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Going Places With Gordon Harold (the thrilling conclusion)
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Gordon took some time to think about a few more examples of his daydreaming — which is the reason why he got fired from Crucible. Just a handful of mental vacations. They didn’t cause any harm. It’s not like Gordon was driving a bus full of kids down the highway or anything. He was a doggone project manager. One thing is for certain. He and Travis didn’t believe his daydreaming impacted his employee performance enough to warrant getting fired. He was warned about it once but by a junior designer, Jillian Schuster, not even by Veronica, his boss.
His former employer let him go the first week of October in 2017 and Travis Bott, of the law office of Davis, Davis and Bott told Gordon that people daydream all the time and the ones who aren’t daydreaming are hungover. This made sense to Gordon. He saw lots of people come into work hungover. He agreed fervently with this notion.
Up to this point, Gordon has submitted two of the biggest, longest examples of the places he went when he rubbed on his rocks and retreated from meetings. Travis Bott wanted one more. One more recollection that when brought to light would prove that Gordon was only stowing away mentally for minutes at a time, and only occasionally. Once he could prove that, Travis Bott thought he also had a silver bullet he would use to exonerate his…
