Jose’s Job.

Jose is currently employed at a mid-size construction company.  They do horizontal drilling, dealing mostly with fiber optic cables.  He has worked at this company since 1999, give or take about a year for the time he spent an Mexico and the couple of months he worked with a different company. 

He’s a supervisor, in charge of the 4-5 other guys on his crew.  And he gets paid GOOD money.  My Mom would shit herself if she knew how much money he actually makes (and, likewise, how much we spend!).  He’s a salaried employee, so its really nice not to have to worry about missing hours when it rains or snows, or when something comes up and he needs to take a day off.

He’s stressin’ big time about job security right now, though.  And I mean, BIG TIME.  He keeps talking about people getting laid off or people getting fired.  I’ve asked him if he’s actually heard from someone in the main office about the possible layoffs, or if this is just gossip heard from his co-workers.  I don’t get a straight answer.

Today, they announced that instead of 5 seperate trucks making the commute to Lincoln from Omaha, they instead are going to send everyone in one huge van.  He’s taking this as a terrible sign.  I tried to reassure him.  Yes, it looks bad.  BUT, imagine how much diesel fuel these FOUR trucks are using to make the 40 mile (each way!) commute every single day??  Imagine how much $$$ they can save by condensing the four vehicles down to ONE!  I told him it seems to me to be just a very smart financial move on the company’s part.

He’s still worried.  He thinks lay-offs will start tomorrow…

I refuse to stress over this.  I would worry myself bald if I let this get to me.  I’m just going to have faith, and hope and pray that if they DO lay him off, that they’d advise us with some time. 

That’s the only news from the Martinez household.  WHERE IS EVERYONE?! 

Pablo Montero arrested…

I found this incredibly amusing.  I have no idea why…  Anyway, I decided to share it with my fellow bloggin’ buddies.

Pablo Montero (Oscar Daniel Hernandez), Mexican singer and actor (he currently stars in the novela Fuego En La Sangre), was arrested Monday in Miama, Florida.  He was pulled over after running a red light and making an illegal turn.  The cops then found him to be in possession of cocaine.

He’ll be going into rehab, so charges have been dropped.

Here’s his mug shot:

And here’s a link to the article:

http://www.local10.com/news/17179535/detail.html