Holiday

Holiday!
So I am walking along the Fort Greene Place between the LIRR and what comes on but Holiday by Madonna. Which is pretty funny because I have made a couple of A-Rod and Madonna posts. It is a cold almost winter day and it is kinda depressing because we have to lay someone off tonight.

If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice

Now she really isn’t working out and we were thinking about it after the first day, but we gave her eight weeks to give her a chance and it has been a fiasco. She asked to leave early three times in the first two weeks and asked for a day off. The last straw was when she asked me to take off Thanksgiving weekend. The busiest shopping weekend in the year in retail.

Everybody spread the word
We're gonna have a celebration
All across the world
In every nation
It's time for the good times
Forget about the bad times, oh yeah
One day to come together
To release the pressure
We need a holiday

We have been paying a really great salary with the view that this person was going to be management. With the economy the way it is we can’t justify paying her so much more than our other workers. She is really, really not pulling her weight. We thought we could trust her. That we could leave the store in her hands and go out to showrooms. We couldn’t even leave her alone at all. One night she forgot to blow out the candle. Another night she left the steamer on. But the main thing was her heart was not in it. You don’t stop in the middle of the day and start texting when there are customers in the store.

You can turn this world around
And bring back all of those happy days
Put your troubles down
It's time to celebrate
Let love shine
And we will find
A way to come together
And make things better
We need a holiday

Now I won’t throw someone to the wolves. I will give her enough hours to pay her rent and survive until she finds a new job. But when she started pushing to take off Thanksgiving weekend after working here a month, we knew it was really not going to work. We couldn’t trust her to just dump us at Christmas time. Plus she asked me instead of my wife. That’s the old let’s ask daddy because mommy will say no ploy. That’s not cool because my wife is the boss.

Holiday Celebrate
Holiday Celebrate

It is no fun when you have to lay someone off. It doesn’t feel like a Holiday.