A Sickening Lack Of Empathy, Part 2
Our store manager is one of the worst people I’ve ever met. A new cashier starts. She is seventeen, nervous, and three shifts into the job. She’s also just found out she’s pregnant and has horrible morning sickness.
Mid-shift, she’s in the bathroom next to the break room, loudly vomiting. The manager and I both hear it.
She comes out pale and shaking.
Cashier: “I’m really sorry… can I please go home? I can’t keep anything down.”
The manager doesn’t even look sympathetic.
Manager: “If you’re not back here in thirty minutes with a doctor’s note, don’t bother coming back at all.”
The girl bursts into tears, runs out of the store, and, unsurprisingly, never comes back.
A few years later, after I was thankfully let go myself, I heard what finally happened to that manager:
She was escorted out of the store in handcuffs for financial fraud.
Some people get the ending they earn.
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