jahwarrior
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.....and it's not a good thing.
after being out of work for a few months, i finally landed a forlklift operating gig with a local shipping company last week. like so many other businesses, they don't allow their employees to carry weapons on the property; that means, not even locked in my car.
my second day on the job saw me working on the floor, with a few others, trying to get an order out in a hurry. one of the guys strikes up a conversation, about the Penn State/USC game. i said that i wasn't much of a football guy, and that i was a more of a hoops kind of guy.
"oh yeah? well, me too, but it's not like we gotta a lot of choice at the work center."
that's not exactly what i expected to come out of his mouth.
during the course of the day, i discovered that over 75% of the guys working there are felons who are either on parole, on work release, or have done their bid. and it's not like these are just child support deadbeats, or shoplifters, or kids who got busted with a bag of weed; i found out that most of them were in for violent felonies: assault, attempted murder, rape, armed robbery, etc.
it gets better. these guys are walking around with boxcutters.
if finding a job wasn't so hard in this area, i would have walked out. listening to their lunchtime conversation, most of them aren't penitent in the least. most of the conversation consisted of how they couldn't wait to get home, so they could pop some vicodins/score an eightball/get some rock/find the dude who snitched/go to the bar and get hammered/etc, etc, etc.
i understand that every man deserves a chance to be forgiven, but while i put their pasts behind me, i'm keeping my gun right next to me, while i drive that forklift.
in the meantime, i'll continue to send out my resume, so i can get the hell outta there ASAP.
after being out of work for a few months, i finally landed a forlklift operating gig with a local shipping company last week. like so many other businesses, they don't allow their employees to carry weapons on the property; that means, not even locked in my car.
my second day on the job saw me working on the floor, with a few others, trying to get an order out in a hurry. one of the guys strikes up a conversation, about the Penn State/USC game. i said that i wasn't much of a football guy, and that i was a more of a hoops kind of guy.
"oh yeah? well, me too, but it's not like we gotta a lot of choice at the work center."
that's not exactly what i expected to come out of his mouth.
during the course of the day, i discovered that over 75% of the guys working there are felons who are either on parole, on work release, or have done their bid. and it's not like these are just child support deadbeats, or shoplifters, or kids who got busted with a bag of weed; i found out that most of them were in for violent felonies: assault, attempted murder, rape, armed robbery, etc.
it gets better. these guys are walking around with boxcutters.
if finding a job wasn't so hard in this area, i would have walked out. listening to their lunchtime conversation, most of them aren't penitent in the least. most of the conversation consisted of how they couldn't wait to get home, so they could pop some vicodins/score an eightball/get some rock/find the dude who snitched/go to the bar and get hammered/etc, etc, etc.
i understand that every man deserves a chance to be forgiven, but while i put their pasts behind me, i'm keeping my gun right next to me, while i drive that forklift.
in the meantime, i'll continue to send out my resume, so i can get the hell outta there ASAP.
