I was recently hired as a cashier for a gas station. This is my first time ever being a cashier.

My training was almost non-existent. There were sheets my manager was supposed to go over with me but never did. It seems like every shift I learn new things by screwing up and then being told I should have done X, Y and Z. I have never had a job before where the training was so unorganized and poorly handled. But because of this, every time my drawer has come up short, the general consensus is that it must be my fault somehow. At first I just passively and gracefully accepted this, but by now I feel like this shouldn't be happening anymore as I know what I am doing now.

But the thing is that other employees hop on my register throughout the shift, usually while I am helping a customer elsewhere, tending to the coffee, changing trash bags, etc. Yet even though other people hop on my register throughout the shift, I am held responsible for all activity on the register until I clock out of it.

Well my register continues to come up short every shift, and I am getting increasingly very bad anxiety about it, like to the point that I am dreading work especially bad for fear of being fired or framed or something.

For those of you with cashiering experience, is this normal? Is it normal that other employees are allowed to get on my register throughout the shift, and that I am still held solely responsible for the money in the register? Is my anxiety unwarranted, like is this just a normal part of a typical cashiering job?

I am getting just increasingly anxious and flustered about it. It doesn't make sense to me that other workers should be allowed on my register if I am to be held responsible for the register. It is making me paranoid of coworkers, wondering if they are taking cash knowing that I will be blamed.

Is this normal procedure for cashiering??? Am I freaking out over something that is typical, or not?