I recently posted the following on my Facebook page in response to the blatant disrespect that has been shown to my husband during the interview process and his acceptance of the only job offer he has received after 5 months of searching. He has been hired by a consulting firm who stands to make a good deal of money off of him. The process is such that the consulting firm must have sign-off from the client of any prospective candidate. My husband had SIX different departments interview him and they were all asking that he be assigned to their individual projects. A true testament to his skill set and ability to make an incredibly positive impression upon the client. However, the consulting firm has been shady from the very beginning. They actually asked him to accept that they wouldn't pay him for over a month and the first paycheck would only include the first week's pay. One among many incidents with this consulting firm. Here is what I posted:
I HATE, HATE, HATE THIS COMPANY MY HUSBAND HAS SIGNED WITH!!! NOW THEY HAVE TOLD HIM HE WON'T START UNTIL NEXT MONDAY!!! WHAT THE F*CK!?
I was peaved at a response that I received that stated I should be "grateful" that he has a job. Oh really? Why aren't THEY grateful that they found him and can make a great sum of money off of his hard work? Why is it always assumed that you should gravel for any crumb thrown at you from some over bloated egotistical minion because it's a buyer's market and they can get away with it?
This was what I posted in response to the people who were chastising me for not being grateful:
My husband has worked so hard for the past 5 months to find employment as quickly as possible. I attribute his success to a divine alignment that fits the business needs of the consulting firm, the client and my husband's incredible skill set. This doesn't mean we have to be grateful to a company that has treated him with such horrendous disrespect. I will not express "gratitude" towards a company that tells my husband to book a flight on our own dime for the interview and then fails to inform my him that the date he selected was not conducive for the client (after specifically telling him to pick "any day") thus causing us to foot the bill for additional accommodations and travel expenses. And no, I will not express "gratitude" towards a company that is going to pay him 30% less than what he was making previously AND, we have to pay for all his accommodations for local housing AND pay for him to come home (which is non-standard for most consulting contracts). And NO I will not express gratitude towards a company that can contractually commit IN WRITING to a start date and then, because they failed to submit and follow-up on all the necessary paperwork with the client, has delayed my husband's start date an additional week where he could have been home with his family; not to mention the loss of income. Companies are doing this all over the U.S. because they know they can get away with it and they simply don't give a shit. Asking us to be thankful for this opportunity is like asking someone to be grateful to their abuser for repeated abuse simply because they pay the bills.
Once again, I got a response that was a bit of a finger wag from a person whom I greatly respect for their spiritual convictions.
Is this what we've become? Has the 1% so indoctrinated us to such a degree that we will gravel in subservience accepting all abuses? Furthermore, if you are a spiritual human being, does this mean you have to accept whatever abuse someone throws at you and subjugate your dignity because you are in a position of need? Why? Who decided that to be spiritual and grateful you must exercise subservience and subjugation? This is unacceptable to me. Make no mistakes, we are in great need right now. It may be untoward to look a gift-horse in the mouth; but does that mean that you have to equally be happy about being kicked and bitten by a gift-horse with bad behavior?
This is total HORSE SHIT! (excuse the pun) Why aren't we applauding the person who has worked so hard to find employment after such an extended period of time? Why aren't employers grateful that a decent, hard-working individual with exceptional work ethic has come along? It is appalling to me that people with New Age "it's all love and light" thinking will acquiesce to whatever the Universe bestows upon them and claim that it is "all good". BULL SHIT, BULL SHIT, BULL SHIT! Yes, I'm venting. Someone has disrespected and treated my beloved poorly. I cannot accept that. I will not accept nor will I bless it. I will not stand in gratitude towards any human being and/or corporation that has the audacity to mistreat their employees. Look at Ghandi, Moses and Martin Luther King, did they stand by and say to their people, you should go silently into the night because you should be grateful that you have been given less than what you deserve? No, they did not!
I would say to all Lightworkers, New Age followers and dogmatists that being spiritual does not mean being a door mat. Stop with the judgment against others when they express incense at obvious mistreatment of another human being! Part of being en"light"ened is that you have taken a path of intention and awareness, not passivity and acquiescence. Enlightenment means that you are empowered and no longer a victim. If I have created my own experience, then I also have the responsibility to display to others what it means to be fully in charge of that which I have created.
Just like Oliver Twist, I have asked for more. More dignity, more respect, more humanity and damn proud of it!
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