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Went to town today and cigarettes were on the shopping list. Asked for 6 cartons at the gas/convenience store. The girl running the cashier only charged me for two. Undercharge for four cartons, $133.

If you were me, would you speak up about the error?

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Was she hot?

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What does $133 mean to you>

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I don't think I'd feel bad about getting the best of it from a gas station for once.

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I am dishonest and would not say anything.

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Irrelevant to me personally, a married female.

There is that Mom instinct though. However, her register is not going to come up short, because she only rang up two cartons. The mistake would show up in inventory, which is not likely traceable to her specifcally.

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I normally speak up about things like this, but $133 isn't an insignificant amount of money (at least for me). To be honest, I wouldn't speak up. Yes, I'm going to hell.

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Is this a roundabout way of saying you would say something?

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I guess the best answer to that would be that I intended to pay for 6 cartons to start with, so it stands to reason that I can afford them.

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Is this a roundabout way of saying you would say something?

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You want the door on the right.

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I would say something. Also, smoking sucks.

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For $133 I am an honest guy. For $1,333 my conscience may have to get over it.

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This brings me to a little story. I was buying some birthday presents for my girlfriend, and one of the presents was some relaxation oil type things that she likes.

This was a pack of several, so it was going to be $55. The girl charged me $11. I spoke up about it, asked her if she was sure the price was right. I don't know if she was paying attention, but there was something wrong with that register. She moved to another one, rang it up, and again charged me $11.

I thanked her and walked off. I figure I've done enough by speaking up about it, and if she's dumb enough to make the same mistake twice, that's her problem.

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Seriously, the switch is off on this chick if she didn't realize how much she undercharged you. Go on with it, I'm sure she'll make it up by charging the next guy $400 for a pack of gum.

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Seriously, the switch is off on this chick if she didn't realize how much she undercharged you. Go on with it, I'm sure she'll make it up by charging the next guy $400 for a pack of gum.

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And I'm sure that guy would be glad to pay for it... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I would say something. Also, smoking sucks.

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If only you could have been there to convince me of this in grade school!

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For $133 I am an honest guy.

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I did tell the clerk that she'd made an error.

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For $1,333 my conscience may have to get over it.

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Honesty is a basic principle with me. Yet, I have to say, it wasn't fun to have to tell her what a huge error she'd made, and I was surprised by that. It's one thing when they forget a 12 pack on the bottom of your cart, but $133 bucks? Which makes me wonder if there's a limit to my honesty, and what that celing is?

Really, $133 is not a lot of dough in the scope of things. Why would I be less comfortable with honesty when the price goes up?

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Seriously, the switch is off on this chick if she didn't realize how much she undercharged you. Go on with it, I'm sure she'll make it up by charging the next guy $400 for a pack of gum.

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She did say thank you twice, but it just didn't seem very heartfelt. I think she was embarrassed.

As a footnote, I didn't tell my husband when I got out to the truck. Would you tell someone waiting outside what had just happened? Have we gotten to the point where we're embarrassed by what should be considered a virtue?

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I'd tell her, the $133 means alot less to me then the job does to her/stocker.

No, you shouldn't be embarrassed for doing the right thing, even if it cost you money, and shouldn't be in a relationship where that's even a possibility.

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actually you sound pretty honest from this reply

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Six cartons of cigarettes?

Jesus.

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Six cartons of cigarettes?

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...at gas station prices no less? Wtf?

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I don't think I'd feel bad about getting the best of it from a gas station for once.

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That will come out of the attendants pay not the owners.

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I'm really surprised at the number of people who value their integrity less than they value a hundred bucks.

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As a footnote, I didn't tell my husband when I got out to the truck. Would you tell someone waiting outside what had just happened? Have we gotten to the point where we're embarrassed by what should be considered a virtue?

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Depends on your husband. I always bring up ethics with my gf, because we have fun with it, but there are some people with whom I would not.

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That will come out of the attendants pay not the owners.

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Im guessing they arent doing inventory at the end of each shift. The missing cartons probably wont be noticed for a week or so. I think the owners have to eat this one.

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That will come out of the attendants pay not the owners.

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Are you serious? I don't think they can legally charge or dock her pay for it unless they take it to court and prove she stole. Go ahead and prove me wrong, I've just never heard of this. She of course can be fired for being an idiot though.

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I don't think I'd feel bad about getting the best of it from a gas station for once.

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That will come out of the attendants pay not the owners.

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Are you serious? I don't think they can legally charge or dock her pay for it unless they take it to court and prove she stole. Go ahead and prove me wrong, I've just never heard of this. She of course can be fired for being an idiot though.

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If it is a large store it will be hard to prove it was her. In a small operation, depending on their inventory system she can be held responsible and docked her pay. Check it out with an attendant if you don't believe it.

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Yea, I'd probably have noticed it immediately and said something. I'm hopelessly honest though.

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Six cartons of cigarettes?

Jesus.

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...at gas station prices no less? Wtf?

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Hubby and I both smoke and we live out in the country on 40 acres, so when we make a run to buy cigs, we stock up.

I've bought our cigs online previously, (and got a letter from the state looking for us to pay "usage" taxes after the vendor or UPS gave us up [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]- ignored it - next state letter after deadline says "never mind"), or we've bought cigs in next state at casinos, (but now they've added a new fee that makes it more expensive.)

So, believe it or not, buying them at the gas station is cost effective right now. If you do the math $33.25 per carton for premium brand is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the country.

I'm not defending smoking and wish I'd never started, but I haven't been able to kick the addiction yet.

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I would say something. Also, smoking sucks.

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i have told the clerk on numerous occasions, but if i feel the store has ripped me off in the past, i might let it slide...not to get something for nothing, but to get back to even.

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I hate to bring religion into this. But I invented my own religion, where the whole goal of life is to take what you can and give nothing back, basically you have to try to be superior than everyone and bring everyone else down. If you don't try to be better than everyone else then you will go to the place I call "hell". However if you suceed in making yourself the best then you go to this place I call "heavan". So basically all these christians fucktards will be going to hell which gives me a raging hardon.

Peace out you inferior computer geeks!

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I'd tell her, the $133 means alot less to me then the job does to her/stocker.

No, you shouldn't be embarrassed for doing the right thing, even if it cost you money, and shouldn't be in a relationship where that's even a possibility.

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There were a bunch of people in line behind me and you just know that half of them are thinking you're an idiot for not taking the money and run.

In general I don't give a D what people think of me, but all factors combined didn't make me cheerful, which kind of surprised me.

As far as the hubby, we've got 22 years together thinking we both got the better deal, (yeah, I'm ancient by 2 + 2 standards.)

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I'm really surprised at the number of people who value their integrity less than they value a hundred bucks.

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You're totally right, of course. My integrity is worth much more to me. But, I'm also a realist about human nature. A huge percentage of the planet doesn't see the sitation in those terms. "People are basically good", is a fallacy in my experience.