Prayer request - IN URGENT NEED

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Hello, everyone!

I would greatly appreciate all your prayers and support for what I am about to ask.

Also, any words of encouragement or blessing would be most appreciated as I am just beside myself right now.

First, I will give the immediate situation and then the more peripheral concerns that have been building for some time.
  1. THE IMMEDIATE ISSUE…
    I am booked to go on a vacation with my family to see my family in Florida for Christmas (plane tickets and all). I thought I had requested the time off but after double checking with the schedule today, it looks like I didn’t. My boss and I had a discussion a few months back about changing the holiday vacation time off - AND I COMPLETELY forgot!
Now, I have to beg for the time off and admit that I dropped the ball. There are 14 people in our office and several already have the days off I need.

I am feeling really down on myself and I can’t believe I was so STUPID and forgetful.

Please pray for the LORD to break through when I talk to my boss tomorrow. I have a TON of vacation time that I didn’t take all year and it will expire anyway. But, my boss and I have a HORRIBLE relationship. She is really rough on me and CONSTANTLY looking for ways to get rid of me. In all honesty, she is a very coniving and manipulative person and I can’t believe this situation has come to fruition.

PLEASE PRAY FOR A BREAKTHROUGH and that I get the time off.
  1. Ok, the bigger picture to please pray for…
It has been nothing short of a nightmare working for this boss of mine. She is EXTREMELY manipulative and constantly looking to get rid of me. I sense she is a very insecure person as she often “targets” certain people - constantly riding them and seeking to get them in trouble so she can fire them or making their life so miserable that they quit. Needless to say, I am one of three men that she is not fond of. I am quite shocked I’ve been able to make it this long.

Over the past two years, I have not taken a single vacation day, called off or taken any sick time. Indeed, I am frightened not to go into work or request time off since I am afraid she will find reasons to fire me while I am gone (as has been the case with others before).

I am at my ropes end. I have trouble sleeping at night, I wake up most mornings with overwhelming anxiety and it takes every bit of strength I have just to get through the day.

I really don’t want to get fired, but it may come to that.

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SITUATION - both immediate and bigger picture.

St Rita, pray for me!

Patrick
Columbus, Ohio
 
I’m sorry you’re experiencing such difficulties, and my thoughts and prayers are with you. Good luck!
 
My prayers are with you as well, and I will pray too that the Holy Spirit inspires you as you update your resume’ so that you can find a better job where you are treated like a human being instead of a pawn on a chessboard.
 
Lord, I pray that Patrick can find a new job ASAP. Please help him to pray a lot and to carry his cross courageously, patiently and lovingly. May he offer up his sufferings and be the perfect example of charity, meekness and patience. May he pray for his boss and pray to you for strength whenever his boss begins to get the best of him. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.
 
Dear Lord,
Please help the poster with what sounds like a difficult situation. May You be with everyone involved and may everyone act as You would act. Thy will be done Lord Jesus.
Thank You Lord,
Amen.

God bless,
Sarah.
 
I will remember you in my daily prayers. Hope you were able to get the time off you wanted, and that your situation at work improves soon, one way or another. God bless 🙂
 
Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee
blessed art thou among women and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus
Holy Mary mother of God pray for us
sinners now and at the hour of our death
Amen.
 
Hello, all!

I figured I would give a quick update.

I did end up getting one day off so I could spend Christmas with my family. I switched my flight around to make the best of a bad situation.

When I confronted my boss to ask for the one day off, she literally stomped away angry and didn’t speak to me for the rest of the morning until I finally sent an email to her telling her to please let me know if her stomping away angry like a 3 year old meant I had the day off or not (I of course didn’t use those words). She said I could have the Monday after Christmas off but would of course be written up for an unexcused absense (she was by the way off all week). Not exactly a proportionate response to a guy who hasn’t taken a day off all year, but hey… c’est la vie, right?

Needless to say the rest of my week was a nightmare. Even though my boss was off all week, she sent me emails from home saying I needed to do certain things (nobody else on the team received any emails and said the week was a “goof off week.”)

I am at an impasse. I simply can’t go on like this and need to get a new job. I went to a manager about my situation just to talk about six months ago and he shrugged it off (gotta protect his managers I suppose).

I am spending this weekend beside myself. I simply cannot go much longer with sleepless nights, fried nerves and constantly looking over my shoulder just to await what I fear is going to be an inevitable firing.

I am taking this to the LORD to see if I need to quit and leave voluntarily and with grace and if so to have the courage to do so and to begin the search for a new job.

PLEASE keep me close to your thoughts and prayers this New Years.

I hope you all have a blessed holiday and a grace filled 2012!

Patrick
Columbus, Ohio
 
praying for you

I hope you started looking for a new job, getting your resume polished up etc. Don’t quit until you have and accept an offer.
 
Yep, use your evenings and days off on the weekend to get that resume refined, and start making inquiries even if you have to do it on your lunch break. Check on stuff such as your pension plan (if you have one,) health insurance portability, and all sorts of human resources things, and save up some money to help the transition to something new. If you can manage it while keeping your sanity, don’t quit till you get an offer. The Holy Spirit is inspiring you and probably has something much better in mind, even if it’s just something where you won’t have to obsess all the time and ruin your time off. Work was made for man, not man made for work!

My sister was in a situation with a very abusive boss: She started looking, and found something that paid a couple of thousand a year less. She accepted the job, reasoning that that couple of thousand dollars would probably get paid to a psychiatrist, or worse, a cardiologist, if she stayed where she was. She was probably right, too. That was months ago, and she looks ten years younger than when she was working in what she referred to as “hell with fluorescent lights!”
 
Let’s pray for ourselves and for the ones who abuse us and ask Mother Mary for interception

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with you.
Blessed are your among women
Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus

Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us sinners now,
And at the hour of our death
AMEN
 
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