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“You need to talk to him.”
Heather, who had been staring at the sizeable stack of PS5s in front of her for the past fifteen minutes, barely cast a glance in the direction of her annoyed friend. Dressed in a blue polo and tan pants, the most noticeable (and newest) piece of her new attire was the nametag that read ‘Manager’.
“Him?”
Between her thumb and index finger, Heather fiddled absent-mindedly with a pencil; the tip had obviously been chewed to hell. A filthy habit from her younger years, it helped relax the young woman, whose new position was more stressful than she had anticipated.
“Gavin!” Emilie growled, in frustration. Amused, Heather raised an eyebrow, which motioned for the cashier to elaborate. “He is just so… so fucking incompetent! And stubborn, prideful… Just a son-of-a-bitch who couldn’t learn proper inventory skills if it hit him in the dick! God knows how he was promoted to manager in the first place!”
By the end of her tirade, Emilie was practically huffing with rage. This was not helped in the slightest by Heather’s snorts, that had quickly dissolved into giggles.