Ray From Cleveland
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Guy, I rented a property for 13 years and never had a fifth of the horror stories you have... Maybe you just suck at picking out renters.
So you rented out a house, it's not like having multiple units where you have multiple renters. And as I've stated before, most of my renters were great people, but some you live and learn by. All my current renters are wonderful people. In fact, the last couple that left told my father they regretted leaving their apartment here. They wish they were back.
Yeah, Ray brought the racism again.
Who brought up race first, you or I?
Again, not really. I've seen good employees who were earners let go for some really stupid reasons, and I've seen some worthless white slugs kept on the payroll.
I can't comment on a situation I know little of. What I can tell you is what I said before, sometimes it's more than just being a good worker. If you work against the company you will be let go eventually.
In the Summer of 2012, we had three people leave our Purchasing Department.
1) A middle aged Asian woman, who had been with the company for 9 years, had established a lot of our vendor relationships with the Pacific rim (as she was the only one in the department that spoke Mandarin).
2) A Thirty-ish Black lady, a bit overweight, reasonably good at her job. Kind of annoyed me because she was a bible thumper, but not a bad employee. Was with the company for 2 years.
3) A young white intern in her 20s, who had only been interning with the company for a couple of months.
NOW- guess which one of these three women my white, 50-something General Manager made time out of his schedule to take to lunch with the department on their last day?
Never heard this man say anything racist or do anything overtly racist in the 7 years I worked with him... In fact, I would go so far to say that compared to some of the other dirtbag bosses I've had, he was one of the better ones. (Hence, why I hung around for 7 years.)
But even an otherwise good guy who probably thinks of himself as fair, demonstrates the bias of white privilege.
So you have no idea why a middle-aged white guy would choose a young girl to take out to lunch? Maybe we should have a talk sometime so I can explain it to you.