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_{[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--

_{[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.]}

[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!]}

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.... Now there's an idea.

I have experience with getting back at bosses, what can I say.

_{[Now she's curious.]}

What did YOU do?

....

There's too many to count.

Well, I got enough time to hear one or two.

C'mon, share.

Most of the major ones just involve telling the brass exactly where they can stick their orders. They promoted me as a cover-up which I didn't take too well. Hn. Let's see... some of the funnier ones though.

I had this one captain in the academy who was a swordsman and constantly mocked my jitte as not being a real man's weapon because it's meant for disarming, not killing. So every time he tried to use me for a weapons demonstration I usually went out of my way to defeat him publicly.

I guess that's more funny to me, let me think a little. Oh, any of the times Hina bailed me out is probably a good story.

Publicly humiliating someone who makes fun of you is always nice.

_{[She'd done that more than a few times.]

[For now though, she just props her chin on one hand and looks at the screen expectantly.]}

Right so let's see. I dumped a ton of rum into the teacher's coffee maker to spike all their drinks. I still don't know how they traced that back to me. I think they just assumed it was me given the other stuff I pulled. It was great while it lasted though. They were completely buzzed and one teacher was supposed to give a lecture on international shipping laws spent the whole thing talking about bees.

Another time -- hehe... so in my world instead of the pokegear we have these things called "den den mushi" which are snails that let you make calls. Or you can fax things which is when you send a copy of a paper or picture. So with all the paperwork that has to be done we made a fake form and sent it out, supposedly from the Fleet admiral asking them to report in all these personal things like they do on a dating service, just to see if they would. And then we fake matched them up and ordered then on dinners to see how long it took them to question it.

_{[All past contentions aside, Heather finds herself laughing at the stories. Nice to see the guy is HUMAN!]}

Jeez, you're worse than I ever was in school!

_{[She'd just played hooky and done stupid teenager things for the most part.]}

Heh, I've got quite the reputation in my world. Even pirates know about it. I might not be good at following orders, but I am good at catching pirates at least.

I can't even tell you how many times Hina's prevented me from getting discharged though.

Huh. Never would've thought it.

_{[What with him going all THE LAW on her.]}

Laws are different in my world. So are the officers enforcing it. That's why it seems a shame to push them around so needlessly. [Pointed reminder.]

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