sometimes i wish i could forget

Yeah, so I forget to post stuff here... For months at a time... Sorry.

It's not that I don't care to post things, it's just that I don't often have a lot to say. And who's reading this thing anyway?

So here's something...

It's coming up on the one-year anniversary of the evil day on which I was involuntarily separated from my full-time employment at the Dog Penis.

Friday, Feb. 28, 2003 was the fatefull day. Little did I know, in the days leading up to it, that the weasels were plotting to fire me, without so much as a breath of what was wrong. I got an e-mail asking me to a meeting to "discuss our future plans..." At the meeting, I was told (almost under his breath, mumbling and stumbing), "Ahh... We can no longer offer you a position here." Smooth.

Oh well. They got their's (paying my unemployment because they didn't keep any record of my alleged wrong doings) and I got mine (three weeks of severence, plus simultaneous unemployment benefits).

For the record, I was fired because I was late for work. But they didn't keep any records of the exact times or days, and neither did I. The state of Pennsylvania agreed with me that they weren't nice, though they agreed with the company that they could fire me whenever they wanted for whatever reason. But they still had to pay my unemployment. And my retirement benefits for the two months I worked there in 2003. Morons. Had they fired me in December, they could have saved around $1,500 in my bonus and IRA contribution.

Later I learned that the so-called "executive board," the students who are supposedly in charge of all things related to the business, were not even allowed to have input or vote on my firing. Cool, huh? Yep. Three individuals, including two students who had been in their jobs for two months, decided all by themselves to give me the boot. Why do it that way? Because the board would not have voted to fire me because, as a group, they're a smarter bunch and realize the value of experienced full-time employees.

Well, this is the last I'm speaking of the topic. On to bigger and better things. (Genius-level ;) things, if I'd just get that interview...)

Posted by jonathan at February 17, 2004 05:09 PM