An Email from My Boss The Monday After The Freaky Friday My Toddler Went To Work in My Body

Jenn Knott
Slackjaw
Published in
4 min readNov 4, 2019

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Dear Gillian,

Now that we’ve had the weekend to decompress, I’d like to circle back to Friday’s — let’s say “unique” — work performance and office conduct.

I consider you a professional, Gillian, and thus was shocked to arrive in the morning and find you wandering the office looking…

Jenn Knott
Slackjaw

Connoisseur of quiet, makes exceptions for dance parties. Writing in McSweeney’s, American Bystander, The Belladonna, Slackjaw. Tweeties @jkusesherwords