Employee ends lease and sells furniture after accepting a promotion taking him 2,000 miles away, severals week before the move company cancels everything: ‘[I'm] about to be homeless…'

Times are tough, so when this man was offered a promotion with better pay and more work, he was excited to accept. The only problem was that it required him to move 2,000 miles away. They wanted him to start his job just a few weeks from offering it to him, but with a huge move and life change like that, he convinced them to give him a couple of months. They agreed and he started making the arrangements. He cancelled his apartment lease, he sold most of his furniture, he even got a storage space near his new home so he could take his time moving in. He also found a temporary place for the first month he is in the new city so he could take his time finding the apartment for him to fully move into. 

 

Low and behold, the company he trusted to help him with this big transition in his life, dropped him like a sack of potatoes. They cancelled the job and already eliminated his old one. So what now? He is out thousands of dollars, he doesn't have furniture, he's basically about to be homeless, and now he might not even have a job. And they say they treat their employees "like family." Ha! 

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