<prompt> Human: So I work at a gas station - not so awesome but a job and a paycheck - and people i work with have been sliding their credit cards through register for lets say 100 - citi double cash back example i can remember so 2 back - or 2when they pay it off. What they will do is slide card, exchange money for the slip they sign to balance their shift, then go deposit said money into bank account and pay off their card in the next couple days without spending any of it so they only net gain the award amount of 2 which from what they tell me they have been doing for a while so its added up. Owner doesnt seem to notice or even care. Another guy does it with a card that rewards miles for airlines. So legal yay or nay, if yay an interesting loopwhole and kind of credit company fault for not looking where they put down for  <response>: I manage a small business -- we would never give our employees permission to do this because it is essentially taking money out of the till. If an employee did this without explicit permission from a manager or owner which we would never give they would probably be immediately terminated and, depending on the amount stolen, we might even press legal charges.At minimum, it would certainly result in a firing for cause which could affect the persons ability to get unemployment payments.In my mind it is entirely unethical and, without explicit consent of the owner, almost certainly illegal. 