Community Chat

[raven-blackbird]

not from my side, I'm doing great, sales are fantastic.......getting a big bonus and some awards at the end of the month at our end of year meeting..........I should be walkin on cloud nine right........I'm not..........it's this guy at, correction who used to work there......ever meet someone you are just pulling for, their life stunk, it was awful, maybe even they were awful.........but.......they had or were turning their life around..........that was Rodger............he was a guy that was WAY overweight, been big time into gangs, drugs, theft, drive bys, the whole works....he had a very bad meth habit.......BUT.....his girlfriend had a baby boy.........she stuck with the drugs and gangs, he left to raise his son.....his whole world centered around that little boy......I was SO proud of him and his choices...........he worked his way up to Department Head and was doing fantastic.........then he started missing work......then got fired..........Saturday he came into the store with his "cousin"........tried to buy $300 worth of paint with counterfeit $100 bills.......when the cashier wouldn't accept, they took the paint anyway........well he came in again yesterday as calm as can be and headed to the paint department........my boss went up to him..........and that's when it got really ugly.......my boss had told him, bring the paint back or go to jail...........Rodger told my boss he could lunch on a part of his anatomy....make a long story short, it got real ugly, cops called, Rodger in handcuffs and off to jail..........I was really hoping he'd get his life going in a positive direction.........for his sake and for that little boy's sake.........I can tell he's back on drugs, he's lost a TON of weight in about a week............he's tweekin again.......it's just so sad...............................raven