The reaction wasn't so much from the customer as from the corporation I worked for.

Working at a electronics retailer as my first job way back in 2004. Guy comes in and asks for an iPod. Says he's buying this $400 iPod for his daughter for her birthday; nothing is far fetched about that. Run his credit card it doesn't go through. He says "oh that one's expired here's my new card they just sent it to me." and pulls a card out of his wallet.

It's the exact same looking card, number, name and everything. I had recently gotten a new credit card after one expired and everything was the same. I kept both my old card and new in my wallet. I kept that old card because sometimes I would get locked out and could use that card to get into my house easily.

So I didn't think much of this guy having two cards; especially since they're the same. I run the card and it goes through. He heads out and I never see him again.

Two weeks later loss prevention shows up and fires me for "failure to protect company assets" They ask me about the transaction. LP is interviewing me before firing me. I recall everything about that transaction and I tell the LP guy, "his first card was expired so he pulled out the same card with a new expiration date and it ran through" He bought an iPod blah blah.

The LP guy got pissed and started giving me shit for 10 minutes about how I should have known it was a stolen card and that no one keeps two of the same cards in their wallets. I'm not good at my security and all this shit. He's scribbling away on some paper after asking me some more questions. I remember I have my two credit cards. I reach in my wallet and pull them out and slap them on the table. He picks them up looks at them and asks me to step out and call my manager in the room. Five minutes later I was fired.