Well, it's finally over.
It was supposed to be taken care of at noon today but her boss ran late and didn't get there until about 4pm. Nothing like letting DW stress a few extra hours, huh?
Anyway, the boss came with a typed out final termination paper outlining all of his violations for the past 2 months and the summary that his employment was immediately terminated. She read it to him and he was NOT too happy.
He spent the final 15 minutes clearing out his belongings trashing my wife. He said that she would need all the luck she could get because she can't do the job. He accused her of stealing. He said she was a mess. He said that she is a waste of the company's money and a lousy manager that has no business being in that position.
Nothing was done to shut him up, and even though DW knows that he is a delusional lying sack of worthless waste of a carbonbased life form, she still cried on the way home. It's hard for her. She tries so hard to maintain a high level of excellence in her store - she received the rank of top 20 in the NATION for customer service, top 5% in the nation for loss prevention, and has won 95% of the sales contests put to her. Yet the words stung and hurt her beyond belief. He's scum. Nothing but worthless scum as far as I am concerned. He is miserable in his own life and knows he is a screwup and to make himself feel better he has to pick apart someone else. He sees DW as an easy target because of her bad health right now and he was going to try to ride that train right into town. What a miserable piece of trash to do that to someone already suffering more than one person should on their own.
Anyway, it's over. She can't tell the employees what happened or why it happened. She can only tell them that he no longer works there. I'm sure he will be calling them on the phone and trashing her as soon as he can. Hopefully the ones that he "snowed" will know the truth.
Thanks for the warm wishes, the thoughts, the advice and the help. It means a lot to both of us. Right now what DW needs to to be reassured that those were the words of a desperate loser - not the truth.