Five Hundred Per Minute

Summary

I was late by just a few minutes because of a bathroom break during work hours.

My twenty-thousand-dollar salary was slashed to a measly thirty-five hundred.

I went to my boss, Brenda, to demand justice.

She put on a fake front of fairness, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"The surveillance footage from last month shows you spent forty minutes in the bathroom. You weren't exactly working in there, were you?"

"One minute in the restroom equals a five-hundred-dollar fine."

"It is a new co