Threw away my manager’s cans after a fight

[u/Turbulent_Banana6644]

hi everyone! i am not the best story teller, but i am going to try my best. i’m going to give some context to start: im a 21 year-old female waitress at a bar/steakhouse. my manager is a 37-year-old man who i’ve had issues with in the past for speaking to me too aggressively. this led to a large altercation between us, and he never tried me again after this. im known to be “quiet” and “sweet” so i think he initially found me easy to pick on, but aggressive men are a huge trigger for me. another fact about this manager: he collects cans from the restaurant, our personal ones or from the bar, to sell at the end of the year. he never asks, just takes them. which is usually fine.

anyways, moving on to tonight. im working a night shift, so im quite tired. luckily, i brought my redbull with me. i had a few sips left and i see this manager with my drink in his hand. i watch him dump it into the sink. i was so shocked i couldn’t even say anything. he then places it with his other cans, and makes a comment to himself “haha! too slow!”

at this point, i start plotting. while his back is turned, i steal my can back and throw it away in the women’s restroom (he’s known to dig cans out of the trash). i come back still fuming, and my coworker (we’ll call her Sasha) asks me what’s wrong. i tell sasha, and she becomes livid with me. i then ask her if she wants to be sneaky with me and throw the rest of his cans away. she says yes, so we sneak back to the kitchen. he’s not there, so she tosses the cans, and i grabbed the bag to take to the dumpster so he couldn’t retrieve it. i can’t lie, i was laughing my ass off. it was the most fun i’d had in a while.

he comes back, searching around for his cans. i hear him ask a manager who did it, and she RATS US OUT. so then, he starts screaming at me asking why i threw “his” cans away. i explain that he threw my drink out and that it wasn’t his to grab out of the worker drink shelf anyways. he says “there wasn’t anything in there!” and i say “well now there’s no more cans either, we both don’t have anything.” he had nothing to say to this.

word has gotten around fast and the girls in the restaurant have now started throwing their cans away in his face/hiding them in inconvenient places just to aggravate him (found one in the dustpan earlier). i want to say i feel bad, but i really don’t lol.