The Chronicles Of…

So here’s a dilemma I face on pretty much a daily basis, although today it was obvious.

I work in the same centre as Coles Narromine and they have one of those trolley systems where if you want one you put $1 or $2 coin in the slot and disconnect it from the the one in front. Which I think is an awesome system as all the kids from around Narromine will bring back stray trolleys so that they can get the money out of them.

Here’s the problem I face:

Today there was a trolley no more than 15 metres from the front door of Coles and therefore about 17 metres from the trolley return bay. Now this trolley clearly had a $2 coin in the slot. Should I have pushed it back and redeemed the said $2, or will I then just be seen in the same light as the young teens who do such a thing?

Simply you could just say push it back and grab the $2, not a lot of money, but I could then get an Ice Cold Coke from the vending machine and have change to spare.  If it was a one off then maybe this would work, people who saw me would just think that I was just returning My trolley.

But what if I got addicted?? What if from doing it once I caught the bug that the aforementioned kids have?? What if it really isn’t about the money, but rather a reward for a job well done?? More a satisfaction thing! How would I then be viewed by others??

Would there be other consequences?? For example I work in the Real Estate office about 10 metres from Coles, would the image of that then suffer by an employee being seen as one of these ‘trolley boys’…