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Oh, where to start? This’ll be a long one.
My family and I have been hit by some really bad luck lately.
It actually all started over a year ago. I had been working at a job that my dad got me into, and later my brother as well. I had been there for nearly a year when I had an accident that severely injured my finger. It was technically still attached by some skin on the sides, but it was basically cut off. Every importany partb was severed. I was blessed with a wonderful doctor and some terrific therapists, and while it will never be back to 100% normal, you wouldn’t be able to tell there had even been an injury unless I pointed it out to you. I thank God wholeheartedly for this, naturally. Had circumstances been just a bit different or I had had a less skilled doctor, it may very well have been amputated. Again, thank God Almighty.
Anyway, I was back to work, albeit very light duty (basically I was one handed), shortly before the start of 2012. Eventually, I was able to return to two-handed work, but my finger stuck staright out (I had no control/motion/etc. in it at all), and this past summer, I went in for a follow-up surgery and more therapy, eventually allowing my finger to ‘go’ again.
I should explain my boss. The man was/is a loose cannon. I don’t know if he has a mental disorder or not, I’m certainly no doctor, and I know he grew up in an abusive home. Nevertheless, I don’t think something is quite ‘right’ with him. I was hired as an apprentice, and the fact I had NO previous experience in this work was clearly understood. It didn’t matter to this man, though. One minute, you could be doing great, and the next minute, you’d be a “lazy kid” or costing them money for not having done something perfectly right away. More than once he made statements regarding younger kids that all they did was “play video games and jack off at the compuer”, despite the fact I had said I only play video games once in awhile and I certainly don’t masturbate, at the computer or elsewhere. He also made many statements to the tune of “all kids should be beaten”. Once he even made a snide remark about Catholics and pedophile priests (I think he was trying to be funny, but it came off as odd, disturbing, and not funny in the least, of course). Simply put, when I had my injury, I was doing five things simultaneously, none of which I had any training for. If it wouldn’t have been for this hurried, cost-cutting measure, I probably never would have been hurt.
While I was healing this past summer following my second surgery, I got an infection, and had to have a 3rd operation, and a home IV for three weeks following a five day stay in the hospital. Workman’s Comp of course paid for all of this, thank God again, because Lord knows we’d be in the poorhouse if it weren’t for that.
Anyway, towards the end of the summer, this boss had really got on my brother for, how I understand it, no reason at all. My brother was terrific at what he did. After my boss laid into him, my brother called up and quit later that night (who could blame him?). A week or two later, I was released for light duty, but was informed that they “had no work” for me (which was almost undoubtedly a lie) and that I was laid-off. I think a combination of my brother quitting (and thus costing them a LOT of money) and the fact I was off for so long (as if I could contradict my doctor, risk another infection, etc.) led to this. I’ve been unemployed since then, and thanks to some seasonal work that would have never lasted as a ‘real’ job, I don’t know if I’ll be receiving anymore unemployment benefits. I don’t think I will. With all the people that work the system, I guess that’s what I get for always being honest, huh?
My family and I have been hit by some really bad luck lately.
It actually all started over a year ago. I had been working at a job that my dad got me into, and later my brother as well. I had been there for nearly a year when I had an accident that severely injured my finger. It was technically still attached by some skin on the sides, but it was basically cut off. Every importany partb was severed. I was blessed with a wonderful doctor and some terrific therapists, and while it will never be back to 100% normal, you wouldn’t be able to tell there had even been an injury unless I pointed it out to you. I thank God wholeheartedly for this, naturally. Had circumstances been just a bit different or I had had a less skilled doctor, it may very well have been amputated. Again, thank God Almighty.
Anyway, I was back to work, albeit very light duty (basically I was one handed), shortly before the start of 2012. Eventually, I was able to return to two-handed work, but my finger stuck staright out (I had no control/motion/etc. in it at all), and this past summer, I went in for a follow-up surgery and more therapy, eventually allowing my finger to ‘go’ again.
I should explain my boss. The man was/is a loose cannon. I don’t know if he has a mental disorder or not, I’m certainly no doctor, and I know he grew up in an abusive home. Nevertheless, I don’t think something is quite ‘right’ with him. I was hired as an apprentice, and the fact I had NO previous experience in this work was clearly understood. It didn’t matter to this man, though. One minute, you could be doing great, and the next minute, you’d be a “lazy kid” or costing them money for not having done something perfectly right away. More than once he made statements regarding younger kids that all they did was “play video games and jack off at the compuer”, despite the fact I had said I only play video games once in awhile and I certainly don’t masturbate, at the computer or elsewhere. He also made many statements to the tune of “all kids should be beaten”. Once he even made a snide remark about Catholics and pedophile priests (I think he was trying to be funny, but it came off as odd, disturbing, and not funny in the least, of course). Simply put, when I had my injury, I was doing five things simultaneously, none of which I had any training for. If it wouldn’t have been for this hurried, cost-cutting measure, I probably never would have been hurt.
While I was healing this past summer following my second surgery, I got an infection, and had to have a 3rd operation, and a home IV for three weeks following a five day stay in the hospital. Workman’s Comp of course paid for all of this, thank God again, because Lord knows we’d be in the poorhouse if it weren’t for that.
Anyway, towards the end of the summer, this boss had really got on my brother for, how I understand it, no reason at all. My brother was terrific at what he did. After my boss laid into him, my brother called up and quit later that night (who could blame him?). A week or two later, I was released for light duty, but was informed that they “had no work” for me (which was almost undoubtedly a lie) and that I was laid-off. I think a combination of my brother quitting (and thus costing them a LOT of money) and the fact I was off for so long (as if I could contradict my doctor, risk another infection, etc.) led to this. I’ve been unemployed since then, and thanks to some seasonal work that would have never lasted as a ‘real’ job, I don’t know if I’ll be receiving anymore unemployment benefits. I don’t think I will. With all the people that work the system, I guess that’s what I get for always being honest, huh?
