
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 25, 1994                   TAG: 9401250155
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WOODBRIDGE                                LENGTH: Short

WOMAN BUYS NEWSPAPER AD TO QUIT HER JOB

Paula Poppy thought her boss was using a newspaper employment ad to recruit a replacement for her, so she used the same space to let him know she was quitting.

Last week, the Dale City woman went to her local newspaper office, wrote a check for $61.81, and took out a 1-inch advertisement to tell her boss that "as of 1/20/94, I quit."

A part-time receptionist until then at the Dalewood Walk-in Clinic, Poppy paid for the ad to run three days, just to make sure her employer got the message.

"I was going through the ads and saw one for where I work," she said. "It was basically my shift and my hours. They haven't said anything to me about replacing me. I asked one of the people that work there if they were looking to replace me, and that person said yes."

Poppy's boss, Jatinder Walia, placed a classified ad in the Potomac News last week. The ad requests a part-time receptionist to work evenings and weekends.

Walia, owner of the clinic, said he had not seen her ad.

by CNB