Karen Furlow:  

I have just written about this latest thing that happened to me. Excuse the typing asa athe reason for that will become evident.OK here is what happened. Before I get started, please forgive my bad typing. I'll explain why in this description. I don't mean tomake it so mysterious. Mid December, around the 15th, we were given notice that my department was shutting down. They had decided to outsource the whole department. (That always sets me off on a political and patriotic tyrade regarding how outsourcing has been the death of America as we know and love it. And I mean both foreign and domestic outsourcing. If you are an outsaourced employee, you really don't know where your work loyalty lies. Is is with the people who are telling you what to do and giving you a pacheck or is with the contract holder - the ultimate employer, for whom all the work is being done??? sEE WHAT i mean? An employee has no real loyalty to that company - no love of the company - no team spirit. And it is worse if it is foreign because we are helping to saupport another county's economy rather than our own. People here in our neighborhoods need jobs desperately!!!!! Woops. i'LL step down off my soapbox now. So the pressure was on to find another job. Well, other departments at my company are running just fine ane=dhave actual job openings. They are posted on the employee job posing qwebsite of Hr. iT IS VERY EASY TO POWST OUT FOR A JOB AND SET UP AN INTERVIEW. I then proceeded to apply for most everything. Since I have been in the business for so long, i HAVE DONE just qabout everything mortgagfe. Call me a mortgage DIVA, please. hOWEVER, BEING A DIVA has its drawbacks. ONE, it means I am old. TWO. It means that I know more than the person interviewing me. THREE. iT MEANS THAT i AM SUPER OVER QUALIFIED. (THIS TYPING SUCKS) Whichever the case, I was turned down by more people than I have ever been turned down for in my WHOLE life. Since high school i HAVE BEEN turned down by maybe three interviews. Now I havwe been turned down by NINE different little whippersnapperw at my OWN company. Believe it or don't!!! That was how I spent the last half of December, all of January, and the first part of February. All the while I am still working snd trying to keep a great attitude and not cuss and not saay anytrhing ugly about the few people they had ASKED TO STAY AND QWORK THE TRANASITION PERIOD. We'll call them the "Chosen Few" They gert to go to meetings and have secrets and all that. That group includes this little asshole who I trained to work there. He took what I taught him, added a lot of ass-kissing and pretense and is keeping his job. Again, believe it or don't. So much much stress going on. On February 10th, I had surgery on my right wrist for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Went swimmingly. I took off on 2/11/10, to rest. On February 24, I had the same surgery on the left wrist. I took off 2/252/10 to rest as I had done on the right wrist. That day I got a call from my former husbands family that my mother-in-law had died. She had had Altzheimer's and I had known it was coming for a couple of years. I hadn't talked to her in that time because she couldn't remember who I was. So I have missed her for years. She was my youngest son's grandmother - the mother of my husband, Tommy, that had committed suicide in 1985. I got the flights for Tom-Tom and me to go to CT for the funeral weekend. Flights Feb 26, funeral Feb 27, Flights home Feb 28. That weekend, New York, New Jersey, CT, New Hampshire, etc. etc. were all covered up by a blizzard. My original flight was into White Plains, NY, with a layover first in Atlanta for a couple of hours. When we got to Atlanta, we found out that flights to the northeast were being bumped right and left. When our flight time came, they announced our flight had been cancelled. They put us on standby for another flight. When that one came time, it happe...Expand for more