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Ehrenreich's Nickel And Dimed

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“When Melissa is getting ready to leave work at six, I tell her I’m quitting, possibly the next day. Well then, she thinks she’ll be going too, because she doesn’t want to work here without me”(Ehrenreich 189). Throughout my reading of this book, I have notice that I could connect to various points the author is trying to portray. When I first read this passage is made me feel nostalgic to when I used to work in the hotel. The hotel work has terrible, but my co-workers were amazing. There was one worker in particular that worked with me in all my shifts, except on the days that we had off. Even though I was only there for a couple of months we grew every close to each other and we would even hang out after work. A few days before I quitted,

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