people suck...can someone help me get this knife outta my back? I can't reach it...
I really don't know how to feel right this second...As of 6pm earlier this evening I am no longer a corporate slave owned by my previous employer. Read that as I got laid off today. Completely out of the blue...blindsided...it's really a fucked up kind of story. My boss tells me it has nothing to do with my performance, which in his words was "fine". But they just decided that they want to go in a different direction with my department and as a company. I hope they fucking go under, that's what I hope.
For those who didn't know, I was the Traffic/Shipping manager for a custom case building company. Yeah, like Rock n' Roll touring gear cases and stuff. I got a call today from one of the trucking companies I deal with pretty regularly. A person who I have always been friendly with there was calling to ask about a rumor that one of their drivers had told him. Seems that the driver was picking up freight from another customer and some dipshit there was bragging about how he was coming to work for my company. Said dipshit has worked for my company before in the shipping department prior to my arrival there. Dipshit was also a crack addict which cost him his family and his previous job with my company. Apparently this person was close to the owners of my company and has been calling them at their home up north and proposing his return to the company. Well I guess there just wasn't room for the both of us. When I confronted my boss with this rumor he just stared at me like I had hit him with a brick.
My boss, the company's General Manager, assured me that I wasn't doing anything wrong or anything, but the owners want to hire this fucker back and give him my job. Nothing personal he says...Sorry, but it's always personal when you threaten my livelihood and how I provide for my family. They'll give me a stellar letter of reccomendation and references he says. He just apologized over and over again. "Sorry" don't pay my bills man. I could understand if I was some kind of fuck-up, or a crackhead like my replacement "used to be" before he found Jesus. but to tell me that My job performance was good and still fire me just because makes my fucking head hurt...Especially to give my job to this piece of human garbage...Ah well, they shall reap what they sow. If there is any sense of order and justice in the universe, that much will happen.
I'm taking the next couple of days off to unwind and then I guess I am off to look for gainful employment. This is the first time I have ever been let go from a job. Ever. This sucks. I need a drink.
I really don't know how to feel right this second...As of 6pm earlier this evening I am no longer a corporate slave owned by my previous employer. Read that as I got laid off today. Completely out of the blue...blindsided...it's really a fucked up kind of story. My boss tells me it has nothing to do with my performance, which in his words was "fine". But they just decided that they want to go in a different direction with my department and as a company. I hope they fucking go under, that's what I hope.
For those who didn't know, I was the Traffic/Shipping manager for a custom case building company. Yeah, like Rock n' Roll touring gear cases and stuff. I got a call today from one of the trucking companies I deal with pretty regularly. A person who I have always been friendly with there was calling to ask about a rumor that one of their drivers had told him. Seems that the driver was picking up freight from another customer and some dipshit there was bragging about how he was coming to work for my company. Said dipshit has worked for my company before in the shipping department prior to my arrival there. Dipshit was also a crack addict which cost him his family and his previous job with my company. Apparently this person was close to the owners of my company and has been calling them at their home up north and proposing his return to the company. Well I guess there just wasn't room for the both of us. When I confronted my boss with this rumor he just stared at me like I had hit him with a brick.
My boss, the company's General Manager, assured me that I wasn't doing anything wrong or anything, but the owners want to hire this fucker back and give him my job. Nothing personal he says...Sorry, but it's always personal when you threaten my livelihood and how I provide for my family. They'll give me a stellar letter of reccomendation and references he says. He just apologized over and over again. "Sorry" don't pay my bills man. I could understand if I was some kind of fuck-up, or a crackhead like my replacement "used to be" before he found Jesus. but to tell me that My job performance was good and still fire me just because makes my fucking head hurt...Especially to give my job to this piece of human garbage...Ah well, they shall reap what they sow. If there is any sense of order and justice in the universe, that much will happen.
I'm taking the next couple of days off to unwind and then I guess I am off to look for gainful employment. This is the first time I have ever been let go from a job. Ever. This sucks. I need a drink.