Posted: 3/20/2002 3:31:41 AM EDT
| Hello. My boys told me I should have introduced myself as my first post. Sorry, didn't know. To the point. Local gas station sells out to foreigners. lots of business due to selling below other stations price. 9/11 and everybody is flying flags, including these guys. No problem till I see the flag in the gutter because it fell off the post it was on. I stopped to get it and got into an argument because I wasn't going to give it back. They promise to secure it better. The flags they flew got tattered to the point they were rags. I considered just taking them but didn't want to put locals on the spot since I know a few of them personally. I stop in and after a long dscussion leave with three tattered 3x5 flags, one was being held onto a post by strips of another flag. Figure it was a done deal since they saw no need to go buy another flag. Yesterday friends of my eldest son try to get a job there, two different boys, two different days. Their answer? "We don't hire you people". I know somebody here will have some good advice. |
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I am guessing that by "foreigners" buying out a station you mean immigrants? I know a couple of local guys who squirreled away money for years to come to the US and bought a local convenience store. They work long hours and try and run a good business, more power to 'em. I also don't see a problem with lowering their price below others-that sure is what I would do when I opened it. The flag business is distasteful. I don't know if I would have tried to keep their flag, but I agree you sure did the right thing by calling them on it. I certainly wouldn't be buying anything from some jerk who had his flags in the gutter out front. "We don't hire people like you" You're kidding? I assume they meant they don't hire people of your friends ethnicity? If so, I think it is time to introduce these jerks to an integral part of american culture-getting the shit sued out of 'em [:D] You need to contact an attorney who has handled these problems before and maybe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (there are other agencies too-talk to a lawyer who does this stuff). If they are dumb enough send someone down and get a comment like that on tape. If they are refusing to hire based on ethnicity/national origin Bar-B-Que 'em just like they deserve. |
| sorry, foreigners was a stupid term to use. Yes, I beieve they are from India. No real problem there, and not with low gas price, just that people were still buying gas there driving past tattered flags. I was going to keep the flag because it had been in the gutter for some time and was run over repeatedly. As soon as I pulled up in the driveway and fished it out of traffic, the guy tending pumps was right on me. I find it very hard to believe he didn't know it was there. I also got an argument when asking to take down the tattered flags to be retired. He didn't understand why I wanted to bother. The boys who tried to get jobs there are clean cut, well dressed and polite. I believe the owner meant they don't hire Americans. I was told these guys don't pay taxes and rotate every five years as owner to avoid them. No problem with hard working folks who want to join us and pull their weight as family had to do. Like I said, had to vent. will look into a complaint, and possibly newspaper story but I doubt it will go anywhere. |
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First off, EEO/AA laws don't generally get applied to small businesses with fewer than ten employees. (It varies by state, that's the number in WA, last I heard.) Second off, why would you want to go after them for their exercising what SHOULD be their rights anyway?? Third off, why would you want your kids taking a job pumping gas? They should try to get a good job that will teach them something other than how to push a broom. Fourth off, they should be glad the guy was up-front with them and told them to piss off, rather than hiring them and acting like a dick toward them for the next three months until they quit. JMHO. |