What do you do when everyone thinks you’re guilty of something you didn’t do?

It’s never a good feeling to feel accused. You don’t want to feel like you have to prove your innocence to the people close to you, especially at work. Things go wrong sometimes, and often you need to point a finger at someone in order for everyone to feel better about it. This is where a scapegoat comes in. The thing about scapegoats, though, is that they’re not always guilty. They’re just the most convenient person to blame everything on. It’s one of the more base practices of human society that we should try our best to avoid doing. That’s much easier said than done, though, especially when there’s $100 missing from the register. That’s the position this employee was starting to be in, though, when there was missing money at the till, and someone needed blaming. 

If you’ve ever worked a retail or a food service job, you know how stressful it can be when the register is under. You do your best all day to make the right change and keep track of all the transactions, but that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes, either through error or through theft, the register is under, and now you have to deal with the consequences. This immediately puts an air of suspicion over everything, and everyone has to be on their toes. This isn’t great for workplace camaraderie, and it’s something that you have to tread through lightly.