it finally happened...
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| Mon, 05-25-2009 - 7:03am |
Well...to make a long story short...my husbands boss let him go on Friday. We had a feeling it was coming and actually got another job offer that morning, but it wasn't for enough money and didn't include a company vehicle yet. We countered and are supposed to hear back today.
DH took the job last summer for less money than we needed under the "assumption" that he would be getting monthly/quarterly bonuses. That never happened. Despite making and exceeding his quotas, the bonuses were never paid for one excuse or another. My husband has been working between 70 - 90 hours a week in a salaried position without getting the pay he was told. He finally approached his boss a month ago and told him he understood that the economy was tight and that he may not be able to pay out bonuses now, but that DH needed to cut back his hours to a reasonable amount (50 a week) to spend more time with his family. The boss said okay and that he would pick up the slack. He also said that he would be paying out bonuses at the end of May and kept reminding my husband of that over and over. Well...instead he started interviewing and let my husband go Friday telling him that he "just wasn't putting in the same hours anymore and didn't have his heart in the company anymore"! The part about the bonus was just to keep him going long enough!
Oh well...I guess we're luckier than most. Please keep us in your prayers that this other job will work out. We just finished our bankruptcy and only have a small emergency fund.
Happy Memorial Day everyone!

OMG, that is so slimey!
I'm so sorry to hear about this.
Kate