What was a SCAM that Someone Tried to CHEAT the System with at Your Job?

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

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0:00.0	What was a scam that someone tried to cheat the system with at your job?
0:05.8	At my McDonald's, this guy came with his two young kids and got happy meals, and then called me
0:10.6	over and said, This cheeseburger has no meat, and demanded that he'd get another cheeseburger,
0:15.1	and then one of his kids said, Dad, you just ate it, referring to the meat in the cheeseburger.
0:20.4	Congratulations, sir, you just played yourself.
0:23.3	This happened to me, but it was in a double deluxe burger.
0:26.0	My mum went up to the counter with my burger and was like,
0:28.5	Um, you forgot the meat.
0:31.2	Worked at Office Depot.
0:32.8	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
0:42.7	and scan customers purchases throughout the day under her own account. She ended up accruing
0:47.6	thousands of dollars in rewards in one quarter. This is with 1% back on most purchases. It was
0:53.2	more than any other customer in the southeast region of the US.
0:56.4	Needless to say, it wasn't very difficult for management to realize what had happened.
1:00.4	Shortly after that incident, Office Depot switched up the rewards program, so this couldn't
1:04.7	happen again.
1:06.7	Happened to a co-worker.
1:08.1	They shipped a guitar to a customer once, and the customer called in saying
1:11.3	he'd never received it, demanding a replacement to be sent immediately or else he'd sue. Tracking the
1:17.0	info it said it was delivered and signed for, but delivery theft is still pretty common. On a whim,
1:21.7	though, my co-worker looked him up on Facebook, only to find him holding the guitar in his profile
1:25.8	picture with the caption,
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