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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Elbonian_Prince on 2024-03-26 11:17:48.

Retail employment. A great place to be when biding your time ahead of starting university as a mature student! Especially when a manager is a, er, posterior…

Onto the shop floor at 08:50. Manager tells me I am late. I check time. It is 08:50 by my watch and the clock on the shop floor. I say so. He tells me that we go by HIS watch and I am 10 minutes late (his watch is over 10 minutes ahead)!

“Sorry, sir.” I’m already thinking ahead to the end of my shift.

Long day. I’m due to finish at 8pm. At 7:50, I am on the only live till and I take it out of service and start cashing up (there was no customer at the time). Manager sees me and queries why.

“Time to close the store, shut tills and cash up. Check your watch.”

He almost explodes before he realises that I have zero interest or need to maintain employment with his store as I am due to start university next week.

I turned up the next day, sought him out before starting work and did a time-check to see what times I was going to adhere to that day. Needless to say, he used the store time rather than his wrist. He knew…