Corporate Layoff Survivor Finds New CEO Role at Spirit Halloween
KEY POINTS
- •After being laid off in June, Maggie Bodner began applying explosively to over 2000 jobs in learning and development.
- •By July, inspired by frequent Spirit Halloween visits and a boyfriend's question, she applied and became assistant manager at a local store.
- •Though still job hunting, Maggie embraces her role, working long shifts and enjoying Halloween sales perks through the spooky season.
Maggie Bodner, a 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale native, turned her post-June layoff trauma into a seasonal business strategy by becoming assistant manager at Spirit Halloween. After ripping through job rejections faster than spam, she answered her boyfriend’s weirdly practical question about dreams: resurgent Spirit Halloween fanaticism. Maggie went from forlorn corporate worker drowning in learning-and-development job no-calls to pumpkin-patching haunted-house wrangler, even clocking heroic 10-hour days with ninja turtle-costumed kids charging her. With 30% employee discounts fueling her Halloween obsession, she’s still hunting for a 'real' job but is savoring the creepy retail limelight until then.
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(1 of 3)Rejected by 2000+ jobs, Maggie landed at Spirit Halloween, proving the real corporate ladder is a haunted house. Value doesn’t save you—only turtle shell charges do.
When life hands you layoff lemons, turn your CVS into a haunted carnival and scare your problems away.
Nothing says 'I’m valuable' like a corporate job email dumpster fire followed by ninja turtles charging you at work.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/6/2026 | Author: Ana Altchek
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