My white experience cont.. Next, there is the employment at Performance Foodservice. I got a job at performance foodservice as an order picker, which essentially consists of palletizing items from food vendors and getting them loaded on a truck. Not too long after being employed there, I injured my leg at the gym, just a pulled muscle. I got a doctor’s note because this would be proof of actual injury, and I asked if I could be accommodated with a different, less physically strenuous job for that time. HR stated no, and did not accept my doctor’s note. Due to the fact that new employees are only afforded five points there and I had already missed a day because life happens sometimes and there is nothing you can do about it, there was no way that I would keep that job after the injury because I was ordered not to work for the next five days. So, I applied for unemployment. The jobs previous to Performance foodservice didn’t fight unemployment, but Performance Foodservice did. They claimed that I quit the job for no reason having to do with work or for no appropriate reason. Wait. Things are not adding up here. Didn’t I injure myself, go to the doctor, obtain a doctor’s note, present said note to HR, and HR refuse to accept the doctor’s note? Yea, time to appeal the disqualification decision. So, I appeal it. The craziest thing. The whole record indicates that I injured myself and had this run out of points due to the fact that my doctor’s not had not been accepted, and therefore was terminated. How could any investigation conclude that I had quit the job with all that evidence showing that I was terminated for the aforementioned reasons? I think only a rigged investigation. But luckily I am diligent and satisfied my obligation to appeal, and the truth was revealed and I was granted unemployment while search for another job. But, first, you don’t accept my doctor’s note, then you fire me, then you tell unemployment that I quit the job where you clearly terminated me. What’s really going on? I don’t really think this has to do with race, these were all just white bosses, so it reminds me of those old movies where the black man is constantly persecuted by his white counterparts. I think that this just has to do with power. The power to take advantage of those in a position that warrants the most care, attention, and opportunity. Let’s just keep moving.
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