Money gone missing?

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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...

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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.