[SlowWhite]

For reference - I am one of 6 whites at the plant I work at out of 109 people. Excluding office managers.

And viscous is right the dress code and conduct goes both ways. This story. Happens to be about blacks vs policies im sure mind sets are focused on that.

As for an example of white doing the same crap. Where I live there is a whole section of town
That has gotten the nick name "east camden" and for the most part if you are what most consider to be a redneck around here you live in that area of town. It also happens to have the highest rate of bar fights in the city.
My wife stopped doing wedding photography for people who are having there weddings over on that Sid of town strictly because of to many instances where police had to be called or fights broke out.

Money isn't worth her safety or the damage it would do to my kids if something happened to her.

And like viscous said -most plants in this area work off of a "temp" agency to hire people because of the exact same issue he mentioned. At first I couldn't believe the situation. I had to work 9months as a temp before getting hired. But after 6yrs of working here I've seen first hand why this particular plant is having problems getting new business/corporate funding to expand.
This area has one the highest turn over rates around because of how many people we have to let go, for stuff that I never would have imagined being an issue up north (at least I never experienced it, jobs I heldmpreviously I guess people just understood the meaning of work)