DON, lacking professional knowledge and experience in the painting trade, purchased the company from a successful self made business owner forced to sell following the onset of terminal illness. He bought the business' hatdearned reputation and much to his advantage, two dedicated and skilled painters. The female crew member whose rural and empoverished homelife groomed her to see the ability to overextend herself as a sole source of worth, willingly suffered misogony via multiple channels including: pay despairity, various styles of verbal assault ranging from sexual harrassment to gas lit delineation of reality , and a disproportionate distribution of responsibility to her rather than her male counterparts. Distracted by forced deadlines, emphasis on speed rather than real craft and working for someone I could not respect, I was blindsided by bigotry while working on an exterior project at Don's residence. My soul's assailant: a large blackface lawn ornament laid out before me. Struck dumb by the hatred and bloody echoes eminating from the artifact, my heart revealed what my mind had veiled: Don's misogyny, his solicitation of skilled labor AND racism grew from a common source of evil no part of me would entertain much less assist. I quit soon after. No call no show. A resignation as shameful as my silence in the face of passive aggressive oppression. I failed as the mother of a black son, failed as the beloved daughter of Cincinnati's radical and self empowered feminist family and dishonored generations of dedication and skilled trade excellence. Thank you Yelp for providing this opportunity to warn potential clients of the dark and morally destructive entity living behind Don's jolly and childlike agreeability, vocabulary choices basic enough to mimic modesty, and low ball bids that secure the income earned off the backs of the very workers bearing the burden of his blindeyed, poorly planned and consistently inrealistic project deadlines. read more
