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Kym VdP's avatar

Love a good story! 👏🏻 What a weird system to work with? I've never heard of that before!

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Samantha Coté's avatar

I know right! It was very on brand for how everything at that job worked 😂😂

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

This story makes me mad still. Haha. But you handled it well.

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Samantha Coté's avatar

All’s well that ends well I suppose 😂

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Cynthia Hamilton's avatar

❤️

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Emily's avatar

Ugh. So steamed about this because I’m sure you were clearly one of the greats — if you really enjoyed the work and took pride in doing it properly, you’re way ahead of most of the people who work there. Bureaucratic ineptitude makes me crazy. But it’s their loss!

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Samantha Coté's avatar

Haha! Thank you, I feel I don’t deserve the compliment but I will take it anyway.

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Zane Paxton's avatar

I didn’t know you were from Nebraska?!

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Samantha Coté's avatar

Yup! Born and raised

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Sodak's avatar

This is great writing… I certainly relate to the meditative way a repetitive job feels. And, fortunately or unfortunately, I have been fired more than once myself…

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Zane Paxton's avatar

That’s awesome. I wasn’t born here, but I now live in Lincoln. Glad to know another Nebraska-based writer!

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