Friday, April 20, 2007

Knee-jerk reaction

This Wednesday Chris started his new job. Finally! They've been having training in a different location everyday. First it was Lenexa, then Grain Valley, and today, Oak Grove. But so far so good. He'll get great benefits and he was super excited that if we move to Lexington, he'll be able to change his status to "remote" installer so he'll only have to make one trip to the shop at the beginning of the week and keep the company truck with him all week, essentially working out of the home & just going straight to the job sites each morning. Less driving=very cool.

It's been a good week. And to top it off we heard a fabulous story about his ex-boss at the Embassy Suites that was so horrible to him & all her employees. She told him once, concerning him needing time off to take Afton to a Dr appt b/c I'd already used up all my PTO taking him every time before, that one of us needed to step up, be a parent and take some responsibility. Essentially, she thought I should get written up at my job & take unpaid time off to take him to the Dr instead of letting Chris help out & take him. Or all the times she called him at 3 & 4 AM to cuss him out, screaming into the phone at him about how this or that wasn't done or needed to get done & he had to get up there right that minute & do it. Yes, at 3 & 4 AM, and yes, more than once. Or, how about the time she "punished" him for one of his employees not showing up by making him do that particular job, telling him that she was managing that night & he'd be the server only. Then she disappeared, but not before telling the catering manager that if Chris needed help he was not to go help him. It of course ended up being super busy, Chris had no help, didn't know that his boss had bailed on him & found out what she'd told the other manager. So it was just him with no other server, busser, running the whole restaurant. Or, or, the day he tried to talk to her about it, told her he didn't appreciate the way she was treating him and getting the response, "Well, you deserve it" before she stormed out. This woman is literally a raving psycho. But, we always keep the faith that people like that will get their just deserts one day or another. We don't have to get revenge; all we have to do is sit back & watch.

So, when we heard Wednesday night that one of her employees punched her in the face at work, I just about fell over, but all we really felt was satisfaction that her horrible ways are catching up to her. Just makes you wonder what she said to get that kind of reaction from someone. Hmm... I am honestly surprised it didn't happen before now. But it's great. It made Chris's week for sure!


The moral of the story: You should never do anything wrong. It will catch up with you.

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Blogger Scott and Beth said...

I miss hearing stories from you...

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