Post by daboogas94e on Feb 12, 2008 21:36:03 GMT -5
Well its been a rough week for me here and thats why I haven't been on much if at all. And I apologize in advance. Anyways, my week has been pretty bad and its only Monday so I guess it can only go up now.
I will first start with some drama that has been brewing for the past month or so and finally boiled over yesterday. A friend of mine who I've known for probably 5-6 years now has been dating a friend of my wife's. Well he moves in with us since he wants to find a job up here. Well since he moved in with us, she's had this jealousy issue. Well everyday they will be on the phone for HOURS......and i mean from the time he wakes up till the time he goes to work and the time he gets home till the time he eats dinner, then back on the phone till he goes to sleep. So, my wife and I decide to fly her out for the FL-GA game. She enjoys it (i guess) and goes home. Anyways, we decided to fly her back out here for Christmas. She finally gets her engagement ring which she had been talking about since they met in Oct.......ugh. So we suspect everything will be okay since she got what she wanted but we were wrong. She convinces him that he needs to move back in with his parents because we might steal money from his account or something (all $30 to his name). We get this letter in mail yesterday saying that they have come to a decision to not be friends with us because of "unforeseen circumstances" and we aren't going to be invited to their wedding (fine with us). We tell our former room mate (fiancee) about this and he is fire hot about this because he was never told about this decision. So we're done with those two. I'm sick of them and tired of hearing bullnuts.
Now on to today. I have been working for Orkin Pest Control for about a year now and I liked it for the most part. Easy hours, easy customers, and decent pay. Well my boss decided last week that no one needs health insurance anymore so as of April 1st, health insurance won't be available. Well I get to work today, thinking everything is going great, route is on a roll and all my accounts seem to be happy. BOY was I wrong. Sometime during today, one of my commercial customers called in raising hell about some problem I had supposedly never taken care of. Well my boss decided to send his son (Brooks, service manager) out there to check it out and calm them down. And supposedly they had gotten 2-3 letters from other commercial accounts saying they had wanted to cancel as well. So I get a Nextel beep from Brooks (service manager) saying I need to come by the office before going home. So when I get there, John (Brooks dad, owner) called for both of us into his office. I knew right then that it couldn't be good. So then he goes into to how I must be doing something wrong and how I was never doing enough (I am the highest producing/ largest route tech there) and that I must either quit or be fired. Well I chose to quit because I don't want to see a firing on my record. Well I go to AT next month (about this time) and seems like odd. Stories just don't add up on his part. I really feel like I was forced to quit because of my military service (this would the 2nd time its happened)
Why are so many employers so stupid when it comes to us National Guardsmen? Do they not understand that we have to protect our country too??? GOOD GOD.........If I had enough proof, I'd take Orkin and Dish Network to court.....
I will first start with some drama that has been brewing for the past month or so and finally boiled over yesterday. A friend of mine who I've known for probably 5-6 years now has been dating a friend of my wife's. Well he moves in with us since he wants to find a job up here. Well since he moved in with us, she's had this jealousy issue. Well everyday they will be on the phone for HOURS......and i mean from the time he wakes up till the time he goes to work and the time he gets home till the time he eats dinner, then back on the phone till he goes to sleep. So, my wife and I decide to fly her out for the FL-GA game. She enjoys it (i guess) and goes home. Anyways, we decided to fly her back out here for Christmas. She finally gets her engagement ring which she had been talking about since they met in Oct.......ugh. So we suspect everything will be okay since she got what she wanted but we were wrong. She convinces him that he needs to move back in with his parents because we might steal money from his account or something (all $30 to his name). We get this letter in mail yesterday saying that they have come to a decision to not be friends with us because of "unforeseen circumstances" and we aren't going to be invited to their wedding (fine with us). We tell our former room mate (fiancee) about this and he is fire hot about this because he was never told about this decision. So we're done with those two. I'm sick of them and tired of hearing bullnuts.
Now on to today. I have been working for Orkin Pest Control for about a year now and I liked it for the most part. Easy hours, easy customers, and decent pay. Well my boss decided last week that no one needs health insurance anymore so as of April 1st, health insurance won't be available. Well I get to work today, thinking everything is going great, route is on a roll and all my accounts seem to be happy. BOY was I wrong. Sometime during today, one of my commercial customers called in raising hell about some problem I had supposedly never taken care of. Well my boss decided to send his son (Brooks, service manager) out there to check it out and calm them down. And supposedly they had gotten 2-3 letters from other commercial accounts saying they had wanted to cancel as well. So I get a Nextel beep from Brooks (service manager) saying I need to come by the office before going home. So when I get there, John (Brooks dad, owner) called for both of us into his office. I knew right then that it couldn't be good. So then he goes into to how I must be doing something wrong and how I was never doing enough (I am the highest producing/ largest route tech there) and that I must either quit or be fired. Well I chose to quit because I don't want to see a firing on my record. Well I go to AT next month (about this time) and seems like odd. Stories just don't add up on his part. I really feel like I was forced to quit because of my military service (this would the 2nd time its happened)
Why are so many employers so stupid when it comes to us National Guardsmen? Do they not understand that we have to protect our country too??? GOOD GOD.........If I had enough proof, I'd take Orkin and Dish Network to court.....