After a week of vacation to get moved out of my apartment and into my mom's house with Jen and lil man... I returned to work and found out some less than awesome news. They laid off 3 people last week, which I knew about because of a text from a coworker... but here's the new news:
1. We are not going to make it through holiday after all, so most likely around September or so, I will be out of a job...
2. There should be a meeting soon to inform us all that we will no longer have medical benefits (which up to this point have been paid 100% by my employer--this is awful news considering for the first time in the 11 years my bipolar meds are finally right and for one month, without insurance would cost me around 700 bucks...) they want us to enroll in Cobra...which anyone who has ever lost a job and been offered Cobra knows is ridiculously expensive and no one can really afford it...
3. We will soon probably end up working for a staffing agency, the one who has always supplied us with our temporary hispanic work force up until this point, we will become hourly (and while this is a guess on my part) probably take a pay cut as well...
4. It turns out that the CEO knew about this whole deal well before March and had this company not bought us effective June 1, we would have shown up to chains on the door...
5. It's obvious that everyone is over all this shit and ready to throw in the towel, but at the same time scared to leave until they have something else to fall back on... which I can't fault anyone for.
6. We in the warehouse are still expected to carry on business as usual when all I want to do is sabotage all the orders and stick it to "the man" lol... you know... it's just a fucked up situation.
7. I'm sure there is more, but I can't think right now. I was called about a job at our competition a few days before my move, but Im soooo over the flower bulb business... LIKE I HATE IT.
8. I also have a lead/bite in MA I'm hoping turns into something for gay marriage reasons, lol... NY is still up in the air and not sure how it will play out... a whole lot of unknowns and I can't wait forever to see how things will turn out, I've got make my own destiny at this point... I don't have much time to make it happen.
Whether I stay in VA or relocate to a new and exciting place... I've got to do it soon... and I've got to be sure it's the right move for both Jen and I, and stable enough for lil man as well... we need to get to a point where we aren't constantly moving him around.
Regardless...I'm sure everything will work itself out. Let the good times roll.
