Sad case, the gentleman must have had few expectations of being hired elsewhere and may have thought the company would even have blocked his unemployment compensation. I guess liberalism doesn’t solve everything in MN.
Awful news and tragic unnecessary ending of a life. Give him some credit in that the life he took was his own and not others...
This is very sad, clearly a case of situational depression suicide. There are a lot of things a person can recover from, but this is not one of them. I am a human being, not a human doing. Prayers for this poor man and his family.
May the Lord bring the loved ones and those who saw this terrible deed comfort and peace.
Also, a lot of courts will not lower your child support payments. It’s either pay or jail even if you’re not working.
“shooting himself in the head [..] still alive Thursday morning”
That must have hurt
“Jill Murphy says Graves received an unexpectedly poor performance review Monday and was fired Thursday. “
There’s that pesky ‘UNEXPECTED’ again...if only we could fire this kenyan Klown from the WH.
Middle-aged guy in my neighborhood did that last Thanksgiving. He had lost his job, exhausted his unemployment, couldn’t get another job, had run through is savings, and was facing the loss of his house. He had been fairly successful, but no one would hire him due to his age. His wife said he had tried to get a job as a stock boy at the grocery store and at places like Staples, Costco, etc., but was turned down for those too. The constant rejection just crushed his spirit. When he killed himself the insurance allowed his wife and kids to stay in the house, which I suppose was part of his motivation. I guess there are some insurance policies that don’t have a suicide exclusion if the policy has been in place for a certain time. It was terribly sad. He did it right after Thanksgiving dinner, going out onto a country road in his car. He didn’t want that to be the last Thanksgiving his family would have in that house—but what sad, disordered thinking! Surely every Thanksgiving has been poisoned for them now. What a tragedy. And how sad that a man who had had a good career for many years could never find another job.
During the recession of 1982 (?) a guy who lived across the street from me did the same, with the same result. Killed himself with carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage while his wife and kids were out. His wife found him. The horror of finding him did something to her; it seemed like there was a part of her heart that got permanently broken. She was a nice woman and loved her husband.
Permanent solution to a temporary problem.
My wife and I saw this last night:
The Company Men
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172991/
The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
It could have been better but the overall message was interesting and timely.
Sad. RIP.
Prayers up for his loved ones.
Watch hi tech execs, including former ones like Bill Gates,
whine about shortage of software professionals to hire,
and then refuse to hire anyone over 45, while your senator, D or R,
votes for extending the H1B program, and will do nothing
about American jobs floating to India.
And after he is dead the revenue folks will strip anything else left to pay for their crony unionized political parties.
Its time to clean up America, all of us are being called upon to figuratively walk the highways picking up the trash.
Those who don’t are either lazy or are contributors.
These over zealous child protection services are nothing but male hating druidesess out to remove the male species and everything he owns.
I know the feeling but I am not quite that desperate to take my life, my days are numbered from a higher authority.
This is apparently how companies do these things nowadays based on personal experience. You can go from consistently excellent ratings for years to suddenly being rated low on the totem pole and then out the door with you. That way they can claim you were let go for cause rather than due to age and you can't do much about it. This is a really sad story.
Well....I can understand why he was terminated....must of been off his medication.
One painful aspect of the ongoing Baraqqi Depression is that most companies realize they can work the hired help like rented mules. Job mobility in the age of Baraq is pretty limited.
51 years old.
make no joke, age discrimination is very very real in this ecconomy.
As far as discrimination, child support, or public benefits the doors are essentially closed.
At 51 there is no “starting over” for one career people.
Obamanomics, the WH is cheering.