Bob Hicok the author of “Calling Him Back from Layoff” explains the theme of the poem saying that the man is in the setting of gotten laid off previously and he was waiting for a call the whole time so the boss had called this guy and had told him that he was chosen again to have the job so in the end, he realized that there another seven people who were going to wait for call from this certain job. The theory that I realized came from this story is that because you realized that you need to be grateful for what you have and about these seven people who won’t get the call they were waiting for. That’s why in the end he said he walked out and thought to himself that there was other people that didn’t get back the call. Layoff doesn’t exactly
