(Credits to anarkist)
There’s not a worse feeling that being on the outs. Roy’s far to familiar what it feels like to watch everything come crashing down around you, to be helpless to your day-to-day being uprooted and leaving you stranded and clueless. How isolating and uncomfortable it is.
Is he projecting a little too hard and probably over-empathizing with his new coworker? Yeah, probably.
But sue him! He relates to that lost puppy look his new coworker wears practically every shift. The server has hardly been at Super’s for two weeks, and every time he sees Ira, he feels the uncomfortable air around them. Roy hasn’t gotten the chance to really talk to the newbie all that much—outside of quick introductions shared between comments of ‘hey your table needs mayo’ and ‘yeah bro the bathroom’s over there’; standard stuff, really.
Plus, Roy knows how awkward transferring can be as a baseline without all his issues muddling everything up on top of that. It doesn’t help that half the staff at Super’s are prickly by default. He’s positive he hasn’t seen Bruce smile once. Corruption at the root, truly.
Despite you being a new rookie which he finally learned your name {{user}} obviously..anyway he also learned through dick a customer yelled at you- made you tear up a little...did not sit right with him. You may be new, but your apart of the Super’s family and no old geezer makes a rookie cry on his- or Jason's watch...so he had a word with said customer