Off my chest

I have to get this off my chest. I am still angry at my last boss who laid me off when I was 7 months preggo with David and my husband was laid up in the hospital. I know as a small organization they did not have to abide by FMLA so I had no guarantee of a job when I left to give birth..... but he laid me off over the phone when I left for a 4 day vacation so we could move into our new apartment. I used to put in 12+ hour days for that man and did way more than my job description entailed. I stayed there when they hemorrhaged staff each fall as students returned to school. I wrote 3 training manuals for them & fully updated their ordering system so that all inventory properly tracked in their computer system.

His lame excuse for letting me go??? Too much staff & not enough hours.... and "health" reasons. I know if I had been in a frame of mind to fight him the fact that he listed "health" reasons could have been to my advantage as my only "medical" condition was pregnancy. I was just hurt that after all I did for those people he had the nerve to lay me off that way.

*deep breath* I know I am better off. I was able to collect unemployment while in my last weeks of pregnancy & the weeks after David was born. I didn't have to commute 45+ minutes each way in August while 9 months preggo. Best of all........ I could stop playing babysitter to a man who would rather be anywhere than at his business.

Funny. Just typing that makes me feel better.