Bob did his paper route until he got a new job as a security officer for Ohio Security Systems in November of 1988. One evening while he was at work, someone called to ask where his supervisor was and he said she was in a meeting with the supervisor of the plant. Bob later heard through the grapevine that she was having an affair and Bob had said something he wasn’t supposed to. He just told the person what he was told to say if someone called asking for her.
Bob came down with the flu and was off work for six (6) days. He went to the doctor who gave him a script giving him time off of work due to being sick. When he returned to work, he found out another guard he was friends with had been fired. He was a former Coshocton police officer. He was fired for not picking up trash in the parking lot that was dropped by plant employees.
Two guards were hired and Bob asked why two instead of one. His supervisor said that she was trying to see which one would work out, but there was only one schedule when there were two on the desk before (the current week and next week). When Bob asked why just one schedule, she said was working on next week’s.
Bob went to work on Easter Sunday morning like any other Sunday. He got to the guard house and the guards left so fast they wouldn’t even talk to him. He went in and the two new guards were there. When he asked what was going on, they said they got a call to show up to work. He looked up the new schedule and his name wasn’t on it. He called his supervisor and her husband said she was visiting family. He then called the direct supervisor who told him he had to leave the property or he would call the sheriff and have Bob arrested. Bob was dumbfounded as he was unaware when or why he had been fired. The direct supervisor came and told him to leave his uniform and the property or face trespassing charges.
He left and called the main office on Monday morning. He was told he could have a meeting to talk about what happened, but he never got a call back. Bob went to file for unemployment, but it took 3 months because they had to hear from the company to find out what had happened. They got a letter saying Bob had missed 16 days of work but Bob had proof he had only missed the 6 via his pay stub showing he had been paid for the other days. He later found out his supervisor didn’t like him and lied to get him fired.
One time when he was at the unemployment office looking for a job he saw his ex-supervisor and a few other guards from the place he used to work. “I know my God looks after me and defends and punish those who hurt me.”
Bob continued studying his bible all throughout what happened and he took a home course through the universal life church as well as praying and going to church. “I have found out that mean people affect my life in ways that ends up in their own down fall in the end.”
In 1989, Bob received his ordination in the Universal Life Church through his cousin that was a minister.
Bob was looking for other jobs and asking at nursing homes if they needed an orderly.
Bob received a call from Job and Family Services asking if he’d be interested in taking training to become a homemaker/home health aide. He said yes and started his training in August at the Tuscarawas County Health Department which lasted until December.
Bob started his job in January 1990 through November 1990. It was a nine month training job that paid well with mileage reimbursement. Afterwards, people were expected to get another job at a nursing home or another home health agency, but it was not easy.
In January of 1990, the federal government passed a law making state certification training a must for all nurse’s aides working in nursing homes and hospitals. Some health agencies thought that meant that they had to have their home health aides certified as well, but Bob looked up the law and all a home health aide requires is agency certification, not state as required by nursing homes.
In 1992, Bob attended the former Mansfield Business College in Canton, Ohio and took the private security and investigations certificate law enforcement training. He earned his certification in 1992, 6 months after he started.
Bob worked off and on for Buckeye Protective Services and Cloverleaf Security as a security officer. He had a big yellow light bar on top of his vehicle when he worked for Buckeye and one day he was called into the supervisor’s office. He was told they didn’t want him to wear their uniform when he was driving his vehicle with the light bar. He told them about his radio patrol organization, but they didn’t care.
Bob was unemployed off and on working temp jobs until he found a job at Good Samaritan Hospital in Zanesville, Ohio. His job load was low and he sometimes didn’t have a client to work with because of Medicaid and Medicare cutbacks.
Bob got another job at the Coshocton Health Care Center, a nursing home, with their first home health agency as their first home health aide. He worked off and on depending on whether or not there were clients. When there were no clients, Bob was also receiving welfare which didn’t pay him enough money for gas to get to and from his client.
Bob’s wife was working for HARCATUS Headstart on the board that helped make policies and they sent her and others to Columbus, Ohio and Washington, DC to lobby for more money for the Headstart program. She would tell Bob that he needed to get a job that paid into PERS (Public Employee Retirement System).
Bob got another job in 1995 in a group home for the developmentally disabled which paid well and had insurance. He worked in a group home for women in Dover and he had to work 10 hours a day with four days on and three off. He also had to stay at the group home all night and get up in the morning to start breakfast and to get the residents that worked up and ready to catch the bus.
The assistant supervisor of the house would come in playing her rock music and act like she was on speed. She got on Bob’s case a lot for stuff he didn’t do right, such as recording medications. He was still learning the books and working as well.
Bob had to give 2 of the women a bath. One of the women was older and in bed and didn’t work. The other one was Amish and Bob had to stay with her in the bathroom and help her shower, shave and brush her teeth. When she didn’t have the money to buy the razor she liked, they bought her ones she didn’t like that pulled her thick hair.
One time she complained of a tooth ache and she didn’t want to eat because it hurt. The house assistant supervisor told Bob that she would do this because she just didn’t want to eat something. Bob watched her eat and noticed that she was okay chewing food on one side, but not when she ate on the side with the sore tooth. He tried to tell his supervisor who said she was just faking it.
Bob went over her head to the main office that owns the group homes to the woman who hired him and told her what happened and that he thought the Amish woman had a bad tooth. She told Bob that they’d have her taken to a dentist. While he was off on his 3 days, they took her and she did have a bad tooth.
After that, his assistant supervisor was even harder on him. She would complain that the laminate floor was not cleaned good enough and wanted him to scrub it on his hands and knees.
Bob’s gas tank was also leaking at the seam and they complained about Bob parking his vehicle on the property so he parked his vehicle down the street and walked to the group home until he could get it fixed. One day a Dover police officer asked him why he was parking on the street and he explained why. The officer told him he couldn’t park on the street with a leaky gas tank and to get it fixed. Bob replaced it with a new one but that one leaked too.
Bob would call home at night crying and telling his wife what was happening when he was staying at the house and that he couldn’t take it anymore. She would respond that she didn’t know what his problem was as he was making good money. He tried to tell her no amount of money was worth what he was going through with his assistant supervisor. He was only getting paid for 10 hours a day even though he stayed all day and night, but it was in his job description.
Bob saw an ad in the paper about the New Philadelphia Schools looking for bus drivers and a meeting that could be attended for more information. Bob attended the meeting as it fell on his days off. He was told that he had to take the Ohio Pre-Service School Bus Driving Training Program. It was a course on the laws of the road and training for driving a bus.
Bob informed the supervisor of the group home that he was going to take training to be a substitute bus driver and was told that he couldn’t have another job and still work for them. Bob tried to explain that it would just be on his days off, but the supervisor was adamant.
Bob quit his job and trained to be a bus driver. He did the training program and took his test at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. He passed and received a temporary permit. He was taught by a woman bus driver from New Philadelphia Schools.
His wife kept saying he’d never be able to drive a bus or get his license, but he fooled her. He needed to get help to pay the $50 fee needed to take the road test at the US America/Manufacturing Inc near Gnadenhutten, Ohio. After he passed, he started driving for the New Philadelphia, Ohio schools as a substitute driver. He immediately got a route because a driver was injured and couldn’t drive.
He later got hired by the Claymont schools in the Uhrichsville and Dennison, Ohio areas and then later with the Tuscarawas County Board of Developmental Disabilities.
He worked as a substitute bus driver from 1995 until he got into trouble (the mayor incident, I believe) in 2000.
In 2001, he was going through a divorce and went to the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation to see if they’d help get him a job. He was sent to Goodwill Industries to work from June of 2001 until November of 2001. He made $5.15 an hour. He worked at the Dover facility until they ran out of work at which point he went to the Uhrichsville Goodwill store.
When Bob worked at the Uhrichsville Goodwill, they would throw donations into the dumpster including boxes of shoes or clothes. The supervisor said they couldn’t sell everything and had no room to store everything.
Bob has heard “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?” He had received a phone call that morning before he was supposed to go to work from the Tuscarawas County Job and Family Services to get his new food stamp card. When he got there, there were some men listening to the radio and talking about America being under attack.
Bob went in and signed in with the receptionist and the woman came and got him to take him to her office. She was also listening to the radio and was worried because her son was in the navy. He got his card and went to work. When he got there, they had a small black and white TV on showing the news and the planes hitting the World Trade Towers and Pentagon.
It was such a numb day.
After Bob got back to his parent’s and ate supper, he went to his friend’s to visit and take her to work. Her live in boyfriend was there and they were watching a small black and white TV that Bob had and the boyfriend was talking about wanting to go there and kick their behinds. Not in those words.
Bob wanted to spend the day with his ex-wife and kids but his ex-wife said no.
Later on in 2010 after Bob graduated college, he landed a job with Creative Rehabilitation as a job coach. He worked with teenagers at the Coshocton hospital in the laundry. They were a 19 year old boy and 3 girls. One girl had prior experience doing the work from the year before. Bob shadowed the boy a lot of the time because he needed help with folding. He trusted the girl with prior experience to oversee the other 2 girls.
After they finished in the laundry, they moved to the cafeteria. Bob wasn’t going to go in to where they were preparing food, but he did go into the wash room from time to time to check on them. He had a problem with his face wanting to scale and peel so he sat in the dining room working on paperwork.
There was another job coach/job counselor in the dining room that gave him some pointers. She worked out of the Hopewell workshop in Coshocton, Ohio. She was also job coaching teenagers. She told Bob he didn’t have to be in the cafeteria with them. They worked in the hospital for 2 weeks and then moved to BigLots department store in the Downtowner Plaza for another 2 weeks.
Bob’s supervisor would check in on him and the kids from time to time and she would wear short summer dresses and skirts that would show her thigh. Bob thought that in this business she should dress modest. She kept talking bad about people that lived in Coshocton. For example, “See how these people are down here?”
One time she saw that the boy did not have his shoes tied and when Bob explained that he had Velcro shoes because he couldn’t tie them, she said “See how these people are down here?”
Another time the boy said he had to use the toilet and took a really long time. When Bob checked on him, he had the toilet clogged full of toilet paper.
One of the girls was absent a lot and when Bob called to find out what was going on, she said that her parents were on vacation and she had to stay home to help with her family. Bob’s supervisor didn’t like that and called the girl as well. The girl came in to talk to Bob and another girl about what the supervisor did. She was not happy.
Bob’s friends would come to the store to shop from his hometown of Newcomerstown and when they would ask what he was doing there, he would tell them he was working as a job coach.
One time his wife/fiancée had to go to St. Clairsville, Ohio to Belmont Technical College to get her transcript because they wouldn’t release it without her showing her ID. It was 60 miles from Carrollton to Coshocton and would take too long to get down to St. Clairsville if he had to drive home to get Rene before going to St. Clairsville. The records office only stayed open untiol 4:30 so the plan was for her to go down with Bob and either stay in the van or go to other stores in the plaza.
On the last day of work for the summer, Rene came into the store to help Bob carry some things into the break room and then left after coming back with something for him to drink. Bob got a call from his supervisor saying it wasn’t right that Rene was there and it was a breach of confidentiality.
Bob wondered why that was a breach of confidentiality when his friends were in and out of both the hospital and BigLots and that wasn’t a breach. Bob thought breach of confidentiality meant telling someone everything he knew about the kids working under him. Bob thinks that like with his first job, his supervisor just wanted an excuse to get rid of him because she just didn’t like him very much.
Bob’s last job was in the summer of 2011 when he had to work through the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation for a work adjustment. They paid him to work for 3 months with a job coach to see how he works.
He (the job coach?) had Bob working at the St. John Villa in Carollton in the wood shop. Bob would dress nice with a polo shirt. He had a few and was wearing them so he’d look nice and stay cool. He couldn’t hang them up, so he would fold them to put them away. His shirts had some wrinkles and the job coach would complain. He was an ordained minister to the deaf and hearing impaired. He told Bob he should iron his shirts before he wore them. Bob tried to explain that his house didn’t have many closets and he didn’t own an iron or an ironing board, but the coach would just keep complaining.
The job coach also complained about Bob’s radio pouch on his belt. Bob tried to explain that he kept it on so he could put his handheld police scanner or ham radio in it in case of an emergency. “You don’t see a police officer putting his duty belt on only when he gets a call. He has it on all the time when he is on the job and read [sic] to go when he is called up.” You never know when an emergency will happen and Bob keeps it on his belt so he doesn’t have to take his belt all the way off and through the loops of his pants every time he needs it.
Many people out there think Bob is stupid and that everything he is and does is for not (naught?) if it is not for money. Someone said to him, “All people on public assistance are already slaves and few are aware of it because you are delusional to reality.”
“I am delusional? I know how the system plays people who are unemployed, disabled, and elderly. It is not right, and Christians who work for a government agency or an agency that receives money from the government who say that people like myself have to follow the rules do not follow Jesus themselves. If they did, they would love their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. But instead, they make them follow rules that they know is not helping anyone, just keeping them under some ones authority when they have no authority. Rules don’t have authority, laws have authority. Its like saying that the “Golden Rule” has authority, but does it?”
“God’s commandments have authority, but not many even believe in God’s commandments or the commandments that the one we are to be following, Jesus Christ, the son of God. Jesus said in John 14:15 “If you love me, obey my commandments” and again John said in 1 John 2:3 “And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments.” How can you say that you Love Jesus, but you refuse to love your brother and sister in Christ because your hands are tied with rules.”
This has been the truth about Bob’s job and education history.
s who are having adult diapers, Qur'ans, Books of Mormon, Jehovah's Witnesses, sex catalogs, and other stuff sent to him -- and his commentaries about them?