# To my (now) previous employer:

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-now-previous-employer/592329>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 11, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-now-previous-employer/592329 "2011-08-11T13:54:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-now-previous-employer/592329/21 "2011-08-12T15:31:58Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> _So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:  
> “Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head.”_–Simon & Garfunkel

You know, I remember thinking the first time I heard this … “That sounds awfully detailed and insensitive for evening headlines. Richard Cory’s family probably sent a few harshly-worded letters to the editor over that one.”

**echo6160** , sounds like you’re lucky to be free of that place. My sympathies on seven months of misery.

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