Last night I went to Wal-Mart looking for a video game and I went hoping that I could convince myself not to spend the money on it. I found the game just fine but I found something even better. The lady who works in electronics knows me pretty well by now and asked me if we had fired anyone recently where I work. I had fired someone a few weeks ago and sat in on a server being fired last week. It seems the dishwasher I let go now roams all over Wal-Mart at night. The lady said he just wanders around for hours stopping mainly to ask people for money. He pulled the same stuff when he "worked" for me. The guy had a handful of jobs and it seemed like none of them ever paid him anything. I'm guessing he was paid based of his performance and if that is so I can see why he's begging for change. I really don't want to mock him too badly because I'm convinced he just wasn't right in the head. His job was the same pretty much every day but he just never got the hang of it. I would jump back and forth from being angry with him to feeling sorry for him. Letting him go was certainly based on both those things. Sure he was pretty much useless but he was cheap labor and it was highly likely he would never get any kind of raise. He was cheap labor and that was kind of a reason it was nice having him around. In the end I really hoped that he would find something better and as much as I love Wal-Mart.......panhandling for change there is not a step up in the world.
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