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Have you ever created your own job perks? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have '2 for $x' specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.

People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.

So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 '2 for $6' specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.

Anyone else do anything like that?

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[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 159 points 1 year ago (35 children)

Uhhhhh honey what you're describing is called "theft". Also known as "fraud" if you want a different name.

But to answer your question, I usually shit during working hours, so I get paid to shit. It's a great feeling.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Is it?? I get it might be bending the rules slightly, but I can hardly believe it counts as theft

[–] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's a very valid reason to fire you. You'll most likely get caught when the inventory starts to be way off.

[–] Jordan_U@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would the inventory be off?

Maybe OP didn't explain it well, but I would imagine that:

This only happened with people who paid cash
If we imagine that every person in line has one drink and is paying with cash, OP would be ringing up 2 drinks for every other customer.

For the purposes of inventory, 1 drink per person is the same as 2 for every other person.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

You're correct on all counts.

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