Someone's Mother Did A Poor Job

The original form of this post was going to be a letter to mine and Mike's place of employment, but then I realized it was going to be a very short post.  All it was going to say was, "Dear Work: You suck".  Here's the thought behind that in a nutshell...

Nine months ago, shortly after Katelyn was born, we received a card from work congratulating us on Katelyn's arrival.  It was a nice gesture...the thought that counts and all that jazz, right?  But,  BUT!  a few weeks after that, I found out that an employee's wife (who doesn't even work with us) gave birth and our employers collected money for a gift AND had a card for all the employees to sign (our card was only signed by one person).  Excuse me?  What. The. F@#k.  Not cool.  Not cool at all.

Fast forward to last week when Mike's stepdad passed away...I know for a fact that there have been MANY emails sent out when other employees' relatives have passed away and there is generally a notice to stop by the main office and sign a condolence card.  Anyone want to take a guess at how many cards there were for Mike?  Anyone at all?  That's right - zilch. Zero.  Nada.

Basically what's going on at work is that the game of "Favourites" is being played and, evidently, Mike and I are not on that list.  Who the eff is responsible for this and where does their mom live so I can punch her in the face for the shit job she did of teaching her kid that "what you do for one, you do for everybody else".

The only other explanation I can come up with is that our employers figure that because it was "only Mike's stepdad and not his real dad" means that Mike wasn't very close to him.  That's some sound logic there, cuz you know, when/if Joel dies, I'll maybe only take the afternoon off since he's "just my stepson" and doesn't mean that much to me.

Allow me to say it once more...

Dear Work: You suck.

PS - And you and your mothers should be ashamed of yourselves.