It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp

"You know it's hard out here for a pimp
When he tryin' to get this money for the rent
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent..."
-DJay featuring Shug

Mom just came in and told me that Dad called her and told her the job I left a week or so ago lost their contract with a client and were forced them to lay off over one hundred twenty people.  A part of the group that was let go were the new hires and people in training.  That would have included me if I had stayed.  That totally sucks.  I will say, though, that it made me feel better about leaving.  Now I don't nearly feel as bad for quitting because, well, I wouldn't have lasted but another week anyway! 

I do feel bad for those that were laid off.  Although the majority of them were obnoxious rednecks, they still need to pay their bills!  A lot of them had a bunch of children (of course) that they need to support so I'm feeling for them right now.  I know I struggled for three months straight before resorting to working at that place.  And I'm not just talking about casually looking for a job here or there, circling ads in the classifieds or filling out an application or two.  I'm talking going through every available job avenue from various newspapers (not just the local one) to Internet to applications to searching every available job listing I could find every single day for three months.  So, I can't imagine the struggle these people are going to have to go through to find another job.  Jobs are hard to come by enough as it is in this small turd of a town, so now imagine hundreds of people looking for work all at once.

And right around the holidays, too.  Merry frickin' Christmas. 

Hopefully the company will find another client and will hire all those people back. 

God bless them.