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[foolishwren]

_{[You know how most workplaces have those ridiculous, seemingly-arbitrary rules concerning things like cell phones and mp3 players that make sense in theory but really don't in practice? Well... turns out Johto's no different.]}

[The feed flickers on and off a few times so anyone who's looking at Heather's channel is being treated to a sort of trippy view of the ceiling of one of the many floors in the Goldenrod Department Store, jiggling around as though the 'Gear is the subject of a tug-of-war.]

[And uh... judging by the voices that are conversing in heated tones somewhere off-screen, it is.]


I'm telling you for the last time, Temp! NOOOOO PokeGear use during your shift!


It's my break! I'm not even DOING anything right now!


DON'T you backsass me, young lady! I know your type! Traveling trainers who want to make a quick buck-- you're all the SAME!


Wh-- jeez, calm down! I'm not like-- trying to question your authority or something!! Take a chill pill!


YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!


The guys on the fifth floor said they could use their 'Gears during break!


WELL. This isn't the fifth floor, IS it?!

_{[There's a pause, and then a low, almost inaudible mutter on Heather's part of:]}

Oppressive tyrant....

_{[... But apparently it wasn't inaudible enough.]}

BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO TIE OUR MESSAGES TO PIDGEYS AND HOPE TO DEAR ARCEUS THAT THEY DIDN'T GET EATEN BY ARBOKS ON THE WAY THERE!!


E-eep!


I HAD TO WALK TWENTY MILES TO WORK EVERY DAY IN BLINDING SNOWSTO--

<sub>[The feed clicks off.]





[A very resentful-looking Heather slumped in her seat at the cash register, smoldering darkly and glaring at the file cabinet in the staff-room where her PokeGear had been dumped, locked, and left. The words 'AND YOU CAN HAVE IT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' were still ringing in her ears.]</sub>

[Jutting her chin out resentfully, she planted it on one palm with her scrawny elbow on the counter, plucking uncomfortably at the fairly-silly-looking Department Store clerk's uniform she had to wear. Yes, there was even a cutesy little hat and a popped collar.]


God, it's like high school all over again....






_{[ooc: Video replies will be answered later in the day when Heather gets off of work and has her PokeGear returned to her!]}

Comments

[video]

[newhero.livejournal.com]

[... ... ...]

Um. Heather?

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[A few hours later, Sora gets his reply from a very frazzled-looking Heather.]}

Uhh. H-hey, Sora.

[Video]

[of-france.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

What an old bastard. You have my sympathies.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[France gets a reply several hours later.]}

I've started referring to her as the Psycho Bitch-Monster from Venus. I think it has a nice ring to it.

_{[There were few things less pleasant than being screamed at by a scary old woman with excessive body hair.]}

[usedthrash.livejournal.com]

Phooey, that reminds me of my uncle.

[foolishwren]

_{[S-SEVERAL HOURS LATER~]}

Judging by the way she counts every friggin' penny at the end of the day, I think she and your uncle would be good pals.

[Action]

[moemoeotaku.livejournal.com]

[Renge is going to cautiously peeks around the corner. She's on her break and wanted to get a little shopping down on this particular floor. Of course, it was the screaming that stopped her frm going further. The Breeder was sure that the manager was the own who chewed her out various time while on her break]

[Action]

[foolishwren]

[SURE ENOUGH, IT'S THE SAME ONE ALL RIGHT. The scary old lady with pink hair clips and excessive body hair. She goes off bustling past in search of someone else to scream at-- leaving a thoroughly flabbergasted Heather behind at the cash register.]

[Heather's expression can pretty much be summed up as " .___. "]

[usedsuitup.livejournal.com]

[Laughing. Just laughing. No sympathy here.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[~*~MUCH LATER~*~]}

You know what?

Fuck off.

Seriously, just fuck off.

Fuck off, then come back, then fuck off again.

_{[T-to be fair, she kind of did deserve that. The 'Gear would always turn on by accident at the worst times...]}

[action]

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

[AWKWARD SILENCE.]


[And then snickering.]

[action]

[foolishwren]

_{[Heather is hunched at the till, trying very, very hard to ignore her friend's sniggering. When that didn't work, she hissed out of the side of her mouth.]}


Shut up. It's not funny.

[video]

[paladinlost]

Such a sweet, friendly person. Wouldn't taking your Pokégear away cause trouble if there were an emergency?

[video]

[foolishwren]

You should see her during the morning shift before she's had her coffee.

And try telling her that.

[video]

[justicepuns.livejournal.com]

Funny how many blinding snowstorms they had back in the old days.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[~*~MUCH LATER~*~]}

I'm pretty sure anyone who's old enough to say that is probably also old enough to have lived in the last Ice Age, so it makes sense.

[video]

[usednastyplot.livejournal.com]

More problems with authority?

I wasn't aware high school was so bad.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Muuch much later, Artemis gets a reply.]}

I think authority has a problem with me, to be honest.

[video]

[puzzling]

[And this is the Professor's face the whole one. FFFFFF HE NEVER WANTS A BOSS LIKE HER. He's a gentleman, he can't talk back.]

...It seems as if that ma'am was quite strict about the uses for Pokegears. I hope that she isn't too harsh on you, Miss Mason.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[NO. NO HE DOES NOT. All in the department store quailed under the unquestionable authority of the Supervisor From Hell.]}

I hope somebody spits in her coffee.

_{[.... Apparently 'harsh' was probably a good term for everything that supervisor did ever.]}

[video]

[restardom.livejournal.com]

... ... ...

[ wow. ]

Adults.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[~*~MUCH LATER~*~]}

That was not an adult, Rise. That was a Psycho Bitchmonster Alien from Pluto.

[video]

[cheapblusuits.livejournal.com]

[...sorry, Heather, Phoenix isn't going to sympathize much, being the ~ RESPONISBLE ADULT ~ that he is.]

To be fair, you were breaking the rules.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Phoenix, always the responsible one! Likewise, though, Heather had to uphold her immature teenager rep.]}

While I was on my break! It's not like I was trying to text and stack boxes at the same time!

[action]

[bakaitoukid]

[he sees this on the video first, linefaces at everything, and then makes his way toward the Goldenrod Department store to give Heather some company. He has never been a fan of pointless rules or the people who thought they were ~*ALL THAT*~ and tried to enforce them.

So sup Heather, you have a friend sliiiiding up to your counter now with a playful expression on his face]

Hard day at work, huh?

[action]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Kaito was a good friend.]

[When he got up to Heather's floor, she slumped over with her face down against the counter, and her response to his greeting was a pitiful whine.]

[Which meant 'Yes and please kill me'.]</sub>

[video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Have one (1) aghast Jack Skellington.]}

What....what an unpleasant human being.

[video]

[foolishwren]

I don't think she's human.

There is no way she could be human.

She's gotta be one of those cockroch aliens from Men in Black or something.

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

[Envy is so, so amused.] Gonna get back at her?

[video]

[foolishwren]

That depends on if I could get away with it without being drawn and quartered.

[Video]

[redeyesforpride.livejournal.com]

[Crackles. Oh, God. She's so amused.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Needless to say, derisive laughter is not something Heather's particularly happy to come 'home' to after that long, long day. So her response is similar in tone to the one she gave to Barney up there.]}

What's so funny, Hyena?

[video]

[usedgigadrain.livejournal.com]

Every day in a blinding snowstorm? That would be impressive even in the coldest part of Water country.

[He is happily mocking the old lady, yes.]

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[And Heather is willingly joining in on the fun, with an exaggeratedly gruff tone.]}

Dude, don't fucking make fun of her.

She's old enough to have lived through the last ice age so she's probably telling the PURE UNDILUTED TRUTH.

[justicereigns]

I swear those guys are the only ones who could make me consider unionizing a good thing.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Oh hey it's Smoker! Heather replies tentatively but not aggressively.]}

I've had some bad bosses in my time but I'm pretty sure she eats people.

[1-2-jango-zzzz.livejournal.com]

In MY day we had to dance through blinding typhoons with five marine ships closing in and let our captain go crazy and blindly kill them all. Literally. Blindly.

It was scary.

Also, that guy's a jerk.

[foolishwren]

.... SOUNDS scary.

And also, it was a woman, but.... it's not like you can TELL by voice alone.

She sounds like a gorilla with its front half stuck in a wood chipper.

[video]

[miniworth]

_{[Edgeworth! .... is not too impressed with you, Heather. He's a bit ocd about following the rules. Let him give you a most unimpressed stare.]}

...........You brought it on yourself.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[OH MAN OF ALL THE THINGS, she doesn't need a ten-year-old lecturing her! Grrr.]}

I was on my lunch break, technically I didn't even have to be in the store.

That old bat just wanted to give me a hard time!