Raises

Happy day. We all got raises this paycheck. Hooray! It has been a year and a half since the last one. All employees get raises at the same time, not based on merit nor senority, whenever the bossman decides to give us one. I guess it wasn't so bad that somebody quit a couple weeks ago and he has not been replaced. I will gladly take the 45 cents per hour raise I got. Usually raises are about 25 cents per hour. I figured about an extra $800 in my bank account for the next coming year. Maybe I can save for that cat I want so bad.
Though some sad news from the car rental next door. Somebody was fired after he fell asleep at the wheel sitting at a red light and hit a hotel shuttle van. Yeah, if I worked 2 full time jobs I would probably fall asleep too. Even worse was that he was fired from his other full time job recently, his house burned down without possessing insurance a few months ago, and when he told one of my coworkers that he was fired, the guy laughed thinking it was a joke. Oops. Someone mentioned that he saw the man crying in his van before leaving. Poor guy. My coworker telling me all this also included that this man's granddaughter who he has been raising is pregnant at age 15. I started to disbelieve my coworker at this point of his wild story. So who knows how much this is true. I work with strange people who love to exaggerate and throw things in that never happen. Though the getting fired part I know is true. The car rental next door confirmed that part.
Post later. Bye!