Most people have had a boss who made a rule that didn’t make much sense.

This convenience store employee thought he could put one of those rules behind him after a secret shopper marked him down over a missed sales pitch.

Instead, his boss doubled down and told him to offer something from behind the counter to every single customer who walked through the door.

So that’s exactly what he did.

But, it only took one very awkward interaction with a local priest for the manager to realize maybe the rule wasn’t so great after all.

Read on to see what the employee did to change the boss’s mind.

You want me to ask EVERY customer?

I was once failed by a secret shopper about 30 years ago, when I worked at (a now gone) New England convenience store/deli chain.

I was the only person in the store stocking, ringing, and working the deli. I was also acting ASM, without pay or title but all the responsibility, doing inventory and making orders.

I was failed for not asking a secret shopper if they wanted anything from behind the counter: tobacco, lottery, and various high theft health and beauty items, etc.

The customer in line was a local priest.

My boss told me I needed to offer EVERY CUSTOMER something from behind the counter; no matter who. They didn’t care what I offered. I said no problem. I went back to work and the boss went into his office.

My very next customer was a local priest buying bread.

As I rung him up I asked if he was all set. He said he was.

Seeing his opportunity, he took it.

I asked if he was sure he didn’t need any lottery tickets or condoms. If he didn’t get lucky with one, he may with the other. He turned red, said he was fine, quickly paid and left.

My boss yelled from the office I was now exempt from having to push items from behind the counter.

I knew I would never get fired because of all the stuff I did that was above my pay grade while trying to make a good impression.

Oh my! That’s funny. And it played out perfectly.

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Let’s see what the readers over at Reddit think about what happened.

Well, that’s not cool.

Here’s someone who also failed a secret shopper.

This law definitely should exist.

Thankfully, it wasn’t.

Hey! He did what he was told.

As for the priest, though, it’s hard not to feel sorry for him.

He was obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Either way, it’s good his boss recognized how dumb the rule was pretty quickly, and he could put it all behind him.