Short story: Meanness of spirit costs the world so much loss, of good people

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John Cordiva had worked for the same large Government-backed transport company for over 50 years. In his last ten years there, he was now a customer service worker, having been a tram driver, and an inspector before, for various lengths of time. His job now was to go to the tram stop allocated to him for that day, where he would stand on that stop, and advise customers of the tram needed to get to special events being held nearby, for example, like to grands prix, music concerts, cricket matches, tennis tournaments, or football games, even to conventions being held nearby, or to State funerals, arranged for dignitaries, recently died. John was now approaching 70 years of age, and his company wanted an excuse to get rid of him from their employ. A few times, in the last few years, John had actually gone to the wrong tram stop to work on for that day. They had never paid him for his day's work, whenever he had made that mistake. But, now, when he did this one more time, on his seventieth birthday, they sent John off for a test with their Company doctor, for Alzheimer's disease. The Doctor claimed that John had this debilitating disease, and so he was summarily sacked, without being able to remonstrate at all, about this. Fifty years of service, and kicked out as if none of it mattered; what a nasty old world we live in. John was in his Union, and he went to them for help. They paid for an Alzheimer's specialist to test him over, for the disease, and they came up with the result that he did not have this disease at all. He did a complete medical with them, and it was found that he was dyslectic, and that he had read the stop numbers incorrectly on his job sheet, when he had made those mistakes. He was reinstated, then, and now, at eighty, he has now reached 60 years of service with this company. The Unions do do some good then. Meanness removes all ideas of compassion, and love, from someone, and they then become brutal in demeanour, and in their treatment of others, then too. Always maintain generosity of spirit. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com John spent more than 60 years working for the same company.