The Colonies Are Rebelling Again
Editors' Choice, Funny Stories, Golden Years, I Don't Work Here, Impossible Demands, Managers With A Spine, New Hampshire, Retail, Teenagers, USA | Right
| November 12, 2023
I am talking with a manager and see an elderly lady approach us. Just as I think she’s about to ask us a question, she starts talking to a young girl who is also browsing the aisle.
Customer: “You! Tell me where the vitamins are!”
Young Girl: “I… don’t know.”
Customer: “What do you mean you don’t know?! Why don’t you know?!”
Young Girl: “I’m thirteen.”
Customer: “So?!”
Young Girl: “I don’t work here!”
My manager decides to step in.
Manager: “Ma’am, she’s thirteen. She obviously doesn’t work here.”
Customer: “Back in my day, this country put thirteen-year-olds to work!”
Manager: “Ma’am, back in your day, this was still a colony, not a country. Please stop bothering children.”
