Issues at hubby’s job-already?

I hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July. Honestly, ours was…well, uneventful. It ended up being just me and my youngest daughter and both of us were too disappointed to really enjoy anything. To make a really long story short-even though my husband was scheduled to work last night, he was not going in until late. It would give us time to all watch the awesome fireworks display from our new apartment and spend some quality family time together. We’ve only been counting the days for this awesome night since we moved in because we were told the view here was thee best!

Well, some brain at his company decided to do some budget cuts and lay off the guy that was suppose to work. Poor guy gets fired on a holiday not for bad performance or because he did something wrong but because he was still in his probationary period and the company decided to get rid of him now-I am guessing so he wont qualify for unemployment benefits.

If you read on here regularly, you know we have no problems working holidays, overtime, weekends…100 hours a week-whatever it takes. Heck I worked yesterday during the day so someone could go out of town for the holiday. Holiday pay and overtime money is great. What really pissed me off though was that nobody gave my husband the courtesy of a choice to work it or not or even some notice. Nobody stopped to think if maybe he had plans-he does have a family and they know this. Anywhere I have ever worked, if you were scheduled to work a holiday and wanted it off-you could request it off or work it out with a coworker to cover if you did not want to work it. Especially people with family or kids-you know? He was just basically forced to come in.

When he spoke to the office manager yesterday, the office manager told him it was either my husband getting fired or the other guy and by my husband working 4th of July-that saved his job! Whatever…

My husband then inquired about his health benefits he was suppose to receive after his probationary period was up. He waited 90 days but was told that this company’s probationary period was 120 days. He was told he will not be getting health benefits and really never was. The guy who hired him that has been with the company for years just up and quit (he was given no reason why) and he made a lot of promises, including health insurance that just aren’t going to be kept. Nice.

All this seems a little unethical and a little slimy but as the economy keeps going the way it is going-it will keep going on. You see, my husband can just get pissed and quit and they will just get another sucker in there that has been looking for a job for a long time, make some promises, pay him a low but better than nothing wage and the cycle will continue. Why? Because everyone needs a job out there and this is better than nothing for now. In a good economy-people wont take this crap and move on to the next job. As we all know, there aren’t too many next jobs out there. You gotta take what you can get now.

So the verdict-my husband is gonna stay for the pay only until they can’t pay him anymore, a layoff is imminent, or his work picks up dramatically where he could just quit. We will keep socking away his paycheck to pad our savings while he continues to try and get business for his work during the day. It is actually picking up steadily but not enough to live off of yet.

Surprisingly things at work are going great for me. I am very busy and my boss and I have in some odd way-been getting along well. It’s amazing the crap you gotta put up with in life sometimes but I know we all gotta do it.