Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 9:18 am
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Ok.
I haven't really written about this because I've been too upset.
Three weeks ago, James lost his job.
I guess using James to clean and set up the entire bar, create the drinks menu and signature recipes, get the suppliers sorted out, hire barstaff, and THEN demoting him to bartender (shaving over two hundred dollars a week off our paycheck) just so he didn't have to pay him a salary anymore wasn't enough.
He then fired him the first fucking chance he had...
James' knee injury hasn't healed properly. Its been bothering him for months. Probably because his physical therapy wasn't handled properly...
~~~~~Workmen's Comp said we would have no problem if we moved to RI... They would still cover everything, James just had to get a referal from our Family Practioner, which he did... Then they wouldn't cover that doctor because the co-pay was $50 more than the Maine doctor.
Sigh.
So. We waited and waited and finally A FULL MONTH later, six weeks after surgery, they found a clinic that they would cover. When he finished physical therapy, the doctor gave him a 30% disability in his injured knee, and then cleared him to return to full work capacity. WTF? How can you have a 30% diability in your knee, and be completely cleared for work, when your job is to be walking around, carrying heavy trays and stuff, and being on your feet for sixteen hours a day!~~~~~
Anyway, he has an appointment with another orthopedic surgeon for next Wednesday. To see if there is anything they can do. Right now his knee hurts more than it did when he was first injured...
He might have to have more surgery.
So because of his knee hurting, he took a day off work three weeks ago, (the first day off he had ever taken) and the next day the owner said not to bother coming in, he had been replaced.
Shitty huh?
I guess he jumped at the chance to get rid of James. I wonder if it had something to do with the fact that four days before, James had asked the owner for a pay increase, because he was having trouble feeding his family!
Rent is due on Saturday. And we can't pay it.
And this is without the car payment.
(We talked to my mom, and she agreed to us giving up the car. We are hoping to sell it, to at least make up SOME of the money we owe...)
I am really really worried.
James spoke to our landlord this morning and he agreed to let us stagger the payments until the middle of October, however, the first payement that he wants is $100 more than we will be able to scrape together for Saturday!
Despite his bad knee, James has found a job waiting tables so that there will be money coming in to pay our bills, but he has to go through a week of training before he will start earning anything...
So we are kind of screwed.
I think I am going to try putting some of my website stuff on EBay.
I don't know what else I can do.
Things you can only learn from movies and television...
If I see one more little winky...
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