Get to work at my morning job as a stocker. Pulling a pallet on a jack behind me only takes one hand, so I bring my coffee with me and sit it down when I've gotten where I need to go stock. As I'm returning to the warehouse my manager takes me aside and tells me, “You can get twice as much work done if you have two hands. No more coffee.”
I know conventional wisdom is to smile and say, “You got it, boss!” but I didn't appreciate his insinuation (about my work ethic or intelligence) so I told him I just put it down whenever I arrive to where I'm working. He tells me that's not the point – he told me to do something so I need to do it.
That's fine dude. I get that you can give orders without actually needing a reason. I can also record all the dirty jokes everyone makes around here, fuck off with doing my job, and then when I get fired claim that it's retaliation for my sexual harassment complaint. Oh, I never came to you about harassment? Well of course that's what you'd say, and it doesn't change the fact I have the recordings. Starting my documentation tomorrow, motherfucker.