Worked in a convenience store. They hired a sales assistant who worked only one day. The manager didn’t like that the revenue was very low during her shift. She was fired.
A couple of days later, the jars of pickled vegetables started to get cloudy. When we took them off the shelves, it became clear that this girl was opening the jars, taking out one cucumber or tomato at a time, eating it and putting it back on the shelf.
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