Humility, Thy Name Is… Not This Coworker…

At the store where I worked, we had a rule that if a customer paid with a large note, we asked a colleague to check the change for our own protection. A new worker took a fifty-pound note for a purchase of about ten pounds. I went to check the change when she’d sorted it out, and she yelled at me.

Coworker: “I’m quite capable of counting out the change”

And she flounced off to the staff room, leaving me to apologise to the customer!

She apologised to me later when the rule was explained to her, but she continued to act as though she was the bright one and the rest of us were stupid, making herself unpopular. She didn’t last very long.