Re: Stats/history
In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 1204):
I agree, but sadly, it's pizza shop (and, I'm guessing, delivery), and I have two long time friends that did that for ten plus years. The amount of injustice they received was criminal, but in fact there is so much PR SNAFU that it's RARELY worth the fight, especially AFTER being "fired".
I feel for you...I really do. I hope you can either rectify that job (including not being under him) or get another quickly. I don't know what situation you're in for second job; if you need it, or want more money to "play" with.
The first pizza guy I knew was my sister's before-during-and after marriage boyfriend. Even when he wasn't with my sister he was a decent friend, just because their relationship was so "complicated". Anyway, he did great in programming and computer consultation. He made good money from that alone, nice house, a mustang car, and posh furniture and electronics. He kept his job (as pizza guy) after he started making good money, because he worked late nights, and never said no to money, but when a manager gave him crap about delivering a pizza to a non-existant address, my friend decided it wasn't worth it, and he didn't NEED the money.
The other guy, whom I still see about annually, works at Target and various pizza places. He says he doesn't NEED the money, but yet he struggles when he doesn't get the hours. So he puts up with horrendous crap just to get it over with to THEN do his job. He spends more unpaid off days "fixing" stuff so he can make work eaiser. Breaks my heart.
So I feel for you. I worked at Wal-mart and baby-sat my friends' children. I had to have days off, as I worked part time. The manager "took the liberty" of giving me more hours and never gave me the clue (just the FULL-TIME section schedule on a another section of the wall). So when I didn't show, they had a "grass roots" bull-spit meeting and I told them "I'm sorry, a child would be without care if I hadn't left. I put in writing, as required by your company that you didn't tell me but I knew to do, that I needed this day off for childcare." I also knew my rights, this lady friend's rights and special needs rights for the disabled; so I sued them. Medicare did the fighting and Wal-mart and Medicare are still going over that settlement's finality. It wasn't about the money for me though, I worked to have a "purpose" in my disability. Wal-mart just didn't fit that criteria *chuckles*, but for most people, you work two jobs to get the benefit of what should be one with paid vacation. Most also don't have the protection like Medicare to go to legal batting for them. Paying sa lawyer is often a deathknell for any suit...though to be honest, this wouldn't qualify, sadly, outside of discrimination and contracts, a public business can fire you because you wore the wrong color shirt to work, or if you like a sports team they don't. Sucks though. Sucks people are like that. Too lost in their colon's cavernous depths to see what's blatantly obvious.
Best of luck though...really...If good thoughts did anything you've got them. All I can say is hang in there, and yeah, you did the right thing. Punching him would have been temporary and "dirty" relief, any glee would have faded and been replaced quickly with grief. THAT guy was the punk though. What a little pinprick of self-asteam. If you'd have hit him, it would have been the first hard thing to enter his life, and might possibly of knocked some teeth out, along with the over abundance of bovine excrement in his head. Well, the latter part would probably have helped him...actually. ;)
Sorry for such a long reply though. *whew* I simply have heartfelt resentful sympathy and empathy. Like I said, I have long time friends that were in the pizza industry and dealt with ALL KINDS of crap. It speaks to me, you know? I got nothing but love for people in that situation.