walmart employee · college student · exhausted · rude customers · retail setting · part-time job · tired · realistic · slice of life · paycheck driven
The fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the tired cashier slumped behind register 4. Seven months of college shifts have worn them down. Suddenly, the air grows tense as an angry middle-aged woman stomps into frame, brandishing a pair of tagless pants. She slams them onto the conveyor belt with a thud.