I am in too much pain to post much right now. Chat away, btw the FMLA didn’t apply to my broken back - lung deal because I hadn’t worked where I work for a year at the time. I have now though.
Incidentally, I work in Texas, and there’s a reason companies locate facilities to Texas: they can pay shit wages and avoid all kinds of red tape that they’d might be subject to in states like California or New York. Texas is a Right to Work state, which is a pretty Orwellian term considering what it really means.
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Friendly
January 31, 2012 at 8:59 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Really, really sorry to hear about the whole affair. Hoping you get some extra-good pain meds and can heal up quickly.
If at some point you feel passable enough to post a quick status update, please let us know whether they caught the thieves and/or whether anything was stolen that we can send you some fundage to help replace.
Pteryxx
January 31, 2012 at 9:09 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
…Shit.
Take care of yourself, and let us know if there’s anything we can do to help. Maybe there’s some use to be gotten out of me being in east Texas.
Brownian
January 31, 2012 at 9:33 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Rest up. Feel better.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Feral Fembeast
January 31, 2012 at 9:59 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Dear FSM. I am so sorry you have to go through this.
geocatherder
January 31, 2012 at 3:33 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Take care of yourself. We’ll miss your posts but we understand.
F
January 31, 2012 at 11:21 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Don’t post then, just recover. We all know why you’re AFK.
I wonder if Texas also has that 1% “you’re lucky enough to be employed” tax like PA does.
jakc
February 1, 2012 at 3:03 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Ah yes, the right to work for less, one of our most precious labor rights
magistramarla
February 1, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I hope that you are feeling better soon.
Yeah, Texas was a pretty shitty place to teach, too.
After teaching there, I’m pro-union all the way, and we’ve decided that we will definitely retire in a state that has state taxes. They tend to take better care of their elderly citizens.
Aquaria
February 3, 2012 at 9:36 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I won’t work in Texas unless I can be part of a union. Right to Work is actually, “Right to low pay, no benefits, and shitty hours.”