It was like this further back than 2005. I worked retail in the mid 90s and it was the same. And if the signatures didn’t match, well. Oh well. We had no power to do anything about it. The number of self-righteous idiots I had who thought that they were clever when they would sign their cards as Mikey mouse and then freak the hell out when I never bothered to check because it didn’t matter if it was signed Mickey Mouse or Ronald Reagan and you signed the receipt with your actual name. We couldn’t do anything! God they’d get so mad. Thank god we had great management that would back us.
It was like this further back than 2005. I worked retail in the mid 90s and it was the same. And if the signatures didn’t match, well. Oh well. We had no power to do anything about it. The number of self-righteous idiots I had who thought that they were clever when they would sign their cards as Mikey mouse and then freak the hell out when I never bothered to check because it didn’t matter if it was signed Mickey Mouse or Ronald Reagan and you signed the receipt with your actual name. We couldn’t do anything! God they’d get so mad. Thank god we had great management that would back us.