whew WHAT A RELIEF. You did it. Even though you were scared you friggin well climbed that mountain. Inspiration for us all. Things fell into place in a pretty smooth way. Boss not fixated on why you left but more on how you can be of service to his company.
I worked for seven years in a place where the boss micromanaged me into a faded version of myself that was on the brink of disappearing. One day, after going to the doctor and hearing that my blood pressure was dangerously high and he said wisely Consider this your last day in the job, I left. I thought that was impossible. I didn't care about employment insurance or anything. Pretty impulsive. Next day I was not so confident. My friend told me to get medical unemployment benefits, which I had not considered. I went there and told them about how my boss had basically humiliated me and treated me with less than respect. I was so surprised to hear that they hear that story often enough to know that it is real and I got medical employment benefits for stress. I went to the doctor and he confirmed that I was stressed and there it was.
I realized that I had forgotten all about that. Sometimes life has to just shake you like a ragdoll to get one to move along.
So I went from being a rehab counsellor in a program for people with severe disabilities to......... looking for jobs in the New Hebrides. While checking in the Toronto paper, I came across a job in Tofino working with children with severe disabilities. The jobs had commonalities but were very different. And I relocated to Tofino, a little fishing town, from a big city, Victoria. I think I had the most interesting teaching job imaginable. I got to go to work in a speedboat, work with Native people, work counseling little kids.
My point after all that is that it is impossible to control what comes next. You have prepared the field with all your experience and skills and now you have gotten on the fast train to change. SOOOOOOOOO brave of you. But also wise. I often thought that you might be able to tough it out in the old job but your health might go. Typing those honest statements about your boss was unconsciously reaching for a life preserver. That is just what I think.
I read somewhere that if an employee sues their boss for wrongful dismissal, they rarely lose. I had not realized that. Have a snit fit or telling your boss off is not reasonable grounds for dismissal. Employee and employer having a snit fit doesn't mean he gets to throw you out on the street. Just does not make sense. Only your high standards of human communication have made you think it was such a catastrophe. As for the boss, what a weinee for terminating a good employee. He could have said,|Madame, I am curious why such a person as yourself would think glorious me is such a .............. But to fire you, boy that was dramatic and impulsive.
I think you have some leverage or whatever in the wrongful dismissal department and right now you feel a bit worthless and are in a bit of a shame spriral about getting fired. However, old bossie boy doesn't get to fire someone because he is offended. That is ridiculous.
Yuck, I don't want to spend time in HIS head. Glad you won't have to either.
You are wonderful.
Lots of love,
Sea storm
