"And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints."
I will think of you during morning meditations, brother.
I will think of you during morning meditations, brother.
Honestly, I could tell they didn't like me early on. I always do things my own way, don't fraternize, and can't stand when people try to bend me over on conforming to meaningless bullshit, so I'll argue with management and just quietly go around their orders if I think they're telling me something stupid (happened often.) In my defense, I was extremely good at my job, representing the company well to our customers, crushing routes in record time, taking on all the extra work they gave me without complaint. Things would've been all good if they'd just let me do my thing.
Didn't matter though. Acting like a good goy > being skilled in your duties. They started giving me warnings escalating to write ups over every little thing they could think of, despite my best efforts. Then yeah one day they randomly pulled me in, presenting yet another perceived infraction over something that wasn't even my fault this time, told me I'm fired for it. I saw it coming by that point, but it was still a shock because of how sudden it was. I thought they'd drag it out for at least another month or two.
Oh well. Even small businesses with White ownership can be full of assholes, unfortunately. Definitely preferred my old job with a chill boss even though it was like 7 bucks less per hour with all said and done.
The place I got fired from was the small company, but they very pointedly *aspired* to be a globohomo corporation. They literally still had their covid social distancing signs up all over the place with the minimalist blob people graphic design on them. They wanted to be like the big soulless corporations they were competing with but with a fraction of the resources, and it was unholy cringe.
> If you can hack it for a few months unemployed, you'll be just fine.
Blah, hope it won't be that long. I've definitely got the savings to float and no rent to pay, but I absolutely loathe having too much time on my hands (terminal workaholic gang 😞)
Dedicate a few hours each day to doing the shit you've put off for the last couple years. Also, call friends and family and ask if there's anything you can fix for them. Almost everyone has their own shit they need fixed.
During Christmas i visited family. I fixed some broken shutters, some leaky faucets, some sheetrock damage, helped stain a fence and deck, fixed a bad ground loop in a stereo system, installed exterior lighting, etc.
When family was watching football i made it clear that i did not like sportsball, which left me by myself looking for productive shit to do.
It was like they never had any time, always under pressure, full of stress. Two finished projects I made got discarded, where the first one took me 2 years of work (would have been faster and better if it went my way btw), and the second one was a rework of an old program.
Upon reflection I realized the boss of the company had full control over anything, even technical details. He told my manageress to tell me to do something a certain way, which was a TERRIBLE idea, so I wrote him a nice e-mail that expanded on the topic and offered better alternatives. It was professional and objective. Given that he wanted to suddenly partake in the technical details (which he didn't in anything else), he seemed to be up to talk about it.
Later he exposed my e-mail and complained among the leadership about how insolent I am. My manageress told me about it, but we basically just laughed it off. 2 weeks later he decided (totally his original idea) to do the mediocre option I wrote in the e-mail - of course not the best btw.
So I made the following: I restructured the code so that ANY of these options (3) can be done by simply changing 1-2 lines of code. So in the case they (he) decided to cease to be retarded, they could switch from the mediocre option to the best one. Or just down to the worst option.
Then we parted over a bureaucratic thing where they went full retard and made my life harder while it cost them +10-15% of my salary in expenses to a jewish third party. And communication was terrible, that incompetent bitch "forgot" me for 2 weeks when it mattered. I wasn't really being fired, nor did I quit - I was halfway out of the door, and they insisted on their stupidity, so it was over.
Now I am working on my own project.
...I inserted passwords to modify or alter much of my code. So when they did eventually fire me they lost access to all the coding and script i had written. LOL
Now i'm just doing gigs for cash and only making about $600-$1000 cash per week. More free time on my hands to work on the farm, though. I'm building another shed and installing some solar panels and gutters. Actually i have too many ongoing projects to list.
*squints*
>they wanted to be like the big soulless corporations they were competing with but with a fraction of the resources, and it was unholy cringe.
Woah. That sounds horrendous.
>Blah, hope it won't be that long.
I went back to one of my even farther previous manual-labor type jobs for a few weeks just for the extra money and something to do, but by the end I almost wished I'd have had a little bit more time off lol. I had just been starting to get nervous because I thought it was going to take much longer than it did to find another job.
These sort of things are usually a blessing in disguise. It's worrisome if you are jobless with bills to pay soon. But it almost always results in you finding a better job. Skilled trustworthy guys like you who are dependable are actually hard to find.