[the Writing of Kuypers]
Well, I had nothing going on
Well, as I was writing this note
Wait, I sidetracked there, sorry.
I think she left then,
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Dreams 04/29/06 employee written up
I think I must have been out of town
over the weekend, I don’t know,
but the next thing I know
is that I’m working at Talcott again.
A magazine must have just
been sent to Publishers Printing
in Shepherdsville, Kentucky,
which is 16 miles outside of Louisville
at that moment,
so I was hand-writing a note
(I don’t know to who the note was for,
it must have been a personal note
because if it were a business note
I would have been typing it into the computer)
because my work was done,
Carolyn came into my office.
Now, it’s strange that Carolyn
would appear at my office,
because I know I always typed
complaining notes to the publisher
of her magazine at Talcott,
Susan,
but no matter how much
I ever pointed anything out,
nothing would change,
I found out after I quit there,
that Susan eventually quit.
I could only guess that’s
when the boss saw all of the notes
I wrote about Carolyn’s
failures,
because I heard that two weeks
after Susan quit,
Carolyn was fired.
Maybe someone actually listed
and noticed her inadequacies.
But what I remember
is that Carolyn came into my office
that I shared with one or two other people
(like I used to at Talcott
before we got the new offices)
and asked me of I saw the write-up
done about me, apparently for
me somehow failing as an employee.
I turned and saw a sheet
taped to the cabinet behind me,
and I wasn’t angry or anything,
I just asked what it as for.
She said they couldn’t get a hold of me
after the magazine was sent to the printer
and an incorrect ad was placed
and that a salesman
will have to give a free ad or two
to the client because of this.
but I wasn’t bothered
about this stupid form
lambasting me,
because first of all,
the company didn’t have
a right to me on the weekend
after my work was done,
but also,
I’m not the one in charge
of ad placement,
the production manager was,
so this wasn’t my fault at all.
I just remember thinking
that this isn’t my problem,
I was apparently used to this
finger pointing at me,
but this is common,
because everyone is always
trying to making other things
my problem.
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