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Reply to "“Pulpit Freedom Sunday”"

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

It's amazing the things you "learn" in life. Growing up I went to work as soon as it was possible for me to work. The jobs I had then were never intended to be my life's profession, it was to get by until I could do something better. I worked right along side black people, did the same work they did, got paid the same, got "ordered around" the same, or more, etc. One place I worked we had "side jobs" that changed from night to night, but the white girls/boys always ended up cleaning the bathrooms because the black kids refused to "be toilet cleaners."  Our managers thought nothing of "asking" us to do it. One night I jokingly told our manager, you do know I'm not actually white don't you? I'm native american. He said "oh god, don't YOU start"! 

 

Now I find out that I'm the one that's had all the "breaks in life." Funny how I didn't realize that while I cleaned the ladies bathroom even though it should have been someone else doing it. Funny how that never occurred to me while I was paying for my own education. Funny how it never dawned on me how lucky I had it while I got up at 4:30 a.m.every morning to get ready and drive 20 miles to work and be there by 6:00 a.m. so I could get off at 3:00 p.m. and make it to my other job and work until 10:00 that night. Later, my husband and I never knew we had it so good when we put everything we owned and had worked for, on the line to start a business. No family money, no bank loans, no loans of any kind, just starting out small, as much as was possible with our resources. No calling in sick, suck it up and get there. No paid holidays, you do the paying and lose the income for those days everything shuts down. You have a bad week or month? Who cares, you still write the paychecks and you keep paying the bills, at home and at the business. Paid vacation? Ha! 

 

Now after all that "having it so good" we find out we hate the poor, and everything we've worked for we didn't do it, someone else did it, and other people who were not as "fortunate/lucky" as we were deserves our money. Funny how that someone else was never around to pay those bills for us, work those 7 days a week, 16 hour days, raise our kids. Ask my kids what daycare they went to, they'll tell you-the shop was their daycare after school and during the summer. Now we get to watch people losing their jobs, their businesses, homes, and struggle to keep it from happening to us. But what the heck, we've had it so good all this time, so who cares. Right?

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Best, this is the story of most every small business person.  Most employees don't understand this, which is sad.


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