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09-08-2020, 02:20 PM
Two weeks ago, I was in my basement loading shotgun shells when I heard a car pull into the driveway. Looking out the basement window I saw that it was my wife's car! "Why is she home so early?" (2:30) I asked myself. She met me on the basement stairs and said "Guess what happened to me today? I got fired!" After a moment of consolation I asked her what happened.
Cheryl worked in a nursing home as an activities aide. She's always been a "people-person" and enjoyed working with the elderly, the job was a good fit for her. The "management" was.........well, I think Stephen Stills put it best when he sang
"An' ya' can't prove 'em wrong, they're so ***-**** sure that they know!" ( from Word Games )
The day before, shortly after she punched in, they told her she needed to come back in that night to help with the Bingo game. She looked straight into her supervisor's eyes and said "No" and went about her work. They fired her the next day. As far as I'm concerned that's fine, they'd been taking advantage of her for a long time and I didn't care if she just up and quit. She'll be 65 in June of '21, she can retire, and we have savings to fall back on.
These last two weeks have been a period of adjustment, but in a good way. The yearly canning and freezing we do each autumn didn't have to wait for the weekends this year! So far, we've canned 2 bushels of tomatoes, ground, stuffed and frozen 75 pounds of Italian sausage, and I'm not sure how many pounds of frozen corn have been put up! We've been busy!
My sister called about an hour ago to let us know how lucky we are that Cheryl wasn't working at the nursing home any longer. It seems that one of their per-diem employees was positive for Covid-19 and now three residents of the facility have also tested positive! :shock: There isn't a large Covid problem here, something I'm particularly grateful for as I've been an insulin-dependent diabetic for 61 ears now! Losing her job was truly a blessing in disguise! Thank You Lord!
Cheryl worked in a nursing home as an activities aide. She's always been a "people-person" and enjoyed working with the elderly, the job was a good fit for her. The "management" was.........well, I think Stephen Stills put it best when he sang
"An' ya' can't prove 'em wrong, they're so ***-**** sure that they know!" ( from Word Games )
The day before, shortly after she punched in, they told her she needed to come back in that night to help with the Bingo game. She looked straight into her supervisor's eyes and said "No" and went about her work. They fired her the next day. As far as I'm concerned that's fine, they'd been taking advantage of her for a long time and I didn't care if she just up and quit. She'll be 65 in June of '21, she can retire, and we have savings to fall back on.
These last two weeks have been a period of adjustment, but in a good way. The yearly canning and freezing we do each autumn didn't have to wait for the weekends this year! So far, we've canned 2 bushels of tomatoes, ground, stuffed and frozen 75 pounds of Italian sausage, and I'm not sure how many pounds of frozen corn have been put up! We've been busy!
My sister called about an hour ago to let us know how lucky we are that Cheryl wasn't working at the nursing home any longer. It seems that one of their per-diem employees was positive for Covid-19 and now three residents of the facility have also tested positive! :shock: There isn't a large Covid problem here, something I'm particularly grateful for as I've been an insulin-dependent diabetic for 61 ears now! Losing her job was truly a blessing in disguise! Thank You Lord!