St. Joseph Missouri

My cellphone alarm didn’t go off this morning because my battery was dead. Turned out I didn’t have the charger plugged into the car receptacle all the way. That’s OK. I woke up at the right time anyway. I only seem to sleep about five hours a night anymore. It was raining when I left which was OK since that cleaned the windshield. I usually like to get a coffee from Mickey D’s but there wasn’t one at the exit where I stayed and I didn’t come upon one until about three hours after I left Rapid City. Not a single freakin’ McDonalds in central South Dakota? WTF? I was over halfway to Sioux Falls before I found one.

I made good time today. Easy to do when the speed limit is 80. Too bad it dropped to 70 in Iowa and Missouri.

So, we found out more about this racist black asshole who murdered the two white people. He was gay and an Obungler supporter. He was also a Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) hire meaning the only reason he had been hired at all the places he worked was due to his skin color. I knew someone almost exactly like him.

Back in 1973 I was hired by IBM as a Customer Engineer in the Office Products Division. I repaired office equipment, mainly typewriters. This was back before Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) when it was called Affirmative Action. Around 1976, this chubby little black dude transferred into our office. This was his third office in two years. He started out in Springfield Missouri. He couldn’t make it there because he was incompetent and eventually he got so many complaints he wasn’t allowed to take any calls. Of course his excuse was everyone was racist. I spent a week in Springfield taking calls and compared to St. Louis, it was heaven. I wanted to be transferred there. In the week I was there I had about five customers wanting to fix me up with women they knew. I would have prolly wound up married.

So, he spent a year in the west office. Same thing. He got kicked out of too many accounts. Once again, it was because the customers were racists. It’s funny that none of the other black CEs had his problem.

Finally, they sent him downtown. Rather than addressing the problem of this dude’s incompetence, IBM kept moving him. Of course, downtown was the same story. He got kicked out of accounts because the customers were racists. By this time, the other black CEs hated this guy because he made them look bad. Eventually, the decision was made to fire him. Every time a customer complained, his manager asked the customer to write a letter. Believe it or not, this went on for a year. Yes. A full year. Then, his manager put him on a plan. He had six weeks to improve his performance or he would be terminated. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Even after all that, his manager said that if he resigned, he would receive one month’s pay for every year he worked. he refused. He was fired. He went to EEOC and filed a suit against IBM claiming racism. Usually, IBM settles those suits just to make them go away. Not this time. They fought the suit and they had the documentation to support them. He got nothing. I guess the people involved got lucky this dude didn’t go postal.