The boss, Lengel, seems to think he has authority over Sammy, which he kind of does being the boss and all. Sammy knows that Lengel thinks he's a great man, Sammy says, "I forgot to say that he thinks he'll be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it's called the Great Alexandrov and Petooshki Tea Company or something" (371) . This is where the story becomes more complex; since Lengel thinks he's the big boss, he decides he wants to say something to the girls about being in bathing suits. The girls were only in the store to buy something for “Queenie's” mother, but from Sammy's perspective it seems like Lengel just wanted to prove that he was higher up than the other employees. Sammy thinks that Lengel disrespected the girls by telling them that they should wear dresses the next time they came into the store, and this made Sammy angry; Sammy wanted to seem like some sort of hero in the eyes of the girls and quits his job on the spot in hopes that the girls would feel it and know that he was doing it for