Down I-44 a bit in Richland. Signfab. Wholesale to the trade. Old Southern boy still pissed off about the Civil War. I’m originally from MA and he caught the accent in the interview. Asked where I was from so I said FL because I’d lived there longer than MA so he asked again, “but where are you from” so I told him MA and he nodded with a bit of a hateful look.
The family business plays a ton of head games with employees. It’s pretty sickening.
We’re pissed because Yankees often act superior to us even as they stream in here after destroying up north or Kali where they come from
To their eternal credit..here in middle Tennessee where northern refugees economic or political are likely now half the population .....midwesterners do not do that at all or at least rarely nor do conservative Kali refugees who apologize for being Kali
But abolitionist stock northeasterners are often arrogant...ethnic Italians excluded
It’s always been this way ....I remember my first trip to Manhattan in 1967 I was ten....I was on the manned by operator elevator at the Hilton in the west 50s on 6th ave....tween Rock Center and CPS ...folks on board asked me ..I was alone ...where I was from....when I opened my mouth and said where the atmosphere took on the pall as though I’d just projectile vomited
Believe me ...we get it.
Not the same outfit I worked for. But yeah, head games. They would piss me off so bad, my woman would come home to find me drunk and throwing things.