My stepson, who doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, had finally had it with some of the folks he works with. He said to me, one day, “why is it that black people always seem to have some scam going on the job?”
Every guy he knew that overtly tried to abuse the system and get out of doing work or get paid for time when they were not there was black. Every. Single. One.
It really left a bad taste for him.
Where my wife worked there were a surprising number of people fired over the years she was there. Every one of them deserved it. Three of them took the company to court over it. All three were black and all three lost. It was ridiculous. They were all TERRIBLE employees and broke clear and important company rules with impunity.
” “why is it that black people always seem to have some scam going on the job?””
I had one start on my crew, first day on the job wanted to get hurt so he could be put on lie duty and get paid for 50 hours without working.
He picked up the end of a joint of 2/38” tubing and dropped it on his hand thinking it was only going to bruise his hand.
Broke his finger instead.
Wanted me to take him to the doctor.
I told him he broke it on purpose so if he wanted to go to the doctor he could quit and walk to the doctor. That was about 8:00 or 8:30.
We stopped for lunch about 1:30 or 2:00 and I took him to the doctor.
First and last person ever tried that stunt on my crew.