Barb Myers began working with Express Employment, an Oklahoma-based employment agency over 20 years ago, packaging toffee candy at Enstrom Candies, the gourmet chocolatier known for its quality confections and high-end retail stores across Colorado.

“It was Aug. 7 of 1990 when I started working here,” she said from the plant floor in Colorado, “I was a toffee packer. It was a seasonal job, so it would last until about the 22nd of December, and then I would get laid off until about July of the next year.”

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