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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") â€” 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:

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Carol Blymire
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Â· Jul 12, 2019
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In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. She was (by my estimation) in her late 20s.

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Carol Blymire
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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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6:21 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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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.

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That particular edit was correcting the spelling of â€œhampsterâ€ to â€œhamsterâ€. Apparently she had used the phrase â€œlike spinning in a hamster wheelâ€ in this draft (presumably) speech or or op-ed.
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6:23 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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The young woman kept saying, â€œI donâ€™t know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it.â€ The boss said (calmly), â€œBut thatâ€™s not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster.â€

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Carol Blymire
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Young woman: â€œBut you donâ€™t know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so thatâ€™s how I spell it.â€
The boss (remaining very calm and professional), letâ€™s go to dictionary.com and look it up together.
(mind you, this is a woman in her late 20s, not a 5th grader)
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6:26 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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The young woman insists she doesnâ€™t need to look it up because itâ€™s FINE to spell it with a P because thatâ€™s HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT.

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The boss says, â€œLetâ€™s look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.â€
They do, and I can see the young woman is fighting back tears.
The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy.
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6:28 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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Boss says, â€œI know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when youâ€™re working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career, but itâ€™s a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do.â€

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Carol Blymire
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Boss gets up from table and goes to her office and the young woman can barely hold it together.
She moves to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff loudly on the table top, and starts texting.
A minute later, her phone rings.
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6:31 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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It was her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent, and Iâ€™m sure her mother maybe thought she was in the ER or something.
She then ... PUTS HER MOM ON SPEAKERPHONE. IN THE WORKPLACE.

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Carol Blymire
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She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like â€œhamsterâ€.
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6:33 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot and she doesnâ€™t have to listen to her and she should go to the bossâ€™ boss to file a complaint about not allowing creativity in her writing.

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The young woman kept saying, â€œI thought what I wrote was perfect and she just made all these changes and then had the nerve to tell me I was spelling words wrong when I know they are right because that is how I have always spelled them.â€
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6:36 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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Carol Blymire
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She then went on (still on speakerphone) to tell her mom Iâ€™m very great and office-inappropriate detail about how hungover she was and what she and her friends did with some guys the night before. Mom laughed and laughed.

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Carol Blymire
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The colleagues in and around the workplace kept looking at one another and some even put earbuds/headphones in/on. It appeared as though this was a regular thing with her.
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6:38 PM - Jul 12, 2019

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