afronaut
01-21-2008, 01:18 PM
Vent thread. Suggestions for retribution being taken here.
Let me give you some background. My father is, by far, the most hard working, honest, and kindhearted person I know. This opinion of mine has nothing to do with me being his son, it is just a simple fact. He is also relatively old, I am 21, he is 63. He has also been consistently shit on for doing the good and right thing throughout his entire life.
The latest occurrence of this makes my blood boil. My father is very much into gardening, and other hippie type health food shit. Our (now-ex) chiropractor begged him to leave his well established and well paying job (which we depended on) to be the manager of a health food store she was opening. I mean, just completely begged him, promising him this and that, and disguising herself as a smart businesswoman. After this large barrage of empty promises and begging, he took the job. My father put every possible thing he could into this business. Except for every sunday each week, he was there every single day until the business closed. The store stayed open for four months.
I am sorry, but if you're not prepared to keep a store open for at the very least a year, no matter how shitty the business does at first, you should not be opening a business, much less begging other people to leave their already established jobs to work there. The owners hardly ever set foot in the store, refused to let him make orders for weeks at a time, and then blamed the community when the store closed. There was nothing on the shelves because of this woman and her husband, and it was the community's fault?
Instead of putting their own money into their own business, they opted to take a vacation to Florida. My father was the only reason that store stayed open as long as it did. They would have closed the fucking place after two months if it weren't for my dad. He fought tooth and nail to keep that place open. I know, because I worked there too. The man killed himself for that place.
So the store is closed, my father is boned. He's a hard worker, but he is 63 years old, and never went to college, and with no chance of getting his old job back.
The story isn't over yet though. These people never even called us to see how we are doing, to apologize, nothing. They didn't even call us to wish us a Merry Christmas. We got calls from people who shopped at the store, thanking us for the service we did. But nothing from these fucking owners.
But there is still more. At first, she at least promised to write my father a letter of recommendation. Now, she refuses. And not only that, we're "banned" from her chiropractors office. and not only THAT, she still owes us 400 dollars for produce we supplied the health food store. So whats the deal? Apparently one of her customers claims that we badmouthed her.
She doesn't have the decency to call my father up and see what the deal is? Based on gossip, she just "bans" us and refuses to write my father a letter of recommendation? And not even a word about the 400 dollars (which my father was just going to forget and let her have.)
You devastate an entire family, you fucking bitch, and you can't write this man a letter of recommendation? He worked his ass off, he kept customers coming in. He paid for advertising when this bitch was too cheap to advertise for her own store. He gave that place, and by association her, a great reputation. And you're going to destroy a mans life and not even say sorry? The very least you can do is write this man a letter of recommendation. Thats the very fucking least. And you're going to shit on him based on some hearsay gossip? Fuck you. What are we supposed to do? My parents cry nightly. My father is 63, when does he get a break? What about my education? Sure I'm getting scholarships and such, but thats not enough. My life has to be ruined too?
I have no desire to physically harm anyone in her family. What she did to us was too low and bad to be repaid by physical harm. I want to destroy this womans reputation in our community. I want to destroy her business, I want her to lose everything. I want her to have to work until she's 80. I want her children to not be able to go to college due to the sins of their mother. I want to see how she'll feel about that.
I just don't know how to go about doing this. Any suggestions?
Let me give you some background. My father is, by far, the most hard working, honest, and kindhearted person I know. This opinion of mine has nothing to do with me being his son, it is just a simple fact. He is also relatively old, I am 21, he is 63. He has also been consistently shit on for doing the good and right thing throughout his entire life.
The latest occurrence of this makes my blood boil. My father is very much into gardening, and other hippie type health food shit. Our (now-ex) chiropractor begged him to leave his well established and well paying job (which we depended on) to be the manager of a health food store she was opening. I mean, just completely begged him, promising him this and that, and disguising herself as a smart businesswoman. After this large barrage of empty promises and begging, he took the job. My father put every possible thing he could into this business. Except for every sunday each week, he was there every single day until the business closed. The store stayed open for four months.
I am sorry, but if you're not prepared to keep a store open for at the very least a year, no matter how shitty the business does at first, you should not be opening a business, much less begging other people to leave their already established jobs to work there. The owners hardly ever set foot in the store, refused to let him make orders for weeks at a time, and then blamed the community when the store closed. There was nothing on the shelves because of this woman and her husband, and it was the community's fault?
Instead of putting their own money into their own business, they opted to take a vacation to Florida. My father was the only reason that store stayed open as long as it did. They would have closed the fucking place after two months if it weren't for my dad. He fought tooth and nail to keep that place open. I know, because I worked there too. The man killed himself for that place.
So the store is closed, my father is boned. He's a hard worker, but he is 63 years old, and never went to college, and with no chance of getting his old job back.
The story isn't over yet though. These people never even called us to see how we are doing, to apologize, nothing. They didn't even call us to wish us a Merry Christmas. We got calls from people who shopped at the store, thanking us for the service we did. But nothing from these fucking owners.
But there is still more. At first, she at least promised to write my father a letter of recommendation. Now, she refuses. And not only that, we're "banned" from her chiropractors office. and not only THAT, she still owes us 400 dollars for produce we supplied the health food store. So whats the deal? Apparently one of her customers claims that we badmouthed her.
She doesn't have the decency to call my father up and see what the deal is? Based on gossip, she just "bans" us and refuses to write my father a letter of recommendation? And not even a word about the 400 dollars (which my father was just going to forget and let her have.)
You devastate an entire family, you fucking bitch, and you can't write this man a letter of recommendation? He worked his ass off, he kept customers coming in. He paid for advertising when this bitch was too cheap to advertise for her own store. He gave that place, and by association her, a great reputation. And you're going to destroy a mans life and not even say sorry? The very least you can do is write this man a letter of recommendation. Thats the very fucking least. And you're going to shit on him based on some hearsay gossip? Fuck you. What are we supposed to do? My parents cry nightly. My father is 63, when does he get a break? What about my education? Sure I'm getting scholarships and such, but thats not enough. My life has to be ruined too?
I have no desire to physically harm anyone in her family. What she did to us was too low and bad to be repaid by physical harm. I want to destroy this womans reputation in our community. I want to destroy her business, I want her to lose everything. I want her to have to work until she's 80. I want her children to not be able to go to college due to the sins of their mother. I want to see how she'll feel about that.
I just don't know how to go about doing this. Any suggestions?