To Far,

On Friday we found out that a couple of fitters got laid off. Or so it seemed. Later in the day I found out that the fitter who started the whole vicious circle thing made this up also. Apparently one fitter took off Friday to go up north and one left early Friday. This fitter thought it would be funny to convince an apprentice that they got laid off instead, most of the sheet metal workers were left out of his twisted little unfunny joke. This is going way too far. Joking about getting laid off in the trade is very taboo. Last year I watched a burley journeyman read a pre apprentice the riot act for making an off handed joke about lay offs. Even though this is an excepted, and unfortunate part of our line of work, getting laid off always sucks. And on this job we all know it's coming sooner rather than later. So here we all are with our necks on the chopping block and this asshole is making jokes of it.