JWS08050

Typical. Ive been dealing with these asshiles all my life. Waving thier American Flags but woild NEVER hire Americans, & talk so much shit about us. Despicable. I watched the entire drama play out since I was about 8yo in the mid 80s & my Grandpa & his friends predicted the last 40 years with astonishing accuracy. I lived in Atlanta & Chattanooga most of my adult life. I moved to Seattle in 08. Ive seen Chattanooga build huge developments, condos, & apartments with 90% mexispanic labor- only the utilities & mechanical was still white. Blakks very rarely work construction. I am a carpenter & fought tooth & nail for every job I had, & had to compete with these very illegals. Since I moved to Seaattle, I have built quite a business in a niche market that I created. I preform high quality service & produce high quality projects. Not fancy or lavish. Just regular work for upper class people that want something done right, & obviously have the money to afford it. There are ZERO mexicspanics, Russians, Ukrainians whatever that can compete, & i am constantly turning down jobs to fix thier gross misconduct, misrepresentation & outright fraud. No, not all... but all i have seen. I watched the contractors- all Boomers back then & many still are- move to mostly mexispanic labor, with a few slavs mixed in. I managed $40M luxury golf course multi family project & saw this in real time- the property owner sold an interest to huge contractor in Chattanooga, who proceeded to fire ALL of the local contractors, & bring in mexispanic, & Slavic labor at literally half the price- unknown to the owner. They camme from all over - AZ, CA, ID, TX, NM, OK, FL, MI, MN, etc etc. NONE were from the area & most of the Hispanics were under the cartel, working for nothing to pay whatever to whoever. We were building 30 condos, each identical 6000 sq' with 3 identical 200sq' condos each. The quality was atrocious. No 2 building were the same, nothing was as it should be, but this was in N Ga, very little inspections. A few monts after they fired the locals, people started moving in. I was THE member liason, Quality control inspector & ran a carpentry crew of about 12. There were so many problems in , I could write a book. From cars falling through garage floors, sewers backing up, cabinets falling off walls, doors & windows leaking badly etc etc I had become "friends" with the owner, who was good people & had built his reputation building high end homes for the rich & famous in the NC mountains. He wanted things DONE WELL, built right & had many clients buying condos sight unseen due to his reputation. At one point, I just couldn't take it anymore. The lies had built up to a point where I simply could not take it anymore. After I blew the whistle, which resulted in a 20Mil lawsuit, i ragequit while still working in the development for the owner & other club members. 3 of the 10 buildings were deemed unsafe & demolished. I learned that this contractor only hired excons- a common practice with unscrupulous contractors, hed pay thier legal bills so they'd owe him for life. Many such cases. That contractor cornered me at a members new home i was working on - that had been built by this contractor- fixing a pile of problems with some of his guys & told me id better watch my back, id be lucky to make off the mountain alive much less ever work in the area again. I also had a few guys working for me, who had stepped up & told me right then they had my back. I often wonder whay would have happened if I had been alone. It was a disaster for the owner. He couldn't even look at me after. I get it. He told me id best move off the mountain because the contractor would come after me. It was sad, & I was traumatized for years after. But its indicative of how these people operate. I ran into a very similar company in Seattle. The similarities were shocking.