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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7394689, member: 100459&quot;]I have learned to count the $20 bills when I cash my check for $500.&nbsp; I do not leave the teller&#039;s station until I count them.&nbsp; Although I have only been short changes twice, once is too many.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if the teller would have been disciplined if I had reported them.&nbsp; Can you tell me what the $20 bills are kept in?&nbsp; Even if I get the whole $500 in $1 bills, can I trust their count?&nbsp; I believe that once you have been short change, you lose your trust of that teller.&nbsp; My first job after college was with a CPA firm.&nbsp; We were to audit a bank.&nbsp; My assignment was to watch the tellers to see if they are following the banks policies.&nbsp; I watched one teller take some money and put it in her purse.&nbsp; I reported it to my supervisor.&nbsp; I told him that maybe I was mistaken.&nbsp; He told me to watch the teller the next day.&nbsp; This time I was surprised even more.&nbsp; As the teller closed, she reached into her purse, and put some money into her coin drawer.&nbsp; Her supervisor was also watching and saw the same thing I did.&nbsp; He asked her to come to his office when she finished closing out.&nbsp; My supervisor and the bank manager met with us.&nbsp; He told her what had been reported to him.&nbsp; I was terrified.&nbsp; I had only been working for the CPA firm for a month.&nbsp; </p><p>Anyway, the bank manager asked the teller if she was aware of the bank&#039;s policy of closing out.&nbsp; She said that she was, but she said that she knew what the bank&#039;s policy was for being over or short and how serious an offence would be and that she just wanted to not be over or short.&nbsp; She was terminated on the spot and had her supervisor and the security officer escort her to her locker to get her personal belongings and turn in her keys.&nbsp; They then walked her to the door.</p><p>I will always remember that incident.&nbsp; That was in 1975.&nbsp; I left the CPA firm shortly after that and took a job with the State of North Carolina&#039;s State Auditors Office, then as East Carolina University&#039;s Internal Auditor.&nbsp; I am quite the sceptic after 30+ years of watching over peoples&#039; shoulder.&nbsp; I am happy to be retired.</p><p>Sorry for my litany.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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