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| ~Alkarii~ | Apr 16 2017, 06:19 PM Post #31 |
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We're not really messed up about it, as we've been expecting this for a while. We were kind of surprised that he made it to Christmas last year, but we knew he wasn't making it to another Christmas. He'd been a preacher for more than fifty years, and was giving sermons until a couple weeks ago. I remember, from one of his sermons years ago, that he said something about "greeting death like an old friend." Strangely, nobody seems to be really stressed about it. |
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| ~Deadly Aim~ | Apr 16 2017, 07:11 PM Post #32 |
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I hear you, dude. It was sort of the same with my own grandfather, I just figured to say something because it can still hurt to say goodbye here on earth to those you love. The last I saw my grandfather alive was Thanksgiving the year he died, just days before he passed; I got choked up right there in the hospital room looking at him. Like I said... I'm here if you need to talk, dude.
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| ~Alkarii~ | Apr 16 2017, 08:59 PM Post #33 |
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My sister whispered a goodbye to him just before she left (a little more than ten minutes ago, at 7:44). My mom said she saw him take one more breath. We're waiting on the hospice nurse or whoever (the coroner?) to come out and officially call the time of death. Edit: He was officially pronounced dead just a couple minutes after I originally posted this. Edited by Alkarii, Apr 16 2017, 09:21 PM.
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| ~Deadly Aim~ | Apr 17 2017, 08:23 AM Post #34 |
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It sounds like he went peacefully. Alk, if you or the family need anything, you need only say the word. |
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| +CEMP+ | Apr 17 2017, 02:05 PM Post #35 |
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I don't have any personal experience with watching relatives die; most of my grandparents died when I was fairly young, so I didn't remember them a lot. Still, I hope your grandfather rests well, Alk. |
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"I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death." — Monty Oum | |
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| ~Alkarii~ | Apr 18 2017, 06:24 PM Post #36 |
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Thanks to too many people I work with, the company has decided to outsource the detail work. We can still keep our jobs, we just have to go through the hiring process again with the new company, which means this other company will decide whether or not to hire us. I had just had a request for vacation time approved a couple weeks ago, so I'm not sure they'll honor that. Since the dealership will be paying this other company to have someone do the work, they'll probably pay that company less to have the same number of people working there, which means that company will pay us all less than we're making now. Oh, and I'm likely to lose all my health benefits, since those were provided by the dealership. All of this, simply because other people wouldn't do their fucking jobs and shoved as much of the work onto me as they could. This really isn't the time for this shit. |
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| ~Alkarii~ | Apr 20 2017, 11:39 AM Post #37 |
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I just found out from my former supervisor that we were all fired Tuesday afternoon, before I even got that phone call. |
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| ~Deadly Aim~ | Apr 20 2017, 07:24 PM Post #38 |
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Wow... that's rather sneaky of them to do, to put it nicely. Just in time for Easter! Alk... I don't mean to demean you if it seems that way, but I am so sorry. Like I said... if there's anything you need, please don't hesitate to reach out. |
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| ~Alkarii~ | Apr 20 2017, 09:10 PM Post #39 |
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Meh, I was planning on leaving that place anyway. Too many people I worked with were lazy as hell, and I knew it'd get me fired eventually. I just wish they hadn't done it before the vacation time I'd already had approved. |
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| ~Alkarii~ | Jul 6 2017, 03:07 PM Post #40 |
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It's July. Still no job, because people don't know how to move a hiring process forward with any sense of purpose, as if the applicants don't need to take care of things like car payments and mandatory car insurance. I applied to two places last week. The first, a dealership, had the position open since right after my grandfather's funeral. The second was a body shop that worked with a bunch of dealerships in the area, and all three of their drivers quit the day I was applying at the dealership. So I guess they don't really need to have people driving the customers' cars back to the dealerships to be returned to the customers... |
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