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the obvious question, "was she white?" "No" the man replied, "she is all black of her 900 lbs of her are black"... Everyone had a good laugh, however the man was waiting for an answer.

A very interesting development followed. A couple of the guys went to his chair and asked him if he still had a job. He answered yes. The common answer was "deal with it man, you still have a job, you will get your check".

The man was wronged, on the date he was supposed to receive his payroll check he did not receive it. He did not receive it the next day either, and he asked for it. He might not have been angry when he asked for the check, but he should have been allowed to express his concern. At the time he presented the case, he was angry. Not only that he was sent to the anger management classes but he had to apologize for the fact that he raised the question, and two days later his check was still not cut.

For people like me involved with cutting checks, I know that there are occasions when the payroll people don't have their minds in the right place doing the payroll, however someone had to give him a reasonable explanation for having the check delayed.

The moderator tried to analyze the situation and the group reacted with different answers. Most of the members decided that having a job is more important than having the check delayed. As far as the apologize and the presence at the session goes, everyone agreed that the "900 pounder" was wrong but she was the boss.

The man was confused, not only did he not have the money, but he had to take one hour off from work once a week for eight weeks, for the sessions and he had to pay out of his pocket the cost...

At that time the hours was up and without too many good buys the room emptied as if somebody sounded the alarm for an air raid...

What I understood from that session was that the best way to deal with wrong doings is to say nothing, to let everyone walk all over you and to keep hoping that next time things will turn better.

And after all, the society progressed. Before the Civil War, the man would have been physically punished, in our free society of modern times, he only got eight weeks of anger management plus expenses...

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