Dare I post it?

Clayton reports to work Monday morning! We're so excited! It's been an ordeal to get to this point. Thursday, he was been told to report Monday morning. Then, he got a phone call saying he couldn't report because they hadn't talked to his former supervisors yet. Evidently that's a requirement before they can offer employment. A couple hours later, we get an email saying he can report. Fast forward to Friday. Another phone call from the agency saying that his work history report is not lining up with what he said it was. They said he was only a deputy since this past May. Um, no, unless the last 9 years were a figment of our imaginations. So, we were getting ready to go sign some papers for his school and the phone rang again. The agency wanted to know if we had anything that would prove that he worked there before 2011. So, we ran in and searched for paperwork. We came up with a W-2 from 2003, his certificate from when he graduated from the Criminal Justice Academy, and a couple other things. We went and signed the papers and then headed downtown with our information. The nice lady made copies and we headed out. (To eat...it was date night!) Just as we got the truck parked, the phone rang again. Fortunately, it was the agency saying that the company doing the work history figured out what they did wrong and actually found that he did start in 2002 like he said. Woohoo! So, still on for Monday at 8:30. You can't make this stuff up.

When they talked to one of his supervisors, they asked if he would hire him again. His answer was that if he could, he'd get him to work that night. The response: "He belongs to us now." Yes! That's what we want to hear. Supposedly all this background stuff will not have to be done again when the company hires him permanently.