He brings over Laura, who's 26 and has been working here for about five years. She's smiley and friendly, in a proficient but hollow customer services way, and keeps pulling at her skirt, which is hovering at the top of her spray-tanned thighs, as if she's uncomfortable talking to a woman who's got clothes on. She alternates this job with lifeguard shifts at a swimming pool, and she doesn't describe it as fun