My Boss Refuses To Pay For The Time To Commute And Deposit Cash After Every Shift.

Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania

So I’ve been working at my job for about 2.5 years now. I, more recently, was promoted to a supervisor position when I hit about a year into this job. It’s a family owned Coffee / Dessert shop in Pennsylvania where you can also get a bunch of smaller merchandise like soaps, kitchen appliances, clothes, soups, and other small things. When I, very reluctantly, accepted the position, I was told that as part of my duties managing the barista/front end, I would deposit the cash payments of the day in their bank of choice. I thought nothing more of it until time came to finish my first supervisor shift and I was trained to do deposit the cash after clocking out of my shift and driving to the bank before heading home.

Firstly, I would like to know if this is a normal thing to do, as this is my first job where I’d have to drive to the bank my workplace uses and deposit money so I’m not sure if this is just common practice and I’m overreacting.

Second, I have come to my boss and asked them if there was a way that I, and all supervisors, could be paid for this time as it is a drive out of my way (adds about a 10 minute drive normally and 15 currently since the fastest route to my house is closed for construction [I will have to time the commutes for more accurate reads but I’ve been going off arrival time at home]). All they said to me was that they’ve always done it this way and that I get my pay raise for this exact reason and that if I don’t want to deposit the money the way they’ve always had that I don’t need the supervisor position.

I took that as that and to save on gas costs and maintenance, I just took the deposits every other day in a lump sum (about 2 or 3 at a time), but they then wrote me up for not taking the deposits the day of. I tried asking why it wasn’t alright to take them in groups even if I work back to back but their only responses were that they’ve always done need to pay their bills with the deposits and that it could get stolen from my car if it wasn’t taken to the bank. The range of the deposits vary from literally $0.50 - $400. Today I’m closing and it is only $14 and I’m coming back in 7 hours to open and do it again.

Is there anything legally wrong here or am I just complaining?

Do I have any way of asking for us to be paid for this time?

TL;DR: My boss mandates that I deposit a cash deposit (Range: $0.50 - $400) after every shift, with no exceptions, while off the clock.