JA went back to work yesterday. Amazing how we survived for 7 months of BOTH of us being unemployed. Though I did work for a few hellacious months in hell, we made it!
JA got his job reinstated with nothing changed. This means salary, benefits, hours, same schedule and seniority. He is now trying to find out if he can get back pay for the months he was gone. I don’t see why he couldn’t but corporate will see it differently I am sure. He was found by the arbitrator to be in the right and even the corporate lawyer (was father owns the company, isn’t that nice?) had some sympathy for his unjust firing.
I worry though since he did have the major heart attack prior to the unjust firing and jumping back into a physical job can not be easy.
I on the other hand am feeling rather down and lonely. Lonely because, well I am now here all alone again. I feel like there are no jobs out there that appeal to me. I don’t want to rush into another job just for the sake of a job. I went through hell and back my last two jobs and I want to work in an environment I like, in which I don’t feel bullied, harassed and unappreciated. I feel my worth to a company is good and I want to be respected.
In good news, we found out our insurance company will pay for a new roof. It is about time! Nearly EVERY SINGLE HOME in my part of the neighborhood has a new roof due to a couple of major hail storms that passed through here. I have mentioned the winds around here also get very strong (and very scary). The first adjustor said we had minimal damage? WTH?!!!! My roof is leaking immediately after the hail and there is not enough damage? Did she not look around at the new roofs on nearly 90% of the homes? Did she really think the hail spared our home above all the others? The second adjustor met with a roofer of our choice and spent a great deal of time looking over the whole roof and the garage.
I love picking out shingles! Now all we have to do is wait for our mortgage company to let us know how to get the insurance check to them and have them sign and return it. They have been nothing but jerks to us and I am sure they will be jerks about this too. Nothing with them has ever gone easy for us.
Gotta run. Hubby is home and we are going to chill out. Maybe even go and check on Mama Duck.
