Stringing Bills

 Notice the hole in the lower dollar bill and the tape on the corners of the upper dollar bill.
Have you ever collected your money and seen something similar?
Maybe you've seen the money with a small pinhole near one edge, or a piece of tape running across about 1/4 of the way from the edge. Have you ever seen bills with a piece of tape in an odd place when it didn't appear there was a rip there?

If you have noticed any of these things, odds are someone tried to "string" your changer. If you don't know what "stringing" is I won't explain it in detail here (there are enough places for potential thieves to learn how to do this without this blog being one of them!). 
I will just say that it involves putting a bill into a changer with a piece of string or fishing line attached.
When the changer has verified the bill and is about to put it into the stacker, the thief pulls the string and tries to get the dollar back and the quarters the changer dispenses.

Older changers are easier to do this with than newer changers, however that doesn't mean people won't try! The hole in the bills is where the string was attached before being pulled off by the person yanking on the string and by the torque of the changer pulling the bill inside.

Thieves will try stinging with any type of bill.
If you see one suspicious bill in your counting you probably don't have to worry. Your changer did its job. If you start seeing a bunch of these types of bills each day or week in your count, then you better watch your security cameras to see who might be trying this.

Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy

Why Laundry Tips on this Blog?

I've been reading your blog for years to get good recruiting advice.

I've been reading your blog for years for good sales advice.

I've been reading your blog for years for good laundry advice.

Wait a minute...

What was that last sentence? Laundry? What does that have to do with sales or recruitment?

That is the question you might have asked, just before you asked "why should I care?"

Initially it may seem that these three three topics don't have anything in common, however they do on several levels:

=laundry staffs and laundromats need to recruit people

=in order to recruit staff you need to sell your job to the recruit

=all three are fields that I've worked in for years

I've pitched sales proposals approximately 10,000 times in my career.

I've placed hundreds of people in jobs directly and thousands indirectly.

I've owned laundromats.

With all that experience I want to give back to all three industries.

That is why I share my knowledge and experience via this blog. 
If you can grab a new tip, remember something you already knew but temporarily forgot, or get an idea that makes you more successful in any field or skill then I've accomplished my mission.

Thank you for reading this blog!

Ev

A Heck of A Nice Guy