Posts from Detective/Retardation

Let me tell you a rather uninteresting story. Right away, I'll say that I've been very tired lately and haven't been sleeping well, so all my observations may be inaccurate to some extent. Yesterday evening, my boss gave me thirty-one thousand five hundred rubles so that I could pay for delivery services the next day. It was 6 bills of 5,000 and 1,000 + 500. I put them on a shelf, and that's where I took them from the next morning. Both times, I didn't count them (sorry, I'm an idiot). When I arrived, I put them in the cash register and made a note in the logbook. Then I sat there, lost in thought, trying to figure out this terrible 1C program that I've never worked with before, and then a guy came in, delivered a package (one of several for that day) worth 18,500 rubles. I gave him the money, took the delivery, and signed the receipt. He said goodbye and left, and I went back to my work. About five minutes later, I suddenly felt uneasy and decided to count the money. I found the entry about how much I should have had before the replenishment, counted that and this, and suddenly realized that exactly ten thousand was missing. The thought that I might have received less initially crossed my mind, but I quickly dismissed it because I wrote "31500" in the logbook in the morning. I tried to find the missing bills, but I couldn't find them anywhere. Then I tried to replay the meeting with the delivery guy in my head, and here's what I remember: when I gave him 4 bills of 5,000, he already had 2 of the same in his hands. But here's the catch: I DON'T REMEMBER giving them to him at all; that memory is completely absent, it doesn't exist in my head. Moreover, all this money was in one place, and logically, I couldn't have given it to him separately. For this reason, I probably didn't pay attention to it at the time – well, maybe the guy just decided to get his 10,000 out for some reason (lol). He even asked me again, like, is everything correct? I said, yeah, I guess so. So, I quickly called my boss, told her what happened, and we started sorting it out. And here's the funny part, I didn't expect that: they said, oh yes, we gave you more money, we'll transfer it back to you. The guy himself said that he just took the money and didn't count it. WELL, YEAH (if I had given him 6 bills of 500, he wouldn't have counted those either?). Well, in general, I got lucky – it was resolved. I think he just didn't want to have any suspicion hanging over him in the future. So, the main question is: how did those two 5,000 bills end up in his hands? P.S. Personally, I didn't feel anger or resentment, and I didn't even start mentally cursing this idiot because I realized that in this situation, I was the absolute fool, and the fault was entirely mine, and he cleverly scammed me.

Short-term memory loss? It's the most obvious explanation. I wondered what could be causing it – perhaps a negative impact from a magnetic field, or maybe my brain is slowly deteriorating.

Then I tried to recall the encounter with the delivery person, and here's what I remember: when I handed him four 5,000 bills, he already had two of the same in his hands. But here's the catch: I DON'T REMEMBER handing them to him at all; that memory is completely absent, it doesn't exist in my mind.

Perhaps you simply did it without thinking? Just on autopilot. While you were thinking about something else.

A brief memory lapse? That's the most obvious explanation.

But it doesn't explain why/how I gave him the first two bills separately from the rest of the stack...

He was probably just thinking about something else.

Oh, so I was on an expedition after all.

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By the way, on the second day, I almost got robbed by "bandits." So, everything adds up. It's a shame I didn't boost my stats before the start of the game.

The maps weren't very good.

Maybe it was just a momentary lapse in concentration, it happens to me sometimes. That's why I get paranoid and check the same three icons a hundred times. If I don't forget.
The main thing is that everything ended well.

Hmm.
About a month ago, my mom made a payment to an organization. To do this, she went to Sberbank and wanted to transfer the money at the counter. But the female employee said that it would be better and much easier to do it through "Sberbank Online," directly on her phone. My mom asked the employee to help her, and the employee took the phone, entered the details, clicked a few times, and it was done.
A few days ago, the organization that was supposed to receive the money called my mom and said that they hadn't received the money. We checked the history of all transactions on the card and saw that on the day of the visit to Sberbank, there were no transfer transactions. The money seems to be still there (this is my conclusion, meaning I carefully studied the transaction history for several months to determine that nothing was missing). What the female employee was doing on the phone is unclear.
That's some kind of quantum financial magic.

Dark magic

Oh, it turns out I've joined an expedition.

Quickly, die and create a new character! Don't forget to level up your health and luck, otherwise, you'll end up in the same situation.

I'm having some issues with a client at work, and they're not paying my salary properly. I barely managed to get my boss to transfer 1,500 rubles to me, claiming that there's nothing to eat at home.

I'm sitting here drinking as a form of protest and meditation.

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Seriously, so many problems and mental struggles arise in this adult life. Only alcohol allows me to get rid of unnecessary thoughts.

Not just alcohol.

I just find other reasons to worry, thereby suppressing thoughts about the problems.

And here is the main question - how did those two 5k bills end up in his hands?

That' same not the main question. The main question is how to make sure this doesn't happen again.

The human brain is a mysterious and not even the most reliable thing. For example, I constantly double-check mine with gadgets. In your case, video surveillance would have helped, but since there isn't any, so be it.

The good news is that this also happens to professional cashiers. But rarely. Still, it happens. And that is why money disbursement rituals exist.
Count the money twice, moving it from your hands to the table or from one hand to another. If the amount is the same both times - give it to the recipient.
And of course, you should also count the money when receiving it.

The bad news is that such lapses don't just happen for no reason. Either you didn't get enough sleep (which you said yourself), or stress (moving, new environment), or problems with your head. I'm not ruling out the guy, of course, but those options turn out to be too fantastic. Sleep more, rest more, sign up for yoga or swimming. If it keeps happening - find a good psychiatrist and get checked.

By the way. This guy is showing how it's done. I've seen many different ways of counting money, but these are the best (though in the second one, I arrange bills in stacks of 10 rather than into a general pile).

The good news is that this happens even to professional cashiers. But rarely. But it does happen. And that's why there are rituals for handing out money.
Count the money, transferring it from hand to the table or from one hand to the other, TWICE. If the amount is the same both times, give it to the recipient.
And, of course, recount the money when receiving it.

I would add "don't keep money in a stack on a shelf." Money should be hidden as little as possible so that various couriers can't "accidentally teleport" it into their palms. I understand that in this case, you mainly suspect your own absentmindedness, Revan, but still... Trust, but verify.
Although you say later that you put it in the cash register... Well, then, never mind, I was wrong.

The guy himself said that he just accepted the money and didn't count it. YEAH, RIGHT.

The guy probably just thought you were tipping him.