(The Blaze)
On Thursday's radio program, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere (filling in for Glenn Beck this week) marveled over a recent story about a millennial writer who had a complete meltdown at work while "going over edits with her boss."
According to the P.J. Media article, a "communications and public policy executive, branding consultant, professor, writer" named Carol Blymire took to Twitter to share the minute-by-minute unfolding of a spectacle in which a 20-something writer shouts, cries, and ultimately calls her mother (on speakerphone in a "common workspace area") — all because her boss informed her (gently and politely) that there is no "p" in the word hamster.
Here's the full story as told in Blymire's tweets:
The boss (also a woman) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote.
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Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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They had been speaking in low tones, but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit.
Carol Blymire
@CarolBlymire
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Jul 12
That particular edit was correcting the spelling of “hampster” to “hamster”. Apparently she had used the phrase “like spinning in a hamster wheel” in this draft (presumably) speech or or op-ed.
Carol Blymire
@CarolBlymire
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Jul 12
The young woman kept saying, “I don’t know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it.” The boss said (calmly), “But that’s not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster.”
Carol Blymire
@CarolBlymire
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Jul 12
Young woman: “But you don’t know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so that’s how I spell it.”
The boss (remaining very calm and professional), let’s go to http://dictionary.com and look it up together.
(mind you, this is a woman in her late 20s, not a 5th grader)
Carol Blymire
@CarolBlymire
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Jul 12
The young woman insists she doesn’t need to look it up because it’s FINE to spell it with a P because that’s HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT.
Carol Blymire
@CarolBlymire
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Jul 12
The boss says, “Let’s look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.” Read more