No one will notice...

[Steezie]

You are an employee at a bank and one day...you notice something. Theres a problem with the books.

Theres a loophole that allows there to be a five hundred thousand and one dollar withdrawal without there being a red-flag sent up, but ONLY for this amount. When the error is caught, it will register as a computer glitch as the bank will not have that $50,001 physically in the bank and the problem will be dismissed as a technical error and the error corrected. The bank handles enough money that a $50,001 glitch will not sink the bank or make them have to can someone.

You are in the position of being able to make this un-authorized withdrawal and the chances of getting caught are basically zero.

So what do you do and why do you chose that action?

 

[Aeris]

I couldnt do it, even though that much money would be nice, and I probably wouldnt get caught, I would be less happy then if I didnt take the money because I would feel so bad about taking it.

 

[StarCannon]

So what do you do?

Take the "money" and leave.

 

[Domenico]

Don't take the money. Its not my money. Just because I wouldn't get caught doesn't make it acceptable to steal.

 

[Battie]

I couldn't take it.

Besides, discovering/fixing a programming error of that magnitude would get me on a geek high for at least a week. It probably wouldn't even occur to me to do something malicious instead of troubleshooting it.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

Take the money then "find" the glitch and report it, get myself in charge of the team to fix it, and program the system to round off transactions and deposit a few cents each into an account in my name...

 

[flicka]

You are in the position of being able to make this un-authorized withdrawal and the chances of getting caught are basically zero.

It's the word basically that would scare me. Besides, I'm just too fraking honest.

 

[Conspiracy Theory]

If it's an electronic transaction you can get caught.

A bag of money on the street, at the other hand...

 

[NavyGuy7]

No. I'd alert my boss.
Whether I got anything good out of it or not is not the case.
Doing the right thing is always better... even if it sometimes makes things worse for a time, or doesn't change your circumstances at all.
Plus, I don't want to risk going to jail, anyway.
I'd still tell someone, though.
Sure, I'll admit the temptation would be OVERWHELMING. But I know better.

 

[NavyGuy7]

Take the money then "find" the glitch and report it, get myself in charge of the team to fix it, and program the system to round off transactions and deposit a few cents each into an account in my name...

But what about my stapler?!? Sorry, reminded me of Office Space there with that last bit about the program.

 

[Autumnleaf]

There are cameras everywhere and computers track every transaction made. Stealing is usually not a good bet no matter how enticing it seems.

 

[stan1980]

I've had similar sort of situations, where quite commonly a trade has been made, where someone has made a human error, resulting in sometimes 6 figure losses in worst cases (I've seen), which we write off. Sometimes a mistake can result in a profit, but it really would be difficult to get that money to your bank account (not impossible), but it is entirely likely you could get away with it if you are imaginative enough. Being caught though would result in fraud and prison time, so if I was to do something like that I'd have an offshore account ready, plus I'd leave the country pretty sharpish to be on the safe side.

In short, if I could get away with it then yes I'd take it, but there will always be some sort of trail leading back to you if someone spots it. It would have to be more than 50k as well. In theory if there was 0% chance of being caught, and no one would miss the money, then I'm taking it.

 

[AnonymousAgnostic]

Of course not. It's not my money to take.

 

[fuzzymel]

Nope. Chances are at some point it will be discovered.

 

[justanobserver]

No one will notice...

You are an employee at a bank and one day...you notice something. Theres a problem with the books.

Theres a loophole that allows there to be a five hundred thousand and one dollar withdrawal without there being a red-flag sent up, but ONLY for this amount. When the error is caught, it will register as a computer glitch as the bank will not have that $50,001 physically in the bank and the problem will be dismissed as a technical error and the error corrected. The bank handles enough money that a $50,001 glitch will not sink the bank or make them have to can someone.

You are in the position of being able to make this un-authorized withdrawal and the chances of getting caught are basically zero.

So what do you do and why do you chose that action?

I chose No. For me its basic:

1) honesty. I have to look at myself in the mirror and convince myself I am not a thief.

2) Murphy's Law - if it can go wrong, it will and since it involves me, I would be the one out a million who would get caught. its just the way my luck (or lack thereof) runs.

 

[poohgirl]

I couldn't do it. I would end up turning myself in if I did.
No thank you.

 

[poohgirl]

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones that I do, And the eyesight to tell the difference. ​

I have to say I thought this was funny.​

 

[Aquamarine81]

I couldn't take the money. My conscience would be bugging the heck out of me.

 

[keith99]

Nope. I would still know.
Not to say there are no situations where I would not yeild to temptation, but 50,000 isn't worth it and I'm far from destitute.

 

[GrannieAnnie]

I've found wallets with just a few dollars in them and have returned them to the owner, so there's no way I could do something like this....mind you....in my past I've been in a couple of situations involving a couple of hundred dollars, and I have taken the money and never been found out. Both times involved an employer that I believed had done the wrong thing by me anyway, and that was justification for "stealing" the money. I still think about those times today.....I'm much more honest these days and would never do it again....mmmm, I don't think. I hope I've matured since those days.