Oct 04, 2006 10:16
My Dad just got layed off from work yesterday. Really kinda sucks, cus mom just took a new job that cut her pay in half, so basically all three of us are down to about 1/4 of the salary we're used to. I was planning on trying to get a job just to have the a/c fixed in my car but it looks like that just changed to just trying to get a job.
The company just decided that they no longer needed my jobs position and let him go (by the way he worked there for 14 years, and they put him through college, I truly can not remember him working anywhere else). They let him go on the third, no two weeks, or anything it was pack your things and be go this evening. He's trying to get a job within the company, because if he can get one within two weeks he won't get that much of a pay cut. The compnay put him down on a list of being open for a postition within the company on the 2nd. Hum let's think about this shall we. Let go on the 3rd, but put down on the list to hopefully be hired the 2nd. I hope that means that they'll be able to find something for him.
It just amazes me that we go for two years, I mean two years of wondering if the company is going to outsourch his job to India and when the promise they won't that's when they let him go. And we don't know how many people they let go either, it could be anywhere from 2 or 3 people to oh a few hundred. That will also have some say to if he's found another position within the company. 14 years though I mean seriously that doesn't happen anymore, no one stays put in the same job for 14 years anymore, and they just up and let him go!!
Mom was stressed with her new job before dad lost his. I mean the woman has been working 13 hour days. Going in at 8 in the morning and working till 9 or 10 at night. And she's salaried so it's not like she's making a killin in overtime.
Yea the first thing mom told me last night was that I no longer have health insurance, so don't get sick. Gotta love how practical my family is. First words outta Michael's mouth when I told him what my mom said was "And of course I just put my health insurance in" Sweet honey, but we'd have to be married for that to work, you were the one who did the research about a month ago to see when you could add me. Not a big deal right now, just um kinda cute on Michaels part.
Kinda feel bad for Michael though, I'm emotionally not normal to say the least. It takes a while for my emotions to catch up with my brain. We even talked last night and he was surprised that i didn't really cry, and he even tried to get me to cry about it but I wasn't ready. But now that I am back at school sitting in the computer lab I am ready to cry, but unwilling to let myself do it in front of a bunch of strangers in public.
Oh well, God I don't know what your doing, but I know you do so I'll just have to go with that. I just kinda hope that I hear back from that job I just applied for, I know that daycare needs people. Now if my Dad has to sell the motorcycle and take the car back I don't know how I'd get there. Oh well if by that case I'll figure something out then.
Wow this is really really long. But I've vented and I feel better now.