Oh goodness, what a wonderful thread to do my venting. My worst job experience came in about 1990. I had just broken up with my first fiance. (thanks in large part to our different religious beliefs and his was his refusal to join the JW's, well good for him now that I look back in retrospect). I quit my job because he and I worked at the same place (another good reason for not dating people that you work with...) I got a job a small CPA firm here in the D/FW area and the first few weeks were OK. However I was expected to drive around my car and do all the deliveries for the office. Well there was one minority partner in the firm, "Lisa", (I can say her name because of reasons explained) who enjoyed berating me at different times. She and I were the same age, but because she had the CPA diploma on her wall, she said we weren't equals. What a wonderful thing to tell your subordinate! One day I said I work with her, and she says no you work FOR me! I was plotting her demise in my dreams at night to get thru the job. She would yell at me if I parked in different spots in our parking lot (although none were assigned, she was just looking for things to yell at me about.) I put up with this for months until I couldn't take it anymore. I went to the head of the firm and explained my frustrations. He was sympathetic but yet did nothing to change her abusive manner towards me and especially other women in the office. I finally went in and told my supervisor if that B_ _ _ _ _ doesn't leave me alone, then to just fire me. I didn't want to quit, because then I wouldn't be eligible for unemployment benefits. Well, the next day I was fired. My JW elder father took me to a local cafeteria and we had a "Get Fired" party.
Fast forward 10 years and last summer someone that knew me from the firm asked me about Lisa. Whatever happened to her, do you know? I said I think she got married, however that's it. Well I typed her name into www.google.com and found her name on a "in memory of" website. I thought, is she dead? I contacted my old employer and they said she had died from the effects of childbirth and her baby died soon after. I thought what a tragedy to happen to this person. Even though I had "plotted" her demise in my thoughts, I had no idea she had really passed on. She was just 36 and had wanted to be a parent so badly, so badly that it killed her. I felt so bad for all those negative feelings I had towards her, and learning upon her untimely death how I hadn't dealt with all that anger that I harbored against her and people like her. I thank God I now have the real Jesus and don't have to "worry" about whether I will be saved in the day of Jah's anger. No more going door to door to earn my place in the new system.
With the JW's I have the throw up and go syndrome - heave and leave!
Edited by - TresHappy on 14 August 2002 16:54:31