If It Ain't One Thing...

...it's the crappy-assed American economy.

I got laid off today. Indefinitely. They are eliminating my job position. Business has been so slow they say they can't afford to keep me on the payroll.

WTF?

Why dd the other 5 chicks that were hired AFTER me get to keep THEIR jobs today? Why wasn't one of them let go and me placed in her spot? What gives? Does SENIORITY not account for ANYTHING anymore???

I am crushed. I did this unemployment thing last year and it about drove me nuts. I don't know if I can do it again? Our area has almost NO JOBS unless you're a professional or a tradesman. I am considering finishing school, then I too, will be a tradesman..er, uh, WOMAN.

But right now there's just a million things going through my head and I need some time to sort it all out. I hadn't been updating much because I've been so busy with work and every other aspect of my life, but I guess now I'll be eat up with time for a while, so I can update more.

Personally, I think this had more to do with a personal vendetta than finances. The Drs that work @ the clinic travel around the world several times a year. You can't tell me they aren't making a bit o' coin. The Administrator and the Office Manager have had it out for me form the beginning. Always looking at me when I'd make a joke like I had 3 heads or something. Always arguing with me when I had FACTS to back up that I was RIGHT. Never bending a little with my schedule when I asked, but bending over backwards to accommodate my peers when they asked. I am not stupid. In fact, I am rather intuitive to other people. It's almost like a 6th sense. Sometimes it's a blessing other times a curse. They tell me that my lay off is indefinite. If there are positions that come available, they will call me - if they remember to.

Whatever.

They've wanted to get rid of me ever since I fried my first computer's hard drive. After that incident. I never so much as got a hello. I got passed over for a $50 bonus AND got written up. All over one computer hard drive that CAN BE FIXED - they are just too CHEAP to take it to a shop and have it done. Better to alienate and make a spectacle out of the employee that made a mistake.

Maybe this is a blessing in disguise? Maybe there's something else that I was meant for out there? Maybe I will slowly lose my mind and go insane and have to be locked away? Who knows?

All I know is that THIS IS NOT how I had envisioned spending my New Year holiday - and DEFINITELY NOT how I imagined I'd start 2009.

Odd numbered years always were the worst ones for me.