...should be dragged into the street and beaten like a rabid yard dog.

I had every intention of joining ATR... and then life reared its ugly head and things got complicated.

My boss did his magical girl transformation into the world's largest GENITAL WART. I would've said "dick" but those actually have a purpose. Genital warts are just nasty and unwanted.

I'll spare you all of the boring details, but just bear in mind that I had been working at this company in LR for 3 years. I was offered a local job with comprable pay with an assurance of steady work. So I took it. It was great. I was thinking that I could get my son back into local schools. No more commute. No more hectic mornings. It looked awesome.

Over the next six months my new boss proceeds to waffle back and forth between \"I-don't-give-a-damn-what-you-do-because-I'm-your-pal\" Guy and \"I'm-going-to-give-you-directionless-instructionless-projects-that-you-don't-have-the-time-to-do-and-then-patronize-insult-and-micromanage-your-position-into-the-ground-for-no-better-reason-than-I-can\" Guy. Yes, it was stressful and annoying... but it was steady pay and I NEEDED it to keep my house.

Then... after five and a half months... I get no warning, no heads up, no nothing. I cornered him to talk about how I'd been shorted on my pay. I explain the whole situation and he just brushes it aside like the previous five minutes of conversation had never happened. He looks at me and tells me "The thing about that is... We've been looking at other options." He doesn't tell me he's getting rid of me. He's just going on about how surprised he was at how reasonably priced CPAs were. I'm just sitting there looking at him and thinking "This has absolutely nothing to do with my paycheck..." After a few more tottering statements about the affordability of CPAs, it finally dawns on me. I confirmed my suspicions and asked him "When were you going to tell me? Where is my heads up?" No reaction... he just says, "This is your heads up."

...

The violent and malicious thoughts that ensued in the next few moments... I can't even begin to describe. I can just say that I'm glad it was at the end of the day and I'd already finished my stuff.

What an ASS! To sit there with this dead-pan emotionless expression on his face and not even have the BALLS to just come out and say that he was letting me go. To not even think so much about my needs as a person as to even pretend to be sympathetic... to not even think me important enough to warn me that I was about to lose my job... to have such total disregard for someone else. Yeah, I'm pretty cold. Yeah, I'm blunt to the point of being painful on occasion, but that's only to people I don't like and who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

I had just pulled this man's company out of an $80,000+ hole, completely self-taught myself how to work in my position, straightened out the mess the last lady left... and did it all in less than six months... and he behaves like this.

*~*~* But Wait! There's More! *~*~*

I work out a part time deal with one of my co-workers. She's cool. She agreed to sub-contract me to help her get/keep everything in the stock room organized and whatnot. I'd had my freak-out moment. I'd already gotten me a second job. I sat down and did math for a bit and figured that I could probably still keep my house with a couple of jobs. Tough, but still livable, right?

We made that deal less than a week after I discovered my boss' intentions. My boss waits until I have two and a half days left before I'm supposed to do the whole Part-Time change. Again he leads off with a totally unrelated request and performs a rather shaky segue into when my last day will be. I inform him when it is (even though it is clearly written in bright red ink on the calendar on the wall in front of his face not two feet away). Then he tells me, "We're gonna try and work it out without the part time." I'm a little confused. I'm thinking he's talking about keeping me in my current position... which was really odd. So I asked him about what payrate I'd be working under and he says "We're gonna try to do it without you working part time." Then it made sense. He'd already gone and told Sharon that he wasn't going to allow her to hire me (on her own, not for the company) to help her out.

Now it's fucking personal. The initial outsourcing could have been written off as econonics. So he couldn't afford to keep me... okay. It's a tough swallow (what with me being the one doing the books and all), but I'll buy it. It's at least an almost legitimate excuse. But when Sharon would be sub-contracting me... he wouldn't be paying me. She would. Economics was now no longer a factor. The only reason he could possibly have for not allowing her to spend her money how ever she saw fit, would be because he had some problem with me... personally.

Two and a half days to find another job. Two and a half days...

And, get this, both times... BOTH TIMES... all of the service techs and install guys knew before I did. He had mentioned this shit to the service techs and install guys... before he ever bothered to mention it to me. BOTH TIMES

I have... no more words. Just... no words.

So... if any of you know anybody in the Central Arkansas Area looking for part-time work on Tuesdays and Thursdays, let me know will you? I'm kinda in the market for a new job.