I Got Fired in the Lobby, Then My Rival Called

joined in September. So did a contracts analyst named Sheila who had watched me get escorted out and sent me a handwritten note two weeks later that said, I hated that they did that to you.

I kept that note in my desk.

One Tuesday afternoon, almost a year to the day after I’d been fired, the reception desk buzzed me.

“There’s a man here asking if you’ll continue reading …