Today he turns in his Apple badge.
I remember the day he came home with that badge. He was so stinkin' excited. You see, he'd been at Home Depot for nearly two years....getting paid pretty much nothing for doing everyone else's job plus his.
When he got the job at Apple he thought he was getting his foot in the door. He wants to do the job he has been doing for the last year. Unlike the people who are getting hired on at Apple every day who don't like their jobs at all. People who complain every day. People who call in "sick" once or twice a week. People who are searching for jobs other places while being Apple badged.
It makes me ill. I don't know how Chris did it. I wouldn't have had any friends there.
During the year that he worked there, he applied for Apple badged jobs every opportunity he had. He had a few interviews...but nothing ever came of it. It's not like he hasn't been trying.
So much has happened in the year that he has been at Apple via Volt.
I quit my job-hoping to find something more along the lines of what I wanted to do. No luck there.
By August 2009, I had plans to go back to school in the spring.
Cancer diagnosis in November.
No school, still no job for me.
Now we are here. April 30.
It feels like we are worse off than this time last year. We couldn't afford to stay in our apartment, so we've moved in with my aunt. So thankful we had somewhere to go. We have medical bills up to our ears.
But this is about Chris. He's the one that deserves the job that he wants. When will it be his turn? How many days of work did he miss during the months of November-February? Three and a half...and might I add that chemo made him tired as hell. In fact, that's all he's missed in the last year. Really?
I told him he should have missed as much work as he wanted. Apparently then he would have gotten hired on at Apple.
For now, we are holding our breath and hoping something gives soon.
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