/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You've been drifting through life aimlessly, when circumstances align and you find yourself with a new job. It's just as a night shift shelf-stocker at the local store. The store is deserted, so you don't have to interact with customers. You don't even have to work a cash register. It's just opening boxes and putting things on shelves. You can do that.
Several months into your new job, you've gained a new appreciation for the people that work behind-the-scenes of society. The unthanked, but necessary people who keep things running for minimum wage. You've also notices a few... oddities. The backroom is a maze of boxes, pallets, and stacks of goods. It also seems to rearrange itself at odd times. At first you thought it was your co-workers, or maybe the day-shift employees just moving stuff around - then you covered a shift by yourself, and noticed the same phenomenon.
There was also a couple who used to flirt around a lot, and fooled around in the back room, until some boxes toppled over. OSHA got involved, somebody got fired, it was a whole big thing. But people said they were pushed over by somebody - but all the employees were accounted for at the time.
Your co-workers joke that it's haunted, but you figured it was just night-timer humor, everything is creepier at night, yadda yadda. Part of that is the mysterious leak. Boxes will turn up damp, or product water-damaged, but there's no signs of a ceiling drip, or faulty plumbing. Finally, you've been hearing... things. Like heavy breathing, every time you go back there. Like right now.

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What's been lurking in the back of your local grocery store?
Will you be quitting, or aim to be promoted to night-shift manager to protect her?