'I woke up from a dream. There was a 'test...' show up and perform these physical exercises and you will get paid __ agreed upon dollars. The man who was running the test went around the room and paid each person what they were promised. There was a ripple of... 'That's too much! Oh, that's way too much!...' following him around the room.
When he came to me, he bent down and kissed me on the lips, then turned, and as he walked away... his lips were counting, "...one, two, three...," waiting for me to protest.
Everyone in the room was very quiet.
I stood up as he went and paid another person.
I walked away!
Shortly, this man came after me, "Where are you going?" He stood in front of me, trying to bar my way. "I just wanted to see what you would do," he explained.
"If you would choose to break the rules at the first encounter that we have, in front of a roomful of people, I can't imagine what you think might be your right to do, as a relationship went further. I choose not to play your game."
I then walked away without my money.'
Simmy ground some coffee beans and as the coffee brewed, so did her thoughts... about the dream. Was it a dream about a previous employer? It really did seem like it was, in some ways.
This employer had presented the job in a sunny yellow light, kind of like the yellow bowl, (pictured above), that she had purchased for a bargain price at Home Sense just yesterday. When she washed the bowl, it immediately showed that it had flawed glaze as the clay darkened and stained the bottom of the inside of the bowl.
Simmy should have walked away from the job when she was expected to, manually, retrieve large carpets ( up to 11- 12 feet long), from a rack and carry them out of the store for customers.
She should have realized, from the exclamations of the customers, that this was an unreasonable expectation. The 'people in the room' had blatantly told her so.
Unfortunately, she had stayed at the job for almost 2 years and her body had become quite broken from these tasks.
When she finally resigned, due to the fact that her knees would not stay in place even while trying to sleep at night, this employer did not pay her the full wages that she was supposed to get.
There was a higher authority that told him he must, but he still refused.
Simmy had conceded, walked away and decided to leave it to a yet higher authority.
One of the partners in this business was an accountant and Simmy had thought about going to him and pleading her case. There was a possibility that he didn't know how this 'part owner' was running this business. She hadn't, but now she wished she had.
Oh well, in the end there will always be an accounting, for this employer and his accountant.
Simmy stepped back and took another picture.
"Yes, how dark the shadows outside the light!"
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