Chapter 14 Section 13 Why did they fire me?

"Yeah, who would have thought of that?" said Pistachio Casey, Fifth Avenue Center, with a sad look on his face. One evening a few weeks later, I was waiting in the anteroom for one of my patients.There was no one else in the reception room, and Kathy told me excitedly that she had heard someone tell her that she was going to be fired from the center. "Why did they fire me? I have been working at Fifth Avenue Center for seven years. I put my heart and soul into working for the center. I have a good relationship with most of the therapists and social workers in the center. They Why did you fire me?" Casey defended himself.

"It's the reality, the hard reality, that even if you're on good terms with everyone, if you don't have a good relationship with your boss, you're still going to get fired," I said rationally to Casey. "You really thought I was going to be fired, I always thought it was just a rumor." "There must be a source of rumors for the so-called no wind, no waves." "I have so many friends, and they all agreed to help me." Kathy's innocence was at odds with her usual old New York demeanor. "Kathy, remember what I said, if you do get fired, no one will really stand up for you, although they may give you a little comfort in private." My words are rational, even very cold.

"Yeah, chances are you're right, but I'm at this age, and if I get fired, where am I going to get a job?" I didn't expect the always optimistic Casey to be so pessimistic about the future. I somewhat regretted that I had spoken too bluntly just now, so I said: "In fact, everyone is facing the same problem, and I am also likely to be fired." "You're different. You're still young. When you get your psychologist license, you can start your own business. Are you afraid of being fired?" Casey's thoughts made me speechless. One afternoon about two weeks later, when I went to work at the center, I saw the new boss of the center sitting strangely in Casey's receptionist seat, typing something on Casey's computer.In the narrow hallway three steps away from the new boss, Kathy is hugging the employees of the center one by one.As soon as I saw this eerie scene, I immediately guessed that Kathy had been fired.

I walked up and Kathy hugged me with red eyes and said softly, "Please call me." What can I say?All I can say is "take care". Because the new boss was sitting three steps away, no one dared to speak loudly, only hugging and whispering, and there was a panic and weird atmosphere in the air.I think back to the day of 9/11, the panic and the eerie atmosphere, but at least everyone can speak up.But at this moment, no one dared to speak out loudly. To paraphrase a phrase from the Cultural Revolution, Cayce, who was expelled, was already a "class dissident."So if you want to keep hanging out in the middle of Fifth Avenue, you better keep your distance from Casey.Unfortunately, in the words I warned Casey earlier, no one publicly complained about Casey's injustice, because their own jobs are more important than friendship, let alone this is New York.

The Fifth Avenue Psychological Counseling and Treatment Center is a prestigious psychological clinic in New York, and there are as many as fifty or sixty psychotherapists and social workers listed in it.A major theme of psychological counseling is to help people master self-regulation skills in the face of unemployment.Now, unemployment has suddenly come to Kathy, the most active employee in the Fifth Avenue Center, and the cautious, emotionally repressed look of everyone saying goodbye to Kathy is really a kind of irony to the cold reality. After "9.11", the U.S. economy took a downturn, and all walks of life laid off employees. Unemployment was originally a natural thing.But Casey's dismissal was not for economic reasons, but for interpersonal reasons.Casey, who thought that New Yorkers became like a family after "9.11", was ruthlessly fired.In Casey's heart, what does this mean?

With Casey, the Fifth Avenue Center is lively and full of laughter; without Casey, the Fifth Avenue Center becomes formal, serious, and looks more professional. The "9.11" terrorist incident changed the United States, changed New York, and also changed the Fifth Avenue Psychotherapy Center. What should I do when faced with overall confusion After the "9.11" terrorist incident, in order to solve the psychological problems of the people in the New York area, the US federal government specially set up a project to promote mental health knowledge to the whole people: the Reconstruction Freedom Project.Annual program funding is $130 million.

It's almost a project like a political propaganda campaign in China that targets the mental health of the entire population.I was oddly involved in Rebuilding Freedom through the Flushing Jewish Community Council in Queens, New York, because Paul Angle, the director of the Queens Counseling Center, was also the director of the Flushing Jewish Community Council. Mr. Angle is the kind of social worker who is enthusiastic about public welfare and dedicated to serving the community that I have rarely seen in Manhattan.Since I became the Rebuild Freedom Program Facilitator for the Flushing Jewish Community Council, I often have to attend training events organized by Jewish Community Councils throughout the New York area.It was really interesting to me that I was the only Chinese in a crowd of Jews, but I was a representative of the Flushing Jewish Community Council.

Because the Jews are relatively wealthy, many Chinese have a very complicated prejudice against the Jews.However, through my personal contact with the Jews, I found that the outstanding achievements of the Jews in ideology and economy are closely related to the Jewish attitude towards life. Many Chinese people have such a prejudice that it is difficult to make friends with Jews.But in fact, 2/3 of the friends I made in America are Jewish.Jews are studious, motivated, thoughtful, and open-minded. The Flushing area of ​​New York was originally a Jewish-inhabited area, and it is said to have been very clean and quiet.But in the past 10 years, the influx of Chinese immigrants has turned Flushing into a new Chinatown full of garbage and crowds.

Most of the free service projects of the Flushing Jewish Community Committee are for the Chinese, and most of the Chinese who benefit from these service projects do not realize that they are getting benefits from the Jews.The Jews are not only united internally, but also enthusiastic about public welfare in the community, actively working for the welfare of other ethnic groups.This is a very lack of awareness among the Chinese, as evidenced by the rubbish all over the floor in Flushing. Many people criticize the Bush administration for favoring Israel because the Bush administration is under pressure from Jewish forces in the United States.On the surface, it's easy to feel a certain envious aversion to Jewish power in America, but we seldom really think about why Jews have such a big power in America.

The unity of the Jews is incomparable to the Chinese, and the spirit of the Jews to serve the community is even more lacking in the Chinese.90% of the Flushing Jewish Community Committee serves Chinese, and Mr. Angle never tires of it, and he never showed any intention of charity in front of me, a Chinese.Those who work under Mr. Angel include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern Muslims.The offices of the Flushing Jewish Community Council are located in the synagogue in the heart of Flushing.The synagogue is a spiritual sanctuary for the Jewish people, but don't be surprised if you see women in turbans working here, because Mr. Angle actually employs women in turbans, at the Flushing Jewish Community Council Work.The openness of the Jews is not a show for anyone to see, it is a daily life, so ordinary that no one will ask questions about it.

How many Jews like Mr. Angell in the United States are doing things for the community wholeheartedly?I understand the Jewish way of life in America because of being there, and I understand the strength of the Jewish people.The prosperity of a nation is rooted in its open spirit. Compared with the Jews, the openness of the Chinese is far behind.When I say this, someone is bound to ask me what I think about the conflict between Israel and Palestine.In my opinion, the root of the conflict between Israel and Palestine is actually a battle for survival between poor human beings for a little bit of survival.Even if you are as smart as a Jew, you will become a "butcher" in order to fight for the barren land in the desert, but what about us as a whole? We humans have always been on the brink of an existential struggle.I read a report that during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1950s, Soviet submarines carried nuclear bombs, and the Americans didn't know that the Soviet submarines had nuclear bombs, so they dropped depth charges.At that time, there was a rule on Soviet submarines that nuclear bombs could be launched as long as three officers agreed at the same time.At that time, two of them agreed to launch, but fortunately the third one did not agree to launch, and a human catastrophe was spared because of the opposition of the Soviet officer. The overall destiny of our humanity can be manipulated by a few people, and we obviously haven't realized the seriousness of this threat.Some people say that terrorists from the Middle East attacked the United States because of Israeli Jews, and I really felt the openness of Jews in the United States. From a logical point of view, Jews are good, Palestinians also deserve sympathy, and terrorist attacks seem reasonable; but from a Taken together, the Jews, Palestinians, terrorists, and Americans were all wrong. We humans have been trapped in a dilemma that is almost inevitable because of our own limitations: human beings live on the edge of terror.And the answer? What I want to do in this book is to analyze the inner world of Americans, understand the commonality of human beings from it, and try to provide some suggestions for solving our human plight.I say that, is it ambition?No, that's just something each of us, as a member of mankind, must think about when facing the plight of mankind as a whole.