Many of you know the situation with my grandpa and Shelley that i have been dealing with for the past month. If you don't go back and read my first blog. Well the sale was final and funded on the 16th of July. Papers were signed on the 20th and my grandpa had already made up his mind that he was driving himself and Shelley to New Orleans over the course of 3 days. Considering he had to make arrangements in Lafayette for dialysis I stepped in to help. He is 86 and has been having alot of prostate problems lately. I know that he is VERY independent and stubborn but he is my Pepa...my only Pepa and she is my Aunt Shelley my moms only sister, i cant get either one of them back if something were to happen to them on the road. It just gave me the hibbidigibidis! I have already suffered so much loss between my mom passing away, and then last year my grandma passed away in September. They do not have alot of immediate family that could just jump up and say hey i will do that! Ummm NO! All of the family lives in New Orleans and they are in the same boat as Pepa and Shell. Old blind people cant lead old blind people. Can they??My boss kept asking me over and over again why do you have to be there? Cant someone else do that for once? After she already knew that no there was no one else that was going to be able to take care of this for me.Which in return made me think she was sort of a "heartless empty shell of a person", but i tried to understand that it is just her job. I don't know what the terms "Just a Job" mean. I love my residents and i love my job. All i can even start to process in my mind is that maybe God has got something MUCH MUCH better in mind. Surely he wouldn't punish us for putting family above work. I guess in my mind this was a true family emergency given the fact that i explained to her how quickly this happened, and how there was no other choice, and this is what i was going to have to do for my family. Tracie called the regional to ask for vacation time for me even after i already explained that I didn't even care if i got paid it was something i had to do. No Biggie! Well apparently HUGE BIGGIE! The regional told Tracie that not only was this situation NOT IN ANY FORM A FAMILY EMERGENCY but that if I made the choice to not show up to work and go anyway to drive my grandpa they would consider that Job abandonment. WHAT THE HELL?? We are talking like the day before i was leaving. She knew that i was going to have to leave at the end of the month to take care of this and she said it was fine. Now all of the sudden the day before i need to take care of some serious family business getting my sick elderly family into an assisted living apartment so that they can feel safe.
I no longer have a job! Although it was made very clear I had until Thursday to decide and if I decided to not show up to work then they would assume that i had abandoned my job. Tracie came to my house tried to talk me into... i don't know what, because there was nothing i could do...So i did all that i knew to do and i chose the only answer i felt like i could live with for the rest of my life. I thought of all of the horrible things that could happened to them if they took the trip alone. Not only the things that might happen to them but the things that might happen to other innocent people on the road... I chose my family! And I always Will!
This all happened Monday afternoon. I was planning on leaving Wednesday. For some weird unknown reason i kept feeling like God was saying its OK i will provide for you. I had this weird peaceful feeling that under normal circumstances I would not feel. Freddy had picked me up from work that day and later around 8:45pm i went up to the office to get my car and bring it home. Low and Behold both of the Maintenance guys were changing the locks on the front doors to the office! OK so back up. I am still working the next day are they not going to even call me to let me know that they are doing this. Hell no they didn't. So i went to work on Tuesday packed up all of my things because i just felt like if i was gonna be done i should just get my stuff that day. They were all acting so skid dish and weird like jumping in front of me to get to the door before i did. Little did they know...I already knew. Do you know what it is like to watch people whom you think are your closest friends keep something from you all day long? I Not just one person you care about but two of them. It is a Sickening feeling. Believe me. So I said nothing even though i felt like calling them all backstabbers and liars and walking out. Later that afternoon I went to log into my online account to complete some work and to my surprise all of my passwords were changed! It was all that i could do to get out of there without blowing up. In fact, I let them all know that i knew about the locks and that i knew they were trying to hide it from me. Honestly the truth does hurt but lies destroy friendships forever. I walked away feeling like i had just been don't royally screwed, and feeling extremely angry. I am in Louisiana with my Grandpa and my Aunt right now...sitting in the lobby typing this blog because i can only imagine if i had made the wrong choice letting them talk me into sending Pepa and Shelley go alone in order to keep my job. Then what/? They do something similar to this next week because they don't feel like paying me my bonus' from last month or for the Seller Bonus that all of the staff is going to receive when they do sell? on August 15 2010? I cant even consider them my friends right now, because an acquaintance i would be mad at but my CLOSE friend?? NO .Who knows what else are they hiding?
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