precisely this. i worked in a meat factory in a very small town in the middle of the sticks and was absolutely floored to find that the vast majority of workers were Hispanic when you NEVER saw them around town.

These guys avoided me like the plague too. They absolutely would not talk to me or even look at me if they could help it. A kid who was probably a couple years younger than me tried to help me as I fumbled around with a machine and then he was promptly ripped a new asshole by a couple of the older guys on the line. He never so much as even looked at me again.

At the time I had no clue why. Looking back I realize it was because they were all likely illegal and did not want to take even the slightest risk that a whitey found out and blabbered to anyone. And this was over 20 years ago.

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

meat factory is such a grim phrase

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it was one of my desperate bottom of the barrel phases.. it paid better than walmart and I had an apartment with my first girlfriend so i wanted us to have money, but it ended up driving her away in the end because i always smelled like meat