Bigoted wedding store manager complains about myself, so I bring in drag queens.

I've posted once before about a situation when I was teaching, but I thought I would go back

to one of my original acts of malicious compliance that happened while I was working my way through

grad school. Once upon a time, in order to make ends meet during uni, I took a job working at a

bridal shop. This shop involved mostly walk-ins who would buy dresses directly off the rack.

If you're in the States, you probably know which one I'm talking about. When I took the job,

it was explained to me that a majority of my salary was commission based. That didn't bother me

because even the base salary was decent at the time. Besides, the lowest financial ban to qualify

for commission required me to sell 10 dresses a week. Easy. During my interview, I explained to my

manager that I would need to get off of work at 3pm on Monday's Tuesdays and Wednesdays to attend

all my classes. Now, if you've ever worked a retail job at all, you know that the daytime hours

Monday through Thursday as well as those evening hours tend to be very low volume. The majority

of all sales are made on Friday through Saturday with the casual shoppers coming in on a Saturday

and the serious shoppers coming in on a Sunday. Therefore, my manager had no problems with me

needing those days off every week. My schedule was set as Monday, Thursday, Friday during the day

as well as all day Saturday and Sunday. However, within two weeks of being there, it became apparent

that one of the older women I worked with did have a problem with my schedule. She just liked working

the weekday evenings and days because those hours typically didn't result in sales. Instead,

most of our time was spent cleaning and restocking inventory. At first, it started as a few nasty

comments here and there on the floor. Then she started borrowing items from my bridal drawer.

Bellybump's pins, hair ties, tissues, cough drops. Eventually, she started telling the host is to

remove my name from the incoming bridal inventory, claiming I was busy with another client when I was

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