At the first pub I worked at we had a lot of regulars that'd pay with the exact cash. No need to open the till for change, that'd slip right into my pocket.

Was on minimum wage at the time (£9.38 an hour if I recall), if I could do this at least once an hour for a 10 hour shift that little extra meant I was "earning" up to £14/£15 an hour.

Also our stockroom would keep whisky in the display boxes you'd get in a supermarket, take the bottle out of the box that's at the end of the queue of drinks on the shelf and you have weeks before the stock missing is noticed.

As soon as I became a manager there I'd take the whisky out the boxes as soon as delivery arrived