answer:I have heard of it, but have never experienced it. When I was a hotel desk clerk and had to balance out my cash drawer at the end of the shift, we just posted the overage or shortage if it couldn’t be resolved. It was often rectified on the next shift. I’ll confess though; there were a few times when I was short by small change that I threw in out of my own pocket. If it was an overage, it went on record. As a manager, I’ve had to terminate two employees for falsifying records. In both cases, the amount was ~$100. You would think that these two were fools to risk their reputation and future employment for such a paltry amount. It turned out not to be the case for one of them. Less than a year later, I attended a wedding of a friend who left the hotel side to go work for a local casino that was closely affiliated with our company. At the dinner reception, I sat next to an HR manager for the casino company who mentioned that they had recently hired one of these former employees. I asked her what his job was, and she said he works in the cash cage (a casino cashier.) I was flabbergasted. Not only did they not do a reference check to find out that he was not eligible for rehire, but no one bothered to call us for fish for the details.