Sharlene Wilson

Wilson, Sharlene

Mentioned in Passions in Death (Monday, August 15 - Friday, August 19, 2061)

Personal Information

• Relationships: Unnamed spouse; two unnamed children, still at home
• Age: Early 40s
• Former Occupation: Sales

Interesting Facts

• She worked at On Trend in sales, but Greg Barney, the manager, pushed her out about eighteen months ago.
• Barney made a habit of saying how she’d make more as a professional mother, and how much better off her kids would be if she stayed home. She’d say how she liked working, being out in the world, and her kids were fine. It irritated her some, but she didn’t think much of it. He also wondered, out loud, why she wanted to work in a men’s shop. Wouldn’t she be more comfortable, if she insisted on working, putting in her time at a woman’s boutique.
• After a while, he started cutting her hours and hired another part-timer - a man. She took off for a school function, with advance notice, but he wrote her up for it. He continued to undermine her in little ways, claimed some customers complained about her attitude, her service, which she said was bullshit. Eventually she quit - decided it wasn’t worth the annoyance of dealing with him. He told her she was making the right choice for her family.
• Barney suggested she resign her part-time position and take professional parent status instead, since the professional mother stipend would have been more than her monthly pay from On Trend, especially after he cut her hours to just a handful, hiring another part-time (male) employee - a “managerial decision.”