Letters to the Editor
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The truth will set you free of working
"Your finest hour is still ahead!"
At age 63 I very much doubt a workable or working future. A bit over a year ago I was told "you don't have a job here anymore" by the ostensible CEO of a 10-person telephonics testing company in Jersey. I had refused to get into a pissing match with the founder, a man who questioned not simply my ability (after he hired me) but my mental capacity--this in emails cc:'d to the entire company. When I refused to meet with him unless a 3rd party was present, I was disposed of. The founder himself was gotten rid of thereafter, but he walked out with a small fortune and his name--Edwin Mier--is still on the firm, Miercom, Inc.
Now you tell me: is the truth worth it here. I was TOLD by the dismissing CEO (the founder's stepson) to say it was a Reduction in Force. This is of course a blatant lie intended to make the stepdad look good for awhile. Telling the truth, however, would make an entertaining and ghastly story that probably would get me shown the door rather quickly.
Bottom line (don't you love that phrase?)--the truth will set you free, for sure--of employment possibilities because nobody really wants the truth, they want business-correct yatada-yatada that talks all the right talk even if the walk behind it is staggering blind drunk on ego and power-tripping.