Personal Narrative: Taking Charge Of My Life

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Taking Charge of my Life

During my five years of service at Comet Cleaners, I experienced a lot of joy, satisfaction, highs, lows and respect for the job I did and the people I worked with and served on a daily basis. Later, after I had been on board for about two years they sent in a new manager Mrs. Brenda Burns to replace Shonda Johnson and things as we knew it were changing. We had our fair share of good and bad days from machine breakdowns,
Then we walked into the office took our seats to find out what’s the problem or complaint today. I never once though she’d fire me. So we both took a seat and I asked her, “What’s up? She was so flustered and nervous as if she didn’t know where or how to began, finally she said that Charlie and the other bosses wanted her to let me go. I was totally speechless let me go “I exclaimed” my heart sunk I was knocked back, it knocked the wind clean out of me, I wanted to vomit I was sick, and I totally couldn’t believe she was firing me, me of all people. When I finally found my voice again I asked why and she refused to give a reason and it hurt. I got so angry with her that I raised my voice, jumped out of my seat begging for a reason why. I think I scared her because she jumped back and got up and asked me to leave her office now! I caught myself breathed deeply then apologized told myself to calm down and asked her again in a calmer voice why was she firing me what have I done to deserve this and she still refused to tell me why. Then I told her that I was not leaving until she’d give me a reason or explanation, why. So to get rid of me she called Charlie gave me the phone, so that I could speak with him. Before I even spoke a word he told me to leave the premises before they called the police and have I escorted from the building because I was no longer needed or wanted. It tore me apart I was crushed. They