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In the wonderful holiday season, my husband was fired from his job this afternoon.
He's been having trouble there almost since the beginning 6 months ago. He took this job along with a HUGE pay cut because there was supposed to be upside that would kick in within a year or so. There have been personality conflicts that have been increasing in the last few months and this was almost bound to happen. Of course it would have been nicer if they waited until after the holidays.
They're keeping him on with full salary and benefits (we think - he's clarifying all this now) for three months while he looks for a new job. He can use the office and will probably still work for them in the mean time. Hopefully some Wall Street people will be pissed off with their bonuses and leave some nice job openings for Robert. He's at a disadvantage because he's almost 49 years old and doesn't have an ivy league degree. The fact that he has his phD and JD seem to not hold a lot of water. A benefit is that he has a wonderful reputation and is ridiculously smart. We're toying with the idea of him returning to his old job. He left that job and the bosses were apparently really pissed off because of what an asset he was.
Robert doesn't realize that he has always complained about any job he's had since I've known him. He actually said to me over the weekend, "This is the first job that I've been really unhappy at." I had to stifle my laughter. He's complained about every job all along, although there has been more complaining and from an earlier point with this one. Robert has a real victimization thing going on in all aspects of his life, so work is a huge place to find that dynamic.
I'm a little in shock. I'm scared. We have debt. We have a house. We have two kids. We have a lifestyle that we're comfortable in.
My mother will freak out if I tell her, so I'm going to wait on that for a while. Maybe I'll just wait until (fingers crossed) Robert gets a new job, then I can just tell her that.
The only really good thing about this is that he can look for a job full time. It's really hard while you're working to interview, especially since he's working on Long Island now and all the jobs he'd be applying for are in Manhattan. This way he can spend entire days meeting with headhunters and going on interviews. And he doesn't have to find excuses to give his bosses about where he's going.
I'm just writing my thoughts because I started writing as soon as I hung up with him and I feel a bit paralyzed and cannot quite get out of my chair.
He's been having trouble there almost since the beginning 6 months ago. He took this job along with a HUGE pay cut because there was supposed to be upside that would kick in within a year or so. There have been personality conflicts that have been increasing in the last few months and this was almost bound to happen. Of course it would have been nicer if they waited until after the holidays.
They're keeping him on with full salary and benefits (we think - he's clarifying all this now) for three months while he looks for a new job. He can use the office and will probably still work for them in the mean time. Hopefully some Wall Street people will be pissed off with their bonuses and leave some nice job openings for Robert. He's at a disadvantage because he's almost 49 years old and doesn't have an ivy league degree. The fact that he has his phD and JD seem to not hold a lot of water. A benefit is that he has a wonderful reputation and is ridiculously smart. We're toying with the idea of him returning to his old job. He left that job and the bosses were apparently really pissed off because of what an asset he was.
Robert doesn't realize that he has always complained about any job he's had since I've known him. He actually said to me over the weekend, "This is the first job that I've been really unhappy at." I had to stifle my laughter. He's complained about every job all along, although there has been more complaining and from an earlier point with this one. Robert has a real victimization thing going on in all aspects of his life, so work is a huge place to find that dynamic.
I'm a little in shock. I'm scared. We have debt. We have a house. We have two kids. We have a lifestyle that we're comfortable in.
My mother will freak out if I tell her, so I'm going to wait on that for a while. Maybe I'll just wait until (fingers crossed) Robert gets a new job, then I can just tell her that.
The only really good thing about this is that he can look for a job full time. It's really hard while you're working to interview, especially since he's working on Long Island now and all the jobs he'd be applying for are in Manhattan. This way he can spend entire days meeting with headhunters and going on interviews. And he doesn't have to find excuses to give his bosses about where he's going.
I'm just writing my thoughts because I started writing as soon as I hung up with him and I feel a bit paralyzed and cannot quite get out of my chair.
