Thread: I do the work illegals don't want!

I have been going to college for the last year all the time looking for a job anything to help out. A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a temp. service to work at a screen print shop about 4 miles from my house. I was so excited they said i had to hurry in their office and take a drug test to start tonight they really needed me. So I went and got to the job about 7 pm. I walked in and stood by the area by the door waiting for someone to notice me and tell me where to go. Finally a lady came over and motioned me to a lady in a red t-shirt. The lady motions me to follow her. She shows me what to do count to 12 and she stacks the shirts. I said o.k. and she said yea.
So I start taking the shirts off heat treat line and running them through a heat treat machine. Just like the lady showed me. I look around latino music playing loud. There are about 30 latinos working in the shop.
Break time about 2 hours later I was in the break area. There was 2 younger men and one older man about my age or a little older, I am 53.
I look around we sit alone in the smoking area. The lationos fill up the break area for non-smoking. I started talking to the older man who had been working about 12 hours a night for about a week. He said he was glad to get the job. I agreed.
I was called the next day to report wednesday moring at 7 am. The temp service asked how I liked it. I said it was different, but I needed the money so it was easy work, I told him It was a little strange being showed in animation how to do a job. He said day shift would be better. I went in at 6:30. I pulled up next to a pick-up truck in the parking lot with someone sleeping in it. Day shift was better there was maybe 10 who spoke my language (English). I was put to work under the supervision of a Salvadorian who spoke broken English. I was putting glitter on some name brand t-shirts. Apparently from what I could gather the Illegals didn't want to work on this job to boring. I was told by a lationo in her broken english. One of the owners asked me to return the next moring and I did.
The man sleeping in the truck I found out was from some country that the latinos had problems understanding him. Interesting.
I wasn't called back again for some reason?
The temp service said they were slow and no work. There were about 30 newer cars in the parking lot. I drive a 95 honda!
I went to pick my check up at the CSI screen prinitng plant in Madison, N.C. on friday. Rockingham county has one of the highest unemployment rates in N.C.. The older man that sat with me in the break room was there to pick up his check too, He asked if I was working I said they don't have any work... He said they told him the same...I walked past a new shinny black Lexus with a new black humve parked next to it, parked in the reserved parking spot in front of the office.
There were people working there from Elsalvador, Guatamala, Mexico and the man sleeping in the car everyone had problems understanding.. Wonder where he was from?
Obviously our tax dollars are supporting more than just Mexico, with healthcare, schools, wic, food stamps. I no longer wonder how our country can be going broke supporting and giving free services to several counties citizens on our tax dollar.
Now this is a true story and actually happened to me!
This company a few years ago was hiring locals for full time jobs and offered benifits for workers from what someone told me.
What happened? greed?

Sorry to hear you had this terrible experience. Doing a job illegals don't want to do.

This is the future of all of us on a regular basis if we don't stop this madness!

BTW, as an aside, I admire you for going back to school. I am doing the same right now, as a "non-traditional" student, i.e. older.

I would be more than happy to notify someone. But who?

report it on both of these sites:

http://www.ice.gov/about/contact.htm

http://www.wehirealiens.com/

Originally Posted by posylady

I would be more than happy to notify someone. But who?

I'm not sure. Maybe ICE?

And why all of a sudden in a couple years time would this company only hire Hispanics, as you were saying? If its NOT because they're illegal so cheaper labor, and the company is being careful only to hire legal residents, then maybe its a case of discrimination against NON-Hispanics.

Posylady,

If you feel that you're being discriminated against, file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC ).

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