The small loop created at the end of the rope is called a hondo. It's used to pass the rope through to make the noose, that's the loop which is thrown.
The hangman's noose appears back in the thread, around Sadaam's neck.
Posted on 10/30/2007 7:21:24 PM PDT by trumandogz
Four contract workers were banned from FMC Technologies after they hung nooses at one of the firm's Houston facilities, the company announced Tuesday.
The three men and one woman also were fired from their jobs with the contractors for FMC, an oil-field services equipment manufacturer, said Maryann Seaman, FMC spokeswoman.
"FMC has zero tolerance for workplace harassment," Seaman said.
Seaman said about a month ago an employee notified company officials that he had seen a noose hanging in the FMC's Gears Road facility.
Three workers were banned from FMC after they were discovered to have been involved in placing the noose, she said.
Last week, another noose was seen hanging in the same facility, Seaman said, and another person was banned from the firm because she was involved in placing that noose.
Seaman said the company is investigating the cases. So far, she added, the firm has has not contacted law enforcement authorities, but it will do what is ever necessary once its investigation is complete.
Seaman said the incidents are especially troubling on the heels of an incident about a year ago in Jena, La., in which nooses were hung from a tree at a high school campus and racial tension erupted.
"It's certainly sad," said Yolanda Smith, executive director of the Houston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's taken us back to the days of the 1950s and 1960s. We have to be more cognizant of diversity. Education is the key."
Seaman said no one appears to have filed complaints related to the FMC incidents with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The number of lawsuits the EEOC filed related to nooses has dropped steadily from 10 in 2001 to two so far this year, said James Ryan, EEOC spokesman.
The EEOC recently won settlements in three harassment cases related to nooses, including one in the Houston area, Ryan said.
In May, the EEOC reached a $390,000 racial harassment litigation settlement with Pemco Aeroplex of Birmingham on behalf of a class of black employees who were subjected to racist graffiti, slurs and the display of nooses, Ryan said.
The EEOC settled a racial harassment suit in January for $600,000 against AK Steel Corp. of Butler, Pa., Ryan added, after nooses were displayed and Klu Klux Klan videos were shown in employee lounges.
In March 2006, Ryan said, the EEOC obtained more than $1 million in a case against Commercial Coating Service, Inc. of Conroe, Texas, in which a black worker was racially harassed and choked with a noose by his coworkers in a company bathroom.
I’m just thinking.....it might be a prank by some other than white folks.....and the press would probably not even be talking about it......yes, it’s stupid. But, it’s also a political/diversity hot potato.
Without question it was a stupid move.
Stupid People make bad employees.
No, Texas is an employment at will state.
They can fire you for whatever reason they like.
There’s LOTS of bad employees out there.....LOL.
Not if it’s unjust. And I would pursue the case to the highest court if I had to. It becomes a matter of money, and how much the company would be willing to spend. Since I have lots of it, it would only be a matter of time before they would cut their losses and settle, because winning will get them nothing at all.
But since I own my own company, that will never happen. :o)
Unless an employee sues my company. Then of course the shoe will be on the other foot. I’d have to decide what the cheaper thing to do is, pay them off, or take the case to conclusion.
The small loop created at the end of the rope is called a hondo. It's used to pass the rope through to make the noose, that's the loop which is thrown.
The hangman's noose appears back in the thread, around Sadaam's neck.
Now, if I were an enterprising group of race baiting oppressed minority members, I’d hang a few nooses around the work place and frame someone for it. Then, I’d gather my like-minded folks and scream racism and sue for a nice cushy retirement check. Kinda like how Jessie and Al ‘work’.
Just thinking out loud.
I was refering to your Political Correctness, not your Conservatism (or lack thereof). It’s apparent on many of your posts.
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