Well the old blog has been neglected this past year. Partly due to the nature of the new job. I was warned at corporate orientation that any blogging about said employment was grounds for termination. The work was of a confidental and sensitve nature dealing with children and families in the Child Protective Services System. Well as of 9am today I am no longer employed so fuck it. I will do a brief blog about the last 9 months. 6 of which I spent working and 3 I have spent dealing with our fucked medical system here in Arizona.
To start I loved my job as a Parent Aide. It was the happiest I have been in my entire working adult life. I was able to go to work and know I was doing good things to help children and parents on a daily basis and I was making a difference in the world. I felt good about myself and loved my job. I worshiped my boss she is the best person I have ever worked for and the office has some of the best women I have ever worked with who kept the cattiness to a minimum and helped a guy out and made me their big pet teddy bear that they fiercely protected.
Then life unravel. I finally had to pay the piper for the sins of my youth. As a young man I was a hell raiser and a drinker. I had 3 bad car accidents I walked away from with neck and upper back pain. I also had 2 industrial work comp accidents around the same time with upper back and neck injuries. 20 years later the price is due to be paid. I started expericing blackouts memory loss numbness and tingling in hands. I was hospitized and had every cardiac and eeg and ekg test done with nothing found. I am a big man 5'10" 350# so I had to have open sided MRI had to find one that would take my insurance first then had an opening. so 3 weeks later MRI of head. Nothing found. Go back to primary care have had another blackout while off work because dr wont clear me to drive. Sends me for MRI of neck finds 2 blown discs 1 bulging disc and 80% compressed spinal cord causing the blackout. THen finding a neurologist. First neurologist does not listen or care about the neck wants to do sleep studies and cardiac studies at his office that my insurance wont cover. I find a new neurologist who is also a surgeon. First appointment is cancelled due to him having to due an emergency surgery. Appointment is now pushed back a month. Then only thing keeping me financially stable has been my short term disability from work. This week it is supposed to rollover to long term disability but I have to call and make sure it stays on track.
Then corporate HR calls today and says that today is 3 months since I last worked and they dont have long term medical leave and they are so sorry about all the problem I have had recieving good health care. And that I should apply again once I get everything taken care of again. I am able to keep my disability because I paid for it and it was started and in effect which is good but have no idea how it will work when I apply for unemployment.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Long time No Posting
To begin again…
Well I am no longer the GrumpyEMT. That career path is dead and gone to me. As are anyone of the many people who claimed to be my friends during the 13 years of my career in Emergency Medical Services. When is lost my job at the ambulance on October 7th of 2013 I began a long dark journey that I would never have survived if not for the love of my mother, a friend in MS, and 2 friends here in AZ, and an obnoxious cat who would never leave me alone when I hit my lowest points.
I hit some personal low points, bankruptcy, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and welfare health insurance to name a few. I lost my job by trusting someone and opening up about my stress and feelings. This was then turned against me and I was deemed a bad guy. Cause every workplace needs a villain. The employer was non complaint with the Department of Economic Service and it took 12 weeks before I received anything from unemployment. That was the start of my economic downfall.
I took my last payroll check that included my vacation time and paid ahead 6 months of car insurance. I bought a massive amount of meats to freeze, canned goods, and traditional staple foods to last a long time. I had a new job which was to find a job. This led to a routine of getting up and spending the first 2 hours of the day in front of the computer applying for work and never getting a response. I thought I found a job early in November but it was a joke of a company who had some of the shaddiest business practices this side of Enron.
I picked up on call work as a ghoul(person who picks up dead bodies) for the local funeral home and was proceeded to be treated like shit working at their beck and call for 2 months until I was fired for not going in on my day off when I was not on call. Working on call I was able to draw unemployment as I had to set schedule I was oncall maybe 3 days a week and averaged $100 a week at best. These delusional people thought this was the best job ever.
It took until March 10th of 2014 for life to take a turn for the positive. I was hired by a unique organization as a Parent Aide. Doing supervised visitations for children in the CPS system. I have finally found my third act in the story of my life. I have a job I truly love. Which completely scares me as a pessimist, I am now waiting for the luck to turn and life to kick me in the teeth again.
Well I am no longer the GrumpyEMT. That career path is dead and gone to me. As are anyone of the many people who claimed to be my friends during the 13 years of my career in Emergency Medical Services. When is lost my job at the ambulance on October 7th of 2013 I began a long dark journey that I would never have survived if not for the love of my mother, a friend in MS, and 2 friends here in AZ, and an obnoxious cat who would never leave me alone when I hit my lowest points.
I hit some personal low points, bankruptcy, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and welfare health insurance to name a few. I lost my job by trusting someone and opening up about my stress and feelings. This was then turned against me and I was deemed a bad guy. Cause every workplace needs a villain. The employer was non complaint with the Department of Economic Service and it took 12 weeks before I received anything from unemployment. That was the start of my economic downfall.
I took my last payroll check that included my vacation time and paid ahead 6 months of car insurance. I bought a massive amount of meats to freeze, canned goods, and traditional staple foods to last a long time. I had a new job which was to find a job. This led to a routine of getting up and spending the first 2 hours of the day in front of the computer applying for work and never getting a response. I thought I found a job early in November but it was a joke of a company who had some of the shaddiest business practices this side of Enron.
I picked up on call work as a ghoul(person who picks up dead bodies) for the local funeral home and was proceeded to be treated like shit working at their beck and call for 2 months until I was fired for not going in on my day off when I was not on call. Working on call I was able to draw unemployment as I had to set schedule I was oncall maybe 3 days a week and averaged $100 a week at best. These delusional people thought this was the best job ever.
It took until March 10th of 2014 for life to take a turn for the positive. I was hired by a unique organization as a Parent Aide. Doing supervised visitations for children in the CPS system. I have finally found my third act in the story of my life. I have a job I truly love. Which completely scares me as a pessimist, I am now waiting for the luck to turn and life to kick me in the teeth again.
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