So it’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here. I’ve got about half a dozen articles started, but haven’t yet had the thoughts, motivation, and time simultaneously for them to come together and get finished. But, today it just so happens I have something interesting……….and the time to write it down for you to read……….

This is just a……….story? I guess is how I will put it, about how what’s meant to be always finds a way. Nothing to do with love and shit like that either, don’t worry!

So about a year ago, give or take, there was a Wednesday Bible study when the pastor at the church I watch was out of town. He had a guest speaker, a guy from the church, and it was a GREAT message he gave. So great, in fact, that I still share it with people and tell them just where I found out such great advice.

The point was, that the reason leadership sucks is because no one with good morals will take up the responsibility to become a leader. We don’t want the responsibility, we don’t have the time, we don’t have the experience, etc. Well, these rolls still need to be filled. And since us good people ‘don’t want to deal with it’, they are filled by people with bad attitudes, no relationship with Christ, no morals, basically people on a power trip……….you get it?

I was at a job a few years back and I remember being asked my first week there if I would be interested in becoming a department lead. It was a hard hell no, and I could tell that wasn’t what they wanted to hear. But, the politics being what they are in those places, I had no room for that in my life. Bad enough just having to be on the clock every day. The management sucked, and it still sucks today. The head guy there has a head inflated so big, I’m pretty sure he thinks he is God. Or equal to, at any rate. It’s bad. I didn’t want to have to deal with that in any closer range than I had to, and I planned for my time there to be short anyway. I went in and prayed my way through the night thinking that was the best I could do. It was a good thing, no doubt. But imagine those same prayers being said by someone in leadership rather than just a little piss-ant? Not that floor employees are actually piss-ants, but they are looked upon as so by many higher-ups that chose those positions for bragging rights only.

So about a year after that, give or take, was this sermon I mentioned. And it made me think of this situation, and realize maybe I ought to have at least said yes when asked. And every time a workplace situation has come up since I tell about this sermon and say “maybe we (the ones affected) should think about that and if a chance comes up for us to apply we should take it and try to change the way things are run in these places”. People always agree it would help, but none of us ever do it – we use the excuses mentioned above.

Recently I was pushed out of a workplace I thought I could stay at long-term. Basically, people I thought were my friends were talking to me for the wrong reasons. I’m sure you can imagine what I mean, and you are correct. They’re really just pervs that were having fantasies just because I live by myself. Yes, they all thought they had a chance. Apparently, you can’t be nice to men if you are a decent looking woman, apparently this might mean you ‘want them’. LOL. Yuk! Long story short, there’s a guy there with a bad rep. He’s the scapegoat. The only one in that department on that shift with the go-getter attitude that actually goes to work to work. The one always asked to do everything, because he’s the only one who will say yes. And yes, he has a pretty face too. Fucking right. And isn’t overweight like most of the rest of them. Which makes them hate him more, out of jealousy. So he does everything, which makes all the other guys look bad because they won’t even try. This guy runs into some stumbling blocks, but almost every time works through them and in the end gets the desired result. Everyone else just points out the mistakes made along the way while working toward the result, never acknowledging that in the end it was achieved. They have to find fault and take away from the fact he achieved it, so that they feel better themselves about not even trying. It’s some fucking sickening, disgusting shit. So whenever someone will listen, they talk down about him and basically make him out to be the shop retard, which is far from the truth.

At some point I was given opportunity to get to know him. Lucky me. (Not saying that with sarcasm, either). I noticed right away he’s smart and just being picked on. Apparently, everyone else realized I had figured it out, and when they also found out we got along well and became friends outside the workplace, they all turned against me. Especially a certain few. Months went by, like half a year, and I never told once how bad it had gotten, because I knew that instead of management trying to solve it they would just fire them. Which would lead to resentment towards me, and eventually I would be let go as well for some bullshit reason. That’s the way those places work, it doesn’t matter if it’s right. It’s just so.

Eventually, a couple months back, (I got done there about a month ago), the ones who took it the worst, both of whom I was friends with even outside of work just a year ago and had been for a couple of years, started hardcore trying to get me fired. One running his mouth about me with lies to the lead person……….who is one of those on a power-trip……….and one refusing a position he’s wanted for years just to stay on the shift and make up lies about me to also casually tell to the leadperson, kind of like to plant a seed of ‘she’s-bad-news-since-she’s-been-hanging-out-with-that-guy’, and of course to reinforce what the other guy was saying, who, I might add, is known to lie and bully people to get his way. But, they knew I had had enough and I was about to bring what they had been doing and saying to light, and that that was grounds for firing, so wanted me fired before that could happen. I had a few conversations with a friend there, one of the few who stand for truth, and I remember bringing up this sermon from a year or so back, saying it’s too bad me or him didn’t have a position like that lead person we had, because we would help the people, not believe the lies and join in on the floor bullying. Certainly not scream at and badmouth our employees like this man did, and he was getting worse by the day. New upper management had come in, and he was paranoid for his job, and instead of calmly talking to us as a group about changes the new management wanted to implement, he decided it was ok to yell at us and try to enforce shit that way. Like hey, this, this, and this have been ok for years, but now they aren’t, maybe we should sit and talk about it calmly, about why the new guy was making the changes, right? But nope, no warning, just flipping the fuck out for no reason, cuz apparently that’s all that guy could handle, and apparently he thinks he can do whatever he wants because in his head he’s high-and-mighty. Lol again. Loser! Sickening and disgusting, huh?!

One day after he decided it was cool and ok to yell at me at the top of his lungs, all while running down the isle from his cubicle like a maniac, all because I had done the same thing for my break I had been doing for the last however-many-years-i-had-worked-there, I almost quit. I held on only because of my man-friend, the one they had turned against me because of. After that I decided going to the boss was necessary. But then, I found a side of him I had heard of from many but never seen myself. He said he would talk with some of my friends that could and would back me up, then talk with the one on our shift that had been lying, and try to solve it without anyone getting fired or any more hard feelings coming about. He lied. He never asked those two good people about what was going on, he ignored it. I think he must have at least spoken to the one who was the problem though, because then a few days later ‘someone’ had mysteriously complained about ‘people on second shift aren’t vaccinated and don’t wear a mask’. There’s a very good chance it was him, as retaliation for me going to the boss. Because side note, this company is a manufacturer of ‘the shot’ and tries to push it on employees. So that they cannot get sued, they worked it into their policy as a requirement for employment. And the guys who one of which complained, one is an atheist, the other says he’s Christian but is a huge bully and a gossip, treats his wife like property, doesn’t have a prayer life, has never had a supernatural Jesus experience in his life, etc. People who bow to the culture, in other words. Blind to the spiritual warfare that this policy is in reality a part of. I ended up quitting because of it. That same lead guy all of a sudden was worried about me leaving, because deep down I’m sure he knows the truth but doesn’t want to admit it. It’s there in plain sight for anyone with a brain to see, but being able to admit it takes a strong mind, and he doesn’t have that. He’s a follower in a leader’s position, and the supervisor he’s under is the same. He goes “We need you. You wouldn’t leave just for the sake of a mask, would you”? I let him know that there were no longer any of those bogus state of emergencies out anywhere in the country, so I didn’t feel I owed them wearing it just to cover their asses. Told him it supports Satan’s agenda, and I don’t. Said bye-bye and I was out.

Little did I know the Lord was working in another of his mysterious ways. Because fact is, if he needs you in a position and you keep refusing, he will find a way to wake you up and make you realize you have to. And also, if you leave something behind to stand up for His name, He will bless you with ten times over what you had to give up.

So that man-friend of mine that this whole bullshit started because of suggested for me to do hair again. It was something I never planned to do again. It was an easy thing to get my license in my current state, as I still had it current where I used to live. I told him he was crazy but just to appease him of course I applied to a place listed on a job board site the very next day. Now, this guy has been unknowingly used by God to give me messages more than once. You may have read about some of those times in a few of my previous articles. Somehow it always catches me by surprise, though I should be used to it by now. I was shocked for shit though, when the owner of the place called me for an interview. It didn’t matter to him that it had been over a decade since I had worked in a salon, he wanted me to come in. I was offered a job, and what are the chances that the reason he called was that when he saw all the manufacturing companies on my resume he recognized them, because he used to be a recruiter for them, and it sparked his interest. That is totally the Holy Spirit connecting us, it was definitely a divine appointment. Supernatural indeed, no other way to put it. So, I was offered a full-time position. I said I’d take it.

I left there and went on my way to good ol’ Sally Beauty Supply. As soon as I pulled in the parking lot I got a message from the employment recruiter I had connected with to find me a new machine shop position. Now mind you, I had been praying for a new career, and the thought had come into my mind more than once in recent weeks about becoming a leader. I even thought about contacting a friend of mine who had gotten into management and treated her employees like gold, they all have loved her in each position she has taken on. But I never did. I was going to ask her how I should go about getting into that, but I never bothered. So God got my attention yet another way, yet again. Something told me not to discount this guy’s text, and I told him I’d try to find a way to do the job he found for me and also the salon. I prayed for a way to speak to either the owner or manager about it with no tempers rising. A few days later I was at the salon and the manager said we should go over my schedule. I asked the Holy Spirit to guide my words, and we spoke. I told her that a few minutes after I accepted the job there, I had gotten a message about another machining job, and that I felt it was in my best interest to take it. I needed the cash flow, I knew a salon job wouldn’t support me living on my own, but I also knew I was meant to be there and was guided there for a reason. I suggested I do every weekend there and refuse weekend overtime at the machine shop. She was fine with it, just shrugged and said “business is business, and we need a weekend warrior”. The owner was disappointed, he had called me a few times and said he really needed full time, and someone to be there when the manager was out to have her baby. I had two thoughts about this. One being, ‘wow there’s that leadership thing, like God’s pushing me that direction again, I hope I made the right choice doing just part time even though it means I cannot step in for her when she’s out’. The other being, ‘I hope I read this guy right and he’s as laid back as he seems and as Christian as he says he is, because I don’t want him mad at me a couple weeks after being hired’. No one was mad, and I was unsure what was up with the machine shop position I had agreed to interview for, but I felt deep down I was doing the right thing, and that things would work out.

Well, more time went by. A week, week-and-a-half, something like that. I get a text that the company that wanted me there was waiting to hire me and some others until people were available to train us. I said I’d wait, and in the meantime applied to a couple more places. One place sounded perfect as it came with a ton of training and was a short travel distance from me. The phone interview went exceptionally well, and they were supposed to call me the following Monday to have me come in and discuss it more. Then that weekend, it burned down. Tens of millions of dollars worth of damage, and now of course they wouldn’t be wanting to hire until that mess was straightened out. Which would take months. Well, I didn’t have months. I was like OK GOD WTF!!!

Not to worry though, that was divine intervention again. I figured it was, but didn’t want to admit it. But, early on in the next week I got another text from the employment agency. Would I mind a longer drive if it was for a great company. It was for a job that wasn’t exactly machining, but was in a shop and had to do with the trade. They wanted also to train the person for a leadership role on the side. I was on the fence but said yes, as what did I have to lose.

So I went there, the plant manager was a great person for a boss, he used to be a machinist on the shop floor at that very shop. Unheard of in the manufacturing world but so awesome. A miracle, really! He wanted me to do quality control, and lead person to that area. As long as corporate agreed. I would have to interview with them. So a few days later I’m back at the shop, interviewing with Corporate HR, Corporate QC, and Corporate Plant Manager. I wasn’t nervous or anxious at all. I should have been, but I guess because it was a divine appointment by the Lord I was calm. They asked questions basically about “what would u do if such-and-such situation happened”? I answered them all honestly and from the heart. No point beating around the bush. If they didn’t like me I would go on board as a machinist. But, no worries, I aced it!

After accepting the job I realized it’s the answer to my prayers of finding a new career path, if not the one I was hoping for. Even though this is in a machine shop, it’s a different career path in the industry. It’s also putting me in a leadership position to be able to treat people nicely and lead with a Christian perspective rather than a power-hungry, demonic anger problem that so,so, SO many of these places are run by.

Also, this past weekend at the salon I was let know we had a new manager. She’s nice, but I see her necklaces. She doesn’t seem too dark, but you never can tell on that front. She’s into the supernatural but it ain’t Jesus, if you know what I mean. She’s also nice and more than capable of her job though, and was kicked out of her job for bullshit the same as I was kicked out of mine recently. She needed this chance, and me not taking it let her have the opportunity. Possibly, I will be able to reach her and turn her to the light, though it being at work I will have to be careful. Oh, and I’ve met many clients who are Christian and not afraid to say so, also some people that are in the same machine shop trade and sick of the attitude the places are run by as much as I am. I’m pretty sure it will connect me with other Christians and also give me a chance to spread the truth to both clients and co-workers, as long as I go about it calmly and correctly.

So, that’s that. I should be freaked out as fuck, but I’m just excited to see what’s next. Holy Spirit help me, lol.