This month is the reason that I found it impossible to blog for the past few months. Our lives were thrown into turmoil when Greg's boss at the county fired him for refusing to add something to the minutes of a meeting that didn't actually happen in that meeting. There was a recording of the meeting that proved it. The boss tried to get Greg to resign so that "it wouldn't be on his record", but we did not feel that was the right thing to do. So there was a termination hearing in front of a Human Resources employee. Greg won this hearing because he had received a positive job evaluation 6 months earlier and a performance bonus a few months earlier and his boss had not followed the employee handbook of steps that should be followed when an employee has unsatisfactory job performance. We figure that he's just managed to intimidate everyone into resigning in the past.
He was reinstated to his job and the boss waited 2 days to write him up twice (!) and terminate him again. This time the HR person upheld the termination. Greg appealed to the county administrator (a good buddy of his boss), and he also upheld the termination. Of course there is much, much more to the story, but I'm summing it up here. The boss who fired him is a bully who is liked by almost no one at the county but is the longest employee there. If HR and the county administrator hadn't upheld the termination, they would have been admitting that the boss was wrong. So, I guess that would have made them liable for his actions. We considered suing the county for wrongful termination, but Florida is a right-to-work state. Greg did not have a contract, so he can basically be fired for any reason. We felt that pursuing a lawsuit would not benefit us in the long run. So, we didn't. We're counting on God for justice whether that's in the short term or the long term. In the meanwhile, God has provided for us. Greg has been working more hours at his second job, the Hampton Inn, and he's had all kinds of other work passed on to him by his brother (which actually pays better than the hotel does). However, he's gone from home as much as he always was, and we'd really love for that to end and for him to get one full-time good-paying job. I've pinched the pennies about as tightly as I can, so there's not much to be done there.
Thankfully, we had health insurance through the end of January, because Chase dropped a coffee cup and cut her hand so badly that we had to take her to an urgent care place for stitches.
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| Dad removed her stitches as he had for me, Landon & Carys as well. |
We celebrated Carys' 8th birthday on January 17. We ate out at Bubbalou's BBQ in Orlando.
Then we went home to open presents and eat cake. Yum!
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| My Little Pony Monopoly from Gerren |
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| A slinky! |
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