This is just wrong (rant) [View All]

[reyd reid reed]

#2 son stopped by his job last night to pick up the jacket that he'd left there on Sunday (the boy loses an average of two jackets a year, leaving them wherever...and I'd just bought this jacket for him on Friday so it was brand-new and, smart young man that he is, he realized that he'd never, EVER hear the end of it if he lost it two days later. It would take on mythic proportions, along the lines of the 'Tootsie Roll Incident' which will haunt him until the day he dies. Or I die. Nah...he dies. I'll make sure that enough people are aware of the Tootsie Roll Incident for it to live longer than I do). When he walked in, another employee says, "You should probably check your schedule, but brace yourself." So he does.

He's scheduled to work this coming weekend and then, after Sunday, they'd written "Terminated".

The boy has never missed a shift, never called in sick, he's altered plans to come in when he wasn't scheduled because someone else was sick and needed to go home or couldn't make it in. He's gotten raises and commendations and he hasn't gotten in trouble or written up. He had NO CLUE that there was a problem.

And, rather than talk to him, they POSTED IT ON THE SCHEDULE.

What the FUCK???

The kid was crushed...he came home so humiliated and upset and hurt and confused. And this is a good kid. He follows the rules, does what he's supposed to do and doesn't act out. He's calm and level-headed (most of the time -- he *is* 17) and responsible.

I swear, I want to go down there and blow sky-high. But I know that'll just make it worse and embarrass him. Still...

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