“She’ll learn them today.”

He turned the blue binder around to face me and tapped the red pen against the bottom margin.

“Sign the formal disciplinary notice acknowledging the shift change,” he said.

I took the pen out of his fingers and signed in the little box without reading the three printed paragraphs above it.

“Where do you want me?” I asked him.

Carl stepped forward, keeping his eyes on the floor tile between my shoes.

“You’re cleaning the pumps today, Doll, that’s all I could do for you,” Carl said.