[jonrick46]

The minute the equipment manager, Dave Willie, realized that the noose had offensive connotations, he should have offered an apology and immediately taken it down. He should have told the offended employee(s) that such would never happen again. Such was unprofessional conduct in the work place. He is hired to perform a job for 180 Conect, not engage in harassment of his fellow employees. Such also suggests a lax work environment and, if that is the case, it makes a bad statement about 180 Conect to all who go to that warehouse.

This tells me that 180 Conect has a lax human resources department. It needs to start training its employees about what constitutes job harassment.

[Cvengr]

So if I associate tires with the African practice of necklacing whites who are unfortunately nabbed by mass hysterical rioting blacks, and if I observe a spare tire anywhere in the workplace, should the owner apologize to me and face liability for the thoughts I have been having and my sense of being offended?

(The correct answer is no, and the solution is to be accountable for our own personal 'wrong-thinking' which frequently self-induces our own misery when reality smacks us in the face.)

[Jezebelle]

Maybe the harrassment was going the other way for some time before this happened, if in fact it happened the way these guy say it did, and if in fact it was INTENDED to be racist (because a noose is NOT an inherently racist symbol).