I think I just had a *company* play the race card with me, and I am both laughing and ashamed of my fellow man.
2025-01-17T14:07:07Z (Diaries)
By @PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social at Fri January 17, 2025 at 14:07:07PM GMT
I think I just had a *company* play the race card with me, and I am both laughing and ashamed of my fellow man.
@PatrickoftheG how did that go?
@johnefrancis Not as well as they hoped, I expect. Payment on delivery is not something that exists in m world, and I do not care if it is a small black-owned independent company or a multinational megacorporation or my own parents.
@johnefrancis Not as well as they hoped, I expect. Payment on delivery is not something that exists in my world, and I do not care if it is a small black-owned independent company or a multinational megacorporation or my own parents.
@PatrickoftheG so, they were ordering something from you and wanted you to send it COD?
It's interesting how much postal services used to facilitate payments and had all the required organization and controls to operate as a public, non-speculative banking system.
@johnefrancis That's pretty close to what went down. When I politely denied the request I got the small black-owned independent company line and told I need to reconsider my position.
I don't blame anyone involved or anything, just thought it was a novel way for that to manifest itself.