It's been taken care of...

So this blog, three days into its existence, has been hit by a MAJOR speed bump. It's a pretty significant speed bump too. I was let go. In fact, We were all let go, except Lorrie and Matt, and even Matt is only staying on in a limited capacity. However this doesn't have to be the death of this spectacular project. I have plenty of past material of which I can draw from. But why not get things going by outlining for all of you how exactly this entire thing went down. I fact it only seems fitting that given everything I've dealt with during my tenure that this is how it would happen.

So my newest boss hates me. I never did anything to her to warrant her behavior, but oh well. On Friday she showed up and the awkwardness continued, There are several kinds of awkward in this world. An attempt at a first kiss, meeting your college room mate for the first time, this level of awkward was somewhere on the scale of telling your significant other that you contracted herpes during your three day business trip in Vegas 2 weeks ago and now she probably has it too. Ya this was awkward. No hello how are you, no eye contact, quick one word answers to questions. Hell before I left on Friday I even asked her if there was anything else she needed before I left or if she had anything else to tell me. She replied "No..." Lying, piece of... ugh!

After I left on Friday I get the following text message from Matt: "I don't know what's going on here, but they're chagng all of the locks on the doors." I tell him to find out what is going on for Saturday morning because I was supposed to be working. The response: "They said 'It's been taken care of' whatever that means." A lot of other really awkward things happened on Friday also. They asked Lorrie if she ever did or would want to work weekends, they asked Matt to extend his availability. Looking back on it these were precursors to what was ultimately to come.

Now...I am a 25 year old in the prime of my life. I am not answering my phone on a Friday night. I'm busy for Christ's sake and she knew this. At 11 PM I check my phone and see I have a voice mail from a 330 area code. I knew what the message was gonna say before I listened to it, or at least I thought I did. My new boss was on my voice mail telling me that they can't keep the doors open financially the way we have it now and that it would be a drive thru only until they could figure things out. The only people remaining would be Lorrie and Matt and the rest of us were being let go. She also laced this message with "I really wanted to speak to you and I really wish you would have answered." BULL CRAP! I then proceeded to start throwing out texts and phone calls left and right letting everyone know what happened.

So there you have it. After working at that place for 7 years for a variety of owners and putting up with so much crap, that's how it went down. Via voice mail on a Friday night. I have to admit though, it was a good run. I met some great people along the way and have made a really great group of friends thanks to that place. So it's not all bad. With that in mind this blog will keep going. I will try to update as much as I can and keep new stories coming as often as possible. Stay tuned...