I Need To Rant A Bit

I don't know if it's because I'm so angry but everything I go to do today fights with me....I'm definitely out of harmony with the universe!

What has me so totally twisted is the fact that my husband was fired this morning, after giving his best to his company for over eight years.  He is the oldest employee, longer there than anyone else.  Asked, over the years, to perform projects above and beyond the call of duty...which he did out of respect to the owner.   There were months on end where he had to work out of town, told only he could run the men....then came the large projects like shopping malls that could only be done at night.  He literally had to change from being a 4:00 am get up and go guy to working all night and dragging himself to bed at 9:00 am...not healthy at all!

Did his employer care? Oh, yeah..plenty of lip service, "gee, really appreciate it pal"..."Oh, JoJo do me a favor?" Man, I don't curse but I would like to rip this idiot from stem to stern and then start again with his toes to his ears.  Oh, granted there was an occasional "bonus" but not what he is really worth.  People get taken for granted, used up, ground down during the daily grind and spit out when they start to get old.

My husband is not one to stand and watch a crew work, he is hands on. I've seen him do things that men half his age wouldn't dare do.  I don't doubt that he will locate another job, he's talented - it's just that something like this takes the heart right out of you.  He also was not even given a reason for being terminated...just told..."You are no long needed in this company".  So you wind up trying to second guess Why?.  The only thing we came up with is that on Friday, he had been sent to a job where other carpenters had been working from his company....something wasn't right with the job, the client was unhappy.  His supervisor called at 1 PM and asked if he could work overtime... hubby said "No, he had a prior committment" (our 29th year of meeting anniversary - was important to us) 

The Supervisor said "Okay...I'll do it myself"....hubby went back to work about 2:20 the Supervisor calls back and says "hey, I just found out I have plans...you are going to HAVE TO do it"...hubby refused...they sent two other guys to the job and he left at the regular time.

So I'm looking at a scenario where the Supervisor is a bit of a scumbag (that's not cursing) websters defines as a despicable dirty person.  I believe he didn't want to take the heat from the owner and made hubby the fall guy for the whole fiasco at the job.  Friday was the first day hubby was there, he said so much was wrong that the client was right to scream at the owner.

There were so many times, in the past, where he was working and another contractor would try to woo him away from his company...I wish now he had, I regret his giving any kind of loyalty to this company.  I sometimes wonder how a man, like the owner, can even sleep at night? How do these people do it?  No moral center? He has always claimed to be a Christian...but I guess that was more of a show to get more churches to build.  Well, you won't have hubby to help you build any more churches...or stand silently by you when people praise "your work".  

I'm sorry this is so long winded...but I really need to vent...if I had a "safe" room right now I'd be throwing knives or using a bow & arrow...at a specific target.  So venting is the way to go.

Is it that people just get tired of one another? like a bad marriage? But at least there you do have a bit of warning.  Here they pat you on the back till the last moment...right before the kill...trying to suck that last bit of whatever it is that they think they are getting out of your body & soul.

I've got to try to cheer him up a bit....his ego feels like a useless piece of crap sitting on a garbage heap........and he's angry.