The Liars Among U.S.

 I was taught to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
 I was taught that in the end, TRUTH always wins.

 Most people that I have met have been tout the same.
THE LIARS BITE!!

 About 3 years ago I was trying to help my 30+ year old son. He had gotten married, had a son, got a divorce, wrecked his car, and so on. In short he had gone from a $45k salary to, couch surfing while, flushing his life down the toilet in less than 6 months.
 My  wife and I disagreed on how to help him (that has been the way ever sense we were married in 77). She insisted on the mommy approach of doing everything for him. I wanted the more practical approach. provide a place he could help himself and not sink us in the process. Even there it was going fine till he started throwing temper fits and whining that mommy wasn't doing enough for him. I said "no more" (tough love was needed, a 30+ year old man acting like a 4 year old brat) so she said "fine I'M GONE".
 I was working on starting a business, the funds were just not where they needed to be (I'm not in a populated area, there are less than 50 houses within 2 Miles from my house). I was forced to Quit what I believe I need to be doing again,and go in search of making a quick buck.

 This led me to "River Valley Animal Food" A local company and "The redheaded step child" of Tyson. I had been doing subcontract work for several years. I put in an application. REJECTED well I ask why.
 Well some of the dates were entered to the year and not to the month/day. I didn't know and had no way of finding out. I was told "We can't hire you without that correction". So I bit my tongue, tucked my honor and LIED. I put down my best guess for the truth. I LIED!! but they "Gave me the job".

 2 or 3 days later, I was called in to sign some paper work. There was 3 of us called in. we set in our seats near a folding office table with 4 or 5 stacks of papers each being about 4 inches tall. A Girl/Woman introduced herself saying we are here to fill out your employee forms. I will read them you will sign them. She would pickup a 2 to 5 sheet "pack" and say "this document says" (fill in the blank) a 4 page document explained in 15 seconds not read explained. Of course where I signed it, it said "I have fully read and understand this document". FAT CHANCE, I DIDN'T READ OR EVEN REMEMBER MUCH LESS UNDERSTAND. Variations of this went on for 8 full hours.That was the first day and then the second day was the same. Liars Bite, I was expected to lie just to get the job.

I finally got to the job site. Being told things that didn't reflect the truth, filling out paper-work that I had to grab a random number that was being flashed on a screen or indicated by a constantly moving slide. Then reality struck. I was on night shift, had never stayed awake all night. 50+ years old and having to fight sleep like a toddler. Passing out on occasion. Of course sleeping on the job is a firing offence, of course taking drugs are too. What do I do. Finally I buzzed out on coffee so bad I was going without sleep for the most of  the 4 days every week that I worked. I was lucky to get 8 to 10 hours of sleep during this 4 days, then the 3 off days I slept 45 to 50 hours most weeks. The stress was killing me. My health was going down, I wasn't resting, my supervisor was giving me hell, he wouldn't give me the time of day(night) most of the time. He was too busy playing the game of politics. I was busy trying to do what I was told was my job. This was to put the best answer I could find on a sheet of paper right/wrong it had to be put on paper.

 Then the harassment started. John started writing rude, untrue, and mean statements on my paperwork. It was said that he was coming in drunk on a regular basis, I really don't know. What I do know is that his screaming, harassment and badgering made it a very hostile and dangerous work environment. I was having enough trouble with sleep deprivation and being sick from breathing cigarette smoke a lot of the night. Of course there are rules against smoking in the buildings. The day supervisor called 3 different meetings to address this harassment it changed but never stopped. Finally after a year and a half to 2 years of working there the night supervisor started the harassment too.

 I believe the harassment was coming from John through the night supervisor. The night supervisor has a reputation of enjoying the kill of getting people fired. If about 6 of the different Tyson rules were enforced, all but maybe 10 out of near 200(more or less) people would be fired. They would most likely be fired too because they don't know the rules and know about some only some of WHAT IS GOING ON. They are involved because they are not getting involved, to stop what is going on.

 The radios used for communications between the workers did NOT work very well in the area I worked in most of the time. I would say 2/3rds of the time ether the radios did nor receive or the noise was so loud, it drowned out their voice. I begged and pleaded for them to help me with the radio problem. They assured me they would address the problem but never did. On several occasions they chewed me out for not answering a call. Many times I was setting there and the radio was totally silent. Other times I was listening to conversations and there call to me never came through. What could I do?

 Many times over the 2+ years that I was there I called Marquise (night super) over the radio to help me solving a problem. HE NEVER ANSWERED. (so much for a good example)
 I was night watchman in the boiler room. We had 6 boilers holding 9,000 gallons of water each. While we were running 2 boilers had 200 degree water , and 4 had 350 degree water at 100 pounds of pressure. That doesn't sound like much, but a 30 gallon hot water heater can take out a house and kill everyone in it. we are talking 36,000 gallons of water, 9,000 of which will turn to 200 degree steam, that would be about 9,000,000 gallons of steam. Say instant Bar-B-Q? Not funny! The blast could be heard 20 miles away. The chances of that happening now days is slim, but BP Oil found out it still happens. That is what started the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, (according to reports) a steam boiler explosion killed the people and messed up the oil platform.

 I for one did NOT want to be in the local news paper. "Boiler room Personal killed in Boiler Explosion". I have worked with boilers for 45 years. From low pressure, low temp "hot water heaters" to hi pressure  low temp "pressure washers". This was the first time I had worked with a medium temp low pressure steam only boiler. Even with my previous training I was just qualified to operate the boilers alone. I was given a 16 day course on how NOT to kill everyone. It lasted 30 days but we only worked 16 of those 30 days. I guess that was better than nothing. there are 3 main ways to blow a boiler, over pressure, over temperature, and lighting it off wrong.

 One night I was listening to the radio. I heard there was a problem with the water. I went to check a noise that I had been hearing in a pump room. I could see there was a problem there. I called Marquise, no answer. I sow him buzz by on a 4 wheel buggy. I saw where he went so I went to tell him I had found a problem that might help answer his problem. I saw him get into the buggy and as he buzzed by me he said "The problem is not there". I had tried to tell him what I found, he wasn't answering me on the radio. what was I to do, chase him down, Maybe slap him a few times and tell him quit being a jerk and listen to me. Well he took action. He said I was a sorry, Lazy, no-account worker that deserved to be fired. I promptly told him If he wasn't so busy riding around, I would have told him, I had already found where the problem appeared to be. He promptly replied you still need to be written up.

 A few nights later I called Marquise again. He was not available again. there was a problem with an air filter. I called another supervisor he found a small airline hanging loose. (Remember this is in the dark, the airline is black and the company flashlights keep coming up missing on John's shift) He chewed me out. There was another problem with the same valve. I don't remember what it was that time. I do remember that I was told wrong, according to the supervisor that chewed me out that time, how I was to handle that valve. I was to call an office (on the radio that didn't work) and get a reading that only changed when they decided to change it. otherwise I had to walk 1/8 mile to ask them.
 I had gotten about 10 hours of sleep that week, I was sick from smoke in the office and pollen, and John came in his face beet red (I was told that was a sign of him being tight/drunk), He was smothered with AquaVelva (another sigh he was drinking) and raising hell about everything I was and was not doing. I don't like being around drunks or people that are screaming all the time. It causes great pain in my ears. I don't like pain that is not needed. I was tired,afraid of what John was going to do(remember the boilers), and my head was hurting from the screaming and being so tired. I ask Marquise if I could go on home seeing how John was there to take over. He said OK.
 On the way home I started to think about John and how he was acting. I called Marquise and ask him if he thought John was drinking again. He ask me why I didn't say something earlier. I told him I had just now thought about it. I did not think about it till I was 5 miles away.
 My next work day I was so sick I should have called in. I went on in, I was doing my best to get the job done. Later Ronald (the other night supervisor) and Marquise called me to a dark area where a meter was.
They showed it to me, there was a lot of gunk on the inside, so it was hard to read and it was in a dark hole. I had mistakenly written down the wrong reading. So what was I to do I corrected my reading. No Problem.  WRONG!!!!  I found out that is considered Malicious Misconduct.

 I know that is so Malicious of me to come in while I am sick to try to do a job that most people are scared of and being so tired and buzzed out on coffee that I barely know what I'm doing just so I can attempt to do the job. Then catching hell from Supervisors and coworkers because I was trained to do my job wrong. I was willing to take the abuse and continue to try to learn how to do the job to their satisfaction but they decided to falsify Tyson and Government documents just so they could fire me. John, and Marquise have clean hands because all they did was lied and had someone else do their dirty work. Liars Bite among us.
 I'm tired of the liars like that abusing us and getting rewarded for it.