Well...here I sit, unemployed. I gave notice over a week ago...next Tuesday should have been my last day. After a heated discussion with the pit bull...I was dismissed...without my vacation pay. I am so angry that I can hardly see straight. I am hurt that I tried to go the extra mile, because I have some stupid sense of loyalty, and an idiotic, naive idea that if I treat people the way that I want them to treat me...they will respond in kind. My boss simply sat there after the pit bull said "That was MY decision!", and agreed with her. Even though she was so blatantly wrong. They accused me of things that I did not, and would not do...and refused to look at proof that I offered that I had not done them! In retrospect...things happened in such a way, that I believe the decision had already been made to let me go...and to cheat me out of my vacation pay. What a world we live in. The longer I occupy my inconsequential space...the more I realize that it doesn't matter whether we are decent, or fair, or play by the rules...in the end...we are screwed anyway. No one cares what we have, or haven't done. I was a fool to believe that my boss would be fair to me in the long run...simply because I was fair to him.
Now I am concerned that there could be repercussions at the other end of this deal. The man who hired me is my old boss's best friend. One of the conditions of my employment was that I make it absolutely clear to my old boss that the new one did not solicit me...that I answered an ad and came to them. He was deeply concerned that their friendship not suffer, due to my employment with the new firm. I will spend Monday checking ads and looking for an alternative plan...just in case.
I have consulted the labor relations board, and intend to file a claim next week, if this isn't resolved by Monday afternoon. I am determined to shove out the old, naive, moron inside me...to stop taking crap from people and begin standing up and being heard from. If I hadn't been so stupid...I would have been out of there long ago...and I would have taken my vacation first!
Be Well!
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