I just got terminated from my job for insubordination.
I currently have what my brother calls a good pile of "fuck you money." It's when you save up enough to money to give your boss the middle finger and leave a job on the spot. I didn't quit though, I refused to do what they asked. I loved my plant beds and put lots of effort into them. I plan beds so that they flower all year. I work the soil so that they foster ornamental cultivars as if they were natural. I'm an artist that calls herself a horticulturalist. I've given that company some of the best work of my life and in response to Covid-19, they told me to just pull weeds. I had recently acquired about 100 uprooted plants and decided to take a break from pulling weeds to make some new beds on campus. These poor babies needed a new home, their roots were all sad and damaged. When they noticed me going ham moving all the plants they told me to stop and I said "nope."
After a few hours of trying to get some work done and throwing words back and forth they finally "terminated" me. Silly reason to lose my job but I'm kind of glad to get out of there. Corporate has taught me that I need to surround myself with similar minded people. I need to be surrounded by people that are passionate about what they do. Management at a place like that is a joke. It's a board of people with huge egos that know absolutely nothing about what they are in charge of. In all my 15 years of working for estate landscaping companies in the Hamptons, I've never had a manicured yuppy neck tie tell me to "just pull weeds." That's like telling a police officer to just stop jay walkers. Yawn.
This isn't a sob story. I'm hella excited to start writing music with my free time. I notice someone front paged my last two tracks so I got a handful of new followers and some steam going here. I'm going to leave this link to my bandcamp page where you can choose to purchase my latest album "2Q4U." I have hardcopies as well so feel free to grab one of those but be warned, I never figured out how to modify the shipping cost. A hard copy is $20 so buy digital if you feel like supporting me on a budget. You can also download all the tracks from Newgrounds for free, check out my previous blog for quick hyperlinks to songs you want. I'd rather people download my stuff for free and listen to it in their free time than force ya'll to pay for this crap.
Much love,
Cory F MacNiven
TomFulp
I snagged a digital copy of 2Q4U!
Hope all goes well with your new-found time, it's a shame that putting care into the plants wasn't appreciated. Were the plants you managed used mostly for landscaping? Still noticing a decent amount of landscaping going on around here but that's probably people who have annual contracts with landscapers, vs people looking to get started now.
Quarl
I was picked up for full time work at a private school by some management corporation a few years ago. I didn't have a whole lot of respect for the company, they always just left me alone. I gave their client McCallie School landscaping that was geared towards Hamptons estate property owners. A real boon for a ritzy private boys prep school in the middle of nowhere Tennessee.
The school and the companies I worked for had a strange symbiotic relationship. Everyone at the school had a deep appreciation for the changes I made to the campus. I even got the cafeteria to recycle all their plant waste for composting. Alas, the management tried getting involved during the covid-19 thing. It was my ego vs theirs and since I couldn't fire them, they won.