This past Wednesday the results of my CT scan were finished and the schedule for my radiation treatments was ready. I am to start my radiation treatments this coming Monday with the first one at 12:30 on Monday. After that they will be at 6:30 in the morning. I'll take 1500 mg of Chemo pills twice a day during this time as well. My normal work routine has me running the roads all day Mon-Wed for Verizon. The past 2 weeks I had worked Tue-Thru due to doctor visits and tests. I would need to speak to Verizon about doing that one more week...or so I thought.
A couple of weeks prior I had floated the idea about a schedule that would limit the number of radiation/workdays so's my job wouldn't suffer. For the first time in a year and a half, I got a really ambiguous response, “we'll have to wait and see." I've never gotten that response before. Now I know why. 2 months ago, the parent company took away one of the processes that the franchise I worked for had done in the past. Salespeople didn't turn in trade-in equipment quickly enough and blamed it on the franchise system being slow. Well, they took the process back in house and now every piece of equipment has to be express shipped back to the corporation within 48 hours or the salespersons has the value of the trade-in docked from their pay until it's properly turned in. This was about 85% of the merchandise I managed on a daily basis. Now I'd only be responsible for stock moves made between stores.
I've been working in the logistics business for a bunch of years. It did not take a genius to read the writing on the wall. When I expressed alarm to the company I contract with, they did not seem to think anything would change. I knew better. Well, when I went to tell them we would need to run Tue-Thurs next week I was notified that the service they contracted me for was being brought back in house. In other words, I was no longer needed. The boy that handled the trade in phones had basically been doing next to nothing, so they decided to let him do the equipment pickups and I was done. They were nice enough to pay the contract out through the end of the month. This boy is in for a huge surprise. Not to toot my own horn but I am a value-added contractor, I am a 1099 employee. On workdays, I work. No lunch break, the van only stops at stores and service stations if I need gas. I bring my own food and eat as I work. It does not take a minute to eat half a sandwich before you leave out of a store parking lot. This kid is an EMPLOYEE. BY LAW, they must give him breaks, and other benefits. The last question I asked him was how they were going to manage cargo insurance. He looked at me like a chicken watching a card trick. "What's that? Do I need it?" "Might wanna look into that", Those were the last words I said before I left the building.
Now I have to figure out what to do next. I have been really considering getting off the road and this is a perfect time to do that. The only problem is how do you get a new job DURING cancer treatment??? Your prayers in this matter will be greatly appreciated. I'm gonna spend the next few days assessing the situation and coming up with some kind of plan. Along with reading up on nutrition during cancer treatment and working on my A+ computer certification. Thank God for Klonopin!
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