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Casino Dealer Cash Reconciliation

First time poster and sorry if this has been brought up before. I'm from Sydney, Australia. At the casino here when you play black jack you place your money on the table and the dealer gives you chips. I'm aware that other casinos often do not have chip exchange at the playing table. My question is if the money which is given to the dealer over the course of a shift does not match the amount of chips handed out, does the dealer have the difference come out of their pay? Sounds silly but I'm wondering what if any incentive there is for a dealer to short change you.

I recently had a situation where I put down some money of two denominations where the notes are different colours. I had checked to see how much I had before I left home. I checked again before I sat down. I put the notes down in a pile and immediately began small talk to the person next to me. When I looked back the dealer was counting chips out for me. The chips looked less than expected so I counted and disputed it. When they showed me the camera footage the blurry images appear to confirm the dealer was right. Though the footage only shows him counting out the notes and not what I put down on the table. Austalian bank notes are plastic and can stick together. This could be the one explanation. But the paranoid side of me wonders whether the dealer could have short changed me to make up for a previous overpayment to someone else? That's also assuming he would have a strong incentive to do so to avoid deduction in pay or some other punishment.