Mon emploi

For the past 16 months I have been working in an office, as previously mentioned. My mother has worked there for over 3 years, and helped me get a job. I was hired part time, possibly temporary, as an office grunt; I cleaned up the filing cabinet and put away the piles and piles of invoices that had been sitting because no one else liked to file them away. Gradually I was given more responsibilities, more work, more money, and talk of my temp position ceased.

After I started, two other people were hired; L, who was married to someone in the office, and J, a middle-aged bipolar nightmare. Things were okay for a while, the ole "Honeymoon Phase." Our office had had a wonderful and friendly ambiance, but with L & J came tension. L liked to belittle my lovely coworker & friend, and also spent his day playing online instead of working and J liked to sit in her office and cry--she told someone that she has antidepressants, but takes them sporadically.

For a year we put up with these two Negative Nancys. It really brought us down for a while, until we reached a point where we decided that the core of our office would still enjoy our jobs, and ignore the digs and tears.

Last week, my boss told my mother some interesting information: L & J were both to be laid off as of the following Friday (tomorrow), and along with them I would also be laid off. My celebration came to a crashing halt! Thankfully, my boss also assured that my situation would be temporary; one to two weeks after the others leave he will re-hire me. He said this was to appease L & J, for reasons I cannot comprehend.

It has been six days since I found out, and with each passing day I question my boss's motives, and question his assurance that I will still have a job come September. Conveniently, he has gone away for a couple days, and I won't know until probably Monday, which will be my first day "Laid off."

Also, yesterday's horoscope read:

Someone might be working against your best interests, and this is all going on behind your back. Yikes. Therefore, if you have this vague feeling that something fishy is going on--it is.

Yay. I am confused and worried, and will update when I know more.