Thursday, 18 October 2007
My Dear Friends,
Not sure why I'm writing. Don't really feel like it.
Started radiation on my left upper arm this week. Two down, twelve to go.
Had surgery to insert a new port yesterday. That area's smarting a bit.
Last week, Mark and I were supposed to spend Weds & Thurs in Frankenmuth to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We spent Weds night there and I asked to go home because I was a few quarts low, literally. I even considered going to the hospital but four different people talked me out of it. Felt better by Friday night.
Found out today that I really screwed up at work by taking last week off for the anniversary, and yesterday, too, for my surgery. (I usually work Weds, Thurs, Friday or try to anyway, when they have work.) They did not say they needed me but now I hear "everybody worked til 10pm". (Extended individual tax returns were due Oct 15th.) This seemed to be the excuse they were looking for to kinda fire me. It's all very strange. They want me to go "per diem" which is what I am anyway, but they want to officially free me up to "write tax returns for another employer if I want", "out of fairness to me" because they have not had much work for me in the past six months. BUT.. I'm supposed to call in on Monday to see if they have any work for me.
I ranted a little more here but erased it all. What's the point?
(I feel like Sayuri in that movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" when she screams "I'm not worthless! I'm not worthless!")
The worst part was that near the end I allowed myself to get teary-eyed in front of a female boss. Big mistake! I had pain in my chest from the surgery, had just returned from today's radiation and this conversation was just too much to take. How embarrassing! I'm shaking my head even now. What a damn shame. Eight years ago I was running the accounting department of a successful multi-million dollar software company and now I can't even keep a part-time job!
If there is a God, he doesn't like me very much.
Not sure why I'm writing. Don't really feel like it.
Started radiation on my left upper arm this week. Two down, twelve to go.
Had surgery to insert a new port yesterday. That area's smarting a bit.
Last week, Mark and I were supposed to spend Weds & Thurs in Frankenmuth to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We spent Weds night there and I asked to go home because I was a few quarts low, literally. I even considered going to the hospital but four different people talked me out of it. Felt better by Friday night.
Found out today that I really screwed up at work by taking last week off for the anniversary, and yesterday, too, for my surgery. (I usually work Weds, Thurs, Friday or try to anyway, when they have work.) They did not say they needed me but now I hear "everybody worked til 10pm". (Extended individual tax returns were due Oct 15th.) This seemed to be the excuse they were looking for to kinda fire me. It's all very strange. They want me to go "per diem" which is what I am anyway, but they want to officially free me up to "write tax returns for another employer if I want", "out of fairness to me" because they have not had much work for me in the past six months. BUT.. I'm supposed to call in on Monday to see if they have any work for me.
I ranted a little more here but erased it all. What's the point?
(I feel like Sayuri in that movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" when she screams "I'm not worthless! I'm not worthless!")
The worst part was that near the end I allowed myself to get teary-eyed in front of a female boss. Big mistake! I had pain in my chest from the surgery, had just returned from today's radiation and this conversation was just too much to take. How embarrassing! I'm shaking my head even now. What a damn shame. Eight years ago I was running the accounting department of a successful multi-million dollar software company and now I can't even keep a part-time job!
If there is a God, he doesn't like me very much.
posted by Mark Kappe @ 6:22 PM
2 Comments:
At 4:35 PM,
Dad Z said…
OK, time to write...........
Yes, there is a GOD, and he (she?) loves you very much!
I talked to Joyce up north this weekend and as you know, she is fighting cancer, too, as well as her employer!!!!!!!!!
She suggests (and after talking with her, I am in agreement) that your employer and the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) get to know each other!
She says she is not taking any S--- from her employer, and neither should you!
Whadayathink?
Love,
Dad Z
At 10:38 AM,
Lindsay said…
I agree with Dad. You should put up a fight with your employer, and not let them step all over you. You are too feisty of a person to let them take advantage of you. I would at least check into your rights and see what the law says...if anything they should let you go due to lack of work so you can claim unemployement. There is ALWAYS a way around things Sister! And ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS:
GOD LOVES YOU and is with you ALWAYS!
I love you!
~Lindsay
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