I didn’t want to step from the ladder onto a 2.5 story metal roof during a hail storm. How should I feel? I don’t know. I spent a little over half a year working for this company. Been punctual, put forward effort, one of the strongest people on the crew, put in 12 hour days when required. It doesn’t matter. One hot tempered owners son who pisses the day away in his over priced pickup has the final say. The coworkers who didn’t want to do it themselves but did it anyway are more angry at me for refusing to do it than they are at the bosses son for making them do it. I’ll be alright. I’ll find another job that will pay the same. It doesn’t matter tomorrow. I’ve got money enough to cover next months bills, but what can be said. I guess the only answer is to drink and move on
It probably won’t go no where but file a complaint with the department of labor. Even if nothing happens it’ll show as an event on the record and if he keeps pulling that shit it can prove a pattern in gov records.
Their family owns a lot of the city. The father and I were on good terms. Even though it didn’t save my job. I didn’t want to save my job anyway. The son would have been undermined. It would have escalated and the best case scenario would have been a very unpleasant work environment.
The boss’s wife’s brother owns a big construction company I was all but offered a job at. The older one and I got along well, but the bourgeois are going to stand up for their families and their legacy, even if that legacy is a spoiled child who would have been a prison rat except for his family’s money and connections.
I see your point. I don’t think it would matter if I reported them or not. I think there’s a corruption between these Petit bourgeois types and the local governments. I’ve seen first hand the familiarity between these two spheres. I can almost guarantee that there is not one damn federal bureau that is the least bit concerned with the welfare of the working class. What I do know is that I have to live here in this city that they own and it sure is nice to have an in at some other shit job rather than get blackballed.
That said, if that job offer falls through then I’m going to apply for unemployment and when I do I’ll have to give the reason for my termination.
Yeah… Unless you have some one you can trust to corroborate the claim, there’s probably no other proof of the incident. If for some reason you do have some proof, you want to check out the workers complaint section on the Labor and Industry gov site, I think there is a way to do it anonymously if you want to be vindictive when you’re bored one night and remember this comradely comment. 😎👍