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bad news wraps up the holiday season :(
so the weeks leading up to Xmas haven't been good news. First, my moms hours get cut at work and so she is upset, hten my dad finds out the company car he has had (not the same car obvi) for 35 years if being taken away and he has 10 days to buy a replacement. so they were all stressed and we were being supportive of them.
Well yesterday came the biggest blow. My husband was fired.
It takes me all i have to compose this, but I just had to get it out in kind of an "anonymous" place.
We are disgusted at the accusations that my husband falsified documents at work. He has been with the same company for 6 years and literally always follows the straight and narrow. He has never done one thing wrong, and is the first to mention when things are incorrect or need to change. He is a hard worker, and even came back to the same job after his tour in Afghanistan even though he was offered other positions--because he wanted to be faithful to his company.
We believe he is being falsely accused of doing something he would NEVER do. His manager at one point literally said out loud to him "I hate your guts" after he reported another employee for sexual harassment at work and he was fired (she was friends with him), and she recently transferred- which is when this all began. and now he is trying not to be all "conspiracy"ish but thinks she had something to do with it.
Unfortunately we aren't receiving the same support we Gave to my parents back to us. They seem to think that his job "couldn't have possibly" fired him unless they had proof he did something wrong and they keep asking my husband to "fess up".....
On top of all this, as you know we have been waiting MONTHS to hear back on the house we have in offer in on. We know we LOVE this house and want it so bad and today we have to tell our realtor and mortgage officer that we believe we have to back out of the deal.
The issue isn't so much that we can't afford it, since we live off my salary and actually DH has been working only 15 hours a week because he is a full time student. But the fact is, we can't factor in (for some unknown reason) or military stipend we receiving for house and books into our mortgage approval, even though it would 95% cover the mortgage. Plus, my student loans mean I don't qualify myself.
this is heartbreaking and the loss of house is the worst part. the silver lining is my DH hated his work and the people he worked with SO much it made him miserable.
if you know of anyone/anywhere hiring part time, please let me know and keep us in your thoughts 
Re: bad news wraps up the holiday season :(
Ugh, I'm so sorry
I'm glad that your DH's job was p/t and you'll be ok financially, even though it really sucks losing the house. I hope he finds something else quickly. And I can't believe your parents being unsupportive! I'd be livid.
What kind of work does your DH do (or want to do)? You can PM instead if you don't want to write it for the "world" to see.
thanks ladies I appreciate the support. 2012 was really good to us, I was able to go to China and we got married. We were hoping to end it with a bang with the approval on the house. but as life has a way of not working out....
We have decided if he doesn't find something soon, and we can't get the house. That we will suck it up, move into a less expensive apartment or with my parents and spend the year on "us", traveling a lot more, taking the tennis lessons we always say we are going to do, enjoy living without many responsibilites like a mortgage or kids- and hopefully, in another year our life situation will be differemt.
Amy to answer your question- he works in retail now, mostly outside sales for a commerical account, but he has done regular retail as well. Plus he is military police, so he is trained in security.... He is also fairly handy and can do light construction/electricial etc and is in school for accounting. So he's basicially pretty well rounded and looking for anything that is part time (about 20-25 hours), flexible schedule (i think retail is his best option for this) and has nice people! If you hear of anything let me know
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns
thanks for keeping us in your thoughts everyone!
DH has applied to over 25 jobs and my boss and coworker both said to send along his resume today, so he is going to do that so they could spread the word.
hopefully he gets something next week
In the meantime, because we feel he was wrongfully terminated we have been doing some research. Apparently, he is in a majority of people. There are over 17 lawsuits against his company in the last 10 years for wrongful termination!