The Fence Making Business

Now I needed to find a way to make a living. I decided that I wanted to go into business for myself. I found a company that sold chain link fence making machines and they signed a contract to buy back all of the chain link you could make. They were going to go into the "fence around the pool" business and would need a great deal of chain link fencing.

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So I bought a machine and started creating chain link fencing, manually. By that I mean that I had to stand by the machine and press a button that caused a wire to be intertwined, one link at a time. It was boring and not very creative work but I could make very good money selling my fencing. That is if the company would keep its side of the contract and buy the fencing. To make a very long involved story short. The company that sold me the machine went bankrupt within three month. There I was with a fence making machine and no market. So I looked through the want ads and went looking for a job.

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Looking for a Job

I found a great job as an IT manager for a credit union. I had the job locked – until they checked my references. When they called GECC the man who gave them my work history at GECC said that I had been dismissed with caused.

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As it turned out the district manager was on vacation at this time and the man he had replace him was a guy I did not get along with while I was at GECC.  He was an older man who thought he could  control all the younger guys. They were his "group." I didn't want to be part of his group and he resented it. He thought he could get back at me by giving a bad job review.

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When the recruiter who had helped me get the IT job told me that the manager at the credit union had called and they could not hire me I asked why. She hadn't asked. She called and when she was told she called GECC and asked for a check on George Bancroft and got the same story.

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 I should have gone to an attorney right then but I was too proud. When the district manager got back from vacation I called him and read him the riot act and said that if this ever happened again I'd own him. He apologized. He wasn't a bad guy so I left it at that. There was no reason for two of us to lose our jobs.

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