Mary Manning

And that's the way they thought they would kind of stop it from happening, was by threatening us.

Basically, yeah, basically that was it.

And I remember seeing the actual woman who I refused.

And I could see in her basket that she had two grapefruit.

And she came to my register and I was like, I was shaking, I was shitting myself.

I was going, what am I going to do?

So I told her, I'm sorry, I can't handle these goods.

The customer herself was perfectly fine with it.

She was granted.

It's just because there was a manager standing behind me that she told me, as I said, to close off and come up to the office.

So it was very frightening.

The not knowing, I suppose, was one of the more frightening things.

Because you've got the thing of, you're in a job and you don't know what they're going to do.

I mean, they kept saying serious consequences, but they didn't give us any more indication than that.

So I suppose this is all going through your head, like there's a recession on, I'm not going to get a job, I'm going to go home, I'm going to be ill.

It's all going through your head for that couple of seconds that that woman was in the queue.

I wasn't changing my mind anyway that I wasn't going to back down.

I said I'm going to continue to buy Cut The Goods.

And they said, OK, you're suspended, indefinitely suspended.

They didn't tell me how long or indicate how long it was going to be for or what was going to happen.