Trying...

[anirbas]

...to get in here more often, to grab a proverbial broom and sweep away the non-poetical detritus that keeps blowing up on our doorstep...

if you see more trash and you're familiar with me at the other place, give me a heads up and I will pop in that evening and do a quick clean up
so y'all aren't dealing with the silliness. it's gotten so bad the past several months. I need to get David on this and see if there is a way
to stop it from happening, period.

anyway, all the real poets, be having a wonderful day or night, wherever you may be. all the fakes/advertisers fuck off to anywhere but here.

[anirbas]

Well, my poetry companions, perhaps I will be around quite a bit more. Therefore, I will be able to stay on top of these weird posts that have absolutely nothing to do with poetry or prose. About to have much more free time, after working seventeen grueling years in retail. This past Monday, was my last day of residing in the "belly of the beast" as I often called my job. It finally shat me out after eating me alive and paying me to do it, for those seventeen long years. The upside, it was a means to an end, all along. And it was there when I needed to start over. But, it's done with me. And me, I am done with it, too. I have been a walking zombie in that place for the past several years, especially the last two.

So, it looks like I will be around more, was all I intended to say! LoL Y'all be having a bright day or a wonderful evening, wherever you're hailing from when you land here.

[phantasm]

Were you fired, or did you quit, or what?

Hope you're going to be okay financially in the long run.

[anirbas]

Fired, under complicated circumstances. I did have FMLA which did cover intermittent leaves of abcence. The past two years, my body has, well it just has gotten rustier and rustier, for lack of a better word. Intensifying my pain levels. So, these past two years, I had a lot of leave. And leave, the company couldn't do anything about. I had three points/slash days that weren't covered by my FMLA. And in January, I took what I assumed to be intermittent leave days on the 2nd and the 6th. As long as I have been on FMLA, about nine years, now, my coverage ran from date to date, for twelve months. But, I found out real quick, it also goes by amount of hours used, in that time period, and if I reached that limit, my date to date limit became null and void, until my recertification date. In this case, January 22nd, this month. The way it was explained to me, ignorance of the law did not make me above the law. Anyway, those 2 absences, that my intermittent leave company refused to cover, added to the 3 earlier absences making 5, were the company's grounds to fire me.

I hope we are going to be okay financially in the long run, as well. Thank you for the sentiment. We took a hit with me losing this income, and losing this insurance. We both have rather expensive diseases. I need Humira and he needs insulin. But, we will figure it out.

I was put out to pasture, this past Monday. It has been a long week of David and I both, doing lots of research for medical coverage and moving my 401 K out of the company and into our bank account. I have the options of filing for disability or early ssi retirement. We are applying for what our state offers as far as medical assistance.

The past two years, trying to work full time have taken their toll on me. David thinks this is a good thing, been practically begging for me to file for disability so I would get medicaid?/Medicare? Can never remember which is which. I do know, my pain levels have been very low, since my last day there.

Anyway, a lot to process, but, we are working our way through it, one step, one application, one phone call at a time.
It is, what it is.