I worked with a Haitian guy who came in an hour late, took a two hour lunch, left and hour early, went to the store for a forty five minute break to get juice (because that’s the way he does it) and smoke 20 cigarettes a day. When I finally refused to be abused like this I walked into the bosses office and said I’ll work a forty hour week when he does.
They let me go home to calm down and the next day we all met to discuss working hours and charges of racism. He thought he was going to get me fired. The charge would have gone into my personnel record if my State Representative didn’t call before the end of the day and offered to come up here in person if the bogus charge wasn’t dropped. This guy used to disappear for weeks and come back expecting his job to be there. He even brought in photo of himself as a pall bearer at Vernon Jordan’s mother’s funeral to intimidate the company. If I hadn’t had my own connection I believe I would have been fired.
Good to know I'm not alone here in the Gulag Commonwealth!
Well done on beating back the Commie oppressors. You deserve to be proud, not to mention employed.
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>If I hadn’t had my own connection I believe I would have been fired.
On one hand I’m glad you didn’t “cave” or lose your job... on the other I’m slightly disgusted that it was *all* about politics and *nothing* about justice.