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// Day 2 Training  
// Story: Diamond Tiara Gets a Job 
// by JamesBurton 
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Dawn of the Second Day 8:00am.


Knock Knock Knock


Diamond Tiara snores lightly, turning in her bed. Her bedroom door open as her father steps into her room carrying a bucket as quietly as possible. He sits the bucket down and goes up to his sleeping daughter.  

"Diamond," he said softly shaking the sleeping filly. "Wakey wakey sleepyhead, its time for work." 


But Diamond continues to sleep soundly, with a little drool coming from her mouth. Mr. Rich goes to pick up the bucket smiling to himself. "Ah, today's the day." walking closer to his daughter, he leans the bucket over her and dumps very cold water on the sleeping Diamond.  

"AIIIIEEEE!" shrieked Diamond as she jumped from her bed hitting the ceiling then falling back down to her bed before she bounced off landing on the floor with a thud. "Ow." she grunted before glaring at her father. "DADDY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" 

Mr. Rich sits the bucket down. "It's your rite of passage, Diamond." he replied smiling. 

"DID IT HAVE TO INCLUDE DUMPING WATER ON ME?!" 

"It's an old family tradition, Diamond," he said. "When somepony in our family gets their first job and doesn't get up in time, we dump a bucket of water on them," his cheerful demeanor making Diamond even more agitated. "I remember when my father did it to me; now run along an get washed up or you'll be late." 

"Late for what?" Diamond asked shaking the water from her coat.  

"Why for work of course!" he leaves the room with a smile heading back downstairs. 

Diamond Tiara sighed heavily. She did not like that she actually had a job to go to now and the very fact of that stunk, much like that horrifying smell that seemed to be stuck in her nostrils. "Where the hay is that disgusting smell coming from?" she said to herself sniffing around her room. "Well whatever it is; It smells terrible." she scratches her mane lost in thought until the horrible smell returns stronger than ever. "Wait a minute."    

She sniffs herself only for eyes to tear up and a look of pure disgust appeared upon her face. "Ew ew ew ew ew ew," she races off to the bathroom quickly shutting the door behind her. "WHY DO I SMELL SO BAD!"  

"THAT'S THE SMELL OF A HARD WORKER!" Mr. Rich yelled. "GET USED TO IT!" 



 

Barnyard Bargains entrance 9:15am 

"Stupid job!" growled Diamond Tiara as she made her way to Barnyard Bargains. "Why should a cute filly like me have to wor-" 

But unfortunately for her, she forgot that the store wasn't open yet and ran face first into the door. "Ow" she groaned rubbing her nose in pain. 

"You're supposed to kissing me, Diamond; not the door." Diamond turns around glaring angrily at her new boss. "You know, you're cute when you're mad."  

Diamond only turns her away holding her nose in the air. "Hmph! You have a lot of nerve Button Mash! Making a delicate filly like me do manual labor!"  

"Really babe," Button replied leaning on the wall raising an eyebrow. "You didn't even do anything yesterday, all I did was have you follow me around for about four hours watching some of the other workers and move a couple of very light boxes." 

"Doesn't matter!" Diamond shot back. "I fell asleep on my bed tired and dirty! I'll have to burn my bed sheets now!" 

"So?" Button shrugged. "You do the same thing on my bed."  

Diamond's face heats up with embarrassment. "Whatever! Let's just get this over with." 

"Very well, oh that reminds me; I got something for you." he reaches behind him and retrieves a blue vest. " Here you go Diamond, your uniform."  

The pink filly stares at the uniform with disgust. It was a plain blue uniform with her dad's store name on the back. "That thing looks plain and ugly!" 

"Well, I guess you could decorate it with this." he gives her a small nametag with her name on it. "And what's wrong with the vest? It matches your eyes." 

"That may be but I still refuse to wear it." she said. 

"Sorry sweetheart, company policy; You have to wear it." 

Diamond stomps her hoof on the ground. "Button! I am NOT wearing that thing, and there is nothing you say that will get me to ever wear it!" 



 

"I cant believe he got me to wear this ugly thing." pouted Diamond picking at her uniform. She was currently standing in a group while Button gave out some announcements. "He is soooo lucky that I like him." she grumbled to herself. 

"And finally, lets all congratulate Dinky Hooves on her promotion to Assistant Manager." the crowd stomps on the ground with cheers and praise as the gray unicorn walked forward. 

Time slowed down for Diamond when she heard the name Dinky Hooves, one of the other fillies she knew from foalhood, besides the Cutie Mark Crusaders that she messed with during her younger years. Diamond sinks lower trying to avoid being seen, she really regretted mocking her right now. 

"Ok everypony," Button's voice yelled out gaining the crowd's attention. "Let's all get started and have a great day!" the crowd quickly dissipates leaving Diamond before she even had a chance to leave with the group leaving her stuck with Button and Dinky.  

"Crap." she muttered while Button motion for her to come closer. She steps forward, walking proudly but with her heart racing rapidly. She really wanted this day to be over with and go back home. "Uh, hello, uh, Dinky."

Dinky looks at the pink earth filly with a warm smile. "Hello Diamond, nice uniform."

Diamond Tiara grumbled angrily looking at her uniform. Button Mash laughs wrapping a foreleg around her pulling her close. "Aw don't be like that Diamond, you'll get used to it; Meanwhile, Dinky here will train you."  

"Dinky?" Diamond asked a little heartbroken. "But I thought that you was going to show me the ropes around here Mr. Manager."  

"Normally I would, but I have way too much work to do today so I'm putting Dinky in charge of that." Button kisses Diamond on the forehead before heading off to his office. "Stay out of trouble, ok?" he walks off to the back room leaving Diamond Tiara and Dinky in the main entrance. 

"So, are you ready for your training Diamond?" the pink filly looks at Dinky with a annoyed expression but Dinky paid her no mind. She grabs Diamond dragging her off to places unknown. "You'll see that working in customer service is a fun and wonderful experience, full of nice and wonderful ponies!" 

Diamond couldn't help but feel that Dinky just insulted somebody, somewhere. 



 

Two Hours Later 

"Ok Diamond lets try this again." sighed Dinky. "If you are busy and a customer asks you where a certain item is, your reply should be?" 

Diamond rubs her chin in thought trying to come up with an answer. "Ooh! Did you check the next aisle over?" 

Facehoofing hard, Dinky made her way to the nearest seat in the room sitting down. She had been teaching her the joys of customer service for about two hours without making any progress. "Sigh, no Diamond, no." for Dinky however, it was like she had better luck trying to pull teeth out rather than teach Diamond. "You say, sure sir or ma'am, what is it that you are looking for?" 

"But the thing that they are looking for, is usually just the next aisle over." Diamond protested.   

"That doesn't matter Diamond!" Dinky snapped. "Our job, is to HELP the customer with a smile, not having them run around like headless chickens! Now lets try this again. You see a customer struggling with a item, what do you do?"  

Diamond forces the best smile she possibly could. "Excuse me, but you seem to be of need of assistance; Would you like for me to break my back carrying that for you?" 

It took all of Dinky's willpower not to slam her face on the table. That was the best answer she had gotten for the past two hours and she needed a break, and maybe some pain killers. "Alright Diamond, lets go take a fifteen and try again." Dinky leaves the room muttering something about a banana muffin and orange juice.  



 

"Ok Diamond," Dinky began. "This next part will suck but its a thing that has to be done." she grabs a mop and sits it on the wall. "Janitorial work." 

Diamond looks at all the supplies that was in the cart confused. "Uh, what was that thing you grabbed?" 

"A mop?" Dinky replied unsurely 

"Right, right, and what is that thing?" Diamond said pointing at a pointy white stick. 

"A toilet bowl scrubber?" 

"Ok, and what are those?" 

Dinky suppresses the urge to bang her head on the wall. "Diamond, those are gloves." she gives a pair over to Diamond while putting on her own pair. "Now put those on, we're starting on the stallions side first." 

B-B-But we're fillies!" shrieked Diamond. "We shouldn't go in there! What if some stallion is in there doing something unspeakable!" 

Dinky steps inside asking if anypony was there, when she received no response she stepped back out. "We're good, nopony is in there." Dinky grabs a sign indicating that the restroom was closed in front of the stallion's side. "Come on, lets get this over with." Dinky grabs a couple of cleaning supplies and walks inside with Diamond behind her. 

"Blegh!" Diamond covers her nose from the horrible smell. "It smells in here!" 

"I know, that's why we're starting in here first," Dinky said wiping down the sinks. "It's tough, but if we just power through this, we'll get done."

Growling angrily, Diamond puts on the gloves and grabs some supplies. "This sucks... so much." she makes her way to the end of the of the room and opens one of the stalls.  

Meanwhile 

"Huh?" Princess Luna turns her head at the sound of a very loud shriek. 

GAME! This game winner is... Luigi! 

Princess Celestia cheers over her victory over her sister. "Yes! I win! Go Luigi! Go Luigi!" 

"But that didn't count!" Luna exclaimed. "I got distracted by the sound of a young filly crying out in pure despair and horror!"  

"Doesn't matter, now I believe we had a deal." 

Princess Luna's horn lights up and throws a large body like pillow at Celestia. "Ha, ha, ha, yes." she stands up carrying the body pillow with her magic. "I now retire to my room, nopony disturb me." Celestia leaves her younger sister's room with the pillow. 

"I'm winning my shirtless Link pillow back Celestia!" Luna yelled after her. "Don't get too attached to it!" 





"Ok, so let's try doing some behind the counter stuff this time." Dinky said. "And hopefully this one wont cause my ears to bleed or temporary deafness."  

"So what are we doing this time?" Diamond asked leaning on the counter. 

"Customer Service, ya know like layaways and returns and the like." Dinky replied as a customer approaches the two fillies. "Yes sir, how can we help you today?" 

Lord Tirek stands at the counter and sits a metal like robot on the counter. "Uh, yes hi, my name is LORD Tirek and I would like to return this."  

"Ok, not a problem," Dinky replied with a smile. "Do you have a receipt Mr. Lord Tirek?"  

Tirek reaches into his wallet and retrieves the white slip of paper handing it to the gray unicorn." Thank you sir, and what was the problem with our product?" 

"Well I bought this little robot here in the hopes that it would help me reclaim my birthright, you know ruling Equestria in fear and terror that sort of thing." he said casually. "But it's busted." 

"So what's the problem?" Diamond asked looking the robot over. "It looks fine to me." she turns it on making Tirek gasp in fear. 

"NO! YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! HE'LL DESTROY US ALL!" the robot turns to Tirek grasping his arm in a metal clasp dragging him away. "ITS GOT MY ARM! ITS GOT MY ARM! HELP ME!" 

Diamond and Dinky only watch as the robot drags the struggling Tirek into the backroom where his cries help soon turned into cries of pain. 

"ARRRRGH, GAAAHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHH! WHY PAIN BOT?! WHY?!" 

"Ohh, that sounds painful. "Diamond shuddered.  



 

Button Mash exits from his office locking the door behind him. It was quitting time and he just got all his work done and now it was time to go home and relax with Sweetie Belle. He sighs tiredly as he bids his fellow co-workers good bye as they left for home. He also wondered what Diamond Tiara was up to, she hasn't been in his office complaining about something all day. He sees the two fillies walking up to the door looking just as exhausted as he did. "Hello girls, so how did the training go?" 

"Bite me." Dinky muttered walking past Button Mash and out the door. 

"Sheesh, what's her problem?" Button said to himself as Diamond walked next to him. "Ah, Diamond, so how did things go?" 

Diamond stops in front of Button with the meanest scowl on her face. "Blow me." she continues walking out the door heading for home. Button stared blankly as he watched Diamond leave the store. 

"Ok then, so I take it things went well." he said.