You know how hard they tried to wash us out! It was test after test!
I mean, anything they could come up with to turn us into the cooks or the drivers or the shit shovelers. But we refused to wash out. I mean, come hell or high water.
We hit the books. We were just determined that we were not going to spend our time at Bank of America as nobody. Now, I've been sitting down ever since I got here and you know, I should have stood up and said something. But it's OK. You see, We the employees expect to have to jump through a few hoops. There's a camp right outside of Macon, where I'm from, and there the Natzies sends the POW employees. Puts them to work picking cotton but what's strange is every once in a while we'd see the Natzies walking through town going to movies, eating in diners but if I wanted to go to those same movies I had to sit way off in the balcony and those diners were closed to me but the Nazis were allowed to sit there and eat and this must have happened to at least half the guys at Tuskegee but the thing is we just kept telling ourselves that no matter what as long as we did our jobs, it'd all be worth it because hey, raises and promotions would come in the end and we could celebrate and be free to walk down any street in America with our heads held high as employees. So that's what we did. We did our jobs! We served the bank and what you let happen to each of us on this forum. What you allowed to happen to us was appalling. What you have done to the falling, stagnant stock price is appalling. How you managed to gain a 23% raise is appalling.
Hart's War 2002