The conversation

So my hard working hubby is at work the other day. He has been filing in as a sales manager the last month.

Boss: Wow this territory has never looked better. It has not been at its potential for years.

Hubby: Thanks, It took a lot of work but it can actually make money now

Boss: I know you have been breaking sales records since you took over, that is what makes this so strange to say

Hubby: yes

Boss: We gave the position to someone else.

A few more phone calls this week about how wonderful it is and all. Today its officially hubby gets transfered back to his old job, new guys gets a beautiful cleaned up money making terrority.

My hubby has always believed that is you work hard and do a good job, you get rewarded. Today's company's don't seem to operated under that guise anymore. Hubby's old job let him go after 28 years so they could replace him with someone making 1/2 of what he did. they also did it a week before his anniversary so they wouldn't have to pay him any additional vacation pay.

His current company is a good one. They seem to dangle the carrot to everyone and then pull it away after you met their goals. Even the guy that got the job, has been strung along for almost a year so I am glad on one hand that they finally gave him what they had promised him. Although at one point they also promised this job to my hubby. Now they have my hubby thinking another job might be his once it opens up, yet we know they have also said the same thing to others.

I am so grateful for hubby's job, the pay is 1/3 what he made before and we barely scrape by so a promotion would of been nice. But he has health benefits and all. And a job is a job in this economy.

I pray that he keeps his job and I hope there maybe a silver lining in all this. I just wish sometimes companies remembered their employees were people. Seems record profits for some, or what about all the years recently companies were successful, shouldn't they have saved for a rainy day?