Persona nongrata
A tall white gentleman greeted him and shook hands with him. Antonio was very nervous but he forced himself to look into the guys eyes and smile. "You may sit", the guy said. He felt confident and sat down after the guy had sat down. "Antonio Ferreira" the guy read looking at Antonio's resume. After that the guy kept his eyes on Antonio's resume and didn't ask anything else. The interview was over before antonio thought it would be. "You are hired" the man had said.Antonio started working that same day as the department's computer technitian. Antonio was brought ten laptops to fix that same day. Three minutes before leaving his boss comes in: "I need this laptap rady by tomorrow morning",he says and then leaves.He stood there for three extra hours and had to take the boss' laptap to fix home since it had been brouht in at the very last minute. Two days went by and the work was endless. Finally the other computer technitian came back from vacation."My name is Antonio, what's yours?" Antonio had asked him. "Stuart", he had answered.
Antonio immediately tried to start a friendship with stuart. He was surprised by how fast they became friends. He didn't expect a black guy to become friends with him. After all he was so boring and nobody ever got his jokes. The next day Antonio was given the head of the department's laptop to work on. "I'll have this baby ready in less than an hour."he told stuart.He installed windows 2000 on it. The desktop was ready in half an hour.Two weeks after Antonio got his first check. He was definetely being paid less than Stuart. Stuart himself was being paid less than a regular computer technitian.Antonio was aware of his lack of education. He hadn't finished highschool and not gone to college. still he knew everything a computer technitian knows. computers were everything for him, he knew them like his own self.
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