They let go/fired, D, last Friday because she didn’t have a high school diploma. They gave her 6 months to complete it but between working full time at the day care and having to deal with a 11 year old son who was having problems in school and constantly getting suspended, she got behind. She was working on it, just not in a fast enough pace for home office. It didn’t matter that she had education in child development from continuing ed courses she took – I don’t know how this works since a lot of places require you to have a diploma or GED to take college level courses. She always showed up on time and was willing to pick up shifts or changes days if anyone needed anything. She went above and beyond what her job required her to do and she loved it but none of that mattered.

Even though, it makes me sad that she was let go because I don’t agree with the circumstances and she was the person I worked with the most thus got along with the most, it did benefit me. I was able to pick up an extra hour on both Monday and Wednesday because I dropped a class but I am also able to be scheduled on Friday mornings or afternoons now where as I wasn’t able before because they had 3 people working. I went from getting about 38hrs every two weeks to 46hrs which is nice. Maybe now I’ll be able to keep more money in the bank rather than having to spend everything on bills then being broke for two weeks until I get paid again. Maybe now I can buy some things that I want, like Samsonite luggage to go out of town with, instead of just having to pay bills. We’ll see how it goes. A wants to hire another part time person to fill in the blanks when there is only one person because me, T, and P have classes but who wants to work from 11-1/1:30 and possibly some evenings but no guarantee.