PRETTY WHITE GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY:
I WENT IN YESTERDAY MORNING TO GET APPLICATION AND WAS ENCOURAGED TO COME BACK AT 5 PM TO SPEAK TO WHITNEY, MANAGER. I CAME BACK AND WALKED INTO THE MOST HATING ENVIRONMENT I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN JOB HUNTING (AND I LIVED IN SOUTH ATLANTA)
RIGHT OFF THE BAT I GOT HATEFUL STARES FROM BLACK WAITRESSES. ONE FAT ONE SAT LOOKING CONTEMPTUOUSLY ACROSS THE ROOM STUFFING FRIES IN (LOOKED HORRIBLE FOR BUSINESS). ANOTHER WITH A LONG SCAR ON NECK KEPT WALKING BY LOOKING ME UP AND DOWN. A MANAGER WITH LAPTOP SITTING NEXT TO FRY QUEEN REFUSED TO SMILE BACK AT ME DURING MY ATTEMPTS, INSTEAD GIVING ME A HARD STARE. THE HALFWAY DECENT MGR WHO TOLD ME TO COME BACK WAS OBVIOUSLY OUTNUMBERED AND IGNORED ME, EVEN AFTER WAVING AT HIM UNTIL I APPROACHED HIM WITH APP IN FRONT OF WAITRESSES. EMBARRASSED, HE SAID WHITNEY WAS NOT THERE YET. AFTER WAITING BETTER PART OF HOUR, WHITNEY DID SHOW, BUT WAS WALKING AROUND SETTING UP FOR 15 MIN WITHOUT MY KNOWING WHO HE WAS BC NO ONE WOULD TOLD HIM THAT THE GIRL SITTING RIGHT UP FRONT OF HIM WAS WAITING FOR HIM. I SAW CUSTOMERS RECEIVE ORDERS AND COMPLAIN, ONLY FOR WAITRESS TO SHRUG OFF. WHEN WHITNEY SAT DOWN, I OUTLINED MY QUALIFICATIONS (OVERLY QUALIFIED WITH DIRECT EXPERIENCE FOR COOK OR WAITRESS) AND HE GIVES ME 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXCUSES WHY I WOULDN'T WORK, INCLUDING HE HIRED 3 COOKS RECENTLY AND IT WOULD BE WEEKS TO HEAR ANYTHING. BY NOW, I UNDERSTOOD THE WHOLE VIBE OF THE PLACE, SO POLITELY I LEFT. IF YOU ARE WHITE, FEMALE AND FAT, SKINNY, UGLY AND CAN MAKE THEIR BLACK GIRLS LOOK BETTER, THAN YOU WILL PROBABLY GET LESS TIPS THAN THEM, YOU MAY HAVE A CHANCE. IF YOU ARE WHITE AND HAVE MONEY TO SPEND THERE, YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AS A CUSTOMER. BUT IF YOU ARE LIKE ME, QUALIFIED AND LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITY AND HALF WAY PRETTY AND NICE SHAPE, THEY WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SO UNWELCOME AND OUT OF PLACE THAT YOU WILL BE SORRY YOU WASTED YOUR TIME AND GAS TO COME THERE TO SEEK A JOB. I HAVE NO DOUBT I WILL BE HIRED THIS WEEK SOMEWHERE, I TURNED JOB OFFERS DOWN WEEKS AGO WHEN I DIDN'T HAVE CHILDCARE. I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR A PLACE CLOSE BY TO WORK AT. IF YOU ARE WHITE AND LOOKING TO SPEND YOUR MONEY AT A PLACE THAT WILL REINVEST INTO COMMUNITY IN THE WAY OF OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THIS TROUBLED ECONOMY, DON'T DO IT HERE. -AUTHORED BY COLOR BLIND WIFE OF BLACK MAN WITH 2 KIDS TRYING TO DO HER PART FOR FAMILY AFTER HUSBAND'S LAYOFF.
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