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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/kclee1st on 2023-08-06 06:10:24.

Cashier at large grocery chain. It’s about 6pm and my shift is almost over. Normal looking middle aged lady comes on my line. We exchange pleasantries and I begin to ring up her order. She goes to the back and bags. All good. She asks how long I’ve been working there. She tells me she also worked at a competitor for 11 years and liked it. So she pays and I give her her receipt when she begins to tell me she was enslaved by the U.S. government for 40 years. I wasn’t sure I heard her correctly so I said “say again” and she goes on how she was in forced labor with no pay for 40 years and then they started to pay her 1/2 pay. She went on to say she now gets double pay and was pulled out by Amazon. She also said there were thousands like her. At that point I had another customer to tend to. I would have loved to ask her how she worked at the grocery store while enslaved by the government but I didn’t have the time.