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I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking a call-in show about what matters to you. I'm going to start out by telling you some of my own

corporate horror stories in no particular order. These are the ones that just came to mind.

One, my boss asking me to house it for her, even though I lived in Queens and she lived in the East Village. And it was, I mean,

it was an hour door to door. She needed me to house it because she had a hamster that needed

taking care of, but the hamster like couldn't come to my apartment. I don't know why. Maybe it was

just never brought up. Maybe I never asked. The hamster did go missing sometime during my tenure

as an unpaid house sitter, unpaid. And what I remember is her husband being mad at me that a hamster

was missing. Hamsters go missing. That's what they do. That's what they

do. Hamsters disappear. That's a fact of life. He said something to me. I called them in the

Hamptons. I was like, I'm so sorry to tell you this. Like, the hamster's missing. I don't know what

to do. And he said he was disappointed in me, which was like, gun to the heart. And then he said that it was my responsibility to put the hamster back when I was done

playing with it. I was 23 years old. I wasn't playing with a hamster. Now I'm 42 and I play with

hamsters. But the point is that was not my favorite experience. A different boss set up cameras in her office. This is a small office. Like her office,

office is like the whole office, everybody. It's the size of the room that I'm recording in right

now, which is the size of a living room. And her office was, you know, in Eden kitchen attached.

Why is it so hard? I can't, I don't know what sizes

things are, so this is difficult for me. Small office. She had cameras installed so she could sit

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