Vendor consultants get terminated

Beth, the vendor consultant project lead, got fired yesterday. I feel bad for her in life. She lost her husband. I think he was an alcoholic. I think she is an alcoholic. She disappeared quite frequently. Especially during difficult situations. She never returned once she left. She bragged about being hungover. Which is weird because she seemed to be in her 50's. It seemed like her husband's death hit her hard and she wanted to live out her years like a wild child.

I guess he didn't have life insurance. That sucks. She really should not be in a working environment. She should be free of all worries. Worries are killing her. I prey that she is free of all worries and that good fortune comes to her.

Certain people cannot handle stress. They shut down, become paralyzed and hide hoping they won't be discovered. They want to afford a certain lifestyle salary but do not have the mental faculties that it requires both intellectually and emotionally. The intellectual requires hard work, persistence and sacrifice. The emotional requires faith. But if you keep getting fired from your job because you are not willing to work at it then I guess it is pretty hard to maintain the faith that a job is permanent. You wait to be discovered and convince yourself that the best thing you can do is hide, divert and blend. They can't fire you, if they can't find you. Accountability is the enemy. Always hold yourself accountable so that when someone else does, you are used to it.

She never tried to learn the software. She seemed quite confident that she could talk herself out of any situation. I found her browsing the internet on significantly more occasions that I found her working on the software.

We sent them back to their offices because progress wasn't being made on implementing the software. The vendor wasn't happy. We weren't happy.

She called from her boat during the majority of the conference calls. The other consultants did most of the demonstrations to prove the software is configured to meet our business requirements.