Update.
Thursday 23 August 2007
Another big brawl at work last night. And, yeah, it was a race war. Again.
One (very large) black guy swore blind he heard some white guy call him a 'black bastard'. Problem was, he didn't know exactly who said it, so thought it made more sense to take everybody on. Everybody who even looked at him. Everybody white who so much as passed by.
Between us Edmonson and myself calmed him down, but it just kept on flaring up again to the point where we had to get him and his mates - most of which were trying to contain him as well - out of the main gates. I sympathised with the guy and told him as much - I hate that kind of shit - but we never saw anything, he wasn't sure what he heard and everybody else just seemed to be either trying to stir it up or look the other way. There's not a lot you can do. In those kinds of situations, getting people out of the door without it really kicking of is a big result. We did that. Still, it definitely did not end last night.
In other news, I got offered a pretty decent job, which I'm going to take. I'll wait to read the formal offer but it looks very good thus far. More detail on this when I'm looking at the cold print. Don't worry - it's dirtier than what I'm doing now.
posted by Sheamus @ 3:30 pm
