Reply #20: In some states, it's actually illegal to hold you responsible

[eyesroll]

In IL, I know, a manager can't charge you if the register comes up short, or if a customer stiffs you on a bill in a restaurant (although of course you don't get tipped). Friends of mine who worked in a Subway franchise routinely got docked for the register coming up short (and we're talking a quarter here, a dollar there, not the gross incompetence of being $300 short every night, for which they'd be justifiably fired, but it added up) -- they put up with this until they found out it was illegal, and eventually threatened to get all of the employees this franchisee had, in his 15 stores, past and present, and get a class-action suit together (they talked big in high school). They got the back pay, plus interest.

(I don't know about other states; I've only worked retail in IL.)