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I had just got hired to work at one of Houston’s biggest law firm’s for the summer and I was totally excited. Being that I had never worked in any thing professional besides a fast food joint, I had absolutely no clothes to wear to work. So I remembered that my older sister had bags full of clothes that she was throwing away out of her closet but they looked perfectly fine to me. I found a pair of grey slacks and a alright button down shirt to wear for my first day at work.

When I walked into the firm, I felt like I was well put together until after my first staff meeting of the morning. I walked in the only seat was the one closest to the big boss of the firm. I sat down and I begin to hear my pants rip…Talk about embarrassing! To make things worst I dropped my pen on the floor and when I reached to get it buttons popped off my shirt. So picture me with my chest all exposed, trying to hide it by writing notes to block the cleavage that was pouring out of my shirt. I wanted to crawl into a hole and just die!

The meeting was just about done and I thought that I was home free until the boss asked me to stand up and introduce myself…What do you do? Do I expose my chest for the entire firm to see and risk that being my first and last day or do I risk everyone behind me seeing the purple heart panties that I wore that day…Tough decision, I know.

So I stood up slowly as not to draw any more attention to the peep show that I was giving to the people behind me, with the note book in front of my chest and I introduced myself. As I began to sit down the boss tells me that I might want to excuse myself to call my Mom. What would posses him to say such a thing because I thought my introduction was perfect??? I couldn’t hold back the tears and I began to walk out of the meeting when he says, “You just need to tell her that you need a whole new outfit because that shirt and those pants in that condition are unprofessional.” I wanted to drop off the face of the earth as I thought I was getting fired.

 

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