Oct

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How Could She?

October 14, 2005 |

I am so pissed today for my family and for my husband. 2 weeks ago he left his job because he felt he had no other recourse. He had surgery on his hand - they cut open his palm and scraped the nerves people, we are not talking about anything minor - and was supposed to be out of work the first week afterwards and then on light duty for the next 6 weeks. His boss told him he couldn’t have the week off but that she would put him on light duty. He went in and ended up painting the front of the building for the first week.

The second week she was ruthless about pushing him right back into work. He kept telling her he needed to be on light duty and her response was “Well what the hell CAN you do?” She sent him out on a delivery - driving a standard shift truck. He couldn’t even drive his own standard shift truck and had been borrowing the company van since it’s an automatic. It was pouring rain that day and he had to drive over rocky terrain on a dirt road to make the delivery. As he was trying to downshift, the steering wheel was jerked out of his grip and ripped across the palm that had just been sliced open a little over a week before. It was the last straw for him. He felt punished and abused and taken advantage of so he quit.

He’d been miserable at that job for a long time so as nervous as it made me for him to be unemployed, I had to be supportive of his decision. Much to his credit he went immediately and filed for unemployment. Benefits were to begin right away. The kicker to his former boss came with the knowledge that he would be bringing home virtually the same amount of money he had been getting working for her. And he would get to stay home and do as he pleased.

So he called in the first claim so there would be as little lapse in our budget as possible and a notice came in the mail that he was not receiving his benefit as there was a problem. He called the number listed and they said his benefits were being delayed by 4 weeks as his former boss called them and told them that she still had to pay him for the last week he was there and for a weeks vacation. She had already made it very clear that she had no intention of paying it and now has used it to try and screw with my husband.

The thing she obviously fails to realize is that she is also screwing with my family and hurting all of us. But I know in her selfishness that she doesn’t even consider the others affected as she sees it as all my husband’s fault. I’m angry about that and angry at how hurt my husband is. He worked for them for 14 years and this is how he’s treated. He thought of her as a friend and she turns on him like this. It’s sad but she obviously is a user. She’s a friend as long as she’s getting something but when you lose your usefulness - you’re all done in her book.

My husband was understandably upset and thinking of all kinds of ways to get her back. Luckily he found out from his friend that still works there that fate works in funny ways. In the mail yesterday was a bill from my husbands surgeon. His former boss owes the surgeon $4000. You know what they say about payback? *snicker*

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3 Comments so far

  1. cassie-b on October 14, 2005 10:50 am

    Why do people do things like that? What benefit will she get from holding up the payments?

    Life is just too short, and causing grief to others is so unnecessary.

  2. Aimz on October 14, 2005 4:30 pm

    Is there any way you can seek legal advice about this one?

  3. Theresa on October 15, 2005 12:44 pm

    What a b*tch! I hate it when employers fail to see that there’s a family behind the employee they are trying so hard to screw over! We’ve been there ourselves. I hope everything gets straightened away quickly!

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