No offense. The opening riff from Crazy Train went through my mind when I saw that picture.
None taken, all in good funatical!
The Klan was a religious group, wasnât it? The slippery slope of Hobby Lobby.
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Private clubs automatically add tips to the bills, because otherwise the rich whites wonât tip their inferiors.
The Klan was a religious group and had strict prohibitions against people entering who were Catholic, Jewish or Muslim.
This type of thing is where I feel liberals tend leap too quickly to judgement.
I wonder if what we are seeing here is racism of an employee rather than racism of a company.
How do we know that the company itself didnât decide to cease operations in that zip for a number of valid reasons (8 out of 10 customers donât pay, employees feel at risk working in the neighborhood, vans keep getting broken into while working at a customer house, etc, etc)⌠and then the employee interpreted it as âwe donât work with black people in ghettosâ.
Or maybe the company is racist. I donât know and donât think we have enough information to make such sweeping judgments. I try to leave that behavior to Republicans.
If it is the trainer telling new hires that they donât serve a certain neighborhood and makes a slur in the process, Iâd assume it is the policy of the company.
Also, Iâm not sure Iâd agree that the reasons you list are âvalidâ for redlining a zip code. âEmployees feel at riskâ can provide plenty of cover for âthere are a lot of black people around.â â8 out of 10 customers donât payâ means you are not collecting an appropriate deposit. âVans getting broken intoâ can happen pretty much anywhere. I live in a âniceâ neighborhood and my car, which is parked on the street, will be rifled through any time I forget to lock the door.
I do not belive in discrimination in any form. I think everyone deserves to be served and treated with respect. That said, as a former small business owner, I can say that we experienced patterns over the years and conducted much of our business on a cash basis. If it was an institurional client or a business to business client, we billed them. If it was an individual, it was cash up front. It did away with collection problems. Is that discrimination? I donât know. When you provide a service and donât get paid at the point of service, you are extending credit. I donât see how not extending credit is discrimination. And by the way, early in our career when we had more liberal policies, doctors were the slowest pay of all and the hardest to collect from. I am aware that some businesses will not deliver or provide services in high crime areas. I suppose this could be viewed as discriminitory too. But these reasons are both financial viability and safety and not based on someones dogmatic faith or bigotry. Every business decision is not bigoted. The under cover work done for the story is embarrassing to the owner, yet if he repeatedly could not get paid from patrons in a designated location, not doing business in that area is a business decision. He should be upfront and tell people that they are not within his service area. If you opened a storefront in that area and repeatedly took in bad checks, youâd either be out of business or you would relocate your business elsewhere. In business, bad customers can ruin it for everyone.
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As of today, their rating appears to be A+, with zero complaints in whatever period they use. Not that that means anything, but where did you get the contrary information?
I can attest to that. Some of my family own a vehicle repair/tow service. They always ask for money up front from the local rich white people (especially the preachers who are wealthy). No kidding. We are white, btw.
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I think the ones that have to take their hoods off to shave might have a clue.
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Extension of credit is covered under a myriad of city, state and federal laws. You may feel you have compelling reasons to craft your own policies toward extending credit, but the law may say otherwise.
Interesting⌠The BBB website had TWO Mile High Heating and air Conditioning shops listed this morning when I checked - one in Aurora CO, and the other in Westminster CO. The review for the Westminster shop has mysteriously disappeared.
I just looked again. BBB website, Mile High Heating and Cooling, Westminster CO, âFâ rating.
Next: âUhhhâŚI wuzâ set up by the LIEbuuuralâ media! UhhhâŚhow do I set up a GoFundMe page?â
AndâŚbased on their rating summary ~F~ I would say the Montebello neighborhood actually lucked out!
[Customer Review Rating plus BBB Rating Summary
Mile High Heating and Cooling has received 1.26 out of 5 stars based on 7 Customer Reviews and a BBB Rating of F.
BBB Customer Review Rating plus BBB Rating Overview]
(*Sounds like the Dykmans ~snicker!~ actually provide âair conditionalâ service! ~rimshot!~)
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There could easily be racial issues in this situation. Your assumptions of a personâs behavior donât make it fact.
However there may not be racial issues hereâŚ, if I own a small business and an area of town causes my employees to feel unsafe⌠then it is my choice whether or not I do business there. There are sections of my own city I would not want to do business in for any amount of money.
I was enlightened about delayed payments from clergy when my first job out of college was working credit & collections for a large church publishing house. Pastors would make the order so theyâd receive a 15% discount, and then not pay it because they said it was for the church. Weâd then gave them a choice; have someone pay it on their account or it would be re-billed to the church account without the discount. It usually worked.
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Was it about money or just being mean and not wanting them to have heat or air conditioning?
Racists are inherently mean or else they couldnât hate against another so easily.
Poor people still need heat just like poor people need legal representation. Pro bono comes to mind as does public defender. The heat company could change its POV and do some simple fixes for the good of the community then write it all off for their own good.
I have been in business 30 years and have done freebies and lots of discounted work for many churches, older citizens, burn victims, Blue Star Moms, etc., etc.
It feels good, uses up spare materials that always end up laying around and it helps others most importantly. I donât remember ever feeling any financial pain from this.
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Did anyone notice it was a Fox affiliate who investigated and revealed this outrage? What gives?
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Like my mother. We are white trash.
We made money by selling in flea markets. People rightly thought of us a nomads, some called up gypsys, we would leave the trailer in the slumlike trailer park in a beat-up van crammed with banana boxes of âmerchâ to drive to swap meets, flea markets to sell, me contorted into whatever position I could fit in in the back, and stuck for hours.
One time we arrived in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl swap meet, hours early in the morning. I was in some painful position in the back where I had to remain for hours while we parked on a side street to catch a few winks in the hours before we were let in to set up. Beautiful homes, easily over a million bucks each, old victorians, etc⌠wonderfully painted and maintained, landscaped, a gorgeous neighborhood with a wonderfully kept up park.
A group of about 5 boys, approximately aged 15, were walking in nice new clothes to the park with a basketball, and my mother says âlock the doors, this is a bad neighborhoodâ because they were black.
They were black people living in a neighborhood would could never hope to live in in our entire lifetimes (and still canât.)
We were the blight, with our ugly run-down van parked in their neighborhood, but it was a âbad neighborhoodâ because they were black, and we would return to our âgood neighborhoodâ with its rotting floorboards int he doublewide, bad electrical, and high crime rate when we left.
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