$100 on the ground? I might ask the info booth (or whatever) if they had any reports of lost money. If not, it’s mine. Bear in mind, I’m likely going to be the only one (besides the person who lost it) who will know exactly how much I found. As has been pointed out, a lot of people will suddenly be ‘short’ a C-Note if they know how much was found.
In a purse/wallet/etc - I’m checking for ID and involving the authorities if there’s more than a little cash in it.
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Yup. Turn it in. There is nothing to be gained in dishonesty, and I would feel guilty not at least having given someone the chance to claim it. That being said, it should be arranged to have it given back to you if nobody does claim it, though knowing me I wouldn’t do that either. I once found 5 dollars where I work and turned it in. When a lady came in and asked me if Anyone had found money in that amount I told her I did and that it was at the front desk. She was so stunned I did it she actually walked out in apparent disbelief without claiming it.
Some years ago, I was walking up the inside back stairs of a county hospital. There was no one but me, and a $20 bill came floating through the air at me. I nabbed it and put it in my pocket. When I reached the next landing, I saw a young fellow with a pay envelope and some bills which he was counting. He had a worried look on his face.
I asked him what the problem was, and he said they had shorted him $20. I handed him the 20 and told him to be more careful.
He was very grateful, there were no ethical problems, and no doubt of who the owner was.
NO, don’t turn it in at Wal-mart. The store keeps the money. The service desk people will tell you they are not responsable for lost loose cash.
You want to lose $20. Go to the service desk and tell them you just found a twenty dollar bill and give it to them. Then have a friend go to the service desk and tell them, they just lost a twenty and see what happens.
I worked at a local events center and we had a week long event every summer. And the rule was $1, $5, & $10 was up for grabs. $20 you had to report but got to keep, $50 and $100 you had to turn in, but at the end of the week, if it was unclaimed, you got to keep it. In the 5 years I worked there I found $3.86… BUT! I found $100 one day outside my house on a pretty windy day and there was nobody to be seen for quite a ways, so the wind had to have blown it form somewhere, so given the chances of finding the person that lost it, I put it in my pocket…
I never shop at Satan’s discounter in the first place, but it sure fits the ‘profit at all costs’ mentality.
When I was a kid I found $60 at an amusement park, when I went to lost and found the guy told me no one had been in to report any lost money and that if I turned it in chances are another employee would simply pocket it, he said I should go back out into the park and enjoy my windfall, so I did.[:D]
I’m the guy who goes around to all the area malls & big-boxes filing reports of missing cash
I’ve made quite a nice living off honest people [:-,]
I’d spend it on track (LGB) [dinner]
There’s no need for this to get ugly and such statements as that are kindling for an all out flame war. The retail giant you’re refering to is a god-sent to many who would otherwise not have a job in this country and the world for that matter.
Now, with that said let me point out that in my post I specifically mentioned a train station, not big blue or a video store or the back staircase of a hospital building although it shouldn’t matter. You either keep it or you try to get it back to who it belongs to.
Cosideration must be given for the scenario presented which is a place occupied by other people besides you, perhaps waiting for the same train as you. Either way, you’re not the only person around. Somebody may have dropped it within the past few seconds and is somewhere very close by. What would you do? Take it to lost and found, which by the way, every station has one? If somebody asked you if you may have found some money and it’s in your pocket, what would you tell them?
I interpreted your placing this scenario at a train station as a complete ruse in cover for the fact that the subject is completely off topic for this forum. Hence the horned smilie you employed.
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There’s no need for this to get ugly and such statements as that are kindling for an all out flame war. The retail giant you’re refering to is a god-sent to many who would otherwise not have a job in this country and the world for that matter.
Now, with that said let me point out that in my post I specifically mentioned a train station, not big blue or a video store or the back staircase of a hospital building although it shouldn’t matter. You either keep it or you try to get it back to who it belongs to.
Cosideration must be given for the scenario presented which is a place occupied by other people besides you, perhaps waiting for the same train as you. Either way, you’re not the only person around. Somebody may have dropped it within the past few seconds and is somewhere very close by. What would you do? Take it to lost and found, which by the way, every station has one? If somebody asked you if you may have found some money and it’s in your pocket, what would you tell th
True, but we must keep the thread within the rules otherwise it will be deleted.
The “horned smilie” (evil) was the closest thing I could find to represent the devil i.e. devil on one shoulder, angel on the other.
The only reason I told the hospital story was to illustrate that sometimes the whole occurrence takes just a few seconds and so there’s no ethical dilemma.
And I haven’t seen a lot of hostility on this thread, so far. Just the mention that you possibly used a RR station to keep it OT, and that has the ring of friendly criticism.
I appreciate your contribution and everyone elses as well. I was motivated to clarify my question based on the comment that big-blue is “Satan’s discounter”.
Yeah and Enron was an innocent corporation unjustly persecuted…I’ll just say most people who work and shop there do so because they can no longer find a decent paying job in this country because all those jobs have been shipped overseas to third world countries where they can pay there workers $3 a day to make goods so Wallyworld can undersell the competition here and in the process put good old fashion mom and pops stores and entire downtowns out of business with there 3 acre size monster-stores. So its work there or at McBungholes.
Wallmart, under in its current leadership, is NOT good for this country, or any US worker therein. Ever since the founder died the current owners have had a take no prisoners kill’em a
This thread was semi-lame when it started, man – and your bitter opinions (which have NOTHING to do with trains) are most unwelcome. Take it elsewhere, willya? Maybe Air America?
Time to move on fellas. Let’s try and keep these threads train-related, okay?
Tom