Outraged

I am endlessly amazed by the stupidity and callousness of the American employer. I work for a quasi government entity, and am pretty fortunate to be treated fairly and with respect. This is not so with Michael's employer. He works for a Japanese-owned automotive supplier, like so many in the South. I find their treatment of their employees appalling on a good day, and yesterday was not a good day. Michael got to work early yesterday, knowing he would have to leave early to make it to our first childbirth class on time. Let me revise that. Michael got to work "earlier" yesterday. He regularly gets to work half an hour early, arriving before his boss. Michael is an IT network specialist. In that line of work, things come up. Viruses, crashes, glitches, and outages all can alter the regular eight hour work day. It's the nature of the beast. It just happens. That's why there are three people in his department, so that somebody can always be there when problems arise. Like Monday for example, when Michael's boss (let's call her the Frozen Tundra because it fits, is mean, and makes me feel better) and his other coworker had to miss for illness. Michael picked up the slack because that is just what you do for coworkers. But when the server crashed yesterday at 3 p.m., an hour before Michael had to leave, could he count on the same courtesy from his boss? Noooo. That ice cold shithead made him stay later and later, forcing him to ask, then practically beg her to pick up the slack so he could leave. And then do you know what she said, what she had the nerve to say?
"Can't somebody else take her to the class?"
Okay, listen here you barely human, heartless piece of corporate shit, it is not only my class. It is Michael's class also because it is his baby also. Unlike you, he understands the importance of relationships and values his family and his role in that family. You humiliated him by making him ask, and then you insulted him by expecting him to drop his familial obligations for your convenience and for a company that has never shown an ounce of loyalty to any of its employees. And do not think that we missed your implication that it was my blindness that necessitated him taking me to the class. We know your type. We are well versed in the subtle jab, the sly discrimination. You are not coy. You are simple and petty. You make $30,000 more a year than Michael does. You'd think you could find your way around a server. Just in case you can't though, let me tell you what you can do with it. Why don't you take that server and shove it up your ass, and then sit and spin, bitch. Sit and spin.
Okay. I feel better now.