Personal Work on the Company Clock
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Did you hear about the girl who was fired for writing a novel at work? Everyone was impressed at how she toiled away in front of the computer, coming in early and staying past 5 p.m. Turns out she was burning the midnight oil working on projects that had nothing to do with her actual job. The company confronted her, she protested, they fired her. End of story.


Written by: Anne Zimmerman
Anne Zimmerman received her MA in Woman's Studies from San Diego State University. She works for a small, family run winery in McMinnville, Oregon and is writing a book about the food writer M.F.K. Fisher.