I was forced (more or less) to resign my job this week, and I go over to 4th of July weekend and my Dad gives me crap (in this economy you'll never get another job) and then my neighbor gives me shit about KATRINA of all things. Says it's all Bill CLINTON'S fault. grrrrrrrrrrr.
I am so pissed off right now I can't even tell you. After enduring three years of hell at the hands of an abusive boss and project manager, (and I mean hell.............nobody should have to work that hard and then be subject to these bullies) I finally................sigh...............quit my job. I didn't do it for the last three years, because I was, like you, scared...............scared of losing my mortgage, my livelihood, my chance to bring my fiance here from Canada, everything. But I finally just lost it. And quit.
And after the big guys that are even bigger than my boss were so nice to me, I unquit for a time. But they did want to bring in the HR guy, which is the Kiss of Death. Hahaha.
So, I talked to him this week, and he made me The Offer. Take this much severance, and this much paid by the company healthcare, and various other goodies. I said yes............hell, I jumped at it. In return for signing the document saying I will not sue them.
Those guys (my boss and project manager) are in trouble, I think. But I don't care anymore. It's no longer my problem.
We are employees. We are NOT slaves, and I don't CARE how bad the economy gets, I refuse to be treated like a slave or a lackey. I refuse to work 24/7/365, and on call all the time, and work this HARD, for some ungrateful bastard.
As this economy tanks, I want more people to stand up to their employers....don't be a mealy mouthed worm, damn it, stand up and say I won't put up with this.
I will go on, I have enough money and stuff to take the summer off, and I am oh so happy to do it, and then........I'll get another job. I have done it before in bad economies and I'll do it again.
My Dad, the sexist and racist bully, told me I was a damn fool. He pissed me off so bad today I had to walk away from the family 4th of July party, and just take a walk for awhile down tbe biking path by their house and compose myself.
Well, HE never had to work as hard as I did in his life, ever. When I was in the Air Force, I had to work really hard in Aircraft Maintenance, and almost got killed a couple times, what was HIS job? sitting on his ass watching a radar screen. And when I was working weekends and overtime (unpaid) he was telling me "I would never put up with that". So he can just go kiss my ass.
And, as I pointed out to him today, he got to retire. I will never get to retire. I will be working one crappy job or another until the day I die. So I'm taking some time off now while I still have the chance.
He got all pissed off at me and said "well why don't you go live in Zimbabwe if you think it's so bad here in America". I told him "well just wait.............it will get that bad here".
And then there was my Mom and my Aunt referring to Michelle Obama as "that bitch" all of them saying they just don't know WHO to vote for.
I hate them all. At this point, I do not intend to speak to ANYBODY but my sister this summer. I'm sick of them and their racism and sexism, and I am just so TIRED of all this.