Oakland 13, NY Yankees 4 at Yankee Stadium
Winning Pitcher – Mark Mulder (15-3)
Losing Pitcher – Jon Lieber (7-7)
OAK Runs: 13, Hits: 15, Errors: 0
NYY Runs: 4, Hits: 8, Errors: 1
HR: OAK: S. Hatteberg 2 (13), A. Melhuse (6). NYY: J. Posada (14), G. Sheffield (24).
Oakland Record: (60-45)
I started watching this game a little after 5pm and the A’s were trailing 4-1. Soon after I started watching, the boys started scoring and all was right in the world. 😉 Mulder did not have his best stuff, but the fellas picked him quite nicely. Gotta love it.
My appointment this afternoon…
I think I wanted to cry after my unemployment hearing. But I didn’t. It’s just one of those things I had to deal with. I had to appear in person, but the county’s reps were on speakerphone. It ended up being the Lt. who gave me my exit interview and one of the sergeants. The judge got impatient with both of us at certain points, but I hope she realized what finally drove me to turn in my notice and quit my job.
One of the things that really bothered me was the sergeant’s anger about my resignation. He apparently felt that I blindsided them by quitting. I was just a piece of the puzzle and by all accounts a dispensible piece, so why feel blindsided by my resignation? I gave the appropriate two weeks’ notice. Is it my fault that they didn’t have a plan? I know that I asked on many occasions about training. And they had absolutely more than two weeks to get someone trained on dispos. But they didn’t do it.
Part of me wants to reason that the sergeant is just doing what he’s told to do. I don’t want to think unfairly of him, but I do. I thought I did a good job. I took pride in my work and I know that the way I did things made a difference.
And the thing that bothered me the most was this: someone I confided in told the sergeant my plans. My co-worker, someone I considered my friend, was the one who told the sergeant that I was going to leave because, as the sergeant said, “she didn’t want us blindsided.”
So I’m sad. It’s stupid really. I know I should have known better. And yet I cannot quell the disappointment.
Alas.
But hey, the A’s won! 😉
