re: #225 GnarlyGnomeOfGnowledge

Had I just said “guard” without the “Pinkerton” qualifier, would you have said the same thing?

And, yes, I do know quite a bit of the Pinkerton history, something that the company whitewashed and sterilized in their corporate history for decades. By the time I joined the company, Pinkerton had be thoroughly corporatized.

If I didn’t already know that you used to work for Pinkerton (from some comment long ago) and you hadn’t said so now, no, I would not have had the same reaction. Like I said, I can’t be fair about it. And I doubt the union people you dealt with could be fair about it either. It doesn’t help that Pinkerton has whitewashed their history.

From reading your comments over the years, I know you’re a decent guy, and I don’t think of you as a Pinkerton or an ex-Pinkerton, but when you say that you were one, and talk about working at a plant during a strike, I can’t ignore the association.

I promise not to associate you with the Everett Massacre, though!