I had been employed with Cash Money (CMCC.) for 3 months, and had been off my training probabtion period for 1 day when the incident occurred.
As an employee of CMCC, I was responsible for cashing cheques, payday loans, western union, currency exchange, and other services. Throughout my training period I was repeatedly complimented on good work ethic.
On October 27, I was the victim of a quick-change scam while working at CMCC. Two women entered the branch with $3300.00 in $100.00 Cdn bills. They asked for it to be changed over to smaller denominations. During the entire transaction, they kept asking questions about the store, different services, as well as to my colleagues around me. As I counted out the $3300.00 in $50.00s, they tried to rush me and didn’t want it double counted. As soon as I gave them the stack of $3300.00 in $50s, they changed their minds and asked for it in U.S. currency. I proceeded to explain that we would need I.D. for that type of transaction. They asked for a list of everything they would need to do the currency exchange, and while I was writing it down, they pocketed half the stack, $1450. Upon returning their original sum of $3300.00, they promptly left. I realized what happened and immediately informed my manager, who was in the back but was aware of the type of transaction I was doing. He assured me that while I would be written up, I was not to worry.
The next day I was called into a meeting with my manager. He had decided, along with our District Manager (his superior) to place me on a Final Warning notice. In this capacity, I would need to complete a month-long training exercise with my manager, and would be placed on a three month probation for cash handling, wherein if I was “short” over $90.00 it would be grounds for dismissal. In a further development, the day after (Oct 29) the same two women visited another CMCC branch and committed the same fraud, getting away with $1700. The employee who was scammed at that branch was told the same thing as me, and given the same conditions. About a week later, November 3, I was called into a meeting with my manager and DM, and told that Head Office had changed their minds and decided to let both of us go for failing to follow proper cash handling procedures. We were the victims and were told it was going to be okay, but that didn’t happen. My manager told me that he would act as a reference for me, and was visibly upset when they let me go.