a black guy tried to play the race card on me at work today

so, idunno how many people who read this know of my work, well, i don't know how many people read this at all for that matter, but anyways, i work night shift at a factory that makes lip gloss and the breakdown of people who work there is about 45% foreigners, 45% rednecks and probably about 10% normal people, so i'm in a pretty big minority. But anyways, i was working on the line with an african today and we had just finished and my boss was like "matt, get the pallet jack and bring this over there and tell john (a black guy) to go get a new pallet" so i was like alright that seems reasonable so i turned to the black guy and was like "yo john can you go get a new pallet for the next order?" and what happened next kinda surprised me he was like "what? you think you can just tell me what to do all the time? you think you can just boss me around and i'll do whatever you say?" i didn't really care enough to explain to him that i was just relaying an order so i just went and got the new pallet after i was done, it was pretty interesting i have no doubt that if another young black man had asked him to get the pallet he would have had no problem with it however he also complained for like 30 minutes when our boss asked him to spit his gum out which is a company rule being as we deal with food grade material....

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