He said... "So sorry to tell you this but your position is one that we have to place on hold and lay you off starting tomorrow."
I think my supervisor expected a gasp or some type of shocked response when he called the share the news with me that I was being laid off the next day whcih was Friday.
Ya'll have no idea how I wanted to jump off that phone and do a dance in my office. However I composed myself and said "You know I knew this was coming as other sites were closing and they were condensing services."
I told my supervisor that I was okay with this as I had already told my staff that I would be the first to be laid off as our clinical staff was oving to telehealth/remote services.
As my supervisor was still talking I was already boxing up my office in my head and thinking of what files I had to clean out. Oh and thinking about ALL the stress that I no longer had to deal with that came with managing a site and the supervising women with all their different personalities.
A little seret about me is that I never packed a bunch of stuff to any place I have worked as I never wanted to get comfortable. And when they day finally came to leave I never had to pack a lot of shit out.
So back to that call... I heard a bit of what was said after my supervisor said that my layoff would be the next day. But after that he sound like Charlie Brown speak. Ya'll I got off that phone and put my head up and said "Thank you Jesus."
Hope you enjoyed this part of my pandemic story. Please leave a cup of coffee on the way out if you enjoyed it. Until then...