59 ~ That's Not Fair

By Kay Heitsch

It was very soon after Todd's death that Bill was offered another transfer to another state. Bill had never turned down a transfer before. But he did this time.

Usually, we liked to move. The company paid everything and gave a moving allowance. But now, Todd had just died.

Bill's store was doing so well, thanks to the employees and wonderful customers, that the company decided to close Bill's store and build a larger one. Bill helped find the right people to assist the company in locating the land and other necessary resources. Everyone was excited!

Bill's employees were happy and felt confident that Bill would be offered the new store as the general manager, given the job he had done.

But, no, that was not the case. The company was not happy that Bill had turned down the transfer to another state.

Instead of giving Bill the new store, they told him on his 25th anniversary of working for them that they were offering it to another man.

Bill was moved into a ghetto store over 2 hours away. This was heartbreaking and seemed unfair. Now Bill drove over two hours every day to work. We put our house up for sale.

When the new store had its grand opening, we attended. I saw former employees with tears in their eyes. It was sad, but we wanted to show our encouragement to the new store manager and Bill's former employees.

This was a tough time, but God saw us through and brought good out of it.