unless I've gotten so good that I can take cash from a register that is 10 miles away...

They actually told me that even if they continue to come up short, I wouldn't get my job back. They'll just keep firing people until they find out who was doing it, I guess. Makes me think I wouldn't want the job back even if they did offer it back.

I'm not sure how many criminal masterminds would meticulously point out every time they stole money. Well, outside of comic books.

That sucks. Hopefully, the money will continue to disappear from the drawer, and your name will be cleared.

Good luck in the job hunt.

That was my point exactly. Here I thought I was covering my ass by reporting it...then again I also assumed my superiors had any sort of grasp on logic.

Talk to a lawyer. Just because you work in an "at will" state doesn't mean they can accuse you of theft. That's slander at the very least.

As someone else noted, at least get a clean reference, if you can. Though a lot of places won't give references at all anymore because they're afraid of suits from people who they give bad ones to.

 

[DonIago]

I did talk to my manager about putting it on record that I either quit or was laid off, as to make getting a new job or unemployment easier.

You should definitely push for "laid off". You -definitely- won't get Unemployment (at least you wouldn't around here) if the perception was that you left your job voluntarily.

I had a co-worker who left our company (and the state) to go tend to her mom in Georgia, and then filed for Unemployment...the paperwork went right through our boss, and sure enough he said her claim should be denied because she left work of her own free will. I felt a little bad for her, but she should have known that wouldn't work for her.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Something just doesn't feel right with this story.

How many people were working at the register at one time? Did you count the money before the shift? Did you count the money after one worker moved off from the register? Did you assign a worker on one register for that day?

My wife has mostly worked retail, and she's told very similar stories. She, too, was accused of ripping off the register, because it would come up short. Problem was, she worked in a really busy fast food place, and she would get pulled away from the register for various things. She would count the register at the end of her shift, and find that it's short. Could've been from any of the people who stepped up to it while she was doing other things, too. They didn't fire her, but she got sick of being accused of stealing, so she quit.

Where I worked our registers were all shared by a bunch of people. When we started coming up short, we were stationed to a register and that was it. If we were short, we got in trouble for that.