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goodbyes are bullshit

I am writing this over my lunch break in an effort to reset my brain as this day so far has been an enormous hemorrhoid and I need to change things up. I have a close work friend who is moving on to better things and today is her last day. If I’m being honest that could be why I’m in such a pissy place but I would never admit that outloud. I am happy for her and know she will go on to do incredible things but it’s hard to not remenisc. There are few people I laugh as hard with or speak as honestly to and I will not give that up just because she decided to improve her life.

She is one of the few work humans I have allowed in on this little secret so I know she will read it and probably not like it… tough shit. She also weaponized this thing by sending me a gift related to something I wrote. What the fuck is that? I’m supposed to send her a “going away” gift and she pulls this bullshit. (she sent me an Amazon gift card to buy good sheets and stop suffering the set I don’t like) I am admittedly bad at the whole gift thing but this is just rubbing my nose in it.

Anyway, I have a ton of great stories that feature her but since some of them could be considered of a sensitive nature and as to not sully her reputation in a public forum without permission and I will only tell a harmless one. At the time of her hire I was working from home as well so we had to meet here in Saint Paul for her onboarding. We finished our first day and I was relaxing in my room when the phone rang. It was her and before I could even ask if everything was okay she hit me with “do you have an extra pair of socks?” Yes, but you realize that I’m easily three times your size and my socks are going to look like 80s leg warmers on you right? “Theyre not for me, I’ll buy you some more but there is a homeless guy who just needs a new pair of socks and no stores are open and he really needs them right now and its really cold outside could you please bring them down?”

She was waiting inside of the lobby and there was in fact a homeless dude right out the front doors with shoes off and no socks sitting amongst what appeared to be a pile of travel sized supplies. It turned out that she had already purchased everything in the hotel suply store and the one thing he really wanted was socks. I gave her the clean spare pair and she went out front to deliver them to her new friend. I realized then that she was a better person than I’ll ever be and I had probably made one of the best hires in my entire management career.

She proved that last statement to be true every day. And now that she’s moving on I refuse to say goodby. She’s not dying, just changing jobs. We are still going to talk.

You can’t get rid of me that easily.

I feel better now. Thanks for listening.

*Authors note: Origionally I introduced her by name and wrote it throughout but then I had second thoughts. You should know if the pronouns get dicey its because I put them in afterwards censonship style.