Are we loosing our honesty?
By sona22
@sona22 (1430)
India
July 19, 2009 11:36am CST
On 15th July’2009, one of my husband’s colleagues, cashier by profession, makes over payment of Rs.40,000/- ($800 approx) from his cash counter, The amount is huge to a cashier. And surprisingly he failed to identify the customer to whom he has given the excess amount. But my question is on another point? The customer who has taken the excess amount has not returned the money. He might noticed it either at the time of receiving the payment or later on. The bank personnel requested all the customer but in vain. Are we loosing our honesty and morality.
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3 responses
@THEcreationist (837)
• India
19 Jul 09
Hi, sona.
You are right. The large part of the world seems to be losing honesty and it is leading us to destruction. But, the world is still working smoothly due to many honest persons still here.
Actually, the person thinks that some dishonesty may benefit him/her and if there is nobody watching him/her, why not get some benefit out of it.But he/she forgets that there is still somebody watching everything.
Also, the problem is with our cultures. We teach our children to be honest with everyone else (that they forget as everyone is just no one for them) but never tell them to be honest with their own self as even if nobody accuse them, their own guilt will lead them away from the bad works.
we can only hope for it to get better.
Happy Mylotting!!
@benny128 (3615)
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19 Jul 09
well it may of been an honest mistake by the person, but on numerous times I have been given the wrong money by a shop and even large banks and they dont chase after you saying we owe you ex amount.
I just think its the way of the world and I personally would give the money bank if I was asked but if not then it is the bank or the person giving me the money in the first place its their mistake not mine.
@ladym33 (10978)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Well I don't think we are losing it, but I do think there have always been dishonest people in the world. That is certainly enough money that, that person should have noticed that he got back more than he should have. He should have returned that. If it was $20.00 or under and a cashier gave me that much extra if I didn't catch it at the time I might not have noticed the extra money but with that amount of money it would be impossible not to notice it. Of course the person may have been doing a lot of shopping that day and went to a lot of stores and maybe did not know where the extra money came from. Of course with that much money you think he might have called the stores that he or she went to and asked if any of the registers had been short a significant amount of money. That would have been the honest thing to do.
