Hypothetical Question: The Cashier Clerk Mistakenly Gives You Incorrect Amount Of Change..?

Question

After Handing the Cashier Clerk A $20 Dollar Bill. He Mistakenly Gives You A $100 In Change And You Don't Notice Until You Get To The Parking Lot. Do You Go Back Into The Store To Get The Correct Amount Of Change Or Kept The $100 Dollar Bill.

Also, Have you had an experience like this?

Answer 1

Yes, go back. The clerk will end up punished when they count down his/her drawer and you're really not going to be better off in the long run for that money. Money made too easy isn't worth the price of your honor. Personally, this has never happened.

Answer 2

I would give it back to the cashier. I wouldn't want someone getting fired for the mistake, or worse going to jail because the owners thought they stole it.
I have gotten change for a $20 when I only gave them a $10. and returned it. The poor girl was happy she said they docked her pay last time she was short in the register. Was glad I could do something nice. But why does it hurt so bad sometimes being nice lol?

Answer 3

Yes of course I go back...honesty is a great virtue and it is not good to drag that kind of Karma around with you if you didn't go back. That poor clerk making 20 cents an hour would get in the deepest sh!t for messing up like that and all you would get out of it is perhaps a couple of DVDs or 2 rounds at the bar...not worth it. Be honest and make the kids day!

Answer 4

I've had a cashier give me the wrong change for stuff... If I'm still in the general vicinity when I notice it - I go back and correct that mistake.

If I've already driven off ...gotten home... etc., I won't go all the way back to the store to fix that. (Although I *might* if it was a significant amount like $100 and the store's close)

Answer 5

One thing if a clerk gave me change for a hundred instead of a twenty, I would notice it before I left the counter. If the clerk gave the wrong coins or a twenty instead of a ten, I might miss it but I don't think I would. Once I caught it I would return to the store and return the money.

Answer 6

Yes I do. That has happened to me before, not with that large of an amount. I would rather be honest than deceitful.
I actually gave someone back too much change and my drawer was off about 20 something bucks.
I got written up. It is an honest mistake on the cashiers part, however if you notice it and don't go back in, that's mean.

My boss was MEAN!!! almost Nazi like. She made me pay for my mistake.. I then made her exlax brownies.. umm umm good.

Answer 7

I highly doubt this is even possible being that usually big bills $50 and above are often put under the regular cash tray so there's not a lot of cash visible in the drawer.

If it was done, I would probably give it back because it would end up coming out of the clerks paycheck later. But If I was really strapped for cash I might be tempted to take it, but even then its a maybe, my conscious would eat at me in addition to my karma being tainted.

Answer 8

Yes I go back in and give them the money. No matter the amount. I have before. They could get fired for it and I have been a cashier before. Never had the heart to keep the money

Answer 9

You march right back into the store.

That clerk will be in so much trouble if you don't and yes that has happened to me and I've been on both ends of the experience. Wait 'til you see the smile of relief on that clerk's face....

Answer 10

I would have went back! If in the parking lot.

Now if i had of been home already i may have kept it!

Depends on how far away the store is from my house!!

My hubby got free food from mcd's the other week.

We kept it because it was just to far to drive all the way back!