Acting Badly On Your Watch

(I work as a cashier. Our front registers have large glass cases built into them to hold watches, but they’re too small to hold all the watches in our inventory, so we keep the extras in a drawer behind the registers. We’re supposed to be taping sale tags to certain items, and I’m rummaging through the watch drawer trying to find the ones on sale. I’ve taken a good amount of watches out of the drawer and placed them on the counter so I can get to the ones at the bottom.)

Me: *searching through watch drawer* “Let’s see… Nope, not this one. How about you? No, not this one, either.”

(At this point, my coworker enters the register area and notices me rummaging through the watch drawer. She is the only ‘difficult’ coworker in the store, as she’s gained a reputation for being insensitive and even insulting to the staff, constantly complains about her shifts, and is rarely in a good mood, even around customers.)

Me: *noticing my coworker’s presence* “Hey.”

(My coworker looks at me, and then swings her arm at the row of watches on the counter, knocking them over and even pushing several of them back into the drawer.)

Coworker: “I’m such a b****! Ha!”

Me: “…”

(Mentally, I was screaming inside, but I didn’t respond to her comment and my coworker walked away laughing as I resumed my work. She had always been a bit crass. I’m just glad she had enough sense to recognize it!)