Money gone missing?

[Tuckervill]

I wouldn't pay for it, either. If she couldn't get it right the first three times, how does she know the 20s are missing? I certainly wouldn't want that kind of accusation hanging over my kids, either!

I count lots of money every year for youth baseball and I do it all by myself (sometimes my husband helps). No one ever questions it, because we make more money than we used to from our concession stand--because I manage the money well. If anyone ever did question it, they would be handed the task! lol.

Karen

[bmccasland]

On saturday, at the end of the event, two people should have counted the money, then put it in an envelope and sealed it. Both counters sign the back of the envelope, then one of them should be going to the bank today. Or could have done a bank drop on saturday. Driving around with an unsecured cash box, taking it out, counting, recounting is asking for trouble. And apparently they found it. Or someone made a mistake in the counting. If it was me, I wouldn't coughing up any money for the missing money.

[PscyclePath]

What Beth said...

Back in my younger days as an Army lieutenant, we all took turns twice a month as the payroll officer, which involved strapping on a .45, rounding up 2 armed guards, and signing for a steel ammo box with about $80,000 cash in it, and you were responsible to Uncle Sam for every nickle of it until you brought it back to the Finance Office and it was triple counted. This when a second lieutenant made about $750 a month in Mr. Carter's Army...

[DDH]

I wouldn't have paid her a dime. She brought that money in and your friend doesn't even know how much money was truly in there to begin with.
All sounds a little shady to me. I was VP of a PTA for my sons school in 3rd grade and we never left the money with one person before it was counted. We all did everything together and made sure that no one person was left holding the bag when it came to the money. There was always at least two of us together doing sales and such and the money was always counted by two people immidiately after each event, even down to the lolipop sales on Fridays. When deposits were made, it was made by 1 person, but the deposit slip was made out by two. The money was counted, deposit slip filled out and then it was counted by the second person and verified, and then and only then did just one person take the money to the bank.
That was to cover everyone should there ever be any question about any of it.