Boycotting of Kushlan Products and anyone who sells it. On, or about February 18, 2011 my boy (Tyrone Hicks) called me and asked me if I wanted a job. I needed one so who wouldn’t say yes. So I went and walked back and forth literally an hour and a half one way just to get this job twice. When I finally spoke to Gene Kushlan on the phone he said to me you’d have a better chance of getting the job if you bring me a hoe. I took that as a joke at the time. Later I would find that he really meant every word. So the first time I walked to the warehouse and met him he told me I would have to go to the office. Now when I get to the warehouse my boy is on lunch and he and Mr. Kushlan are just talking. Now we’re talking nothing about Kushlan Products at this time. We are talking about what Mr. Kushlan wants. So we’re talking about anything from whores, to him telling me that he don’t see why people don’t use the word NIGGER. I mean N.I.G.G.E.R… We as black people that use the word nigga would never say that. But Mr. Kushlan told me that he loves the word. So When I finally get to the office and get the job he saw how I was sweating. Oh did I forget to mention that the first time I walked I walked in a suit and tie to get this job. It wasn’t hot that morning but it sure was on the walk back home. And it was hotter when I walked back again. So when I walked back I walk in the office. Talk to Mrs. Kushlan. When he walked in he asked me if I was cracking boy. He told me the reason why he asked this is because he saw that I had been sweating twice when he saw me. But I had been walking so I would be sweating. This is Texas. But he asked me if I was cracking. And he called me boy. Last I heard that used was in a racist movie. No there really is a movie that said that and I’m sure you have seen and heard that said before in a movie. I’m from Texas. Boy used by anybody other than your momma, daddy, grandma, grandpa, etc. etc. is not good. Especially when use the wrong way by the wrong person. You might as well say Nigger. Which my former boss Mr. Kushlan said he likes using. And has used it in front of every employee he has had working for him. Every truck driver that comes and picks up his freights he has used it in front of. And none of these men work from him. So now I start working for Mr. Kushlan. And everything is well. I and my boy are doing fine. Now my boy works well. He could be better but who couldn’t. But would I put him on my team? Yes I would. So one day Mr. Kushlan comes to me and him and says that he had just talked to Sue (that being his wife) about letting us go. I was like what. Now he talked to me away from Tyrone and he said that he felt like I was carrying my boy and that since we came together he was going to send us home together. My words exactly to this man were Mr. Kushlan I’m upset because I wouldn’t even get out my bed if I knew I was not going to work hard for you. Now I meant that. I didn’t work hard for Mr. Kushlan because I liked him. I didn’t respect the man one bit. I worked because I needed the pay check and I did it for myself. I never do a bad job. I have a name that I like having well. So the eventually fires my friend. But some type of way they play use two against each other. I am a back stabber and all that cause of something Mr. Kushlan said. I have known Tyrone Hicks for at least 14 years. Now this. So he’s out. I’m in. Soon after Mr. Kushlan has to go to China so he flies off. During the time he is away I am over the warehouse. It is only two men because he has hired another guy named Nathaniel. He is 18. Nice young man. Everything runs smoothly. We had a few rocky days but overall everything went well. Every shipment went out in time. We were pressed a few times, the rocky days that I just mentioned but the shipment went out when the truck came. So he comes in this morning (March 30, 2011), and immediately starts bitching about nine rammers that were supposed to be put together and sent out. He told me to put them together when he flew for China. Now when he told me to put them together he said because they were going out next week. Last week. Last week I didn’t not receive paperwork for any rammers. I didn’t put them together because I didn’t have time. I had time for the paperwork that I had gotten. Not for the nine rammers. Now if I would have received the paperwork I promise on my little girl Amaya Christine Briscoe they would have been put together and sent out on time. So I tell him this. He calls his wife. He tells her that I said, -I could not put them together because I didn’t have time, because I was bombarded with orders-. I never said that I was. I had a lot but I was never bombarded because everything went out in time. Every truck that came through was unloaded. I had everything in order. So he is doing all this behind rammers that’ll take no time for three people could put together. I had 12 concrete mixers (cause that’s what Kushlan Products sale) just sitting on the side. So we were good. We could just put the rammers together and when we got the orders set them up because we’re ahead. But no. So he’s talking about how he’s getting dicked around. Now mind you he has fired for less. He has fired randomly. So I know I’m gone. I ask him though. I tell him, -Mr. Kushlan, I’m a man of my word. If you really feel like you’re getting dicked around then tell me to leave.- So he tells me to go home. Now I have worked hard for this man. Hard. I’m choked up now a little. But he fired me. Now I put up with all his racist jokes. The dumpster near the warehouse the Mexican men would go through that for scrapes. We threw them away every day. He would make me cut up stuff; put it at the bottom of the dumpster for them not to get it. Its trash, man. They are working hard to feed their family. But they weren’t the only ones. Whites and blacks went in there. He hated them all. He really hated Hispanics. Now this is not me slandering someone because I am mad. No this is what truly happened. Now Kushlan Products are sold and supported by varies major companies such as -HOME DEPOT-, -GRAINGER-, -TRUE VALUE- and many more. This is a man that you all support. A racist. The same man that told me -When Martin Luther King was shoot I didn’t see the big deal. It was just another NIGGER dead-. YOU ALL SUPPORT HIM. Now I told you that I am not doing this because I’m mad he fired me. NO! I’m going to tell you why exactly. I told him a while ago when I saw how he fired people and how people reacted that I have more class and all I’ll do is shake your hand and tell you thank you for the opportunity. Well I did just that. I walked up to him and shook his hand and told him thank you. Now I did this in front of him and Nathanial. I told him exactly that, and shook his hand. And I asked him could he give me this forklift license he promised me so that I may find another job. And he said firmly -NO-, and turns his back to me and walked away. Now like he said at first, -yea I’ll do it. All it is is me filling out a firm and sending it in.- Now we had the perfect employee, employer relationship I would think. I worked hard. There is nothing bad he can say about me. As a man or an employee. But on the other hand. I can say a lot of bad things that are factual. And your support him. Stop the support of Kushlan Products–.