When last we left off:
My boss wanted me to present my co-worker Mike with his phone charger she'd leave for me. Then she'd come in at 11:15 and fire him.
Well, as it happens, she thankfully did the deed earlier in the day since when I arrived there was no charger, there was no Mike and she didn't show up. So I worked with the new girl and not much more was said about it. The Junta had already spread the word so even the morning staff knew what went down. It's just me who, as usual, is the last to know.
Well, in that vein of being totally left in the dark until after it's all said and done, my phone rings around 5:30 pm on Tuesday and I see the Caller ID; it's work. They must need me to come in early but since I'm not wanting to, I choose to just shut the ringer on the phone and not answer it. With no voicemail on my phone, it just blinks silently as I snuggle back into bed to continue my sleep.
When I wake up around 8:30 pm, I see I have an email from my boss. I read it and I'm totally confused. It says that she wanted me to come in early to do evening meds (a common enough request as we're low on staff recently so this didn't cause any concern). A follow up email indicates that she found someone to fill in. Good, I thought since I hadn't wanted to come in early. Still no problem there. The part that wigs me out is when she says that June (my other co-worker on the night shift) is not resigning but she won't be in until tomorrow and she (Susan, my boss) has had to rearrange the schedule across several shifts to compensate.
Huh?! What's this about June "not resigning"? June had nothing to do with Mike getting fired, why would I think she'd be quitting?
When I got in I found out that for what appears to be an unrelated "family emergency", June did, in fact, resign on Monday, only to be convinced not to by Susan.
Supposedly, June's sister has had a major medical emergency requiring her to be hospitalized leaving no one to care for her 6-year old son. June, being the only other relative living in Florida felt obligated to now take up the responsibility of taking in her young nephew while her sister was in the hospital, which, according to June may be for an indefinite amount of time. June didn't say what illness has befallen her sister but from her actions it appears it's quite grave. June thought the company would not be able to tolerate the many absences June would need to take in order to care for her nephew so she called in to quit her job.
But after Susan talked with June and assured her that the company would try to work with her in order to save her position, June was able to then reach out to her estranged mother who she hadn't been in contact with in eight years and arrange for a transfer of the child to New York to be cared for by her mother, the boy's grandmother. So now, free from having to take in the child, June agreed to keep her job.
WTF!????
It's too early yet for me to tell if others are really buying this story but c'mon, be real, does this sound even somewhat plausible? And isn't this all so oddly coincidental with Mike's firing?
Here's what I think, but it's only my active imagination and suspicions based on very circumstantial evidence...
I think they must have been doing drugs during the nights they worked together.
What!? Huh?!! Also a very wildly dramatic scenario, yes, I know, but I think it's entirely more believable and I have little clues that point towards this conclusion:
1. June has always been a bit weird. I know that's not a basis for anything but her weirdness seems very suspiciously like the behavior I witnessed out of Ric back in 1999 when, he later admitted, he'd been doing crack cocaine. June has some of the same mannerisms.
2. June and Mike, when I would work with them, would take trips out to their car for up to half an hour sometimes. What were they doing in their car in the middle of the night? They both would also be sure to park their cars off-property in the nearby machine shop business' parking lot. (In fact, June, as I type this at about 1:50 am, has been there for almost an hour now.)
3. When Mike, a known hot head, got fired, he texted nasty comments to June on her personal cell phone using all manner of vial profanity. Perhaps he said he'd expose her out of spite?
4. When Susan and the CEO encouraged June to press charges against Mike about the threatening texts, June refused to.
These are just some of the things that come to mind. They may or may not indicate my version is true, but they don't discount it any. And frankly, I just can't buy the whole "family emergency" story at all.
So we just go on and make like nothing much has changed. I'm sure the grapevine here is all a-buzz with various theories. Mine is my own. I'm not sharing it with anyone.
Except you, of course. So don't tell anyone. Just be prepared for more surprising drama from this night-time soap opera I call my job.