“The new guy put cameras legit everywhere. We called him Big Brother for the longest, ’cause he’s always watching. He can even access it from his phone, so he can watch us, like, while he’s at home in bed—and if he sees something he doesn’t like, he’ll rush in from forty minutes away to say, ‘I seen you do this, and you better not do it again!’”

“Holy shit!” I say, curious. “Like, what sort of stuff?”

“Like…” Kolbi thinks, then laughs. “Oh, I got a good one—we weren’t allowed to use cups. We can give customers free waters of any size cup, but us, ourselves, we weren’t allowed to use cups—not even for water, not for anything. We had to bring our own cups. So if he’d see someone with a cup, he’ll come, and he’ll get you for it. He fired a person over that.”