My wakeup. What was yours?
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Yep. When I got out of the Air Force I was looking for a job, Shell Oil was hiring electricians so I applied, I had very good electrical training working on nukes.
The first day about 100 of us showed up to take the 'idiot' tests, then next day about 50 of us who passed those took the electrical tests. That first day there were three black guys, the second day for the electrical tests none of them were included, apparently could not pass the idiot tests.
Third day maybe 5 of us were called in for interviews, the guy interviewing us told me I aced the tests and he would love to hire me, I was young, a Vet, had the knowledge, he knew I would be a good employee. He also referred to an older gentleman who had been let go at another facility, he already knew the job well enough, he said he wanted to hire either one of us.
But he said sorry, we are told we must fill this 1 position with a black person .... quotas.
I asked him why we were forced to waste three days, he knew he was not gonna hire us why did he have us testing? No blacks tested...because they didn't pass the idiot tests! No answer.
Damn I was angry....told him I was happy to not work for him, would not want to work for such messed up people.
Most black people have never actually been denied 'anything' because of skin color, yet I have been denied because of not being black.
White privilege strikes again huh.
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People are hiring, folks with trade skills can find work here in Texas. We were noticing that for the last 20 or so years we couldn't seem to find younger people who wanted to work, who wanted to learn trades and skills, who wanted to put in the hours in the heat, outside, working their tools.
That's the problem today for us, we have a small biz and cannot find employees, they make too much money on welfare and unemployment, or selling drugs maybe. We have a couple positions open and few viable applicants have bothered asking, none of them have been qualified or willing to learn. None of them have been physically able to perform the simple tasks required or willing to do so, everyone seems to think they are owed free paychecks. We let one clown go because he was trying to collect that chinese flu unemployment even tho he worked full time for us, we were shocked when Texas contacted us to ask why we laid him off. My Lovely Wife was looking at the guy across the office as she informed Texas that apparently some fraud was in play because there he is, on the clock.
We cannot have a fraud working for us, he went bye-bye.
A lot of plants and companies here are energy-related, they were hiring under Trump because we had an economy, we were pumping oil and gas and making all the industrial wheels turn. Under Traitor joe that has ceased... so the jobs are scarcer but qualified folks can still find some. All of our refineries and power plants are operating at capacity, but many other industries are idling.
The Enemy has hurt our economy bad, couple the industrial stoppages with the death of many small businesses and America is bleeding out.
Pray for Humanity.
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Hell he might have known my Father, he worked for Brown and Root for 40 years, a lot of it in Louisiana and offshore, running out of Belle Chase and Venice and Intracoastal City...
In 1971 my Father loaded me up one Saturday, thought we were going to get our usual haircut but no he kept driving. Got on I-10 headed east, ok I thought we're gonna visit his Brother in Anahuac, nope kept going. So when I ask he says I am fixing to go on a pipeline lay barge for Brown and Root, we're going to Intracoastal City to catch the boat out. Got there and he discovered I couldn't go, wasn't old enough. No problem, his buddies at Brown and Root put me to work on the loading dock until he got back two months later, had to stay at a boarding house in Abbeville.
He also worked land jobs for them, taught at their welding school for a while, did some overseas jobs, he travelled a lot. He was a heavy equipment operator too, that was what he did offshore. Once they were making up the header at the oil rig about 70 miles offshore in a few hundred feet of water, he had a 200 ton manitowoc crane but the header weighed a lot, and offshore you have to swing your load slightly to keep it level and true, if you follow, because the barge rocks a little, so you gently sway your load. But there were heavy swells and my Father got to swinging too much, it tipped over. His load went into the water but his boom crashed down on a supply barge tethered alongside, so the crane didn't go over, they saved it with the other crane. Even saved the header, I have pics somewhere. The crew, mostly Cajuns, said they never saw my Father move as fast as he did climbing out of that crane.
Small world innit.
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