California City Worker Volunteers for Layoff to Save Colleague's Job

Sharon Singleton was one of 11 employees that was layoff from her job at the city of Lathrop, California. Patricia Overy, who also works for the city of Lathrop and was not laid off, was thinking of giving up her job to save someone else's job. Overy, a mother of four went home to talk to her husband about leaving her job. They both sat down and talk about there finances, and decided that she should give up here job to save someone else. Overy then went to work and asked her boss that she be laid off. Overy also felt that she would have a easier time reentering the work force then some of her other coworkers who were older. Singleton, after two days of being laid off was called back to work and was told of the sacrifice that Overy had made. Singleton was in shock to here that one of her coworkers had done such a thing. Overy is happy that she will be able to spend a little more time with her kids. She says things might get a little tight for a while but things will be fine.

Wow!!! What a kind action on Overy's part. I mean how many people out there would do that for anybody. I mean most people would just say how sorry they feel for the person and might even try and give them some advice. I can't think of anybody I know that would give up there job for someone else. This helps my confidence in the kindness of man kind a little. To know that there are still truly good people out there that are willing to do something for someone else with out gaining something in return. It is to bad that there aren't more people like Overy out there. I mean I know that there out there but there so few and far in between.

I also made a small sacrifice to try and help my coworkers out just a couple of weeks ago. We were told at work that the company wanted everybody that could to take two days off for the month of February and March. Well this didn't set well with a lot of people because they just could not afford it. The deal was if everybody did this then the company would save some money, but if not enough people did it then they would have to layoff everybody for a whole week. So what I did was I decided that since I had some money saved up I would take off for two weeks. I know that it wasn't as big as Overy but I felt that this would help a few people who could not afford to take the time off.

I think that if there were more people out there that were willing to help people like Overy that this world would be a much better place. I also think that God will reward Overy for her sacrifices in the future for her unselfish actions.