i work at a grocery store that does many transactions in cahs. i woas wondering if its a good idea to go up to the cash office and give them a list of silver coins incase they see any? good idea?
A list of silver coins? I would ask if you are joking but that would make me look saracastic. That is just inviting them to keep a lookout for "valuable" coins for themselves. The word silver is a trigger word for a lot of people, collectors or otherwise. Tell them you like coins and ask if they can save anything old or otherwise interesting for you such as dimes and quarters that may have a different look to them or otherwise sound different when dropped.
Most business owners and managers I have known would not appreciate an employee taking in interest in the "cash office" if it is not part or their job. I assume you have nothing but good intentions, but it just looks bad unless you have a very friendly relationship with the owner, in which case I would talk with the owner directly before you ask anyone else. The other thing the owner may not appreciate is his employees taking work time to do thing not related to work. even if it would only take a small amount of time.
If someone gave me a list of coins to watch for, I would...... and keep them for myself. You'd be better off just buying their excess rolls from them and roll searching.
In the past I was a Loss prevention manager for a large chain store and I actually twice fired an employee who worked in the cash office for searching coins/bills and swapping specific ones. I really didn't care when cashiers might do this during their downtime as they were responsible for maintaining their tills correctly and could do so while cleaning up their drawers setting aside things they wanted to swap. However, any swapping they would do would have to be done through the front end supervisor completing the actual swapping transaction we didn't allow anyone to make change through their own till without being supervised. The reason these people got fired was not because we necessarily cared about them swapping out coins/bills as we allowed cashiers a policy to do so. It was because they were being paid on company time, neglecting to do their actual job while doing this. In both cases I even warned these employees a few times. Cash office employees were supposed to just run the coins through a bulk coin sorter and then roll/bag for deposit them depending on our coinage needs. A person sitting their pre sorting the coins/currency to remove certain coins/bills was completely wasting company time and this wasn't an acceptable activity when they should have been completing other duties. Just something to consider when asking another employee to do something that could result in them getting in trouble.
Sounds like a typical "chain store" to me. Always a great place to work. 7 store managers on salary worrying about someone in the cash office making $9.00 per hour spending 20 minutes looking at coins as they do their job. Too many chiefs and never enough Indians...but I digress. Don't listen to all these negative people. The 3 women who work in my work's cash office always find stuff for me and they get excited when they do. None of them hear the word silver and keep it for themselves. They have scored me some of my best coins. Of course we no longer have a "loss prevention manager" because they always seemed to catch more people eating a cookie in the store or trading a dime for a dime in their drawer, than actually preventing loss from criminals walking out the front door with our products. Either way, it never hurts to make friends with someone in the cash office. I just wouldn't make a big deal about it. All they can say is 'no'. Good luck.
