Sorry- I'm Taking More Than I'm Giving These Days :(

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The thread centers around a participant's personal crisis involving family issues and job loss. Participants express sympathy and share their own experiences related to job loss and family challenges, offering emotional support and understanding.

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  • One participant shares their experience of losing a job unexpectedly while dealing with a family crisis, feeling hurt and deflated by the situation.
  • Another participant expresses sympathy and offers prayers, acknowledging the difficulty of the situation.
  • Several users mention their own experiences with job loss, highlighting the emotional toll it can take.
  • One participant discusses the importance of maintaining gratitude during tough times, sharing their personal coping strategies.
  • Another participant suggests reaching out to former colleagues for potential job opportunities, reflecting on their own connections in the industry.
  • Some participants share light-hearted comments to uplift the original poster, attempting to inject humor into a difficult situation.

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OH KACEY... I am SO sorry! I will continue to lift you up in prayer. GOD just wants your eyes on Him... no book other than the Bible can salve your wounds like HE can and HE desires to. I know it has to burn deeply... HE died to put out the fire of this pain. Please rest in Him. I know you are. How I wish I was close by enough to give you a big ole southern hug!!!!
I pray God has a job that will pay what you need and also respect who you are is waiting and will be revealed very soon. Love and prayers
 
Kitchen Diva said:
My director is a back stabbing, gossip who offers no help what so ever- and the women in my cluster sans the person I recruited, and one other gal are just as gossipy, petty, mean, worthless, self-centered tartlets that I seriously want nothing to do with them, or PC for a while. They have put such a terrible taste in my mouth that I'm taking a year off, and when the time is right I will start interviewing directors and clusters until I find the right fit. I had the highest show average in my cluster, and highest sales each month and they all hated me for it! I'd leave each monthly cluster meeting with no fewer than 7 ribbons- which just insensed them even more, including my director! She HATED giving out those I BEAT MY DIRECTOR ribbons and would call me a B*tch every time I earned one. The story is long and the number of times that my director has personally done things to hurt or betray me is so high that kicking up my PC biz is not even something I want to do right now. Does that make sense?

The sad thing is that my director was a good friend, and I never knew her true colors until I signed up to be a consultant under her. IT's all very sad. She is losing another consultant for doing the same things to her that she did to me...it's very sad!
If she didn't like giving you that ribbon then she should have quit offering it! I'm so sorry that your cluster is this way, trust me, not all are!
 
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Update 3-29-08Hi everyone!

Instead of starting a new thread, I thought I would post an update to this one... We found out early this week that my sister's husband FAILED his polygraph- so he did in fact sexually abuse their 3 year old daughter.

We will be getting my niece into play therapy this week, for healing and so that they will have evidence for the State to prosecute her father.

Please- keep us in your prayers! But pray with hope and joy and expectantly that good will come of this, and we will be victorious, and that my BIL will find Christ and be saved...

Thanks for all the prayers so far since I've mentioned this little "issue" that our family is going through.

:)

Thanks also for the encouragement as well. It means a lot to me! You have helped make a very sad, crazy, painful time a little easier to bear!
 
I will continue to pray for you! I'm glad he failed though, so that he can be prosecuted, justice can be done, healing can take place for your neice and sister and he can pay for what he has done and not be able to hurt anyone else!
Thanks for the update! And I will keep you and your family in my prayers!:angel:
 
Kacey, I know this is one of the few instances when you really hope you're wrong. I'm so sorry. I will continue to keep you and yours in my prayers.
 
I hope and pray that your sister and niece will be able to move forward and have a happy and healthy life.
 
Kasey - sorry to hear it is true, but glad they now have evidence of what she was already telling you guys. We'll keep praying for your family!
 
Wow Kacey, I'm just now getting caught-up with this one. How horrible!

I'm so sorry that your worst fears about BIL are true, but very happy that you have it documented that it is. Hopefully everyone will be able to move forward and begin the healing process. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

As for your director. It makes me mad just to think about this one. I would write-up a detailed documentation and pass it on the HO. THAT is NO WAY for her to act. She will never succeeed if she continues to belittle those whom she is supposed to support. I am appalled at her actions. She should be happy and grateful for you - after all SHE is making good money because of you. You could have helped her to promote, which in turn would also benefit her. If she is so short-sided and selfish that she cannot see it (not to mention that she is violating her director's agreement) then she needs to be reported and reprimanded.

Hugs!
 
Kacey, sooo sorry to hear about all you are going through. I will add you and your family to our prayer chain at church. Our thoughts are with you :)
 
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Thanks again for all your encouragement and support everyone.
You have all been such a huge blessing to me and I appreciate you guys very much!
I'm off to go and play in the snow with my niece. Yesterday we were playing with sidewalk chalk and drawing pictures in the driveway, and today it's snowing! Gotta love MN!!!
 
Kacey - I've been thinking about you & everything that's going on in your life. I'm so glad that you've gotten evidence to support what's happened. I can only imagine that it's an awful thing to go through & know & experience, but it will allow you all closure on the situation that will help everyone heal. With my situations (yes, multiple) I didn't have that. No one was ever charged with abusing me. The two people who did this to me have never paid for what happened 25 & 20 years ago. Unfortunately, one of them was my adoptive dad (my brother's dad) that I still have to see on occasion.

So, hugs to you all!
 
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crystalscookingnow said:
Kacey - I've been thinking about you & everything that's going on in your life. I'm so glad that you've gotten evidence to support what's happened. I can only imagine that it's an awful thing to go through & know & experience, but it will allow you all closure on the situation that will help everyone heal. With my situations (yes, multiple) I didn't have that. No one was ever charged with abusing me. The two people who did this to me have never paid for what happened 25 & 20 years ago. Unfortunately, one of them was my adoptive dad (my brother's dad) that I still have to see on occasion.

So, hugs to you all!

Crystal, I'm so very sorry for your pain, and past miseries! You are in my prayers for total and complete healing!

My sister spoke to her husband today, and he still denies everything- makes it hard to not want to believe him...then when the doubts start to creep in, my niece will tell us something new about what Daddy did to her, and it blows away any previous things she's told us. The thing she told us about today almost made me vomit.

My sister goes to the therapist tomorrow- she has to have 3 sessions before my niece can be seen alone, so I'll keep you all posted on that progess.

Thankfully my sister's church has sent her some money, so that will help my sister out...now if someone could send us money :) LOL

I can't wait until I know it is calmed down enough that I can go back to work. Right now with the unknown, and whether or not I'll be needed to watch my niece if my sister has to go back to her home town to clean, pack and sell the house- I'm sort of at the mercy of the situation.

Thanks again for all the prayers, I truly appreciate it! :)
 
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bumping to show the update
 

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