I got the papers in the mail Friday last that the hearing for my enemployent is next Thursday.  I"ve been unable to get anyone to calle me from Legal Aid to call me back so it looks like I am on my own.   I"m not sure how this works or what to expect.  I do know that the assistant manager where I used to work plans on speaking the truth about what happened and saying that I was wrongfully terminated.   She was told today by the manger, that if she did that, he would be looking for a new assistant.  So now I feel like a bum because all this is oging to cause her to lose her job too, but I am so VERY ANGRY that he would be able to do this to yet another person.  Oh, he is smart.  He won't come right out and fire her for that reason.  He will wait, just like he did with me and then make something disappear that will turn up after she has been fired because it is not really missing at all. She is a true friend, though.  She said it didn't matter.  The truth was what mattered.  He lied about me and treated me badly and if he can do it to me, then he will just keep doing it.  He did the same thing to another woman before I got fired and she is going to go to the hearing also.  It's a damned shame that these big companies get away with this crap.  You can bet your patooties that THEY will have a lawyer there.  Problem is, I think, that these freebie lawyers are so busy trying to help out all these people who are losing their homes and are in so much financial trouble that they are overloaded with cases.  So I am on my own and am not sure where next to turn.  It's a good bet that I was fired because of my age.  In another month, I would have been eligible for insurance and I"m pretty sure that is why they got rid of me.   I gave up a job making two more dollars an hour so I could work there and have insurance and they jerked me around for months, cutting my hours so I would have just one hour under enough to get unsurance.  I am a good worker, show up every day and find plenty to keep me busy when things are slow and make suggestions that help business.  And this is what I get for it.  SCREWED! 

I'm going to try to stay hopeful that I can think of some way to clear my name and make them admit that they fired me for stealing something that wasn't even stolen. 

Lord and Lady, help me.