Luis lost his job, for extremely trivial reasons. For once in his life, he got on someone who matters' bad side. The story has been told so many times that I will not retell it here and now.
He went in today after a five-day suspension to find out if he still has his job. When he didn't call at 1:10, I knew he was fired. Otherwise he would've gotten his badge and been on the floor and let me know that he's working.
The entire weekend was filled with uncertainty. What course of action do we take? What results do we want to see? When it finally happened, like most other things in life, it was rather anti-climatic.
He's filing for unemployment and will take the opportunity to work on his business. This, compared to other options seem to be the best. Who knows? Everything might work out well.
I wish I had more confidence in his ability to assess situations. I am an optimistic person, but can be harshly realistic when I need to be. I feel like he can't. He's extremely optimistic. When things don't happen according to plan, he doesn't know why nor has a backup. This is a huge worry for me. Yet, when I tried bringing it up, he said nothing, literally, leaving me not knowing if it registered with him at all. When I brought it up again, he spouted his plans for the next few days, but nothing to reassure me of the big picture. This doesn't help. I need evidence that he's thinking hard about it on how to make it work.
Maybe it's just me. I like having a safety net, which admittedly he will have in the form on unemployment. I play things safer than maybe what is necessary for a business to start and succeed or fail. The issue here is less about his plans than my needing reassurances that he's really thinking about it instead of going along with what he thinks everyone around him expects him to do.
Who knows if writing about this here will help or hurt?
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