Two months ago my wife got her boss fired for threatening her - after almost five years of working with him on the edge. He was once actually taken out of the office in handcuffs for beating up his teenaged daughter. My wife is known well up the chain of command in her company as a superstar. So after all of these years, when he made a threat in front of witnesses, he was gone. It got ugly enough that they got a court order barring him from coming near the place.
Now a little over a year ago a man walked into a rival company situated four doors down in the same complex and shot two of the workers to death. Several of the workers in that office ran into my wife's office. We were actually prevented from entering the grounds when we go there. But her boss and a driver coworker who had previously worked at the rival company watched the police drag the boidies past their door as they tried to subdue the suspect. (He shot himself to death.)
When my wife's boss was fired, a new guy came on from one of their stores in another part of the state. In return, the sales rep from Val's office was sent to that store. It was nice, because she was NOT fitting in well with the other workers at Val's office. The new manager seemed pretty cool. So everyone was getting a clean slate and a fresh start.
Well Last Friday (Feb 23) the sales rep lost her job at the other store. She just couldn't cut it there either. Not so good.
On Monday, the new manager gathered the office together and informed them that the Sales Rep had broken into her ex-husband's house over the weekend, broken into his gun cabinet and killed herself. Her 12 YO daughter was the first to find the body.
On Wednesday a patient with mental problems who had been stalking the driver who used to belong to the rival company (are ya following this?) actually chased her down the interstate and ended up getting chased down and arrested by the cops. He was charged with DUI and diriving on a revoked license. The stalking charges are pending.
And to top it off, the new manager suddenly got into some kind of insanity attack (possibly prompted by dealing with a coworker's suicide and a stalker after another of his employees) and started channeling the spirit of the previous boss for no apparent reason. The office has been a nightmare. Everyone has been scared to cross the boss, scared of the ex-boss going nuts on them. scared of the stalker walking in and shooting them and scared of losing their jobs!!
Fortunately, on Friday the boss apologized and things got a little less tense, but my wife is polishing her resume. It's a crazy world.
