What was a scam that someone tried to cheat the system with at your job?

At my McDonald's, this guy came with his two young kids and got happy meals, and then called me

over and said, This cheeseburger has no meat, and demanded that he'd get another cheeseburger,

and then one of his kids said, Dad, you just ate it, referring to the meat in the cheeseburger.

Congratulations, sir, you just played yourself.

This happened to me, but it was in a double deluxe burger.

My mum went up to the counter with my burger and was like,

Um, you forgot the meat.

Worked at Office Depot.

The rewards program used to give a percentage of purchases back to the customer in the form of a gift card every quarter. One cashier at Office Depot decided to sign up for the rewards program under her name

and scan customers purchases throughout the day under her own account. She ended up accruing

thousands of dollars in rewards in one quarter. This is with 1% back on most purchases. It was

more than any other customer in the southeast region of the US.

Needless to say, it wasn't very difficult for management to realize what had happened.

Shortly after that incident, Office Depot switched up the rewards program, so this couldn't

happen again.

Happened to a co-worker.

They shipped a guitar to a customer once, and the customer called in saying

he'd never received it, demanding a replacement to be sent immediately or else he'd sue.

Tracking the info it said it was delivered and signed for, but delivery theft is still pretty common.

On a whim, though, my co-worker looked him up on Facebook, only to find him holding the guitar

in his profile picture, with the caption, My New Guitar Just Arrived. Management sent him a screenshot of that, and he was never heard

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