and the road seems to go on forever....
2006-05-12

Today is not going to be a good day. We're firing 4 people. It can't be helped, they have to be fired. They'd been cheating on timecards and we have it all on tape. One would get in early and punch the rest in. Another would do the same at the end of the day. Thou shalt not steal, right? Still it doesn't make it easy, to disrupt someones life like that. They might not be good people, but they are people none the less. We all have to eat. Now that will be difficult for them and thier families. It's the families I worry about most but there is nothing that can be done. The die is cast.
We have temps coming in at 10:00 to replace them. I have to spend the day over at the other building training them. At least I don't have to do the actual firing. Still I have the feeling it will be like working in a morgue. There will be a black cloud over the place for a while. It's to be expected. And life goes on....
I have to work until 6:00. Then directly after work I have to drive an hour or so and go to a baseball game to celebrate the life of a friend who died way too young. It's supose to rain. It seems right.
Shafe was a guy who never dug into life. He always held back like he was afraid of what might happen if he didn't. Maybe he knew something we didn't know. One day his heart just stopped and that was that. His last words were an appology to his landlord for being a bother. Then he just stopped. You wonder if he knew it would end like this and that's why he was afraid? Of if all that worry about what life could do just took a toll on his heart until it said enough. Did he just consider himself a bother to the world? If he did, that is sadder than his passing. Either way, I'll sit in the rain and ponder a life that wasn't what it could have been.... And hope some day it isn't me.
Happy Friday,
Ron

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