I used to work for a building maintenance company
You know, the company that your company hires to come and clean the offices and such. As you can imagine, many of our employees were underpaid immigrants. And I'm not sure how, but mid-Ohio has a massive number of Somali immigrants. (Seriously? Ohio? This place sucks! Why would you come here?)

One of our big customers, an unnamed ISP, has (had? I'll have to check. They were pretty big way back when, but now every time I see an email address with this in it, my estimation of the person's IQ drops 40 points) a massive building downtown. So massive that we had about 100 workers in there every night cleaning. Apparently, one of the higher ups at the ISP heard a rumor that the Somalis might be terrorists. They informed us that they didn't want any terrorists working at their building, and told us we had to get rid of all of the Somali workers. (This was before 9/11, so they didn't even have that as a piss poor excuse for racial panic.)

I was the CEO's assistant, and as such I was in the management meeting, taking minutes when this was brought up. And I sat there, taking notes, as they brainstormed ways to fire all of the Somali workers, and I took notes as they decided on a course of action, and I took notes as they assigned the firing to certain management. And over the next week, I worked there as they systematically fired close to 150 Somali workers for various fictitious reasons.

And I never said a word to anyone til now.
(ladydyani, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:54, 2 replies)

You think mid Ohio is bad
Ever seen Mogadishu? People risk their lives daily to get something better. I know you were just being flippant but seriously, have you seen what is going on there? And it's getting worse now.
Sorry to be a cunt but people really are dying at the moment.
(Wagane, Sat 9 Jul 2011, 14:22, closed)

I don't like this at all.
But *click*.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 9 Jul 2011, 23:14, closed)