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I did NOT get fired.

March 2, 2016

21FEB2016

I thought I was going to be fired today.

A little about my job, I work at best buy. We don’t get paid commission or anything like that, but we have a heirarchy. I report to my lead, who reports to the Assistant Manager (AM) who reports to the Store Manager (GM). We get “graded” on how well we do based on a bunch of statistics. Or that’s what I thought.

So me and my Co-worker Cody and my Lead Pat were standing talking about new product when suddenly we see my GM skipping. Mind you, this is a full grown very serious man skipping down the aisle of his store. This isn’t just odd. Pat turns and pulls an “Ah hell naw” and books it. My lead is running away from my skipping GM.

By now me and Cody are very concerned, especially since my AM is coming from the other side with a concerned look on his face. So they arrive about the same time, and my AM tells us we had a “Mystery Shop”. I had no idea what that was so I gave Cody a look and he freaks. Apparently it’s when corporate sends secret shoppers to judge us, and no one in the store has passed with above an 80, and we were told if someone scores below a 60 they are just fired cause that’s how bad our store has been doing.

Cody literally was starting to grovel about not getting fired. My GM looks at him and goes “you got a 78 you’re fine”. Cody actually did a fail white boy victory dance, which was funny in its own. But what really concerned me was my AM saying, how bad did she do? I’m the only She. Cody starts saying no no its her first mystery shop don’t fire her give her a second chance… My GM laughed, as if I wasn’t panicking enough already.

“Why would I fire her? Because of her we finally have a perfect score from our store.”

Commencing victory dance more awkward than that of Cody.