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#JusJoJan the 7th – Just the tempest

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Back when I was in my late twenties, I lived in an apartment and supported myself by working in various offices for an agency.

I remember my agency called me late one afternoon and asked me to be at a new job first thing the next morning, as they needed someone desperately.

But when I woke up the next morning, I was so sick, I couldn’t even get out of bed to call them to tell them I couldn’t make it.

They didn’t call me again—I’d been effectively fired for not showing up on the first day.

Making me the tempest temp there ever was.

*ba-dum-tss!*

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Author: Linda G. Hill

There's a writer in here, clawing her way out.

27 thoughts on “#JusJoJan the 7th – Just the tempest”

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  1. TamrahJo
    January 9, 2022 at 2:08 pm

    LOVE IT! I worked temp gigs for years – sometimes full time, sometimes as a side hustle, etc., – My ‘tempest temp’ assignment, ever?? Called to report to a 4-6 week, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, data entry temp job – for a small collection company – arrived – was shown the stack of ‘paper’ to be entered digitally into a system (overview of system) and worked that day, worked until it was time for me to take my lunch break and I poked my head in and said, “Okay – the stack you gave me is all entered – going to lunch – but will need the next stack to do when I get back from lunch” –

    “You’re done???? Already??? Let me check…..”

    She spot checked for about 20 minutes – just pulling random paperwork from the done ‘pile’ and searching in their digital system – –

    “Um, that was all of them – I can’t believe you got it all done! We had a temp in here for two weeks, working that same stack!”

    Sigh – let go after less than 11 hours of ‘paid time’ and when I called in to say, “available for new assignment’ – they made me cool my heels for over a WEEK, while they verified I had really done the ‘job requested’ – sigh – that was the day I started really questioning the whole “temp gig’ on both sides of the transaction – it became rather a “heads we win, tails you lose’ operation – – – LOL

    thus? I became a Freelancer!! 😀

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  5. lssattitudeofgratitude
    January 7, 2022 at 9:47 pm

    The universe took care of you. In reality the temp company was a front for the mob and you would have inadvertently been involved with money laundering. Thank goodness your guardian angel took care if it. (LOL)

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  6. Sadje
    January 7, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    Maybe it wasn’t meant to be

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  7. darsword
    January 7, 2022 at 7:17 pm

    Hehe! Greatest use of a prompt I still can’t seem to find myself using. All I see are tea pots!

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  8. Sally
    January 7, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Hahaha! I love the way you used the prompt! Great job!

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  9. Liz H
    January 7, 2022 at 6:28 pm

    *THAT* was a fabulous take on the prompt!
    Never saw it coming! 😆😆🤣🤣😂

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  11. Carol anne
    January 7, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    Well, you had good reason not to show up! Granted, they did not know it! Hahaha!

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  12. Maggie
    January 7, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    I saw what you did there! Good for you, though. Sounds like it would have been a not-so-great gig.

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