I have never come into too much contact with the head manager at work. She just writes out the schedule, and you would think that normally she would leave by 3:30 when I come in, since she comes in to open the store. Okay, not open the store, she comes in at 8:00 to a store that opens at 6. And she doesn't really stay until 3:30, she really ducks out of the there around 3:00. Now, as a slacker I envy and even admire this ability to do as little work as possible yet stay at the top of the ladder at a company, and somehow hope to figure out how she does it. Customers have realized that arguing with her is kind of pointless. She can't be out-talked, and when shes backed into a corner, she pulls out the fact that you probably just don't agree with her because you don't like seeing a woman as a manager. It's effective, and I have not seen her lose a single argument with a customer in the three years I've been working there. Because I actually do my job sometimes, she doesn't have a problem with me, and in fact I get along better with her then most anyone working at the store. So anyway, no one bothered to tell me that one of the cashiers at work is like, really good friends with her, so I should have avoided making fun of her at all, even if it wasn't harsh insults I was bringing up. I was saying how I had just gotten done helping out a customer that this cashier had sent over to me for help. "Yes," she said, "well she's a good person like that." This is where we differ in our opinion. I never got along with her like that mostly because, well...I'm normal and don't have anywhere near the number of "problems" that she does. When I was a bagger, she would yell at me if I stayed too long bagging groceries somewhere, but when I would move around she would ask me if I was on the track team. I would ask her if she was blind and saw that I don't run for "fun" usually, and she would say she thought so because I always ran away from bagging for her. This never sank in that I thought she needed to be fucking medicated, or at least clubbed over the head. "I'll bet that she helped him out a lot with whatever he needed." the manager said, referring to the customer. "Yes, but after screwing up the order enough, it was the least she could do." I said this with obvious sarcasm that got a laugh from the cashier standing next to me. "I've never seen her do anything that bad with a customer that you could make fun of." Ironically I noticed something from my bagging days that she did and decided to show it to the manager, I was sure that she would LOVE it. Whenever she needs a manager to over-ride something, she sings it. Not accidentally, but literally, she sings it. There could be 2 people in the store, there could be 200 people, she just insists on singing it. So I did that little impression of how she basically does that, or when she gets on the loudspeaker it sounds like she puts the phone speakerphone into her mouth. Again, huge laugh from the other cashier. "Well, I've never heard her do that." "Well, customers seem to enjoy it." She liked it, and I made what, looking back, was an unwise decision...I kidded her. I said "They MIGHT enjoy it, of course I'm a horrible judge of character, and I would think they would hate it!" She dismissed me with an imperial wave of her hand, and said "I'm through with you!" It was so bitchy, I thought she was kidding. "Come on, I'm a smart-ass!" I said. "I gathered that, and I'm through with you!" Another wave of the hand. I didn't know if she was being serious or just having a sense of humor. If that was the case, she was HILARIOUS. "I was just..." "I told you! I'm through with you!" I thought that she was kidding still and looked around at the cashier for help, and I got nothing from the guy, but I wasn't mad at him, he was a GREAT audience for my first few jokes. She left, and I started asking all the people working who knew her if she was serious or if she was really being a bitch. Everytime I told the story, huge laughs. Then they thought it was funny that I thought that she was just kidding. I got answers like "No, she's got a temper." or "She really doesn't have a sense of humor. She runs things around here, you know." Really, she runs the front end of the store which consists of baggers and cashiers. I, thank GOD, don't fall under her little area. So, basically, I went from thinking that she was just a hard-nosed person to the customers who really didn't have any problems with the employees, to realizing something: she's a bitch. And I don't think that she's a bitch because she's a woman who's a manager. It just happens that she's a manager who's a total bitch. Either way, she's bitchy.