I'm glad you weren't let go.

One of the worst things about the training job I had before I came to work for my current employer in 1998 was the near-constant firings and letting-people-go. The three-ring-binder for New Horizons Computer Learning Center franchisees said that you should treat your trainers like crap until they've been with you for 18 months and therefore proved their loyalty. Trainers got let go at the drop of a hat, from subpar evaluation scores (which is somewhat reasonable), to a single customer in a single class lying and saying that the trainer had insulted her, to completely invented reasons just to slash payroll. You never wanted to get too close to anyone you worked with because the odds were good that in a month they, or you, wouldn't be working there any more. How I lasted from December of 1995 to May of 1998 I'll never understand.

Your situation, fortunately, is much more humane, but still not exactly the sort of thing one wants to see happen, as you said, so close to Christmas.

jayfurr 12/4/2007 12:25pm