Sounds like a typical politically connected hack Democrat that if he can’t get hired through connections for a “public safety” job, all he can get on his own is to sweep a parking lot.
And I imagine in the next economic upturn, truck driving companies will, on average, turn to Hispanics ahead of blacks.
Democrat that if he can’t get hired through connections for a “public safety†job, all he can get on his own is to sweep a parking lot.
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Like I said, the way it came up and was related, I tend to ‘believe’ him. He had said earlier he couldn’t get on a PD or enlist in the Navy because of a ‘reading disability’. Possibly when he went to the Parkway Authority (he had said Bridge but that would have meant Delaware so family being D probably would have helped).
I normally don’t ‘seek out’ people but was sort of intrigued as to why HE was working at that job - sort of impressed me because he didn’t have the ‘washed out’ look of a druggie, clear eyes, neat in appearance, spoke well and made good, sharp retorts to my ‘humor’.
In fact due to age difference etc the thought ran trough my mind this guy may have thought I had ‘other’ agenda.
I remember while in the Navy and some ‘old guy’(30 or so) would come up to you and comment on your being in the Navy (”Yea Einstein, I am wearing dress blues) and it would turn out he was former Navy or at least Military. ‘We’ always tended to ‘brush them off’....Like I tell my comrades of today, “We are that ‘old dude’ and remember what we thought when innocently approached”).
As to the truckers etc, When I first got out I went into the Asphalt field- the makeup of the crews were White Operators, Black laborers, White Supervisors - on occasion there would be a Black Foreman - usually older but ‘liked’ by others (Blacks didn’t want to work for Blacks) the truck drivers were mostly White but a lot of blacks were owner-operators.
I got out of it and some 30 years later I was helping a friend on a job and noticed the whole trend had shifted.
The foreman were Black, labors Spanish, Operators Black, truck drivers mostly Black with Spanish Owner-Operators.
Funny, the job I was overseeing was in a Working Black neighborhood with a few White hangers on and the main thing they had in common was ‘bitchen’ about the Spanish moving in.
The only thing that changes is the cast of characters.
So the ‘world’ had shifted in 30 years with ME still ‘supervising’....Seems everyone got ahead except me..HA HA..