January 25, 2020 Issue, Page 7 of 10

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Activities Page 7 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Saturday, January 25, 2020 New hire is disappointed to Qne,-s—-Believe It or Not! be working as a gofer could be contributing more relationship with your father woe cpieys.com Dear Abby to the company than you are may not have been like the currently doing, but do not ones they had with their fa- DEAR ABBY: I recently complain about the menial landed a new job and was thers. That you were “a bit We (Bsr By Ale! tasks. It often falls to the excited about doing work newest member of the team estranged” may have made that would be directly in line to do these things, and the his death less traumatic than with my education and back- last thing you want is to be if he had been a major part ground. I left a job of more perceived as someone who ON suu tHe GrHe LEG BONES OF BAS ARE than a decade to pursue this of your life. It should not be 12,760 FRAMES 20 PEN ATHAT ONLY field. My problem is not a team player. In time necessary to put on a display is, I’m be- you mu. gocomies.com ing asked to carry luggage, will see if this job is the make coffee, run errands, right fit for you. of sackcloth and ashes. Ey- etc. This was not in my job eryone grieves differently, 6,469,962 SPOTS description, nor was it what DEAR ABBY: My dad so remind them of that. ON ALU THE Doce — I was hired for. died of cancer a couple of Abby, I have worked months ago. While we were HAPPY NEW YEAR TO many intern positions. I do a bit estranged, I did love MY ASIAN READERS not believe I am too good for him, and his loss was pain- any job, but I have worked ful. Despite this, I have ac- WHO CELEBRATE THE my way up and have abilities cepted things and moved on. LUNAR NEW YEAR: The that could contribute greatly The issue is that anytime Year of the Rat begins today. to this company. What they I talk to my friends about I wish a happy, healthy new have me doing now is not it, they assume I’m really in year to all who celebrate this beneficial for me or them. shock. My friends are older, so I suspect they think it’s holiday. People born in the If you believe I should say something, what should because I’m only 22, but Year ofthe Rat are said to be it be? I'm afraid they can it’s frustrating that they dis- instinctive, acute and alert, easily find a substitute who regard my personal growth which makes them excep- may perform these tasks, and the way I’ve dealt with tional in business. They are Desert BEING BORN WiTHOUT ARMS, as they aren’t every day, his death. JESSICA COX OF TUCSON, ARIZONA,BECAME THE WORLDS FIRST MiPemacn Aran Gaq On AT I Onn but it’s often enough to I realize I have moved sophisticated and popular in make me uncomfortable. on fairly quickly, but the social interaction. But they It’s a small company, and way I see it, death is a part can sometimes be stubborn my pay is good, so I don’t of life, and what’s done is and picky. Notable individu- want to leave. Please advise done. How can I explain als born in the Year of the me, Abby. -- SCARED TO to them that while I’m sad, ACROSS I have accepted what hap- Rat include not only George PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED SPEAK UP 1 Stretches the pened without sounding like Washington, Wolfgang Mo- truth DEAR SCARED: I see I didn’t care about my dad? zart, William Shakespeare 5 Low grower GIE|RIEBBDIE|B|T|ISHEGIA/LIE nothing wrong with having - MOVED ON IN THE and Charlotte Bronte, but 10 Part of MIT O|M|E|N D/E|L|H/I O|M/A|R a discussion with your em- WEST also Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben 14 Drive the RI LITA T/R/O|U/B A/DIO/UIR ployer. 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