I worked in a bank for a while, including as a cashier. The kitty or 'float' as we called it was strictly not allowed but everybody had one because it was rare to balance to the penny. But most days everybody balanced by home time, with only a few shillings of adjustment.
For a while I worked in a really busy branch, with 13 tills and another 6 in the basement that received cash via Securicor from e.g supermarkets and the bus company. It was horrendously busy at the end of the week when the local council employees were paid, most of them by cheque. The council had its account with us and because the council's cheques were from Nat West, that was where they opened their accounts when they had been obliged to convert from cash payment. We were the biggest and busiest branch in town by miles.
There was a lot of swapping cash between tills, either change or bundles of notes, and occasionally the debit and credit slips didn't get written out and exchanged. The result was that you'd have one cashier say £500 up, and another £500 down. The smart thing to do at that point is to count the tills again rather than make an assumption. Only once did I make an immediate swap with another cashier. Sure enough I then found my error. By then I was £500 up and it was confession time. I never did it again.
I took myself off after being transferred to small branch in the boondocks - career death - as punishment for arguing about my annual appraisal.
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