Woman fired from KFC for being homeless

[JimDandy]

36. Had to hide the fact that I was homeless

when I was job hunting 20 years ago. I had a car though, so it wasn't as rough on me as what she encountered, but it was bad enough. The shelter I stayed at with my infant son provided me with an address that was really just a mail drop and a phone number where messages could be left. Without that phone#, I couldn't have landed my job.

Was able to keep my homelessness a secret for 2 months from my employer. Just before Christmas, one of the employees I worked closely with confessed that he had followed me to the shelter after my supervisor let slip that that's where I lived (he had to have followed me first to the daycare my son went to, then the gas station and finally to the shelter). He did so, because his mindset had always been that people who lived at shelters were bums who chose not to work and he simply could not believe that an employee of this firm could be homeless, then hired and have been able to hide their homelessness from everyone (I dressed impeccably, which was a chore because getting showers and laundry done around the needs of 100 other people in the shelter was difficult).

He invited me and my boys to Christmas with his family, who then showered them with gifts--an experience my oldest son remembers to this day as magical.

There are good people in this world who counter-act all the bad ones like this KFC owner.