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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/lala_lovemuffin on 2024-01-18 05:05:32.

So I work at a tattoo/ piercing shop. I’m brand new to this shop and the following happened between my other two coworkers one who is an artist and the other is the piercer. On this particular day it’s only the three of us at the shop, it’s also my first week so I’m just meeting my coworkers. For a long time the shop ran with out a front desk person, they eventually hired someone and just recently decided to only have someone during the weekend. This is all new to everyone (apparently) and I’m also new to the shop so I’m just going with the flow. Unbeknownst to me the piercer and artist had a conversation first thing in the morning (I think I was in my booth and heard of this story later on in the week) Went along the lines of; p: it’s bs that we don’t have a front desk person A: yeah, buts it’s fine we are capable of attending people as they come in P: well it’s not my job to greet people or answer the phone. Don’t expect me to take any calls A: okay, bet. Then don’t.

The rest of the day the artist took the phone and answered every. Single. Call. Now this is a busy street shop, particularly for piercings so majority of the calls are questions related to piercings. So every call the artist took about piercings he’d say “ well that’s a piercer questions and I don’t answer those so I guess you have to come in and find out”. All day long. At some point he had to leave for 15 mins and handed me the phone giving me specific introductions to not answer anything about piercings. I was like “okay???“ but did what I was told.lol I found it strange but also didn’t question it. The piercer just sat in his station the entire day and sulked. The next day, the owner was in and the piercer had a 180 change in attitude about answering the phone and not having a receptionist. He started answering calls lol