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That place used to be a KMart -- how upper class could the neighborhood be?
Why is he sending this from work?
Props for the Johnnie Cochranisms though.
Zachry is stung by another e-mail
Web Posted: 02/02/2006 12:00 AM CST
Laura E. Jesse
Express-News Staff Writer
A 27-year employee of Zachry Construction Corp. was fired this week for sending an e-mail from the company's server to City Councilwoman Elena Guajardo with what she called "very racial and very discriminatory" comments.
It was the second time in eight months that a Zachry employee has embarrassed the company by sending an e-mail containing disparaging remarks about various parts of the city.
"When I read it I thought, 'Another e-mail from Zachry. What is going on?'" Guajardo said Wednesday.
George erson, who worked in the company's procurement department, wrote to complain about Graham Central Station, a large nightclub on Fredericksburg Road. It's across the street from the subdivision where he lives.
erson wrote that the club attracts "undesirable, low class elements from bad parts of the city into our upper class part of the city for which we pay a very large tax burden in which to live to be safe and away from such elements."
He also wrote that the entertainment at the club "is of a lude, lascivious, low class, debaucheristic, criminalistic, riot insistic, anarchistic nature. Thereby inciting the absolute worst behavior from the worst possible type of patron."
Those patrons, he went on, come from the "lower class bad parts of the city" and that the club should be forced to relocate to one of those areas, "thereby containing all of these very serious problems within the areas in which these types of criminal debaucheric behavior occur on a regular basis."
Contacted at home Wednesday, erson refused to comment.
Vicky Waddy, Zachry's public affairs director, said the company was disappointed to learn of the e-mail and that it was a violation of the company's policy on computer use.
Last summer, Ken Wolf, who was vice president of Metropolitan Resources Inc., a Zachry subsidiary, resigned after he sent an e-mail through a company computer in May saying the SBC Center, now AT&T Center, was built "in the ghetto" because of a lack of leadership in city government.
Waddy said the company will increase its training on the computer-use policy and remind people about its e-mail policy.
The fallout from Wolf's May e-mail included a public apology from H.B. Zachry Jr., who heads the company, and a community effort to scrap plans to give Zachry Realty Inc. $1.9 million in tax money for a Staybridge Suites Hotel near Sunset Station.
Eventually the company agreed to give $750,000 to the East Side's Community Economic Revitalization Agency to help lure jobs to the East Side, and they trimmed the original request for tax money to $1 million.
"The bottom line is it's not the Zachrys, but that's what concerns me: It came from their company," said Guajardo, whose district is heavily Hispanic. "We have a beautiful city and we can't pit one side of town against another."
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/met....17f524e4.html
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The thing is, this guy never mentions race once. Just class.
And with the recent going ons at Graham Central... I'd agree.
That place used to be a KMart -- how upper class could the neighborhood be?
Why is he sending this from work?
Props for the Johnnie Cochranisms though.
isn't grahams closing in march?
whoa whoa whoa... wait a min.erson wrote that the club attracts "undesirable, low class elements from bad parts of the city into our upper class part of the city for which we pay a very large tax burden in which to live to be safe and away from such elements."
Has he seen the apartments right next to Graham Central?????? looooooo!!
those arn;t exactly high-class joints!!
Now yes- direstly across the street is a oretty snazzy neighborhood. but they are safely seperated from the rest of the world by a brick embankment and security fencing with gates.
Holy crap, KSAT reported at noon that this guy killed himself today.
holleeeee kkkk!!!!!
that is so sad.
but I'd be wondering what the I was gonan do with my life after getting publicly humiliated and fired from a career too...... dont; think I'd off myself.... but i can kinda see what this guy was thinking.
Maybe If he wrote it like this
*ahem*
Dear Council Lady,
I leave on the area of town by the Graham Cetrel Station. I write to jew because of problems I am having due to the growing number of cholos y negritos coming up to my home drunk and starting sheet. Here I am just minding my business and some mother er comes and threatens me with a knife. And I was like are jew threateneeng me with a knife. And he was like "si vato I weel cut you, I will cut you so much, you no want to be cut no more. Si'mon I was like "let me just go say goodbye to my family", and he was like sure. Orale, so I went inside and grabbed my gun and I only meant to scare heem. Pues he saw the gun and ran, I shot him anyway. Pero it was only in the leg. And he was like "you chot me guey" and I said "Porgue, jew were going to cut me" and he said "Yeah, but I wasn't going to choot you" Si'mon long story short, Can you do something about the light at the intersection of Callaghan and Fredricksburg, because it turns from green to red awfully fast?
Yours in Christ,
Me
Last edited by Trainwreck2100; 02-02-2006 at 02:19 PM.
^^I wrote this before I found out the guy offed himself.
If true it is terrible tragedy.
Why can't we all just get along?
That's awful !
Spoken like a true patron. Or a true idiot. Only someone who has frequented the place could actually KNOW that. Or, an idiot who has NOT been there but assumes that's what kind of place it is.He also wrote that the entertainment at the club "is of a lude, lascivious, low class, debaucheristic, criminalistic, riot insistic, anarchistic nature. Thereby inciting the absolute worst behavior from the worst possible type of patron."
I'm not defending Graham Central Station. I have never been to the one in San Antonio, so I have no idea what goes on there. But, high-and-mighty, holier-than-thou assholes like this really tick me off.
And, in defense of Zachary...if it's their policy not to allow personal emails be sent from the company server...that in and of itself is enough reason to fire this guy (especially after TWO infractions and a warning). It doesn't matter who the email was going to or what it said.
And, for the record, I'm sorry the guy killed himself...but he obviously had bigger problems than this.
All you need to do is watch the news.
They recently had their liquor license revoked.
A patron left GCS intoxicated which led to him crashing into another car killing the driver.
Yet you criticize the guy who lived near the damn place and probably ( , he did) had a much better POV of what's going on. Nice.I'm not defending Graham Central Station. I have never been to the one in San Antonio
So why is it not ok for him to assume what does goes on there, but it is ok for you to assume what doesn't?
He assumed and he was spot on, people drink there, get drunk, they dance and have mini skirt contests and the like.
Does the club increase the crime rate in the area, I don't know off hand.
Does he live in an "Upper Class" area, not really.
I live in Crownridge, I consider that upper class.
Should he send that email from work, no.
Should he be fired for it, not when you work somewhere for twenty-seven years...
Is this councilwoman a ing tattletale little , yes.
Does everyone that goes to GCS come from bad parts of the city, well I've been there, and I'm sure many people from the upper North West side have been there as well and I consider that a more upper class area than where he lives.
Is this guy kind of re ed, yeah...
I'm not assuming anything. I said I had never been there. What is your problem?
No he's not
Well, not anymore, anyway.
People come out intoxicated from high class establishments too.
This is a touchy issue though.
Ok he was re ed...
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Yea.. But you have to either have one of 2 things.
A signed copy of Terms of Use of employee or govt computers.
A login warning with password "Use of this computer is consent to monitoring - for official use only blah blah".
I live just down the street from there when I am in town, and I have to agree with Obi- the high-class apts and stuff are secluded with a gigantic brick wall. The rest is pretty bad.
And though most crime does not increase because of the patronage of the place, drunk driving does. I have passed by three times on my way home and seen horrible accidents on Fred. Rd. beacuse of this place. In one of them, the other car was LITERALLY snapped in half, and they had already covered up a body. Another time people were fighting... in the middle of the road! They got out of their cars and were fighting.. over an uuugly chick! Talk about beer goggles! And those are just the incidents I saw the times I had been out myself and on the way home at 2am.
Of course, as someone already pointed out, these things coudl happen anywhere, at a 'high-class' establishment as well. I personally don't go for clubs, especially with thier 'format', so I stay away. But more power to whoever wants to go.
But to say that neightborhood is anything but (mostly) struggling peeps living paycheck to paycheck is crazy.
It's a shame that people don't just take a deep breath, sometimes. He obviously didn't learn from the VP that HPZ let go about a year ago for doing basicly the same thing: using company e-mail in an inappropriate manner. He also probably was not a local newswatcher, or he would know that his problem was about to take care of itself. GCS is about an eyelash away from losing their liquor license, and no license, no club, end of story.
Good, then that place should be condemned.
I was very surprised at the story when it first came out and now the suicide is even more surprising. I think it was totally unfair and absolutley inappropriate for the email to be "leaked" by the council woman's office. I don't know the man's state of mind and have no idea what he went through, but I would have taken civil action and not ended my life. If H B Zachary was fair, they would fire every single employee there because they all use the company email for personal use. This is yet another strike against SA city council.
Totally no reason at all for her to do what she did. The upside is that she gets to live with this for the rest of her life.
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