The first day brought an incident that greatly height ened the perception of detection. Meals were served down stairs, away from the live entertainment area. Suspecting the single server working downstairs of skimming money from food sales, one of the investigators conducted a sur prise cash count and reconciled cash rung into the register to meals prepared by the cooks. The server had skimmed $25 in the first hour she worked. When confronted with the evidence, the server confessed and was immediately termi nated. News quickly spread to the other employees, who realized that their activities were indeed under close sur nce. No other employees were caught skimming dur ing the remainder of the invigilation During the invigilation's first night, a Friday, $8,300 in cash was deposited into the bank the largest sum for This oc one night in the entire 15-year history of the club curred on what was considered a 'slow" night-unlike the previous week which had seen near-record attendance The manager and employees a soon realized that setting such a record on a slow night reflected poorly on them This convinced Swenson that his employees were stealing from him, and he wanted to fire everyone on the spot. The investigators persuaded him to allow the inv to continue for the entire week as planned. The results of the week-long invigilation are summarized as follows: