We're going through something really rough right now, I''m sure some of you can relate, and if you have any advice please feel free to pass it along.Interstate Connections is a company that services Truckers and Travelers in truck stops and travel centers, mainly the Travel America and Petro centers. What they do is they sell wireless services to people including AT&T, Sirius, XM and other services. Rodney has been with this company for about 5 years now. He was brought over to work for them from another company, they moved us from Southern Indiana up here to Toledo, Ohio. He was brought in at the top at a District Manager position, making a lot of money per year. We settled here, bought a house, continued our family, and have had some struggles within the past 5 years up and down with the company but overall we've been pretty good.
Rodney had just acquired 2 new stores, one of them was less than an hour away from his parents house, this was great news as we could travel with Rodney to work, and stay at his mom's house for a few days while he was up doing his thing and the girls could see their grandparents and cousin's etc. So last week, this is what we did. Rodney went to work, we stayed at my In Laws house.
That is until Wednesday August 6 at 3:00pm CST. Rodney got a phone call with the news that as of that day at 3pm everyone was out of a job, that Interstate Connections was closing it's doors. No notice no nothing. As of 3pm they were all unemployed. The kicker, they wanted all the Area Managers (which Rodney had been promoted to in February) to go to each one of their stores and fire people, even though in about an hour they were all unemployed, and even though Rodney had 8 stores in his district that were all around Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. There was no way he'd get to them all. They also wanted the area managers to properly box up everything in each kiosk and do some paperwork and send it all back to corporate, remember this is all AFTER they are already 'let go'. What a great company, they said that if they did this they'd give them $500. Not worth Rodney's time or gas to drive cross states to do this.
So, the past few days have been really hard on us. We decided to stay at his parents house until Sunday night and we started back home. Being with his parents helped a lot I think, we had the time to let things settle in while not having to worry about other things, unemployment has already been filed, Rodney has already had a few phone calls about job leads and we've just been applying for anything and everything out there.
I just wanted to let you all know what is going on, why I haven't been active. My mind is just not set into blogging right now. I will announce the winners by end of tonight to my other giveaways, as well, I will be writing some great reviews and have some giveaways going on very soon, I promise. Just need to take some time for our family business right now and get things back up and running before we fall flat on our face. Being jobless with no savings, a mortgage, car payment and other bills is not something fun. We'll be ok for this month, hopefully something comes a long soon before we start to feel the crunch.
