This is a really trivial matter in relation to the events, but it stuck so please allow me to vent.

[Nexus2]

If I understood Christopher Martin's testimony today, he took issue with the alleged counterfeit 20 dollar bill due at least in part due to the store's policy on counterfeit money. It seems kinda messed up. "We're going to take any counterfeit bills you accept out of your pay, but we're not going to even offer in training in how to spot them."

I haven't worked cashier positions when I've worked retail. Is that typical? It strikes me as very unfair for what is quite often a minimum wage/low paying entry level job.

[magicarpet]

1. Against state law in many states to dock wages for accepting counterfeit money.

The employee would have a valid claim.

[lapfog_1]

2. except for the training part... it is very common

any shortage in your drawer at the end of your shift... you can be responsible for it.

Even in banks and casinos... where the amount in the shortage can mount into hundreds of dollars.

[dameatball]

5. Didn't know that. I just posted the opposite....oooopps!

[Phoenix61]

6. Nope, can't dock employee pay.

Where is does happen is to waitstaff who run their own bank. At the end of the shift you turn in the money you collected for sales. What’s left is yours. If you make a mistake counting change will cost you.

[Ms. Toad]

9. My daughter was not stuck with the shortage -

BUT she was reuquired to share a drawer with others, and any shortages were noted in the personnel files, and she was subject to termination for others' shortages (in the shared drawer).

[ShazzieB]

3. I agree with you.

That is an effed up policy, for sure.

[dameatball]

4. I don't work retail but I suspect it is not something they can take out of your pay. Disciplinary

action and retraining is probably more like it. Even that seems extreme, but I'm not in the loop.

[alphafemale]

7. Even worse than expecting it to come out of his pay

Is him having to confront the customer.

He would have been 18 at the time?

And what a burden to carry with him the rest of his life.

[brush]

8. That's the worse, having him go after the customer.

The boss that told him to do that is a poor boss. He should just tell his employees not to accept bills if they have any doubts as going after someone can result in someone getting hurt.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. +1

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. It's a shitty policy

I feel so badly for that kid as I do for all of Chauvin's surviving victims.

[alphafemale]

12. Maybe pass bills through a counterfeit checker? at cash registers?

They can't be that costly.

Not rely on teenagers to spot fake bills and take it out of their meager pay if they miss one.

Especially if we are killing men who did not even realize they had a fake twenty.