another one bites the dust...job that is...

[sexkyttyn]

so, kev quit sycuan sometime around the 1st week of october and had been putting in resumes everywhere. well, he got a job at this place called smencils. i was really rather leery of the place because the guy was doing some serious background checking. i mean, he checked kev's credit history, and then questioned him on it, called every single one of his previous employers until he could talk to someone that'd worked with kev. called all his references, including his extra. and then finally, after 2 weeks of background checking him and making phone calls to discuss tidbits of info he'd gleaned from his searching with kev, he hired him, BUT, with the stipulation that kev's 1st 2 weeks will be off the books and under the table. now the position was originally posted with a $15/hour salary, however, because kev wasn't "exactly" what he'd been looking for, he offered kev $13/hour, not too shabby. well, kev's 1st week was last week, this is his 2nd week and today as kev was getting off, the owner/boss, pulls kev into his office, tells him that after the last 2 weeks he realizes that he's actually going to need 2 people to do the job that kev's been doing by himself for the last 2 weeks so that it'd be up to his standards and that he just couldn't live with himself to keep kev on and pay him only minimum wage after paying him $13/hour for the last 2 weeks. that's right folks, he gave kev the boot. this is after kev has been busting his hump for the past 2 weeks endeavoring to help this guy and his 3 other employees (not counting kev) get out of a hole they were in of being behind by 175 orders coming into their christmas season rush. they finished playing catch up today. kev kept asking him what he did wrong, how could he have done anything differently, why couldn't he just stay on at minimum wage? and the guy just kept telling him that he didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't change anything kev did in the last 2 weeks cause it couldn't have been done any better and that he just couldn't live with himself to take kev down to minimum wage and keep him on. so, yet again, kevin is without a job. luckily i started my new job with viejas tribal government last week monday and will be getting my first paycheck next thursday (a full 2 weeks) and liz is still steadily working. between hers and i's income we can make our necessities with enough leftover that if we're very frugal, we can walk that thin line between surviving and living until kev can pick up another job. what i don't get is why kevin can't keep a job. i know he quit sycuan because the hours were driving him insane, literally and physically making him sick, but he can't hold a job. if liz weren't with us, i'd be in hysterics right now trying to figure out how we'd be making our rent and bills on my income alone, again. kev's only had 3 jobs that have lasted longer than 6 months in the 8, almost 9, years we've been together. it's been for a mixture of reasons, he left the job, or the job left him. if anyone out there knows of a place he can work where it would take an act of god to get him out of the company once he's hired on, that won't require him to work graveyard or night shift, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let me know. all of his background is in customer service, retail and wholesale. he could sell ice to an eskimo. he's a big boy, but physical labor does not daunt him. he may need to wear a bandana or something to keep the sweat out of his eyes, but he can do the work. PLEASE, somebody help me find my husband a job that won't go away in 3-6 months, that won't find someway to get rid of him, that won't make him find someway to get rid of it. those 3 jobs that lasted longer then 6 months; radio shack (he was an assistant manager when they let him go while he was recovering from gastric bypass surgery), working as a bus aide for the cajon valley union school district (he left there because they were cutting his hours and trying to say he owed them $400 because they screwed up and overpaid him on a paycheck) and richard's chem-dry, a carpet cleaning place (he left there because he hurt his elbow and shoulder trying to catch the biggest piece of equipment he used, the floor cleaning device, as it tried to take a leap out of the back of his work van and the owner/boss didn't believe him that he couldn't lift the cleaner (even though he was still going out and working) even after going to the doctor for the injury). i don't know what to do with him. i'm almost tempted to ask liz if she and i should take on 2nd jobs a piece and just tell kevin to stay at home, keep house, and make sure a good hot meal is on the table for breakfast and dinner 7 days a week. but if we did that, liz and i would be dead and we'd never get anytime with each other. cause liz's only days off are wednesday and thursday. she's currently working 11am - 8pm or 12pm - 9pm, friday's - tuesday's. i work 8am - 5pm, monday - friday. i could try to pick something up that was on the weekends only, but it's doubtful i'd be able to keep it after the holidays. liz is a licensed manicurist, she just doesn't have any clientele of her own, except a couple of friends. she's been trying to find a salon that would allow her to work there, without requiring her to bring her own list of clientele and has a steady flow of walk-in customers. she doesn't mind the space rent, and she can get her supplies on her own, it's the clientele she lacks. she got into a nice salon after she finished school, but it was off the beaten path and had practically no walk-in clientele. she could work that on wednesdays and thursdays and mornings on the days she chose.
so, i go on begging. PLEASE, if anyone can help me, help kev, find a job, i'd be eternally greatful. if anyone could help liz find a salon with the above qualifications, i'd be eternally greatful. i'd be eternally greatful for any help i could get right now with either of those needs. hell, if anyone could help me, help liz, find an entry-level office job making at least $9+/hour, we'd be even better then we are right now.
thanks for listening (or rather reading) my bitching, whining and begging.