Years ago I was working for a concrete company. I had worked there several months, when the boss had left for a couple of weeks on vacation. Also the foreman had recently quit and left for another company.
That left the company being run by the bosses son. The bosses son disappeared and stayed shacked up with his ex wife. She had recently got hooked up with him again.
With the son and boss gone, Ath took charge over the crew. With Ath in charge, the work ended. When we started doing the slap preparation, Ath would make us stop, and do nothing. Ath also had me running him around town, and up to his girl friends work place.
When this started Red quit the job and just left. Quiting at this point was the best decision to make. I should have quit to, but I used to be a real gullible type of person, and could not say no to people easy.
After Red it had us down to me and Ath. Ath would often leave me alone on the slap preparation, and go riding around in the company truck. I heard that he was out dancing in front of the other concrete company crews. One of those crews was where the foreman changed jobs to.
The boss had come home from vacation. The son turned in a full pay check. And me an Ath had our hardly earned half checks turned in.
The boss hired back the foreman, and his other son Tom had come back. Work was still on the two foundations we had been prepping. This prep work should have been done in about four days for both of them.
It turned out the boss was not on vacation, he went to see is brother who was dying from cancer. He's son lied about his work, and said he thought me and Ath were doing what we were supposed to do. Ath was fired, and I had became lazy.
The foremen along with the bosses other son talked with me a long time. They were trying to find out all that happened while they and the boss were gone. I think its hard to get information from a scary gullible person.
After painful days getting back into doing the labor work again, I was able to keep my job. The boss was never the same though, he was always angry to see me. It probably reminded him of his brother, and his findings when he returned.
Another crew member the boss hired, had tricked me into getting fired. He had told me that the boss was going on vacation, and that I was not needed for the next week. When I met up with the crew after week, I got my surprise.
It was more of a relief, then grief. At first I was upset over the trick, but then realized I was out from under that angry boss. I would not quit, because I was a gullible scary person. When he had tricked me, he was helping me I think.
I think If I had quit, which I believe was the best move to make then. The boss would have come back to Ath and his son, and I would not have been part of my bosses grief.
I realize though, if I had quit. The information that was needed on what actually happened in the bosses absence might not have come out correctly. With the boss favoring his son story, Ath could have been made to look very bad. Worse then what really happened. This could have hurt the boss worse. Only God knows.
