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What nobody tells you · Making a mistake

Hands at a café register and card reader during service

Making a mistake

Thursday · 4:12 p.m. · your third week

You have been trusted with the afternoon closing count for the first time. Halfway through counting you realize you have already put the morning float back into the register drawer — the figures no longer reconcile and you are about £40 out. Your supervisor left twenty minutes ago and the closing team arrives in an hour.