Grudges
Every body has at least one grudge, no matter how long ago it happened every time you think of it, it still pisses you off.
For me, my grudge happened one year ago today at 9:30am (yea I'm still bitter, why do you ask?).
I was layed off (permanently) from my job. The thing that really pisses me off the most about it was that we knew exactly who was going to be layed 2 weeks before it happened, but the company wouldn't even acknowledge they were going to lay any one off until 1 week before it happened. How did we know you ask? Well the HR manager was friends with a floor supervisor and told him every one that was getting layed off. Well the supervisor just couldn't keep that information to himself and decided to tell every one who was getting layed off. Yep that guy still has his job. So for 2 weeks we sat and stued about it, becoming more and more angry about the denials. We were actually suppose to get the ax on the day after the "big black out" happened, but since nobody opened for work that Friday we sat and stued the whole weekend about it. Come Monday morning I was so pissed that I went into work late wearing flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt (every one that was getting layed off that day agreed to do this as our last defiance).
The company use to have a policy of 2 weeks of severence for every year worked and 1 week for the current non complete year. We wondered why they all of a sudden changed the severence policy to 1 week per year and none for the current year, 1 month later we knew why they changed it. Yep we got screwed.
I was lucky as it only took me 7 weeks to find another job. And yes it is a better job, better opportunities for advancement and yep even better pay. So in the end I was better off, but I am still pissed off about it. I feel like I did something wrong, almost like I got fired and it makes me feel like a lessor of a worker for it.
I still get together with people who work there and I know whats going on and hear all the bad news about the company in the local newspapers all the time and I gloat about it (privately of course) but it still amazes me that even a year later I am still bitter about it.