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from virtualjournalist:
While going through a divorce, and recovering from painful surgery, Laura Meade Kirk was let go by the Providence Journal, where she’d worked for 23 years. Let’s just say the timing wasn’t all that great:
I then hobbled to HR to listen to the company spiel about the layoffs. Blah, blah, blah. “Do you have any questions?” I was asked.
“No,” I replied. But holding out my arms, with the IV lines hanging, I did say: “Your timing sucks.”I then signed the requisite forms and crutched off to the elevator, fighting back tears. I wasn’t going to let them see me cry. I punched at the buttons, but the elevator never came.
Of course not. Just my luck.
So I crawled down the stairs, on my hands and knees, careful to make sure my crutches didn’t catch the IV lines and rip them from my heart.
Kirk’s story ends up having a happy ending, perhaps validating the old adage, “It’s darkest just before the dawn.” But what a way to get there.
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