Today was long and maybe depressing. I may have shot my mouth off into unemployment.
I started off doing the employment agencies. Registered at 3 of them. They all had the same caveat: "Call later in the week, everything is really slow right now."
It reminded me of when you'd do a surf trek. You'd be staring at a flat ocean that looked more like a lake and at least 2 locals would tell you, "Yeah, but you should have seen it yesterday - Stand up tubes and 2 minute sets." And in these locales it is always yesterday.
I got some calls but didn't answer them - just people who didn't know that if I answer one call it will kill the little bit of credit on my phone. One call was from the baseball coach - I'm sure he wants to talk me into becoming a pitcher.
Then while I was walking Ethel, my dog, I got a phone call from where I work - the lawyers who decided arbitrarily to give us our second unpaid 4 day vacation in less than 30 days. I went to a phone booth that only charges $0.25. I called and they wanted me to come into work today. I was cursing myself because I said yes. It was a whopping 30 minutes before I was expected to be there.
I worked and was angry but dealing with it by repressing it . . .It would have been fine except some poor woman made a comment to a friend that it was going to be really hard for her this week as she'd only get a $50 paycheck.
The supervisor over heard and said something I over heard: "You should consider yourself lucky to have a job!"
Which got me on my soapbox about responsibility being a two way street. Again I was angry but would have left it at that except suddenly one of my football players bellowed, "Shut up! Coach is talking!"
Normally that kind of thing would have made me laugh and diffused my rage, but this time I just kept going and explained that the lawyers were wrong and that we are human beings. I explained how we all have responsibilities to each other, to our families, our employers and the we, as employees were supposed to be able to rely on our employer following his responsibilities which toed into our responsibilities.
It wasn't very fiery but I talked about self esteem and that we are "not lucky" to have a job, that needing to work for a living does not mean we have to be subject to abuse.
I will be surprised if I'm not fired when I go in tomorrow. I'm still going to look for work but at least I made 1 day's pay.

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