| 05/25/09 07:52 AM |
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Jon Pinto
Hey! Where did everyone go?? Like I should talk. First, let me thank everyone for the birthday wishes. You guys are awesome. Now to catch everyone up, I know some of you have heard this before on Facebook, but I figured to bring everyone up to speed. As I went to work early Monday morning, April 13th, I was called into the owners office and fired. Reasons being given were that sales were way off from previous years and the economy was hurting us. I was in shock but accepted it since so many others out there were facing the same fate. The next day I get a call from my friend still working there that they hired another artist that had just been let go by Disney. For more money than me. I was lied to just so I would go quietly and not make a scene. I had never lost my temper or acted in any way other than professional before. The owner told me two weeks before that my job was safe and that the company had actually turned a profit for the first quarter. He got stars in his eyes thinking that someone with a Disney pedigree will make him even MORE money than I could, so I got fired with no severance. Nice. I had been thinking about moving into full-time freelance but this really accelerated that thinking. Luckily, so far, things have been working out. I have been getting enough work to keep us even but I am not working as steady as I would like yet. I still have options and avenues to explore for clients but they take time and that is what I have been working on as much as possible.
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