Shane got fired today

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Shane got fired today
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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 12:08pm

My heart is broken for him. He came home about 30 minutes ago and luckily I was just back from the grocery store so he could get in. He told me they fired him.

All that crap that I said was going on at work with the other guy coming in and taking over as his boss has manifested itself into this. Shane had no idea this guy was supposed to be his boss until a day and a half AFTER it happened so when the guy came in and started trying to change stuff, Shane called his bluff and told him how things work in that department. He apparently didn't like it and told on Shane and Shane got told then that this guy was his superior and that he needed to step off and let him do his thing.

The guy wasn't happy with how Shane knew more and felt threatened so he got him fired. And this was a friend supposedly. Someone we went out with before.

Things will be fine for us. He's got another job offered to him right away and insurance is paid up thru the end of January. I'll have the birth paid off this month so we don't have to worry about that. He'll have to go COBRA for a little while until the new insurance kicks in. It will be fine. We can't worry. It's just too much. So in the meantime, he's gone to get the stuff settled with the new job and he'll collect his paycheck today from his old job and I'm unpacking.

I can't understand how they can feel good about doing that especially when just days ago he was ASSURED his job was safe. What liars they are!!!

Just keep us in your thoughts that all of this will be positive. The new place wants him to do F and I which is what he was supposed to do had he taken the original job he had last year before taking the one he just lost. He knows his stuff. He can do it. I truly believe in him.

Mel

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 12:10pm

I am sorry to hear about this misfortune - but maybe the new opportunity will turn into something better.

I applaud you for believing in Shane and supporting him. Very good!! Stay positive and strong and good things will happen.

Make the house warm and comfy girl!! This is the old employer's loss!!

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 12:19pm

Thank you. I just love that man with all my heart and I know he will succeed in taking care of us. He's not a quitter and he has offers all the time so this one came in a few days ago and he was prepared to take it one way or another because he was feeling unstable at work.

I honestly felt weird when he left today. Tense. Like this was it. I was right. The changes, the extra day off, which they said was not the issue at all. The changes were what lead up to this. And I honestly feel that they got rid of him because they did it to the old GM who hired Shane and they wanted all of that gone. I think they felt he still had loyalty to his old boss, which he was still friends with him, but so were other co-workers. How could they not be?

I'm just so upset for him, but he is not gonna sit and take it. He's going to go to work at the new place tomorrow, we think. It's 30 miles away, but many people work like that so we are not concerned. And they may be giving him a demo to drive like he's had before.

Mel

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 12:40pm

The car business, in general, is not the best business to be involved in. I know, because my brother and BIL were and are in it. There is alot of backstabbing going on and you always have to watch out for those wanting to take your job. You have to kiss alot of a$$ and it doesn't matter if you no more then the other, or have higher sales. Yeah, that place where your hubby is everything you said it was, liars, etc., but again it's a dealership filled with salesman trying to sell cars and make as much off of the individual buying it. It's a gloves off business, and that's what to be expected.

Sorry for Shane losing his job. My BIL has been in that position plenty of times. But, right now he is in a dealership that apparently respects him and keep moving him up the ladder. I also no that if he leaves this job or gets fired, there is always another dealership he can go to, because they all know each other one way or another.

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 12:54pm

I always resented the place he just left. He always came home groaning from exhaustion and just moody and not himself. I hated it. But he was loyal and did his job. I respected him for that even if I hated his job.

You're right, they all know each other. When his GM got fired, Shane got approached at the auction about it by people no way involved with his place. It was a huge deal. They all seemed concerned that Shane might be next but he said his job was safe. He had no reason to believe otherwise because the CEO told him so. But the owner didn't say so. Shane has been in the business so long and has made lots of friends in it that love and respect him. He gets offers weekly to leave and come to work for them. He's always said no because he had what he thought was a good thing and they respected his decision to stay but said that if he ever change his mind to call.

I know he will be fine. He's taking a good solid offer today and I'm proud of him for sucking it up and just going to get this job so we can make it. Who knows? It could be the perfect one for him.

Mel

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 1:03pm
I am so sorry to hear about the firing, but it's amazing he has another job lined up. Most people who get fired are not that lucky.

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 2:42pm
Just wanted to say hugs to you. That stinks, poor timing but it's great he's got a new job already. That's actually why we started talking about doing our own business; because we're sick to death of being on the losing end of unethical and poor decision making from our employers.
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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 4:58pm

That TOTALLY stinks!!!

What a bunch of lousy....

Glad he's being positive through all of it though and that he's got another offer on the table.

I'm sure the guy who got him fired will get it in the end, "what goes around comes around...", right?

HUGS
Alison

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Tue, 12-14-2004 - 7:50pm

So sorry to hear about this but it sounds like it is all going to work out okay. Is his new job still in the auto business?

Keep your chin up!
Tara

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Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:33am

Yeah, he's at another dealership about 30 miles away. The guy that hired him was at our wedding, but I met so many people, I can't remember him. LOL!

He picked Shane up this morning and Shane will be issued a demo car to drive now instead of using his truck. So no gas guzzling. His uncle is planning to buy the truck.

Shane is supposed to get his last check today from his old place, but we aren't sure if they will release it to me or not. They have before and they all know me, so it's not like I'm in there stealing. Either way, we need it today. I have to buy gas for the car for my trip to drop off Dylan on Friday and we have no more money. I am delaying our bills to come out late this month instead of now like they usually do and I accomplished cancelling our healthy club membership so that is done. Shane has an injured knee anyway and we haven't been since I found out I was pregnant.

I'm really tired and have been crying because I'm worried about Shane. He seemed so broken last night. Just pitiful. Hopefully today is good for him. He says he's a failure and that he's worth more dead than alive because he's got a house he just bought, a pregnant wife, and a stepson and no money in the bank to care for us. We hope to be getting our security deposit back from the other house soon. But she can delay that up to a month after moving. She's been inside with Shane and did the walk thru so that's done. We hope to expect most of it back. And she has the address.

As for Christmas, we got Dylan's stuff done before all this happened so it will be a good day for him. Shane and I have to agree that we are not buying for each other so we can keep it together until he gets a check at the new place. Maybe because he's starting today, he'll get one on the first. And we're lucky we don't pay mortgage until February. It's going to be fine. I just feel horrible for Shane. He says when we get out tax money back we'll pay a few months of mortgage so we can get it together and start a savings account so if this ever happens again, we'll be better off. I think that's a good idea.

No matter what, we have each other and our family will not let us go under. We'll make it.

Mel

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