“They clapped for me during COVID. Then outsourced my job to a robot.” That’s how it ended. Not with a handshake. Not with a thank you. Not even a damn human voice on the line. Just a kid in a collared shirt I’d never seen before, reading off a script through Zoom, telling me my services were “no longer needed.” My name is Darlene Foster. I cleaned the same public elementary school in Springfield, Missouri, for twenty-eight years. I was there before the smartboards, before the laptops, before th