| At least Stephen was in-town when they kicked him |
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| 03:46pm 23/12/2009 |
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20091223_54_A1_Amanwi223508
Arrow Trucking Co., the 61-year-old Tulsa-based flatbed carrier, has suspended operations indefinitely, laying off employees and stranding scores of drivers around the country by canceling fuel credit cards, company employees and drivers said.
After closing down the company phone system Tuesday morning and not accepting cell phone messages throughout the day, the company issued a statement from CEO Doug Pielsticker at 6:21 p.m.
"The company has been in negotiations with its principal lender," Pielsticker said. "Those negotiations are continuing, but the lender has elected to proceed with securing its collateral. The company is communicating with several interested parties and continues to seek a prompt resolution."
One of Arrow's lenders is Daimler Financial Services, which owns the company's Freightliner trucks.
Beginning just before noon Tuesday, callers to Arrow's west Tulsa offices were greeted with a recorded message: "Drivers, if you're in Freightliner KW, please take your truck to the nearest Freightliner shop. Call this hot line number to Daimler, (877) 294-9679. They will arrange for you a bus ticket home."
A spokesman for Daimler said the company is offering stranded drivers a bus ticket home or $200 in cash.
But many drivers didn't have enough gas to make it to a Freightliner shop, Tulsa or even their next delivery.
www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx |
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| And it just gets better and better |
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| 03:31pm 23/12/2009 |
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To put Stephen and my stepson on my insurance, I need proof of his termination. his company didn't give him any paperwork - we can only assume it will show on his last paycheck.
I also must prove that my stepson is my stepson. More specifically, I must show him claimed as a dependant on our tax return. We haven't done that - the boy's biological mother does that.
Alternately, they will accept paperwork showing joint custody. Stephen doesn't have that - he has visitation. He does have a court order, a legally binding command from the judge, to provide all of Kaleb's healtchare costs, in addition to the financial support he provides in the regular checks.
So, we now have to present an option to Stephen's ex: Do you want to maintain a hostile, selfish, one-sided, controlling situation with your child, continuing to deprive him of normal relations with his father, and continuing to keep his father from having real and meaningful input into his own son's life,
or do you want the boy to have healthcare?
Stephen, most understandably, is not looking forward to this. Let's just say that previous conversations with his ex have...... not gone well.
Myself, I wonder how many high-paid lawyers it took to carefully construct the insurance rules at my workplace. They specifically, SPECIFICALLY had a clause excluding cases where the father has visitation and court-ordered requirements for healthcare, as if they saw us coming and wrote it specifically to hurt us.
Of course that would be myopic and self-centered of me. They wrote it to hurt a much larger number of families, not just mine.
My workplace is shut down until January 4. Will that be too late for our sign-up deadline? |
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| And just what do you need for a job? |
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| 01:11pm 22/12/2009 |
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Well, Stephen has no suit. he has no blazer.
"That's OK, I've got a buttondown shirt and a tie." he said.
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Stephen has no functioning vehicle. Installation of a new distributor: $703
new tires: yet to be determined.
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Stephen has lost the camera somewhere in the house, under our piles and piles of junk. This is only significant because we need to put most of these piles and piles of junk on ebay to raise a little cash.
For the last four days we've said "Yeah, gotta find that camera and get this stuff on ebay" about 57 times.
still no camera. |
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| Trying to Balance |
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| 12:13pm 21/12/2009 |
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mood:  discontent
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Several kind folks have sent some job tips. This is uplifting.
Several kind folks have said "Don't let him sleep. When you get up in the morning - he does too. Get his ass up there and out and pounding the pavement. You've got to be hard on him or you'll be sorry." This is not uplifting.
In particular, a colleague at work has told me, with dark circles under her eyes: "Don't try to comfort him or soothe him or let him work through a grieving period. If you do, you'll end up like me: he lost his job 7 years ago. And now he's still sitting at home, watching soap operas."
Several kind folks have said. "Let him sleep in some. He needs to go through a grieving period. Don't be so hard on him or you'll be sorry." This is not uplifting.
There's a job on craigslist that matches not Stephen's job, but Stephen's boss's job. After 7 years of doing Stephen's job tho, and 5 previous years as a supervisor at another company, Stephen is more than qualified for it. I can only hope this comes through. |
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| The panic has fully set in |
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| 02:39pm 18/12/2009 |
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Nevermind any towels, I'm panicking.
I have told Stephen that I don't care if he's in tights and and elf hat in the mall, that he HAS to get a job, NOW.
He's signed up to sell platlettes, but I'm terrified of the machine that recycles the blood back into his body. Exactly **how many** other people's blood have also been cycling through there? I don't even want him to shake hands with strangers during cold season.
A dear and beloved friend has said she can help Stephen with his job search, and she was very enthusiastic about it yesterday when she spoke to him. Of course now, she's got more important things to think about, a death in the family. We can not even imagine asking her about that now.
It's going to be a hard weekend, for everyone. |
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| So it begins.... |
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| 06:34pm 16/12/2009 |
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Well, teach me to write my year-end summary before Dec. 31.
Today, Stephen was informed that as of the end of this week, the company has no further work for him.
His boss promised to give excellent references, and that he would try to get Stephen back on "in six months or so", provided that the company was still in business.
so begins my new Journal. I'm debating on a title: Blog of the Solitary Paycheck
or Journal of the Primary Crumbwinner
what do you think? |
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