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Five days of hell on the phone, selling lies and pieces of the Titanic carpet. A sinking ship of a company with a captain who gropes and leers and a crew who watches it happen. Five days of pain standing all day with no breaks. My feet are sore, my back aches My voice cracks, my ears ring. But I can't complain or quit or I'll lose my needed pay. Five days of shame enduring harassment and abuse. From my boss, from my coworkers from the customers, from myself. I feel dirty, I feel worthless I feel trapped, I feel hopeless. Five days of hell that's all I could take. I walked out and never looked back. I left behind the Titanic carpet And the monsters who made me suffer. I'm free, and yet, I’m still drowning. *I wrote this poem on January 23, 2024, as part of a ’30 days of poetry’ January challenge. This was day 23 and the prompt was: You Can’t Fire Me, I Quit: Use one of the worst job-related memories you can think of as a creative writing prompt. I worked for five horrifying days as a telemarketer. It was/is a very traumatic experience in my life. I chose to write it in a slightly humorous way. One day I will write a full blog about my job from hell. I wrote two poems about my job. The other one is called “Clocking Out of Chaos.”
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