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Take These Stories And…

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Alright, enough with the shoving already!

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The Tacoma Public Library invited us to produce a special, second show of real-life work stories because this month the annual “Tacoma Reads Together” book is Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickle and Dimed”. It’s Barbara’s first-person account of trying to make a living working minimum wage jobs back in 2001.

So, TONIGHT, TUESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2014, we bring you a FREE SHOW featuring four storytellers who didn’t go undercover to learn the truth about working in America. They just took the best jobs they could find. However, they learned the same thing Barbara did:

“What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.”

 

So, if you don’t get big bucks from working, what do you get?
The kinds of lessons money can’t buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 JOIN US AT TACOMA’S MAIN BRANCH LIBRARY, OLYMPIC ROOM, TONIGHT AT 7:00pm!

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Take This Job And Shove It TOO

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Because there are more stories about bad jobs than there is time to share them, we’ve got MORE chances to tell your “Take This Job And Shove It” tale!   REGISTER NOW for our FREE WORKSHOP at Wheelock Library in Tacoma on Saturday, October 11 from 10a-11:30a.   A bad job, a cranky boss or outrageous co-workers can be the source…

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Take This Slam And Shove It

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Slam Final

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

After our main-stage storytellers at “Take This Job And Shove It”, five audience members took the stage with their own five-minute tales of crappy work.

The winner, Dave Rodgers, took the “crappy” theme literally. In an interesting twist, the next slam storyteller, Cindy Teixeira, revealed that she shared a similar experience in the bowels of the city’s plumbing.

All of the story slam participants were brave to step in front of roomful of strangers and share their lives, right off the top of their heads. We thank them for joining the fun.

Dave Rodgers, “Sewer Dreams” **SLAM WINNER**

Dave

 

Cindy Teixeira, “It’s Never Too Late”

Cindy

 

Michael Haeflinger, Dangerous Delivery in Dayton

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Gwendolyn Bronson, “Second Time’s The Charm”

Gwendolyn

 

Jered Perez, “Boob Chuck”

Jered

Story Slam: Hot Pursuit

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Bruce Smith accepting his win.

Bruce Smith accepting his win at Drunken Telegraph’s April show, “Hot Pursuit”

At every show, after our Main Stage storytellers, we invite the audience to take part in a Story Slam where they can share their own 5 minute story on the night’s theme. (If the story is really rolling, people can sometimes squeak past the clock.) Our audience votes for the winner with the highly calibrated (not) Human Applause-O-Meter. The winner gets a gift certificate to Tacoma’s King’s Books.

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We’ll offer another Story Slam at our September show,
“Take This Job And Shove It”.

But, you can’t participate if you don’t make it to the show!
GET YOUR TICKET NOW!

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These are *some* of the stories from our April show, “Hot Pursuit”. Not everyone tale makes it to the web – another reason to make the live show!
The stories below aren’t edited. These are people speaking in the moment, moved to reveal their lives to strangers.

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**SLAM WINNER**

Bruce Smith, What To Say When Your Therapist Tells You You’re Her Craziest Patient

 

 

04-11-14 Liz Hibbard

Liz Hibbard, The Chase

 

 

04-11-14 Darcy Nelson
Darcy Nelson, Seek & Find

 

 

04-11-14 Jered Perez
Jered Perez, Lunch Line Swagger

 

 

04-11-14 Melanie Cole
Melanie Cole, The Pursuit Of Duct Tape

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

Jim Kopriva, The Job That Wouldn’t Quit

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A job doesn’t have to be terrible to want to shove it. Tacoma’s Jim Kopriva found out too much of a good job isn’t so good.

Enjoy a beverage as Jim and five other local storytellers share stories of work that went too far. Then, take the stage yourself with a true 5-minute story during the Slam portion of the show.

Get your tickets for our Saturday, September 27, 2014 show right now! (Our past three shows sold out before the doors opened.)