Random possibly useful fact

[DirtDawg]

Ugh. Sympathy.

(Surely they've got enough young people who can unload trucks, you do a lot more than cart stuff around...)

So right. My boss said so ... "I need your brain, not your brawn, but my hand has been forced."

When the corporates gave him copies of letters written by "caring, kneejerk, bleeding heart assholes", totally dis'ing BBY for having a crippled man loading their products, they came down on him (my GM).  A meeting was held and they gave him the wherewithal to set me on leave and all the stuff to get paid benefits while I am healing.

Honestly, as difficult as that conversation was to suffer through (for both of us), this may work out in my favor.

I will be paid eighty per cent of my normal wage and be STILL able to rest and totally heal without going day to day breaking things down again and again during the healing process.

I am trying to see the positive side to this and I think it is real.


 

... although, still embarrassing.

[odeon]

I hope it does work in your favour, then.

[DirtDawg]

I hope it does work in your favour, then.

Yes, thanks.

I  need a little more time to heal  completely.

[DirtDawg]

I hope it does work in your favour, then.

It was the two broken ribs last week  that caused him to lose the arguments in my favor.

Useless fact, randomness>

I am too stoned on opiate downers to sleep. jittery as fuck all  I have just put stuff in the bread machine, I am lying back to once again enjoy "Gone With The Wind" and hopefully pass out.

[Pyraxis]

Honestly, as difficult as that conversation was to suffer through (for both of us), this may work out in my favor.

I will be paid eighty per cent of my normal wage and be STILL able to rest and totally heal without going day to day breaking things down again and again during the healing process.

I am trying to see the positive side to this and I think it is real.

Eh, forget the embarrassment.

I'm a wee bit jealous even (though not enough to want both my hips sawed out and replaced with steel, and a few cracked ribs on top of it  ) since time feels like the most precious resource of all right now. I'm contemplating quitting my job even without pay just to buy myself a few months of space to work on the things I was really put on this planet to do. Like, say, art.

[Queen Victoria]

Honestly, as difficult as that conversation was to suffer through (for both of us), this may work out in my favor.

I will be paid eighty per cent of my normal wage and be STILL able to rest and totally heal without going day to day breaking things down again and again during the healing process.

I am trying to see the positive side to this and I think it is real.

Eh, forget the embarrassment.

I'm a wee bit jealous even (though not enough to want both my hips sawed out and replaced with steel, and a few cracked ribs on top of it  ) since time feels like the most precious resource of all right now. I'm contemplating quitting my job even without pay just to buy myself a few months of space to work on the things I was really put on this planet to do. Like, say, art.

Agree about forgetting the embarrassment.  I was on bed rest for about 5 months of my pregnancy with the PR.  Otherwise perfectly healthy, allowed up for 2 hours a day for meals, toileting, bathing and doctor visits.  When I had the doctor visit I was not up except for toileting.  Pretty hard for an independently minded woman of the work force to handle at the age of 39.  But I did.  Focus on healing, that's what's important.

[DirtDawg]

Honestly, as difficult as that conversation was to suffer through (for both of us), this may work out in my favor.

I will be paid eighty per cent of my normal wage and be STILL able to rest and totally heal without going day to day breaking things down again and again during the healing process.

I am trying to see the positive side to this and I think it is real.

Eh, forget the embarrassment.

I'm a wee bit jealous even (though not enough to want both my hips sawed out and replaced with steel, and a few cracked ribs on top of it  ) since time feels like the most precious resource of all right now. I'm contemplating quitting my job even without pay just to buy myself a few months of space to work on the things I was really put on this planet to do. Like, say, art.

Let us hope that none of the pain I feel ever comes your way.

Your comment about time being a most precious resource is more real than you know.

[DirtDawg]

I hope it does work in your favour, then.

He showed me the letters that were sent to the corporate offices, two of them actually used the words, "crippled old man." to describe me. NO, I am not hurt, I am pissed as hell!!

I can tell you that I am not crippled (being crippled is a state of mind, not one of body)  I was doing my very best to keep my job and maintain the daily duty that was required. But when these kneejerk bleeding heart assholes wrote to the corporate entity, describing how "hurt"  they were to have a sufferring old man loading out their TVs, I was fucked.



I can tell you that, even with my cane, I am as strong as most of the kids up there, but the image is too much to bare for some people.

[DirtDawg]

Anyway, I have put in for ninety days of leave and I will receive eighty percent of my wage during my time off.

I will heal well, do some needed gardening, hiking, biking, construction projects and some photographic excursions and come back ready to ROXXORS!!

I feel that my boss did me a favor or two.

As difficult as it was, I shook his hand as we parted and thanked him.

I did not yet know how forthcoming my benefit package was going to be.

[McGiver]

Great to hear, Dirt Dawg.  In the meantime do what you love.

[odeon]

This is my 66666th post.

[Jack]

["couldbecousin"]

This is my 66666th post.

          ULTIMATE EVIL!

[Pyraxis]

This is my 66666th post.

[McGiver]

This is my 66666th post.

stop already.