Many years ago, I worked in a gas station. We'd sometimes come up short on the cash till. I worked mainly as a mechanic, but still had to pump gas. The first time it happened, the boss took everybody aside and had them make change, to be sure that that wasn't the problem. Remember the trick where the customer gives you a twenty, and then discovers that he has exact change, and you give him the twenty back, plus the change? Flim-flam guys. Anyway, the real problem, every time, was someone was going to quit, and started skimming money out of the cash box. My boss put up a note saying that, "Shortages have reached an unacceptable level, and I want it stopped." Ever-loving wise-a$$ that I am, I went in and asked what an "acceptable" level of theft was, so that I could pinch off money below the limit. He was not amused.
