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Sandra's attitude with the inventory truck driver


I found it disturbing how Sandra was quick to let the truck driver know that she did not appreciate how he spoke to her when he questioned why the regional manager can't effectively solve an inventory issue. The truck driver was not even personally attacking her, he was speaking about the regional manager. Yet, not once does she let the officer know that she did not appreciate the way this supposed theft case was being handled, she easily crumbled under an authoritative figure. Also, she let the truck driver know that she did not even bother contacting the regional manager about the inventory issue because she chose to take matters into her own hands, yet she fails to practice any independent thinking when someone insists she inspects a girl's belongings and instruct her to take her clothes off. She also seems so eager to please the caller and be his "buddy", yet she never apologizes when the truck driver tells her he had to drive out 50 miles and miss a family function. Another thing that is very telling about the type of person she is, is how she is far more preoccupied with having to go back to work than she is with the fact that there is a naked teenage girl in the back who has been left alone with a number of people. I found Sandra just as awful as the caller.

On another note, I like how the film opens up with images of a shopping cart thrown into a pile of snow, as opposed to being properly put away, and a yellow traffic line with a NO printed on the inside, and the wall next to it has clearly been hit. It shows how we are quick to disobey things we think we can easily get away with, yet most are quick to obey absurd orders from authority without pushing for verification.

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Sandra did not like the driver's remarks about how SHE was handling the issue. That is when she said that she did not appreciate the way he was talking to her. He was angry that he had to come in on his day off because of a stupid mistake that somebody left the freezer door open -- which being the manager she should have caught. He was not being nice, but what he said was true, and she didn't like it. He asks if she is going to tell her regional manager and she says no. She is afraid of looking stupid to authority, which is why she goes along with what the caller (a supposed authority figure) tells her to do.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

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You made a great point in your second paragraph!


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