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Show till Trouble with the Cashier HI! Lunchrooms Feeding Thousands Find It Ha.rd ftt , . to Balance Accounts. -i-i-H- ' -i"5"fr names and turned over to the management. man-agement. The management decided to give the young woman another chance if she would come and apply for the position, which she declined to do. Another cashier was taken on in her p.iace, and lasted exactly four days. Another girl succeeded; she lasted two days. Still another came, and lasted; four days. In all eight girls were tried out behind the marble desk, and then the company was no better off than at first. Days came when there were shortages to be taken out of the young'' woman's pockets, and . others when they honestly turned in what was over; and above the amount on the cash register. But the shortage and the overcash continued, and the company has decided to give up experiments and to charge the difficulty, not to incompetence incom-petence of the cashiers, but to impossibility impos-sibility of filling the position without mistakes. The trouble is said to be that the 2,500 or 3,000 changes made during the day are not, as in dry goods stores or other concerns, more or less, scattered throughout a day, but ara all crowded into an hour or so. The rate at which one girl makes change during that one hour is at the rate of 12,000 in a day of nine hours. New-York New-York Times. One of the most difficult positions to fill in the big retail establishments where automatic cash registers are in use is that of cashier. The question is not so much one of honesty as one of ability to perform the work day by day without too great a margin of error. er-ror. None has found so great difficulty in this connection as1 the owners of the big quick-lunch establishments, where "change" has to be made quickly at the rush hours of noon, and when but little, time is all.owedthe cashier to check receipts with the figures marked up on the register. The cashier in one of the largest downtown places was recently discharged simply because be-cause she was often "off" in her change; that is, the cash register and the amount turned in at night did not tally. It mattered little to the company com-pany when there was a shortage, for, according to agreement, the cashier made it up from her salary. On many occasions there was even overcash above the amount recorded, The young woman turned in this overcash faithfully; the company discharged her for having any overcash at all. When the young woman was discharged, it may be noted incidentally, she had become a great favorite with the customers, cus-tomers, and when it was learned that they were to see her no more behind the cashier's desk, some one started a petition, which was signed by over 600 |