a new day dawns...

It has come to my attention recently (read April 7) that it can, in fact, happen to me.

Fired! Let Go! Terminated! You're out Here! Your Services Are No Longer Needed!

Life generally sucked for me that day. It has slowly gotten a little better each day since. I'm still in the process of looking for work now, but I have been enjoying the time off :) I don't know if I should feel a certain amount of guilt or if it's natural? The funny thing is that what got me fired wasn't my job performance. I was if not the best FM then pretty damn close to the best. They said I accessed an inappropriate website on one day. Yes, that's right, one day. One day in five years, 3 months, and 6 days. Fuckers. What it really boils down to is this company has a habit of each year, around evaluation and raise time, to suddenly do sweeps of each department's employee's internet usage. After the sweeps are done, there is almost always one or two people who lose their jobs for "excessive internet usage". Abso-fucking-lutely utter bullshit! What it really is my readers, is an easy way to fire the people who don't conform to their little Nazi-like regime's plan. If you are a trouble-maker, which is really someone that stands up for themselves and calls their asshole bosses on their shit, if you make too much money (not in your department, I'm talking in general), or if they cannot make you transfer to a day position if you work nights. I worked on nights and wouldn't transfer to a day position. Go figure. See I was part of the first group of employees they hired when the company first centralized in 2000 and I was not required to sign any agreement that I would transfer to a day position at a later date. This is what they do now you see. Every new employee that starts work at night as an FM is required to sign a piece of paper that they will transfer to days when the company feels they are ready. There were about ten of us left from the original group that have or had NO plans to move into a day position. Why would we? The hours suck ass. 50 hours every goddamn week and 5 hours every other Saturday. Why would we do that when our work week consisted of 3 nights one week, 4 the next and an average of 40 hours per week? Plus all of us were making well over $30 K each year. This jack-off of a corporation won't even start new employees at that anymore. How fucking rich is that? You give up your entire life to work and don't bring home anything more than an ass-raping when it's all said and done. I have seen over the last 5 years there such utter contempt for any kind of family life and belief system. You believe what the company tells you or else. Fuck That. They will promote people who are nothing more than cheaters, liars, and abusers. That's what they want running the place!! My own manager was promoted into his position after being caught fucking one of his subordinates in the parking lot and his wife caught him out with her. The girl got a nice new position in Marketing. I kid you not.

Last fall, my wife who was also employed there in a different department was fired because her supervisor said she was not performing her job functions satisfactorily. What they ignored were the months of pleading and damn-near begging she had done to get some actual help because there was too much for her to do. The other employees working with her were 1: all guys and 2: all buddies of the boss. They could do whatever the hell they wanted and it was just too fucking bad if she couldn't keep up. She was just making more work for the others. I really wished for something bad to happen to this guy about this time. He kept telling her that they were trying to work on her schedule and get her some more help. Never fucking happened. Are we surprised kiddies? I didn't think so. She put up with so much shit from everyone in that department she was fucking traumatized to the point of nearly mental breaking. Life was utter hell for her even on her days off. She dreaded going back on Thursday afraid of what lay in wait there for her. They finally fixed the situation for her. They called her into the office one afternoon and told her she could leave if she couldn't come up with a plan to get the work done she was assigned. Now, remember what I said about there being too much for one person to do? Right, they didn't give a damn. She told them there was nothing more for her to do to improve the situation, it was in their court now. She was asked to leave. About two weeks later, they moved two people in to replace her. She made over $36K, think that had anything to do with it?

Now that I am out of there and finally have had time to get the poison out of my system I realize what a waste of time it was there for me. The whole four-story brown brick building next to I-540 is nothing more than a pit of vipers sitting on the gates of hell. I can only hope that one day those gates are going to open and the entire place will eventually pay for the way it operates.