by Rose Blue

Created on: December 13, 2009   Last Updated: August 20, 2011

My horror story is not your typical story that one is lead to believe. My story started over a year ago. One of our top accounts,who I will call Mary, warned me.

She said,  "Are you still trying to promote your book?"

I replied,  "Yes, I am."

She said, "That's good. Because if you aren't, then I suggest you get moving in that direction, because soon, you may need to receive all of the success you can get."

I asked why? You know the old saying about keeping quiet about inter-office business. This was asked of me and after she told me, I  respected her request.

As time went on, I needed surgery to repair a hernia I acquired two years earlier and I thought I should diligently go and have this taken care of before my insurance ran out. Thank GOD for that little inner voice. The next six months or so, I saved and scrunched all of the extra monies I could think of saving and even taking on a second part time job. Almost everyone I knew who worked for the company did the same. If my colleagues did not take a second job, their spouses did. Some outside sales personnel had already made the move and were well on their way out and safe from harm.

After much hearsay, gossip and tell-tale signs, my company filed bankruptcy. Never telling its workers when this was to occur. This was the beginning of my horror story. To be given the bad news only two weeks before the actual filing, to have stockholders email you about something you didn't know about and more than likely didn't know before they knew. To all of the good people with whom we did business with, call you and curse you because the upper and the higher echelon elected you to take all questions and lie about it long enough to cover their wrongs and faults.

To all of the employees who lost 401K's and vacation time and insurance and medical benefits for their families, I felt sorry for them and I felt sorry for mysel as well.  And who was going to pay the mortgage and buy the food? This is a REAL horror story that is a very true one. Like so many of us out there, we long to have a job, a decent job that we can be proud to work for. It would be great to have a boss who was straight-forward with you and not have one who lies to evade your questioning for his gain. This is a true horror story if I ever knew of one. And it keeps on going and going and going.

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