So, Tiernen is now officially out of a job. He called in yesterday and the sales manager asked to see him in person that day at 3:00 PM. When he told me about it, we both pretty much knew what that meant. If he were going to come back, they would have just told him to show up the next morning. So she gave him some limp twaffle about “did you think about what we talked about?” and when he replied that he wasn’t given any specific information about what he did wrong or any target for improvement she said that they had decided that they could get along without him and they would be “letting him go”.
I can’t be too mad at the girl who did the firing. She’s the sales manager, not the office manager who had the problem with him or the mad cheap boss who decided to get rid of him this way because he was too cheap to say “we’re eliminating your position” and let him go with some dignity. She got picked to do a crummy job and did it as kindly as she could. They, I am mad at. They picked a terrible way to deal with a person who has been loyal and responsible just because there was some personal conflict and they wanted to see if they could save money by getting rid of his job.
Really, this is coming pretty much out of the blue. Tiernen’s last performance evaluation gave him a $1.00 raise. The boss called HIM over New Years for damage control when the stupid schmuck lost his laptop and cell phone in Las Vegas. To turn around two months later and fire him smacks of some kind of plot, and knowing the cheap bastard invloved, money lies at the root of it.
Even if there wasn’t a plot, it was still an excrescent thing to do. And now I have a sad, angry husband to deal with. It’s terrible to go through something like this when you can’t help and everything you do seems to make him feel worse. I try to be supportive and upbeat, but at the same time I am so ANGRY. I am angry at the cowardice of these people. I am angry at a system that allows this to happen. I am angry at myself for encouraging Tiernen to stand up for himself and I am angry at myself for being angry at myself. No one should have to be treated as an emotional doormat, just to keep a job. It’s hard to have to write off the last two years on a resume as a bad job because of the events of the last two months.
I expect something else will come along. We will persevere. But please keep my hubby in your thoughts and prayers. He’s had a pretty rough birthday week.
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