So, we've had a bit of a crazy couple of weeks....A couple weeks ago a friend of Eric's that he worked with years ago kept asking him to come work for him. Eric wasn't really wanting to leave his current company so he kept turning down his friend.
His friend, however, would not take NO as an answer, so Eric thought, "What the heck, I'll at least go and interview. Maybe they'll give me more money."
So, he went to the job interview and thought it was one of the best he ever had, but he had let this company know that he was quite content where he was currently at and it would pretty much boil down to getting a higher salary if he was to leave his current job.
A couple days later he got the "Yes, we'd like to hire you." This was on a Friday night, so he didn't give his 2 week notice at this point. He didn't want to "ruin" or cause stress to his managers on a weekend, so he was going to give them his 2 week notice on Monday, March 19.
However, his manager wasn't at work on Monday so he gave his notice on Tuesday. His 2 weeks was going to end just before our vacation, which was perfect. Then he would start his new job after we got home from vacation.
So Eric works hard finishing a product. On Thursday, March 22, he calls me around 5 asking me what I wanted to do on Friday since he just got laid off. I was thinking this was kind of a joke, since a couple weeks before someone really did get laid off and he's kind of been joking about it since.
He said, "No, it's not a joke, they seriously laid me off." PANIC LIGHTS go off here. How were we going to afford 3 weeks without a paycheck? He then tells me that he called the new company and asked if he could start on Monday, March 26. They said that would be great.
So, luckily for us everything worked out. However, he is just really ticked that the company laid him off. It was almost like they were just waiting for him to finish the product he was working on, cause as soon as he finished they laid him off. It would have been understandable if they had laid him off the day he gave his notice, but no, they made him work 3 more days and then pulled it on him. They also made him sign a paper saying that it was VOLUNTARY! His voluntary leaving was in 2 WEEKS!
Sorry, just had to blow some steam off.
Anyway, Friday ended up being a good day off for him however. He spent most of it playing a game online with one of his friends and then he even took the boys to see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Both boys enjoyed it a lot (from what I gathered). Eric said that Tanis watched it really well and Lex even watched the whole movie. (My baby is growing up)
I ended up staying home to clean the house and watch Shaylyn, who ended up getting a fever Friday morning. Oh well.
Such is life in the Hardy household.
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