The Layoff!

This week I was working as usual, nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.  About 3 hours into my Tuesday morning, my boss asked to meet with me and another guy that works there.  I stopped work to talk to him and to my surprise he said that our branch was shutting down.  He said "as of right now, you are both laid off".  WHAT?!? Where the hell did this come from?

Apparently our branch and the branch in Boise, Idaho were not making enough money and so the corporate office decided to shut us down.  I packed up all of my personal things, said my goodbye's and left.  I am pretty floored by this, this is the first time in years that I have left a job without another one already lined up.

The very same day, I filed for unemployment, and looks like I am going to have to schedule some extra tattoo appointments here in the next couple of weeks.  Luckily, the line of work that I am in only has a handful of people that do it in this area.  There are about 4 major companies that can use people like me in this valley.  I have already talked to two of them and I have set up a meeting with the biggest of the two next week.  So now I get to play Mr. Mom.  I have been doing laundry and cleaning the house the last 2 days.  It is definitely weird to not have a job to go to.

Even though I am not a very religious person, I am a big believer in fate and that things happen for reasons.  I have not been very happy at the job that I had.  I didn't like some of the people and the work was getting pretty stressful.  I had talked with Jamie before about maybe switching to a different employer, but I was the only guy that they had to do the work that I do and I didn't want to just leave them hanging.  Shows what I get for being so nice because they didn't have the same kind of respect for me. 

I can't help but think that maybe this is the fates pushing and forcing me to make the much needed change.  I will keep you all posted about how things go.  I am pretty confident that this will end up being a change for the better and I will be able to be happy at my job once again.  Until then, I am going to enjoy some much needed time off, clear my head of all of the B.S. that I had to deal with at my old job, and focus on moving forward.  Wish me luck!