The Price of a Bagel
Language: en
There was a three-hundred-dollar deduction on my pay stub. The HR lady just rolled her eyes at me. "Don't you know what you did?" I was the top salesperson in the entire company. I had no idea where that three hundred dollars went. When I went to the manager for an explanation, he pulled up the cafeteria security footage. All because I took one extra bagel. "If you have the audacity to steal a bagel today, who knows when you’ll decide to betray the company tomorrow." The manager gave me a long, meaningful look. "As a woman, there's no need to be the best at everything. You might…