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I just had an unusual email [message #65093]

Thu, 09 December 2010 15:46

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

In 1996 I ran a telesales company ad had the unfortunate task of hiring and firing staff very frequently. I got good at hiring and had fewer firings as time passed, but I inherited a load of dead wood that needed to be cleared out.

One new graduate was in the wrong job. My idiot predecessor had hired him because he was nice, not because he was appropriate. And he was extremely nice. He was just not at all suited to the high pressure low paid environment we had, and there was absolutely no career path. It fell to me to tell him that we had to part company.

Obviously he was upset. Not so obviously, so was I. After he left we were more productive because we had fewer staff. And I had an email form him two days ago where he reminded me that I'd fired him and said that I was right, that he had been on the wrong track, and that, while it hurt at the time he laughs about it now. I think that means it still hurts a bit. These things do.

Today he has a good job with a decent employer, and he said we have another piece of life in common. Six months after I fired him he came out as gay. !997 was not that easy to be gay in the UK, though it wasn't too hard either. And he was in a decent industry to be gay - air travel!

We've exchanged emails since.

Aren't search engines wonderful.And don't they have long memories!

[Updated on: Thu, 09 December 2010 15:46]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I just had an unusual email [message #65097 is a reply to message #65093]

Fri, 10 December 2010 13:00

chrisjames147

Really getting into it

Location: U.S.
Registered: November 2009
Messages: 630

Every kindness should recieve such a sweet return, and then what a wonderful world this would be.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)

Re: I just had an unusual email [message #65098 is a reply to message #65097]

Fri, 10 December 2010 13:21

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Well, firing him was not kind, exactly, but it was useful to each of us.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I just had an unusual email [message #65133 is a reply to message #65098]

Wed, 15 December 2010 05:13

ray2x

Really getting into it

Location: USA
Registered: April 2009
Messages: 430

How life finds a way. Well, because my boyfriend of youth kicked me out of his life, I got serious about my life and my career, got accepted into UCLA, graduated, got an initial low paying but very fulfilling job which lead to a very well paying job at LAUSD, which I was able to afford to buy a computer and after several years, my ex boyfriend emails me to restart our friendship which he said was what he was thinking about all these years after he left me. We haven't yet got together face to face but it will occur. Life.

Raymundo

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