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journal, 08/22/97




A co-worker quit from the company I work for today. I work in an office with about thirty-five people. Now this co-worker was in charge of our trade shows and quit two days before our annual trade show was about to begin. Apparently she was at a meeting about the trade show and someone else started badgering her and twenty minutes after the meeting she was on the phone with her husband saying, “It’s been bad enough that every day after work I cry when I get home, but now I’m on the phone crying while I’m at work.” So her husband told her it’s okay if she wants to leave, they can work it out. So leave she did. She collected her things, said, “Fuck you all, I’m quitting,” and just... left.

Now I only got to hear about this scene second-hand, I didn’t actually see her or even get to say good-bye to her, and that’s a real shame because I probably would have shook her hand and thanked her for doing something that just about every person in our office has pretty much dreamt about on a daily basis. I mean, when I heard about what she did I let out a low, sadistic laugh, you know, one of those laughs that comes from really deep down, because we haven’t had one of those angry quitting scenes in a while, and believe me, they’re always fun to watch.

And I laughed like that because I know what she was going through and I know what a relief it must have been for her to do it.

She’s not the first person to do this to my boss, and I’m sure she won’t be the last. Once I saw a saleswoman walk right up to my boss in the hallway, get right up in his face, and tell him, “You’re an ass-hole. You have no idea how to run this business. You are incompetent, and so are your favorite employees. You make me sick. I quit.”

I’ve only been here four years, and I can tell I can’t take it here much longer, but in these past four years I’ve seen a turnover rate of like forty percent or something and the retraining alone puts too much stress on a staff.



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