Oh, no. One of the barbie princesses white trash soap opera stars that I work with finally got fired. (They seem to think they’re barbie princesses so everyone has to kneel and kiss their asses. I will never be one of those people.)
I refer to them as “my white trash soap opera” because I get the pleasure (and it is funny, really) of listening to them discuss their lives everyday during lunch. “My baby daddy” this and “his skanky girlfriend” that. They all have a minimum of one child and one baby daddy. Two of them share a baby daddy. That’s class right there.
So one of them got fired and I was all dancing around the pharmacy. Then I found out that she didn’t get fired for the reason I thought she did and that kinda pissed me off. She has two kids, two baby daddies. She has no car and no reliable child care. So she calls in a minimum of once every two weeks. And they let her get away with it. I thought that this was the reason she was fired. They’ve fired people before for calling in and they didn’t do it as often as this girl does.
We had a big meeting about her (and another girl) getting “let go”. They said that they had no problem with her job performance (maybe when she shows up) but just that they were eliminating her position and incorporating it with another position that could do both jobs.
So I guess they had no problem with her calling in every other week.
Her three friends (one of whom she shares a baby daddy with) are walking around whining about her being “let go” and calling it “unfair”.
“She has two kids, no car and she doesn’t even get help from her kids fathers! How is she supposed to support herself and her kids?” They spew this crap (and more) to anyone that will listen.
Personally, I don’t care. She deserved to be fired two weeks after she started when she called in sick the first time. And then a couple weeks after that again. And again. And again. For the last six months.
I have no sympathy for her, I really don’t.
Don’t you think that you’d learn something after you have one child out of wedlock, with a father that doesn’t support his kid? Maybe you shouldn’t do that again? Maybe it was a bad idea to continue having children that you can’t support on your own?
I guess you could say that I’m anti-single mom. I think it’s better to raise a kid in a stable, two parent household rather than living with your parents at 24, with your two kids, because you have no money. I couldn’t imagine having a kid on my own and I don’t see why anyone would want to. I don’t think that, ultimately, it’s good for the children.
So I don’t feel bad for this girl. She made her choice and is dragging these kids through the shit with her. We all make our choices. We all make mistakes. We all have our problems.
