Day 1

Well, day one was yesterday but I couldn't be bothered to write another post yesterday. Should get this habit of writing the daily post on the specific day.

This comes to the reason I've started this blog. I thought it would be interesting to write down what happens during the 'crisis' period that I am going through. What I do, what I think about, what happens with or without my participation. Something that I would go back and read sometime in the future.

So, what happened yesterday. Not too much. I've started this blog, wrote a shitty first post and then went back to what I usually do when I am bored or have nothing better to do. Playing World of Warcraft. I've spent the entire day alt-tabbing from WoW to the TV tuner to various YM windows. Lots of people felt the need to comfort me and ask me what happened and what's going on. Guys, thanks a lot, I know that somehow this affected you all, it would be pretty sad for me as well to hear that one of you was kicked out the way I was, BUT, what I really don't need is to hear 'sorry'.

I need to explain this. What happened is sad. It's sad that companies such as the one I've worked with the past five years exist and they treat people like this. But for me it's a step forward, it's a relief that I am finally out of there. I already miss my mates and going out for a smoke with them, but this is how life goes. You have to move on from the worst moments in your life. This is definately not my worst moment in my life, thank you, I had 'better'.

Going back to yesterday. I've spent some time talking to various people that are supposed to do something related to my departure. There are a lot of papers to sign, and things to straighten. Most of them are not meant to make my life easier but to make their (the company) life 'lawsuitless'. Lots of people asked me why I won't take any legal actions about the way I was fired and even told me I'm stupid because I signed some papers that would mean that me and the company parted ways in a friendly manner. Well, I really don't give a shit about getting back to the company. Or certain people that played a role in this sudden episode in my life. They suck, they know I know they suck, I am just letting them think that at some point I will tell them 'you suck!'. I won't, it will be funny to watch how they are embarrassed in my presence, if time will bring us together at some point.

Some technical stuff. The company I worked for had some kind of loyalty programs for the employees. After three / five years of working for the company, they used to reward the employees with paying a trip for them, up to the value of x and y respectively. I've never used this since the rules for this required me to pay the money in advance, take a receipt and then file for a reimbursement. It's a fact that most of the locations you can go to in a trip won't give you receipts and altough I traveled a bit around Romania I never bothered (again, it's hard for me to be bothered :D) to make an effort to take a receipt.

Long story short, yesterday I asked for what it is mine, starting with the lower levels of the administration, meaning local administration. As expected, they are puzzled when they need to give an answer to such problems. Anything that can be classified in the 'company has to give some money away' is beyond their level. So, next step was writing to higher levels. I was not surprise when my first email was returned by the mailing daemon with a 'marked as spam' label. Yep, that's right. Five years of spamming their local mailing lists from my company email account won my personal email account the 'marked as spam' status. After crying for several hours about this, I've sent an email to the personal email account of one of the people that have something to say about my loyalty program rewards, asking for a chat. While writing this post I remembered that I haven't checked my email today to see if I got any answer. I am still surprised, I actually have an answer. He wants to chat with me and I will let you know about how things go.

Other than that, nothing much was done yesterday, but I have several other things to share. I've took the decision of not telling my sisters and several other people that I am unemployed now. Wow, sounds cool, I am unemployed, reminds me about the "what's long, black and smells" joke. The unemployment line would be, just that I am not black and I don't smell. Usually. Not now, I even sniffed the air a bit, I'm fine. Anyway, it's easy to understand why I don't want some people to know, I don't want even more comforting and definately I don't need the hysterical reactions that my sisters would have. And even if I am often told I am selfish, the fact that they would worry for me makes me trying to save them the concerns. Two things related to this: one of my sisters was at some point reading my other blog and I'm a bit worried she will somehow find this. Don't call, wait for one hour, calm down, if you still want to call me, try to have a normal voice or I'll hang up. The other thing is that the lady I'm referring to in my last phrase called me yesterday. While chit-chatting, she asked me "when did you come home from work today?". This means yesterday. Sounded a bit wrong and it took me 5 seconds to answer, but she hasn't noticed anything wrong. I think.

Ok, enough with the long post already. I have an email to write.