My wife was working full time at a non-profit and teaching yoga classes at night.
I finally landed a part time position at the local big box retailer.
While things were not exactly getting better or turning around, they had settled into a very chaotic groove with which I could work.
Then today, without warning, my wife was let go from her position. "Not passionate enough about your work". (translation -- she has worked six years for a non-profit that advocated for the disabled and she was one of only two non-disabled there. The other, twenty years her junior, had her position before my wife had vacated the office).
Still reeling I have no idea what I am going to do next. Nor how much I'll be able to post in the near term.
But I ain't giving up. Oh no.
Stay tuned.
MR,
ReplyDeleteOMG! Your wife has lost her job???
I"m sorry, MR.
ReplyDeleteNot passionate about her work also apparently meant, "What? You dared to take a vacation?"
The Obamaeconomy is so much more compassionate and humane than Capitalism. We can all rejoice at the fact that we are no longer just cogs in the wheel, but are being treated as real human beings, being fired for taking vacations, replaced by robots, and lining up for Free Obama phones and meals down at the Church.
So fucking compassionate it makes my head hurt.
Pasto,
ReplyDeleteNot passionate about her work also apparently meant, "What? You dared to take a vacation?"
That's about it.
My wife worked for a non-profit helping women years ago. She put in a number of years. When time came to tart funding her IRA or whatever they had at that time, they found ways to let her go.
ReplyDeleteNon-profit means non-compassionate?
Yup.
ReplyDeleteAoW and Pasto both hit it on the head.
The anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act happened while we were visiting our daughter in Alaska.
Every year it is celebrated here with a huge parade of a couple dozen people walking (or being rolled) down the street.
Well the powers that be were rather put out that she was not available this year. Never mind that they knew about this trip for months and had ample chance to deny it they approved it.
And were then unhappy that she wasn't available to carry a placard down the street.
Never mind the scores and scores of people she advocated for over the years, making sure curb cuts were put in, ramps available at public buildings, homes modified to accommodate their disability or even finding another personal care assistant when the one they had got tired of spending their days wiping someone else's ass.
Never mind other supervisors and employees were also on vacation (they are all disabled, you see, and much harder to terminate).
She didn't carry a sign and wasn't passionate enough.
Now that she's out I can tell you her stories over the years have left me mostly unsympathetic to those who claim to be disabled. Not all of course but a great many of them ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HELPING THEMSELVES. They would rather have it handed to them or done for them.
And that's not hearsay, that's firsthand from my wife's experiences.
Non-profit means non-compassionate is exactly right, especially if the non-profit is for the disabled and you are not so.