Memoirs - Course 3 - Week 4

Write roughly a page (200-300 words) of narrative that’s meant to be read aloud. It can be about absolutely anything, any true-life scene from your experience that may (or may not) be included in a final memoir or essay you write, but it should be confined to one specific scene. Use onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, rhythmic effects, made-up words or names, dialect - any kind of sound-effect you like - but NOT rhyme or meter. Prior to submitting, have the scene read aloud to you by someone else.

Do not steal for the owner.

I really want to talk about this. I got my first internship. The boss, my direct boss, was Ambrosio. Ambrosio warned me of everything, everything. I loved the guy. Rest in peace. COVID took him.

Ambrosio told me about a company where he worked. Called Ramirez group. An automotive manufacturer company.

Small hardware stores went to Grupo Ramirez and made proposals of being a provider. The hardware store would give credit and would give gloves, boots, hammers, etc. All needed it for the factory workers and the working line. The purchasing department boss, when a new provider offered something, used to say “yes” at the moment. Small business owners felt amazing; they had a giant client that required 100 pairs of boots, 100 hammers, etc.

The trick is that this big company did not pay, and Mister Ricardo, boss of the purchasing department, liked to close deals with small business owners. Then the company wouldn’t pay, and the small business would go into bankruptcy. Piece of shit he was.

This practice was among all companies, if they fired you if you quit, etc. They were stealing from their peers and people with dreams, but they were still stealing for the boss. The utility went for the boss. All those savings were for the boss.

Mister Ricardo was then fired; he did not have any proper skills, and many people in the industry of procurement departments hated his guts. You know what happened, right?

For years, Mister Ricardo went to Ramirez group begging for money. They actually paid him all, like 80% of what they owed him, but it took him 5 years and constant lawsuits, supplicating them, and a lot of coming and going.