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February 4, 2007I am so frustrated with T at the moment. He is on call for his job as a restaurant computer systems engineer this weekend. Up until last night we were in a Blizzard warning and are still in a winter storm warning. Everything I have read says to stay off the roads. Church was even cancelled and, well, for church services to be cancelled around here, you know it has to be bad. But oh, no he thinks that he needs to drive across Grand Rapids to his office, then back the other way all the way to the lakeshore to replace a power supply at the IHOP in Holland.
He is sooo good at putting his job needs before anything else. I got mad at him last night about it because he was going to drive to his office in the middle of the blizzard warning to get the part and I told him that this call is not important enough to be endangering his life by driving in this weather. His reply- well I’m not going to get fired over not running a call I should have run. My response to that was the job isn’t worth it and if his boss would fire him over it, then he is better off with out the f***ing job.
If he were a doctor, a paramedic, a nurse, a police officer, a fireman, some essential utilities worker, I would not have as much of an issue with him needing to go out because of the type of work it is. But computer systems for restaurants?!? Really? Somebody tell me if I’m being “nutty” about this. Please.
That is so NOT nutty! What part of “unless you absolutely have to be somewhere, please stay at home” and “travel will be extremely dangerous” does he not understand?
Is he someone that really thrives on feeling needed, or important, or something? His WIFE and KID need him TOO — why not worry about THAT?