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Ошибка в пользу клиента

An Error in the Customer's Favour

B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An intermediate comedy about a man hired to do the one thing he cannot do. Slava has a history degree, remembers 1242 and 1812 perfectly, and goes blank at seven per cent of forty-three thousand — and at his interview nobody thought to ask. Tills that will not balance, a calculator he nearly takes home, a pensioner who taught maths for forty years, and an audit that finds an error older than his career.

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Characters

  • Slava (Слава) — Cannot count
  • Rita (Рита) — Eleven years at the next desk
  • Anna Ivanovna (Анна Ивановна) — Tuesdays, with pies
  • Zinaida Petrovna (Зинаида Петровна) — Branch manager

Vocabulary from this story

  • банк — bank
  • отделение — branch
  • касса — till
  • сверка — reconciliation
  • окно — window
  • клиент — customer
  • счёт — account
  • вклад — deposit
  • процент — per cent
  • сумма — sum
  • число — number
  • рубль — rouble