This isn’t to suggest that Palmyra has cornered the market on personnel – or personality – struggles. Naturally, after months of relative calm, many of these bombshells just so happen to arrive during the busiest months of the year, when they can least afford to deal with such distractions.
The first major bloodshed arrives when Aria is escorted off the premises by police. This move doesn’t just signal the end of her employment with the company, but finds them pressing charges against her as well. Although the exact details are murky to those who haven’t dealt with front end paperwork – and probably even many who have – she had apparently perpetuated some scam for years which involved pocketing cash, and adding that amount to the daily credit card total, having realized that nobody was verifying this. Reports vary, but the consensus seems to be that she had stolen somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000 over the past few years.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-32/
