How to count a cash drawer quickly?
I can identify with your situation! I was a bank teller . . . for three long, miserable weeks. My trainers said I learned to understand the transactions faster than anybody they'd seen. They thought I would take to the work well. Unfortunately, it turned out that a neurological disorder that gave me poor fine motor coordination made me to slow counting currency. My co-workers tried to show me how to do it better, and I improved some, but not enough. I was lucky enough to have a supportive manager who arranged for me to be transferred to another position to which I was better-suited, and it was good for both me and the bank. I worked there seven years, and they were good ones. Your employer may not be quite as supportive. However, see if there is anyone there who is especially good at the job you are being asked to do, and ask if they could give you some pointers. Try to figure out at what step(s) you are slower than they are, and work on those. (I remember withdrawing $25 in one-dollar bills from my own bank account and counting it over and over at home every night. It helped a little.) Also, try this: Instead of counting the total and subtracting 150, count up to 150 for the drawer, then count the rest for the deposit. See if it helps. If worse comes to worse, remember, not everyone is cut out for every job. No one who has made an honest attempt at honest work is a failure! You will find the right place, even if this turns out not to be it. Good luck!
I was short $20 in my register but my manager went in my drawer?
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employees cannot be forced to pay for register shortages. It would be illegal for your employer to withhold this amount from your paycheck, particularly if such deductions reduce your earnings below the required minimum wage or overtime compensation. There are probably some state wage and hour laws that also apply to this type of situation. Operationally, no honest manager takes money from a register (they exchange the entire register drawer or have you make the exchange by accounting for the currency exchanged) so you need to assume you're being scammed and taken advantage of because you're new. Start seeking other employment. Lesson learned is that when running a register, you are responsible for the accuracy and the count of the money coming in and the money going out. Count your drawer when starting, count your drawer at the end of your shift.
McDonald's cash drawer?
we count your drawer before we use it. you should get a drawer with X amount of money in it. you should be the only crew person on your drawer. when your time is done on register, the drawer is changed. the long reciept that they get when they change it has all of the information about what happened while you were on that register. we count it and subtract the X amount of money and verify that your coupons, gift certificates and other documentation is there. This all gets put into the isp under your name. some stores have the crew count their drawers or have other methods. you should clarify the cash procedures for your resturant with a manager when you have the chance.
How do I count my till at the end of the night as a cashier successfully?
I have just started working at a discount store for almost three weeks now. I wasn't trained on the cash register and I haven't worked in retail for two years and where I did managers counted your till. I count all the change I give back twice and out loud to be as accurate as possible. But at closing I seem to be having difficulty counting my till accurately which seems to only happen with one particular manager and he makes my feel horrible every time because I "should know how to count money." So I'm here looking for advise. I always count the money twice at the end of the night, with this system you enter the amount you have counted into the register and it tells you how much you were over or under from your cash sales. I'm not aloud to write things down or use a calculator and I can't know my total cash sales until i have entered what I declare to have. But no matter how many times I count it I am over $10 or under $20 (as examples) and then my manager counts it and finds the $20 or finds that I somehow counted $10 to much. I just want to find the best way I can fix this I'm not stupid this is only a part time job and there are many responsibilities that I must preform (cleaning, recovery, taking back returns, doing what those before have failed to do...etc) besides being the only cashier. This is the only thing i haven't mastered and it's causing me a lot of stress. Can being nervous about counting your money wrong, cause you to count your money wrong? I'll take any advise I can't be wrong again or I think I'll have to quit because I can't get it right, but I need the money desperately. Thank you for your time.
There are 20 different socks of two types in a drawer in a completely dark room. What is the minimum number of socks you should grab to ensure you have a matching pair?
Answer will be 3. There are two type of socks. Also socks are not left/right footed. So we can say that all socks of one type are identical. So if you take 3 socks out you will have 3 possibilities.Possibility 1: You have all three socks of type 1. In this case you have a matching pair of type 1.Possibility 2: You have all three socks of type 2. In this case you have a matching pair of type 2.Possibility 3: You have 2 socks of type 1 and 1 of type 2 or vica versa. Again in this case also you have one pair available. This is the case of pigeonhole principle which states " If you have n pigeonholes and n+1 pigeon and pigeons are placed in these pigeonholes then atleast one pigeonhole will have more than one pigeon.So in our case we have 2 types of socks (pigeonholes). If we take 3 socks (pigeons), we will have one type of sock atleast 2 in number. So we have a pair.
Will I get fired for cash drawer being short?
many restaurants as a matter of policy do terminate for a shortage in excess of $20.00..... add to that the fact that you have had attendance issues already and you are not helping your cause..... TALK to the manager, hope they give you additional training, and a second chance. they should/will not accuse you of stealing BUT you are guilty of "failing to follow proper procedures, resulting in a cash shortage of $26.00"..... it does NOT matter why or how the drawer ended up short, if you were the responsible employee then you will be held accountable... make sure you follow all cash handling procedures, make sure the drawer is balanced before you take responsibility for it and make sure you keep it secure by limiting anyone else from having access to it.....
My Drawer at Work is Short! Help!!!?
Some backstory: I'm currently 16 years old and have been working at this fast food restaurant for 8 months. They have had me on the register for 6 months, and throughout that time, I have been short once before. Yesterday, however, when one of my managers counted my drawer, It was $10 short. Since the first shortage, I am always extremely careful with the money and I trust the managers and do not think they would be stealing from me. When I am signed in on the register, anyone can ring in a small item (aka. a cookie) and get the register open. However, since the store is relatively small, everyone has eyes on everyone for the most part. Since this is my first job, I am worried that if something doesn't change, I will be short again, and ultimately be fired. I really don't want that on my record so if you have any advice, let me know.
A bag contains two blue socks and two red socks. Two socks are randomly drawn out. What is the probability that that they are matching in color?
Assuming you’re drawing randomly and without replacement (the standard interpretation of “two socks are … drawn out”), there are four equally likely outcomes: BB, BR, RB, and RR. I originally and mistakenly believed (because of the symmetry of the situation) that these are equally likely, but they're not. Once you've drawn a sock of one color, there is one remaining sock of the same color and two remaining socks of the other color, so the probability of drawing a second sock of the same color is 1/3 and the probability of drawing a sock of the other color is 2/3. That makes the probability of BB = (1/2)(1/3) = 1/6, which is the probability of RR, while the probabiity of BR or RB is (1/2)(2/3) = 1/3. Two (BB and RR) are matching, two are not. So the probability of matching is 2(1/6) = 1/3. (Thanks to Jared Washburn-Moses for pointing out my mistake.)
How much trouble can you get in for this situation?
Ok first i would like to ask that nobody make any judgements about the person involved, as i am asking this for a friend. My friend is an employee at a mcdonalds in missouri. He is a night manager, in charge of counting the drawers at the end of the night. well long story short he, along with some of the cashiers, went in 50/50 for stealing some money for several months. (please dont ask specifics cause that would take to long to explain exactly how the sceme worked without anyone noticing) anyway my friend decided to stop doing it, but the cashiers continued. well upper management has found out and they are not entirly sure of who is doing it. so my question is. how much trouble could my friend get in if caught? the amount is about 2,000 in a 3 month period divided between 4 people.
Why is McDonalds cash only in morning hours?
Others have answered; I’m just filling in detail as it was when I was there and as best I can remember.First, after pretty much any interruption of any kind, the computer wouldn’t take card transactions for about fifteen minutes. I don’t know why. But the only thing to do was wait. It happened sometimes during the day too.Six things need to be done:DRAWER CHANGE on all registers that have any transactions since their last one.POS CLOSE to shut down the register system for the day. This can be done at any time, but ought never be done before midnight in a 24-hour store.Count drawers/make deposit.Enter drawer counts and deposit on the office computer (called the ISP, because McDonald’s loves using familiar initialisms to mean something totally different. You’ll never guess what the ABS is.)FINAL DAILY CLOSE. This also runs a backup.POS OPEN. This can only be done once per calendar day, which is why you don’t close it before midnight.Now, that’s the order if you’re closed at night, except the last one is done by the openers. (I think somewhere you have to close the time clock too, at least on some systems.)You cannot, of course, ring anything up between POS CLOSE and POS OPEN, and again, after it’s open, the card readers won’t come up for a while. But you CAN open the drawer with a key and, if you’re at all honest, write down your sales and ring them up once the system is open again. Or, if your store is less picky, change the drawer again and ring up something that costs about what you’ve taken in.The older systems, the ones with the physical keys covered with a sheet of paper, took a long time to close and open; with those, you might as well count the drawers and make your deposit while you wait unless cars come along, sticking with the order above.But on the newer systems, the ones with touchscreens, you could have the system closed and opened in a few minutes by rearranging things. Not everybody could do it without getting things tangled up, and some flat wouldn’t because they wanted the down time and who was going to take their place. But my way was as follows:1: DRAWER CHANGE.2. POS CLOSE.3. POS OPEN. Now, if anyone comes along, the computer can keep track, the way things are supposed to be.4. Count drawers, make deposit.5. Enter drawers and deposit.6. FINAL DAILY CLOSE. This will take cashless down again, but the system will otherwise work perfectly fine. Much better than doing this while the system is still closed; it can take 20 minutes.