'Sheila storms off to the back': Small business retail employee gets back at entitled supervisor

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 9, 2024 5:00 PM EST

This employee got stuck working with a supervisor they were particularly not fond of. That happens in life. You can't always work with your work bestie. 

It makes a huge difference when you have fun coworkers. You both have to be there for an entire six- or eight-hour shift, so you may as well try to make it enjoyable. Some coworkers have a great sense of humor. Others you'll get to know on a deep level and know all of their interesting lore. Having deep conversations while folding shirts together barely feels like work! 

On the other hand are the workers you don't necessarily vibe with. Maybe you have opposite personality types, or maybe you have the type of manager who refuses to ever crack a smile. You just know that shift is going to drag on and on. 

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  • This person thought they were going to have to do an inventory shift. That's actually an ideal place to be for some people. You can listen to music or a podcast while doing that, since it's not a customer-facing activity. That's a pretty sweet way to spend a couple of hours at work. 

    As a bonus, the OP added in a comment that they spotted their manager a few years after this incident. Check out the whole story as well as the bonus comment below. 

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    The challenges of working retail
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    Back in college i worked for a retail store that is a national brand, but the particular location i worked at was very small, often there would just be two employees working.
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    for those of you that haven't worked retail before, there are different tasks that you do as part of the job, depending on what you are scheduled for. For example, you can work on the sales floor helping customers, you can be scheduled at the register, in the fitting rooms, or
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    you can be in the stock room which was usually done early morning, or late at night and its requires a bit of manual work - opening boxes, breaking them down, taking out trash, organizing the clothes that are in the back room, etc. which I never minded doing, but you can get pretty dirty doing it.
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    one day i came into work mid day, and it was just me and a supervisor Sheila (Sheila, if you are reading this, you ) and Sheila was at the register ringing up customers as the other employee was leaving. I go to the
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    back room, put away my stuff and clock in - i notice a ton of boxes in the back from inventory shipment that didnt get processed in the morning, ah well, i'll be on the sales floor.
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    I come out to the sales floor to check in with Sheila, for sales goals, etc. So after she gives me all that info, she tells me that i need to be in the back to process shipment because they didnt get it done in the morning, I tell her that i'm not scheduled for it, and
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    i'm also not dressed for it (i'm wearing a button down shirt, dress pants, and dress shoes) and she tells me that neither is she (she's wearing a dress) and thats where she assigned me, and thats what i needed to work on.
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    I buy a cheap tshirt that was on sale for maybe $3 or so, and head to the back. Then malicious compliance kicks in. I look for the employee handbook, and read through the part of what supervisors can/can't do, and there is a section in there that says
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    something along the lines of "the active manager cannot be at the register" and because its only Sheila and myself in the store, and i'm in the back, she would have to be at the register.
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    So i call the phone at the registers and she answers, and i tell her, i was reading through the employee handbook and found this section, and i read the entire paragraph saying that active managers cant be at the register. She doesnt say anything and simply hangs up. I walk back
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    to the front of the store, return the cheap tshirt i bought, and get behind the register without saying anything, and Sheila storms off to the back to process shipment in her pretty dress. it Sheila.
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    ▸ [deleted] you Sheila!! I love this story thanks for sharing
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    d_frost OP Welcome! I bumped into her a couple of years later in a different state at a college party!! What are the chances lol, she was still the same nasty entitled person
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    ▸ [deleted] r/pettycompliance 35 Reply Share d_frost OP Haha yeah, that's also true
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    ONA CloneClem That's an amazing report. You have an Employee Handbook?? 35 Reply Share d_frost OP Yeah, this was a major brand you find at most malls, so they had proper procedures for everything
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