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BILL WHO,
THE PLAINTIFF
Chrysler, Compuware and Combustion Components Associates blacklists engineer, 14 years of joblessness/homelessness The following contains the perils that these companies have put me through due to the blacklisting. They stated that they had no record of my employment. Witness from combustion components lies under oath 3 times! Courts? Bill Butler [Pick the date]
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TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I
HAVE MET AND SUPPORTED
ME IN THE LAST 14 YEARS
THANK YOU, FOR THE ONES
THAT DID NOT WELL, MAYBE
YOU WILL LEARN
SOMETHING
?
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This page informs the public that
this book will not be edited by any
one as to show what kind of
stress and strain I am under for
the last 14 years and continue to
be. I am sorry if it is not up to
your standard of reading and it is
my hope that I get my message
across to the public…
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Companies__________________________6
Background_____________________________8
A Bit Technical_________________________19
My Chrysler Performance
Review________________________________27
The Event.. A Dismissal_________________30
Job Search Part 1_______________________32
The Private Investigator__________________35
Job Search Part 2 ______________________37
The Attorney___Mine?___________________38
The Witness ____________________________41
The Newspaper Reporter, The Media ____48
My Evidence Submitted To The
Courts_________________________________55
The Courts ____________________________63
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The Final Offer They Made
To Settle My Case____________________104
Internet ______________________________108
My Theory on Why They
Did This To Me ______________________121
The Politicians_______________________124
The US Post Office___________________137
ACLU Boston Office__________________144
The Survival_________________________146
Places To Eat, Soup Kitchens_________204
Food Pantries________________________206
Food Stamps_________________________208
My Current Income____________________208
My Personal Transportation___________209
Conclusion__________________________211
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THE COMPANIES
Chrysler Corporation Headquarters …Auburn Hills, Mich.
COMPUWARE CORPORATION
HEADQUATERS…DETROIT, MICHIGAN
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Corporate offices of combustion components
associates at the time of my interview
THE COMPANY WHERE THE WITNESS WORKED
AT IN MONROE, CONNECTICUT
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BACKGROUND
I was born in small town in Massachusetts with a
big name, you might have heard of it, Concord,
and I do not mean grapes. You know where our
forefathers fought the British to gain our freedom
from England in 1776 at the old north bridge.
Concord has preserved the site very nicely and it is
visited by people from all over the world, if you ever
get a chance to visit go, it is place that very dear to
me.
Well it was a cold winter morning in Concord
at the Emerson hospital when my mother went into
labor at 7:45 AM on Thursday December 31, 1953.
Everything went well so they told me. I grew up in
one of the neighboring towns called Maynard where
we lived away from the crowded center. My
schooling years were normal, I was quite shy
though and stayed away from people in general,
women especially they scared me the most, oh do
not worry I cured myself of that and now talk to
them on a daily basis. When it came time for me to
go to high school I had choices to make on what
curriculum should I take? Well my parents stated
that there would not be any funds to send me to
college so I decided to take the industrial arts
curriculum at Maynard high school, our class was
the centennial class, that is we graduated 100
years after the town was incorpated in 1871.
Next I met an inspiring supervisor at the
Brunswick Corporation (textile mill in westboro, ma
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it long gone these days) where I got a job as a
janitor. He noticed that I was more than a janitor
and he did his best to give me other jobs. He had
me welding, running a lathe, operating a milling
machine and building equipment for the company.
They hired another janitor after a while. One day my
supervisor cane by to introduce us to a new janitor
and we all said hello and in a few minutes he came
by again asking if we had saw the new guy. We all
said no. He stated that the turned to look at him
and he was gone. We chucked the rest of the day.
It was a textile mill and the noise was so high you
had to wear ear plugs all day.
I like all those jobs they were interesting to
me and along with his inspiration, I decide to give a
college a try. I wanted his job so I set out to
increase my education…remember I had no college
prep classes. I had to find a prep school where I
could catch up and then enter college…my goal
was to become a mechanical design engineer.
Which was not the job that my supervisor had, he
was a industrial engineer/plant engineer.
The company just got some new carding
machines in and I was picked to learn how to set
them up and maintain them, they even sent me to
South Carolina to take class at the company that
made them. I also would run tests on them, trying
out new materials hence a new supervisor. I
chatted with him about getting more schooling and
told him of my dilemma. He suggested a prep
school in Boston called Newman Prep and I
attended it in the evenings after work for the next
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year to take my college classes, like pre-algebra
math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and
physics.
Great, I was going to prep school and then
college, maybe. I felt like I was on the top over the
world. I knew it was going to be a long road, but if
it did not go, the time would go by anyway. So I
gas up my little Chevy Vega and headed off to
Boston, mind you at night, remember I was a shy
country boy! It was a difficult time I had a lot of
worries, was I going to pass, was the car going to
last, was my dad going to throw me out his house,
and when I finished prep school what if I did get a
student loan to enter college. I was surprised that I
even learn anything in prep school with all those
worries, I made the dean’s list, with A’s and B’s
every semester.
My Chevy Vega, bless its soul, where ever it
is today. It is probably part of another car or cars
due to recycling. It used to make so much noise. I
just turn the radio up not to hear the noise, phew I
was glad the radio did not die and then I figured
out that if it stopped making nose, it would have
stopped running so then I was happy to hear the
noise.
I remember one winter I was driving home, it
was the night of the big nor’easter that came to
New England in ‘78. I am sure everyone here in the
northeast remembers it, the state was closed for
several days. Well I was driving home that night
and I approached the famous Belmont hill, it is a
hill on route 2 coming out of Boston, it has to be 2
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miles long, a challenge for any 4 cylinder car never
mind my little Vega. Was I going to make or was
this where it was all going to end no car no school
well that what I thought at the time. I was chugging
along and I was half way up the hill when a car
blew his/her horn at me to get out of the way, sure
where was I go into the ditch and get stuck there I
do think so. I guess he/she just blew it to let me
know he/she was passing. He/she passed me and
I continue to chugging along. I reached the top of
the hill and over to the side of the road was the
same car in the ditch. I drove by him/her and
tooted my little horn, smiling and that night I made
it home and I then knew that my little Vega was it in
for the long run. It lasted me thru prep school, 2
years of college in Boston and 3 years in college in
Hartford. Good Job Chevrolet/GMC.
My 73 Chevrolet Vega all used up
I manage to get thru prep school with a few
problems that still haunt me today. Oh I have
solved them but the still haunt me. Like I had one
problem in physics, it was about a tiger on the run
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and a man firing a gun at the tiger. The question
was how many bullets it would will take to stop the
tiger. I read it as how many will it take to kill the
tiger, well the answer would be one. But the answer
to stopping the tiger is simple. You take the mass
of the tiger and it velocity multiply it together and
you have what is called momentum. Knowing the
velocity of the bullet and the mass of each bullet
them you divide it in the tiger momentum and it
give how many bullets you need to stopped the
tiger and kill it. There were some geometry
problems too but I have managed to forget them
over the years.
I did good got a’s and b’s and got accepted
to Wentworth institute and got my student loan so I
finished in the summer of ‘77 and entered
Wentworth in the fall of ‘77 for two years of study.
Wentworth was difficult but I was committed.
remember I had a father that was not supportive. I
made the dean’s list every semester and almost
made the president’s list the last semester I was
there. I quit my day job and went to Wentworth
days and I met many people from all over. My
class at first was kind of distant; we all had our on
little circles and stayed pretty much within those
circles. The school had it’s annual open house and
the dorms had the traditional keg party. That day
our class met each other and we all became
friends, helping each other thru each day with class
work, it was great.
I thought I was in heaven I was learning
things I often wondered about, like the strength of
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materials, i.e. steel, aluminum, copper and many
other materials. I remember my lab reports in
strength of materials. The teacher use to grade on
a fraction the denominator was the highest grade
you could get and the numerator was what you got.
My numerator was always higher the denominator,
the teacher would give extra credit because my lab
reports we really good. My classmates got angry at
first then they turned it into a competition and we
could not wait to see who got the most extra credit.
It was fun and they learn how to do a better lab
report but of course they would say I was the one
that needed to learn, ha ha.
Another time in drafting, the teacher graded
on a scale of 1 to 10 and he never gave out a ten.
I went to him and told him that I going to do a
drawing of this gate valve but I was going to put a
lot of detail in it. Normally an assembly drawing
only shows the bare minimum just to get the part
assembled. I told him that with all the detail I could
get practice on drawing all the different parts and
techniques …..he agreed. I worked on it for several
weeks learning all kind of things I need to, it was
great. I drew castings, threads, machining,
bushings and shafts. I finally finished and turn it in
it was my masterpiece, drawn in pencil and on
vellum. When I got it back the guys were really
curious to see what grade was, I got a 10. I was in
shock the first one I ever saw. The boys were upset
one complained to the teacher stating that an
assembly drawing never shows that much detail.
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The teacher explained my drive and stated that I
deserved the grade and that was that.
Another memory that stays with me is in
thermodynamics, it was time for the final exam and
we all were worried if we were going to pass. Well
we all took the test and the usual complaints of
how hard it was and I was real nervous because the
night before I did not study, I watched TV with my
mom and sis. Later in the week, I was walking
across campus and ran into my friends; they stuck
the nose up at me. What is wrong with you all, I
asked? They post the grades by your social security
number and yes we knew each others. They had
already saw the posting and saw that my grade
was the second highest of the class and they were
ribbing me. I had nothing to say but, some of us
have it and some of us don’t. I was ribbing them
back of course. I was pleased with myself that
whole night and better part of the next morning.
Jumping ahead it was late in my last year
at Wentworth and companies were coming in the
school to interview candidates for jobs after we
graduated. I was pretty cool, all you had to do is
put your name on the list and show up if you
missed it the give you another chance, how could
you go wrong. I signed up for Pratt & Whitney
Aircraft, I knew nothing of them. I took the interview
and the interviewer asked me if I knew anything
about the company, I stated no. He then said well I
will start from the beginning. We talked about the
company for about ten minutes he, then excitedly
told about the life in Hartford, Connecticut
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especially the nightlife and the lasted for the
duration of the interview.
I consulted my class advisor and he said that
they got you there will be an offer in the mail soon
since they were trying to sell you on the life in
Connecticut. He was right 3 weeks later I had an
offer to start after I graduated as a senior
draftsman for the pay of 1034 a month, that is
about 6.00/hr. that was double my pay in the
factory and I was in a office nice and clean wearing
a white shirt and tie..yay. I grabbed it and left for
Connecticut right after graduation. My mom was
sad she, like all other moms did not want me to
go.
I arrived in Connecticut and got a room at a
boarding hose until I found my way around town
and later got an apartment. My first day at the job,
I was nervous, so it did not help me when they
walked me out to a test cell and showed me a
F-100 engine running with full after burner on.
That’s the engine they put in the f-16 aircraft. The
first thought that went thru my head was what have
you got yourself into now, I should have listened to
my mom and not take this job. There was 20 feet
of flame coming out of that engine and there was
only a wall between me and that bomb that they
called an engine, so I thought at the time. It had a
window with some kind of glass or plastic that you
could look through see if it was going to explode or
something, it was many inches thick but, I still did
not feel safe. The next day it all got better and I
stayed there for over 9 years.
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I took the summer off from school that first
year and in the fall I started at the University of
Hartford going nights to get my full degree, a
BSME. It was a little more difficult for me. I transfer
my credits and lost more than half and two as
much to make up. I was looking at more than 6
years but it had to be done. So, I started and took
two classes per semester and one in the summer a
total of five per year.
One semester I was studying psychology and
was reading about introverts and extroverts. I label
myself as an introvert immediately. I slammed the
book shut and began talking to anyone in my site. I
made a lot of mistakes it the first conversations
because I had no experience, however I go better
as time went on and today I am still improving on
my conversation with others. Now people have said
to me you talk to everyone you meet, I reply pretty
much. I enjoy psychology so much I took several
classes in it, general 1,2, child and abnormal.
Abnormal was interesting aside from learning all
the phobias, every time we had a test the sky was
clear and it was a full moon………….woe go figure.
Chemistry another test of my wit, I jumped
into it without taking any prep classes in high or
prep school. It was cool though I really like the labs
doing all the different experiments and helping
others that did not understand. I manage to get a
B in the class, well that boosted my ego to
continue until the final goal was reached.
I have one thing to say about vibrations and
that is, I am still shaking after all these years.
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After six tough years I graduated, I did not
know if I was until the day before because my last
class did not post my grade until the last minute…I
made and graduation was a go. The family came
down from Boston and went to my graduation yes
even my non supportive father the one that did not
want to feed me when I was living at his house.
The president of the University of Hartford
during graduation asked the following question of
the audience, all the parents that helped the sons
or daughters thru school please stand up. Well my
proud father stood up and all the other family
members were quite upset. No one told me until 3
months later, I was furious, I was fit to be tied, he
never helped me, he just made it harder.
After working at Pratt & Whitney for six years
as an engineer assistant, pretty much everyone still
thinks of you as an assistant even though you have
a full degree. In fact I went to my current boss and
told him that I was graduating and he said ok and
that was time to get back to work.
I went to personnel and they found me
another job and I got a 38.3% increase in my
salary. My current boss came over and looked at
me and said 38.8% raise and shook his head as to
say no and then walked away. The new job was ok
but I was not getting challenged so I had to make a
move and I got a job in Michigan at Williams
International working on cruise missile engines and
I not at liberty to say anything else about it, it was
classified. Before I went to work as a contractor at
~ 18 ~
Chrysler I worked for Ford also as a design
engineer.
It was my intent with this back ground to give
my reader an idea of me and I hope I have
accomplished it. Now let me go to the real reason
for this publication.
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A BIT TECHNICAL I got a contract job at Chrysler Corporation in
Auburn Hills Michigan as a mechanical design
engineer. I was schedule to work on oil pumps but
when I show up things changed. I was in charge of
the PCV system and within a few months I had al lot
more than the PCV system I had about 10 different
parts I was responsible for. I did not care I was
working again and that was the important part.
Let’s talk PCV positive crankcase ventilation.
The functions of this valve it to regulate the amount
of engine vacuum that is applied to the oil system to
remove the hot oil fumes. Let me explain when the
oil in the oil pan heats up it give of fumes similar to
when you are deep frying fench fried potatoes on the
stove. In the sixties we use to dump it overboard
through a breather tube now it is fed back the engine
to be burned through the PCV system. If you take a
cigarette and light it, a stream of smoke will come
out of it. Place a lit match in the smoke stream and
the smoke will
disappear above the match because it is being
burn, a similar thing happens with the PCV system.
When I investigated their current PCV system,
by testing it at Chrysler’s proving grounds in Chelsea,
Michigan, this is what they had. A PCV valve than
was a designed for a V8 engine and I valve cover
design that allow ¾ of a quart of oil pull over every
7500 miles (Chrysler’s recommended oil change
interval).
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Chrysler’s SOHC valves cover neon,
baffle plate removed
Oil pullover it the amount of oil that is pulled
out of the engine thru the PCV system’s vacuum
over the recommended oil change interval. Pullover
depends on several parameters, the flow of the
PCV valve, the blow by of the piston rings, the
design of the valve cover and it’s ability to trap the
oil in the engine as it pulls out the oil fumes.
I was responsible for the design of PCV
configuration in the valve cover and I had to give
direction to another engineer since he was
responsible for the entire valve cover. I came up
with a concept and had a prototype made at the
local shop. I don’t have a picture of the prototype
but recently I went to the used auto yard and
purchased a production version of the part
Illustrated in the following picture,
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I also set up a test at Chrysler labs to reduce
the flow of the valve since it was to be used for
four cylinder engine. I would vary the engine’s rpm
and adjust the flow of the valve so that we would
get the same amount of vacuum in the valve cover
at all engine RPM. It produced a curve and I
submitted it to an outside vendor. They produced a
valve that followed the curve precisely, my Chrysler
supervisor was impressed. Chrysler previously was
producing the valve in house and was having
trouble with it. Chrysler decided to give the vendor
the business.
With the new valve and valve cover I schedule a
test at the proving grounds. I put it through
everything test I could think of, up the hills, over the
rough roads, around the high speed corners and on
the flat curves. Guess what happen to the pullover
it went down to only a few grams of oil. It was so
good my supervisor required that I test it with other
engineer’s test plan, it passed them all. I could not
believe it myself so I tested it several times
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Chrysler’s proving grounds Chelsea, mi
.
Chrysler’s small car engine group made me
champion of the PCV engineer group because of my
work on the 2.0l SOHC PCV system and it’s success.
We would have monthly meetings to discuss issues
and ideas with each other. Most of the other
engineers were having problem with their designs.
One engineer stated that he went up the hill and a
stream of smoke came out of the tail pipe. I think he
called it a mosquito killer since it filled the whole test
area with smoke. Here is a picture of their proving
grounds (above) in Chelsea, Michigan.
You can see all the different courses an engineer
can test his/hers design. They have a garage there
and union mechanics to work on your car. I would
~ 23 ~
drive the neon over to the garage from where I
worked in the office and a mechanic would change
the valve cover then drive the car on the proving
grounds. Engineers could get a license to drive on
the proving grounds themselves. I could not see any
sense in it because I had to reserve a mechanic to
install the valve cover as it was a union shop they
would not even let me touch the car. Was I
supposed to change the valve cover at the local
hamburger shop where they all ate and then when I
went to the proving grounds, I would get into trouble
with the union?
My supervisor never understood that he just
wanted me to get the license. He would always give
me some grief about this.
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Chrysler’s plastic valve cover
The issue from a PCV engineer’s point of
view was the edge of the plate indicated by the
arrow in the above figure was not touching the
valve cover and it would flood the PCV chamber
with oil, keeping the PCV from working properly. I
pleaded with them over and over again, asking to
at least seal with some kind of high temperature
sealer but they simply refused. I guess they wanted
to keep the cost down. However I was also involved
in Chrysler’s 2.4 liter DOHC engine valve, but I was
asked to leave before it went into production I
recently bought one and removed the baffle plate
and guess what IT WAS SEALED WITH SEALER!!!!
Just like I requested?
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Chrysler’s 2.4 Liter DOHC valve cover
The valve covers that were shipped to
Canada for the cold weather test had huge gaps
between the baffle plate and the valve cover. They
pulled over lots of oil as the filming indicated. I
took off the baffle plate and seal the edge and that
did the trick no pullover,
My supervisor was not pleased with my
test results; he made me do a test in the cold room
at Chrysler, as he stated that, I did not test the
production intent. The test showed the same thing
as the test did in Canada.
One day I was sitting at my desk and two
gentlemen spoke up to get my attention and asked
me to explain my design. I turn and one introduces
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me to the other as I knew one. He was a manager
and he had brought a manager from another
engine group and wanted to explain my design. I
was glad to. They were both impressed and just as
I finished my supervisor spoke up and she said that
we not sure it works yet. Obviously it did it went into
production for 5 years.
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MY CHRYSLER PERFORMANCE
REVIEW
M
written by
My Chrysler supervisor
My contract was on a yearly basis and I was
to get a performance review at the end of each
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year. The first year came and I got o great review
and got a raise. My contract supervisor (as opposed
to my Chrysler supervisor) was very pleased. My
Chrysler supervisor chatted with me one day and
stated, Wow you are what you said you were at the
time of the interview. In other words you can do all
the things you said that you could do. I was
shocked and said that you mean they are people
that are not what they same on their resume. He
replied yes..wow I could not believe that.
Time went on and things we not going good
between me and the engineer of the valve cover. I
never get parts on time; he would do things without
asking me like change my design to accommodate
the manufacture of the valve cover. The
relationship between him and my supervisor was
growing strength. That is the were both hunters and
they were building quite a bond especially on
Mondays they would trade weekend hunting
stories….you know what each other had killed and
how many. I use have lunch with the valve cover
engineer but I grew tired of learn how many
animals he killed each weekend, so I ate lunch at
my desk.
I remember one day the leader in the other
group was going to Canada to test the neon in the
cold weather and they wanted me to go. I did not
have a credit card to secure the hotel so I asked
my supervisor to secure the hotel room and I would
pay for it when I got there. Not so good to be in
place where it is 37 degrees below zero without a
place to sleep. Well the leader of the other group
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kept putting pressure on my supervisor wanting me
to go. I said I did not have a place to stay up in
there in the cold. Finally one day my supervisor
took me out in the hall and said “Chrysler was
looking for a PCV engineer before you came along
and if you don’t go on this trip Chrysler will be
looking for PCV engineer again, understand!” I
settled down, then I talked to the leader of the
other group to get the hotel number and gave them
a call. They said no problem you don’t need a card
you get a room. We will just save you one. Peace
was restored in the office I was going on the trip
and everyone was happy.
The cars were trucked up to Thompson
Manitoba Canada while we flew there and yes I did
not get the valve cover in time to review it so I had
no idea what I was testing. I was in the dark,
because I did not know what kind of parts I was
getting. I had camera equipment in installed in the
car with a monitor so that I could see what was
going on under the valve cover while I was testing
them.
The biggest issue with the valve cover was the
attachment of the baffle plate to the valve cover.
The valve cover was an aluminum piece pre 2000
model year and for the 2000 model year the
changed it to plastic. First they molded studs on
the valve cover and attached the plate with clips
but the studs wore out and the changed to screws
as shown:
~ 30 ~
THE EVENT…a dismissal
Chrysler had hired another engineer to help
me with all the parts I had. I believe he took over
the heater tubes and the asked to show him the
ropes until he came up to speed. What I really was
doing is training my replacement. I had gotten my
performance review after the first year but never got
one for the second year. I asked around and no
one would say anything. Finally my contract
supervisor stated that Friday 3:00am on October 31
1998 that I would get my performance review, only
a year and half late. I went to the office at Chrysler
and my Chrysler supervisor was not there she was
nowhere to be found, she obviously new of the
event. That was sad because I had written a review
for her so she could become a supervisor. They
told me the contract was over and they were not
going to renew it. They also said that they would
look for another contract for me, I laughed to
myself because I knew that would never happen. I
said ok, they started to tell me why but I stopped
them. I did not want to hear their lies. I left the
Chrysler office never to return. They wanted my
pager that I had left home that day, the next week I
returned it my contract company with my pager
and asked them for the 2 weeks vacation pay they
owed me. It was next to impossible to get it. Finally
I went to the office again and talked to the
president, yes I screamed at him and I did get my
pay.
~ 31 ~
A year later I called my contract supervisor to
find out why the dismissed me and he said the
quantity of your work was insufficient. Yeah I was
right they lied, because I also called a co-worker of
mine that sat next to me and he told me that they
hired two engineers to do my job.
~ 32 ~
THE JOB SEARCH …Part 1
136 job applications, 8 interviews, no second interviews and no offers, just rejections!!!!!!!!!!
My intent was to move back east to New
England and find a job there since that was I was
from; outside of Boston, Massachusetts and my
family was all there. My first interview was with a
well know company it was with Pratt &Whitney
aircraft. I went thru a recruiter and he set up
everything, interview schedule, hotel to stay at,
where to eat dinner etc.
I arrive at the schedule time and checked
into the hotel clean up and waited for dinner. I was
supposed to meet the manager of the group, I was
interviewing with the next day for dinner. The time
came to go to dinner and I went to the dining room
of the hotel and sat at the table and waited and
waited and waited, he never showed, yes he stood
me up and didn’t even call with an excuse. The
next day at the interview I met with everybody on
the list but I never saw him, and no one ever said a
word even after I asked about it, they all just
shrugged the shoulders and said I just don’t know.
The interview went well I knew just about everyone
on the list as I had worked there for 9 years before
left for Michigan. I even said hi to all my old co-
workers.
I called the recruiter and he stated that they
loved you on the interview however you have no
~ 33 ~
technical background so there is no job offer. I was
amazed, I told the recruiter what I worked for them
for 9 years; I had 4 years with Ford and 2.5 yrs with
Chrysler as a contractor which was on some of the
job requirements that I had read. I even told him
that the manager stood me up for dinner and I
never meet him the next day. He responded in awe
and said that what they told me. I was never able
to contact that recruiter again, he never return any
of my calls or emails.
Here is my thoughts did personnel called
Chrysler and they stated no record of my
employment (as they did to my private investigator
and newspaper reporter, I will get into it later in the
book) and they told the manger and recruiter. Is
that why the manager did not meet me for dinner
at the hotel and the recruiter cut all
communications off with me? Did they think I was
a lair because of what Chrysler and Compuware
stated?
I did not contact my private investigator at
the time of this interview.
My second interview was obtained through
Wentworth Institute, they had a list of alumni that
were available for employment and companies
would gain excess to your resume. The company is
called Combustion Components Associates in
Monroe Connecticut. This is the one because the
official that manage my interview became a
witness in the case for the defense. I went to the
interview and I enjoyed I a lot, I told them that I had
a couple of weaknesses, that is no experience in
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combustion and computer graphics. They told not
to worry that they would train me in both of my
concerns. I went to lunch with this official at the
local seafood restaurant and had a wonderful time.
We chatted about a lot of things many of my
hobbies; she told she had a loom for weaving and I
told her that I use to weave as a job. We even
talked about dating. We finished lunch and as we
left the car to go back into the office she
commented that she could not remember the last
time she enjoy an interview with a candidate like
she had enjoyed it with me.
I left with their statement saying that we
interviewing other candidates and that they would
get back with me. I will get into more detail under
the title, the witness, stay tuned lol.
MY PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
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I was visiting my niece in Worcester,
Massachusetts and wondering if I ever was going
to work again. I was thumbing thru the yellow
pages and came across a page label private
investigators and they were advertising: find out
what you last employer is saying about you. I had
conservation with him to learn what they had to
offer. They said for a minimum fee of 400 dollars
they would do the investigation, I agreed and met
with the gentleman in a parking lot at the local
shopping center. I was nervous and I did not want
him to find out to much about me, so I gave my
info and he went to work. He was very nice to me;
he could tell I was very nervous.
He reported that MIS International (the
contract company I worked for) got bought by the
Compuware Corporation. He stated that MIS
international got renamed to professional services
which stated it had no record of my employment.
The Compuware Corporation stated they had
records of a William T. Butler who was terminated
in 1988 his social security number was different
than mine so that result in no records of my
employment. The Chrysler corporation their
contract division stated they had no record of my
employment. At first my investigator gave me the
report and I was in shock, no wonder I did not get
a job. I file a case with a lawyer in Oakland county
circuit court and submitted his report. Now here is
the funny thing after the case was filed, I contacted
him with a question and he was downright rude with
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me, he barely even wanted to talk with me. That
made me wonder who else had talked to
him……you decide.
My
private investigator’s report
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THE JOBSEARCH----Part 2
The next company I interviewed with was a
bearing company in Connecticut. I had another good
interview. I enjoyed meeting with these people, they
challenged me asking me to figure out some
complex assemblies without knowing anything about
bearings and I got feedback right there. They said I
did ok for not having any bearing experience. I went
to the machine shop and they were impressed with
my knowledge of the machines, I knew them all
except one or two. They ask me if I had issues and I
said that I did not have any bearing design
background and they replied don’t worry we will
teach you.
The last meeting was with the personnel official
and I told her what had at Chrysler and she wrote it
all down and then shook my hand and sent me on
my way.
A short time later I received a letter stating that I
was denied a job offer because I had no bearing
experience, yes that is what they said they would
teach me.
Did the official from personnel check on me and
determined it just was not worth it or did she check
and they stated that they had no record of my
employment and she label me as a lair.
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THE ATTORNEY---- Mine?
I was searching for a lawyer and meet with
one in Worcester, Ma, I told her my scoop and she
headed in her supervisor’s office making me wait.
They both came and said that it would cost a lot of
money to litigate this case, and asked me how
much I thought, I had no answer. The top lawyer
stated the it would have cost 200,000 dollars. They
were not prepared to spend that much, they just
did not want the case, the search continued.
I talked with a Michigan lawyer on the phone
and he said to write each company asking for the
reason for my job denial and if they did not
respond to me. I would pay him 1500 dollars and
he would write a letter stating that we are opening
an age discrimination case and that they are all a
part of it. Then maybe they would tell the truth on
what really happened and we would have a case. I
wrote the letters and they just got ignored me
except for the bearing company and they just sent
me a carbon copy of the first one they sent me.
This lawyer did not seem interested in the case so
the search went on.
I found another lawyer in Michigan to take
the case, I faxed him all my info I had and mailed
him a check for $1500. He filed a case against
Chrysler and Compuware in Oakland county circuit
court. I had to go back to Michigan to follow the
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case. Let me say right now, he did nothing and at
the risk of be rude I repeat myself he did nothing.
1. He did not contact any of the companies
I interview with
2. He did not get it in the newspaper
3. He did not contact the phone company
for the witness’s phone records
4. He did very little discovery
5. He even wrote his first brief wrong
I got in the newspaper, the witness stated
she never talked to Chrysler I asked my attorney
are you going after the phone records, he said that
they probably were not available. I called phone
company and they said they were, all they need
was a saponia from my lawyer, I asked him for one
and he stated that, they are out of state they
probably would not honor his saponia. I said I will
call you back. I called the phone company and
they said they would. My lawyer sent the saponia
and we received the phone records showing the
witness I did call Chrysler.
I talked to the bar association about my
lawyer they recommend that I look for another one
so I had him put a package together for another
lawyer to look at, he got angry. He stated that what
is it going to be me or the other lawyer, since the
other lawyer said he was doing ok then (I wonder if
they chatted) I said it is going to be you.
From this point on anything I recommend he
shot down, I told him about contacting the
companies and he stated that would not help. I
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said contact unemployment office and he said they
would not have any info. I told him my theory why
they did this (which I will explain later) and
immediately he shot it down. My lawyer????
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THE WITNESS……Connecticut
The witness which I identified quickly
became a witness of the defense..what gives? She
provided the court with a affidavit and a telephone
deposition. Well she lies under oath in both
documents. In her affidavit she states page 2,
statement 8, which reads I was never told by
Chrysler Corporation that Mr. Butler had not worked
at Chrysler. On her telephone deposition page 8
statements 12 and 14 state I never talked to
Chrysler and I never talked to anyone at Chrysler.
She said it twice. Phone records indicate that she
telephoned Chrysler personnel and the line was
open for 2.12 minutes, this was verified by my
lawyer.
Well if she never talked to Chrysler then why
does her phone records indicate that she did. The
phone records do not prove that she talked about
me, however the call was placed directly after she
talked to my Ford supervisor which she admitted
calling. In the month phone we obtained those
were the only two calls made to Detroit area. She
could have talked about someone else or the call
never got thru, if this was the case then why did
she not say that on her affidavit and telephone
deposition she provided to the courts. What was
her reason for hiding the truth by not saying she did
make a call? Did she get the old statement ..no
record of his employment?
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How is it that I went from some that they
were very interested in to not offering me
employment for the following reasons?(page 3
witnesses affidavit)
1. His perceived technical ability
2. His salary expectation
3. The expenses would be incurred in
relocating him
4. A former employer was seeking to return
to work
I just moved from Michigan so everything
was packed so the cost will minimum and I
discussed it with her and she agreed. When I spoke
of my salary to the head official he gave the
impression that it was not a problem.
My technical ability, they stated that they had
no problem training me in the combustion field and
computer graphics. A former employee returning,
wow that was the first I ever heard of it, on her
affidavit and I called her several times to check on
my potential employment status, hell even my
lawyer questioned that.
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The witnesses invition to appear for an interview
~ 44 ~
Page 1 of the witness affdavit
~ 45 ~
Page 2 of the witness’s affidavit
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The page of here telephone deposition that the witness
states she never called Chrysler, twice
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Witness’s phone records indicating she talked to
Chrysler personnel for 2.12 min verified by my lawyer
number 96
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THE NEWSPAPER REPORTERS and
THE MEDIA
Since my case was stuck in circuit court and
all the judge would say is ‘I will take it under
advisement and contact counsel at a later date’. I
thought that a newspaper article would pressure the
companies into settling with me. I contacted
several newspapers in the Detroit area. I met with a
reporter from the Detroit news at MacDonald’s on
Woodward Ave. in Ferndale. I went through my
whole story telling her every detail we spoke for an
hour. At the end of the hour she looked right at me
and said there is no story here. I was furious with
her.
It took some time for me to recover from
that meeting, I did. I contacted the Observer and
Eccentric newspaper in Westland, Michigan. A staff
writer asked to come down and chat with her. She
was really nice and at the end of the interview she
stated, stay in touch I want to do a follow up
article. I said I would, thanked her and left, hoping
they would print my story. Sometime later she
called and stated that on Sunday September 17,
2000 on the second page my story was
printed…….no story the Detroit news
stated…..really?
Well the story came out so I rushed down to
buy some many copies and to my surprise she
called the companies and got similar results that
my private investigator got. So she became a
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witness in the case too (more on that later). The
case was already filed in court and they still are
saying no record of my employment, one of the
grounds they used to dismiss the case was
absence of malice. Well what are they saying now?
I said to my lawyer.
After the defense lawyers got a copy of my
newspaper article, you should been there they even
asked the judge where the copy room was, I was
never able to contact the staff writer ever again.
Wonder why?
In 2007 I was introduced to a newspaper
here in Boston called the Spare Change News, a
friend contacted me through federal court (she
found me as I had a case filed there at the time) It
is a paper that is sold by the homeless and the way
it works is that you write your article and submit it
to them and if they like it they will print it. Then they
will send out a newspaper reporter to do a follow
up article as they did with my friend. They never
contacted me again___wonder why?
Countless times of the TV stations just
ignoring me, both in Detroit, Boston and New York!
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First newspaper article reporter becomes a
witness
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Article print in Boston’s Spare Change News
sold by the homeless for $1
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I got the following email from a local news
show here in Boston it call Chronicle it is quite
popular and as you it was dated April 17, 2008,
well do you think they are still thinking of me or did
they just deny me. Dear Bill, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll keep the idea on file, and if we find an opportunity to follow up, we'll be sure to contact you. We appreciate your interest in Chronicle. D----- C----- Chronicle WCVB-TV
I also contacted FRONTLINE here in Boston
thinking that they do not have Chrysler sponsored
adds so maybe they would do my story well wrong
again!
I also contacted S----- S-------- / M---
-- L--- at dream works and a got a letter back
from their legal department, returning my letter
stating that they can’t accept unsolicited materials
and that they are returning my material unread and
asked that I did not send them anymore. Just one
thing when I opened their letter, my letter was
open___ yes my letter was enclosed however it was
opened , repeating myself!!!
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Letter from Frontlines
~ 54 ~
Letter from DreamWorks legal department
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MY EDVIDENCE….
Submitted to court
I provided the following evidence, a
printout from social security showing the
wages I earned from MIS International
(bought by Compuware and renamed
professional services) 2 copies of W2 forms
showing the wages and tax paid while
working there, a copy of a employee
identification badge, a private investigator’s
report stating all three offices had no record
of my employment, a newspaper article that
called the said companies and got similar
result as did my private investigator did,
phone records of the witnesses office
showing she did contact Chrysler, a
performance review written by my Chrysler
supervisor shown as follows:
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My social security print out
~ 57 ~
My w2 forms, remember MIS international was bought
by Compuware and renamed professional services
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My employee I.D. badge
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My newspaper article
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My private investigator report!
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Witnesses phone records
~ 62 ~
My resume
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My performance review done by my Chrysler supervisor
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THE COURTS
My lawyer filed my case in Oakland county
circuit court, the judge just did not want to make a
decision in the case he had it for 2 years. Every
motion hearing that he had, the answer was still he
will take it under advisement and contact counsel
at a later date. Motion hearing after motion
hearing. One day I went to the court to hear my
case and they never discussed it. Yeah you ask
around and no one knows anything except for the
judge and you can’t talk to him.
I learn thru my lawyer that the judge put the
case to mediation where three lawyers determine
what the case is worth. My lawyer did not even
show, he sent one of his colleagues. One of the
lawyers had to dismiss himself because of a
conflict of interest. They quibble for about an hour
and his colleague came out and I asked how much
was the mediation valve she said “a $1000 and that
I should be happy it would have been lower if the
other lawyer did not dismiss himself since he was a
defense lawyer. The judge remanded it to district
court I found out later ignoring paragraph 11.53
which states, there is no longer any rule providing
for the remand of cases from circuit court to
district court because the mediation award is less
than the jurisdictional limit . January 1 1997. Why
did the judge ignore this rule? Wondering again?
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Oakland county circuit court
~ 66 ~
Remand to district court para 11.53
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50th DISTRICT COURT
My lawyer told me the date when my case
was to be heard in 50th district court for a hearing, I
was angry, the most you could get is 25,000
dollars I was out of work for close to 2 years. He
asked me if I would be happy with that, I stated
absolutely not. The trial open and the judge stated
to counsel that we don’t have juries this week.
There to have been some mistake made by the
assignment clerk in scheduling this matter.
Wondering again? All parties agree to take this
opportunity to treat this matter as a pretrial except
for me.
After discussing the case in court, the judge
and lawyers continued to discuss my case in
chambers. They came out and my lawyer
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whispered to me that the judge was going to
dismiss the case! My anger rose higher! The judge
came out and called the court to order swung the
gavel down and said that he was remanding my
case back to circuit court to the very judge that
remanded it to district court and order my lawyer to
prepare the paper work.
Back to circuit court it went I lost it for a week
or two, I was told it went to a visiting judge and
that judge did not want it so it finally went back to
the original judge. Meanwhile I found a department
in the court where the judges had to answer to
called court administration.
I met with the court administration and
complained that the judge refuse to do any in my
case he has had for close to two years. I stated
that hearing after hearing he would state the same
words, I WILL TAKE IT UNDER ADVISMENT AND CONTACT CONSEL AT A LATER DATE. The judge
continue not to make a decision in the case, I was
desperate I have be out of work for two years and
nothing still was happening. I called my lawyer (he
never called me only one time telling me my case
was dismissed) and he stated that if you complain
to court administration again then the judge is
liable to dismiss the case. The next business day I
went to court administration and complained again.
My lawyer was right for the first since I hired him
the judge did dismiss my case.
This is what he said. Assuming this letter is
admissible, it does not support plaintiff’s allegation
the defendant companies reported such
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information to his prospective employers. The
same is true of a newspaper article submitted by
the plaintiff, where a staff writer states that her
calls by her newspaper yielded similar results..
Ok, just for sake of conservation, pretend for
a moment that you are the human resource official
at Chrysler or Compuware and you get a call
asking about me. You say who is this because if
you are a newspaper reporter or a private
investigator then we have not records of Bill Butler,
however if you are a potential employer then we
can tell you something different…Well what do you
think/ Wondering again?
Why would any human resources official tell a
newspaper reporter that they had no record of my
employment that risks a lawsuit? As for my private
investigator he had it set up so they could not tell
he was one, it showed that he was just a company
calling. According to him he called over a period
of a week at different times of the day, to speak to
different human resources officials and got the
same response from all of them, no record of his employment
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Transcript of proceedings in 50th district court
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Transcript of proceedings in 50th district court
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Transcript of proceedings in 50th district court
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Transcript of 50th district court
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In a coffee room in the court house my
lawyer, the defense attorney and I discussed me
accepting the mediation value of a thousand
dollars. My lawyer said if I wanted he probably
could get 1500 out of Chrysler’s in house lawyer
and I would break even( it cost me 1500 dollars to
retain him). Really you think I will be even, what
about 2 years of unemployment and my savings
that I lost. I DON’T THINK SO!
STATE OF MICHIGAN, COURT OF APPEALS
My lawyer wanted some adsorbent fee for
taking my case to the court of appeals. I did some
research and learned that I could appeal it myself
which I did and as a matter of fact I took the case
to the rest of the courts. Exactly to the day you wait
1 ½ years. I went over several times pleading with
the clerk, telling her I have been out of work for
more than two years, no success. Finally after I got
their ruling, they stated that the plaintiff (me) failed
to provide evidence to support his claim.
Really what about my private investigators
report, my newspaper article, and all the rest of my
evidence.
They did not even address it; they did not
even say it was no good; they chose to say nothing
about it. Wondering again?
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You go on the internet today and even back
then and you can find hundred of firms, for a fee
that will check on what previous employers are
saying about you. Why would anyone pay all that
money to get your previous employer statements
and have it dismissed in court? Wondering again?
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order denying my appeal
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MICHGAN SUPREME COURT
Again another failure, this is an interesting
one! In Supreme Court in the state of Michigan you
can provide an extra 150 dollars and they will
review it immediately but will not take any action.
Here is the interesting part I mailed my info to
the court and the receive it on a Friday the
following Monday I received a letter from the court
stating the following, your application for leave to
appeal in the above-referenced matter has been
reviewed and filed by this office and will be
submitted to the court for it consideration on
January 05, 2004. I was excited never had a court
moved as fast as this one did, wow they got it on
Friday and Monday I got a response. Maybe I am
going to win..Yay!
Not so fast Bill, 21 days later I received an
order from the Supreme Court denied my appeal
because they were not persuaded that the
questions presented should be reviewed by this
court. Well the information that granted immediate
consideration quickly did not persuade them to
review my questions…….wondering again?
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Letter from Michigan’s Supreme Court granting
immediate consideration
A copy of the letter that granted me immediate
consideration was also sent to the defense
attorneys. still wondering?
~ 79 ~
Michigan Supreme Court denies my appeal
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN
DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION
Detroit’s Federal Court
I was invited to an oral argument in federal
court before a magistrate judge, wow I thought I
may be getting somewhere now. I prepared myself,
I got a dark blue shirt from the second had store
and a pair of black pants, I was ready. I got onto
the bus and went down to Detroit hours before I
was schedule to appear in court , for two reasons,
one I did not anything to go wrong, I had to be
there and I needed to get copies of a case I just
found on the internet the night before,
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I got everything done and had a time to get
lunch. I found a little and I do mean little burger
shop. The cook was friendly and I chatted with him
about my case and he was quite supportive and
asked me to return to inform him of my results, I
agreed and the burger was not bad also. I
proceeded to the court, I got through security and I
had an hour to wait, just looking at the interior of
the court was enough to scare anyone never mind
someone getting in front of a federal magistrate
judge without a lawyer, but I kept it together.
I got to the court room and met the defense
lawyers on from Chrysler and one for Compuware.
A funny thing all through state court the
Compuware lawyer took the lead and as soon as
we went to federal court the Chrysler lawyer took
the lead, was Chrysler worried.
The judge called court to order and I think I
was the second case. I stated my case, telling her
about how the defendant companies blacklisted
me, by stating they had not record of my
employment. I asked if I could submit a reference
case to the court and she agreed. I asked for
permission to approach and she granted it, so I
handed a copy to everyone in the court, yes even
the defense and everyone became quiet, that
scared me, then I realized that they were reading
the case I just handed to them.
The judge asked why I thought I did not get a
justice in state court. I told the judge all the issues
in the stated courts, like how the first judge state
that my potential employers would have got a
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different response than my private investigator and
later my newspaper reporter, how the court of
appeals simply refused to address my evidence
and how the supreme court granted me immediate
consideration over the weekend and 21 days later
they stated I did not convince them that they
should review my questions and denied me.
Immediately I said that the defense should know
about what happen in the Supreme Court because
they got a copy of the letter. I look over at the
defense attorneys at this point and the look liked
the just swallow a cat…guilty and they had nothing
to say, what they did to get it denied in Supreme
Court, I guess we will never know….
The judge agreed with me by saying I know what
you mean not being able to get a job. I have to
write a recommendation to district judge and you
will get a copy mailed to the address on file. I
thanked the judge and turned to leave and as I did
a lawyer from another case said to me with his
face covered so the judge would not hear him
GOOD JOB, I was excited.
I went back to the burger shop and the owner
immediately asked me how it went. With a big
smile on my face I told him every detail, especially
how the lawyer said good job. He was excited and
he wanted me to tell him what the response was
from the judge would be.
Well the usual thirty days went by and I
received a copy of the report from the magistrate
judge. Well she did a great job, 13 pages to the
report she cited case after case, explain res
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judicata to me and how I could not go to federal
court because it had been in state court, however
she failed to do one thing address anything I said
in her court, she left out everything it was like I was
not even there, why invite me then, I also receive
and order from the district judge dismissing the
case. Here are the documents I left of the
magistrate judge report it is 13 pages long.
Wondering again?
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Order from Detroit’s federal court
I went back to the internet at the library in
Oak Park, Michigan where you could find me there
often. I got to be good friends with the director.
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every time he saw me he would say,’ you New
Englanders never ever give up do you’. I always
responded if we did you would be bowing to the
queen of England right now and we both would
laugh. I was searching the net and I found that you
can filed a complaint against judge for judicial
misconduct thru the circuit executive ,just as the
oak park library director came over. I showed it to
him and he smiled and said it again, you New
Englanders never give up do you!
I filed a complaint of judicial misconduct with
the sixth circuit executive and he submits it to the
chief judge for his review. Another 30 days and the
chief judge dismisses my complaint stating no
judicial misconduct, however the circuit executive
informs me that I can complain to the judicial
council of my case.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
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Here is how a complaint to the judicial
council of judicial misconduct in the sixth circuit
works.
You send you complaint to the circuit
executive and he sends a copy to all members of
the council to review you case before the judicial
council meeting. If all council (appellate judges)
members on there own state no judicial
misconduct then it is a dead issue. If at least one
member stated that there was judicial misconduct
the council must discuss you complain in the next
council meeting.
Well my case was discussed at the next
meeting and 30 days later I received a letter stating
that all members that were present ruled no
misconduct COMPLAINT DISMISSED. What
happened to the member that stated there was a
misconduct to get it into the council meeting was
he even invited to the meeting or it he no mining
coal in Tennessee, lol .Also I receive a letter
dismissing my case in federal court of appeals..
Here are the documents:
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Judicial misconduct denied by chief judge
~ 88 ~
6th circuit executive letter
~ 89 ~
Order from the sixth circuit judicial denying judicial
misconduct
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United States Supreme Court
I sent my case to the Supreme Court in
Washington and they sent it back stating to follow
the enclosed instructions. They retain my fee
indicating that they knew I would be successful with
the rework and return it to them. You have to
submit you brief on paper 6.125x9.3125 and you
need to submit I think 30 copies. That requires that
you have to rework all you word processing to fit on
that format the make 30 copies. Then you go to
the copy store and they don' have paper of that
size so you need to print it on 8.5x11 and have it
cut down. Well with 50 to 75 pages and 30-40
copies you end up with a maximum of 6000 pieces
and with to recycle you just don’t want to throw
them out I gave them to some children I knew to
color on then we recycled them. I mail all thirty
copies to the court. In thirty days I got an order
from the Supreme Court my writ of certiorari was
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Letter from the Supreme Court adding my case to the
docket
added to the docket and denied with no
explanation.
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.
Order from the U.S. Supreme court denying me
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I was informed that the judge of my case in
Oakland county circuit court retired so I motion the
court to reopen the case and the new judge
dismissed the case before he received the defense
response to my motion. Notice the dates on the
judge’s order dates February 6 and the defenses
response is dated February 7 a day later and I was
not made aware of session in his court or I would
attend. Here are the documents:
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Page 1 of judge’s order to deny my motion
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Page 2 of judge’s order to deny my motion
~ 96 ~
Last page of defenses opposition to my motion notice the date
and compare it with the date on the judge’s order to dismiss my
motion to reopen the case
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Boston’s federal court
Well what do I do now there are no more
courts to go to, oh wait there is a world court but I
not a country.
I thought and thought and maybe if I could
get a change of venue, I wrote to the chief judge
in Boston federal court explaining the situation I
was in. Well it was a long shot but I had nothing to
lose. Wow I go a response from him stating I did
not have a case in his courthouse. I could fix that, I
move to Boston and files a case in his court a
week later. The defense was quite angry; they sent
me an order from the federal judge in Detroit
stating that I could not open a case in another
federal court. Looked kind of fake to me not judge
signature or clerk of the courts stamp, so I
continue. I went to the court to file my case and
the clerk asked me if I had the money to pay the
fee, I said yes with a question on my face. How did
she know that I did not have any money who
informed her?
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The defense files a motion to dismiss the case and
I made a mistake thinking that they were
responding to and he denied the very next day.
Here it what he sent to me, I will not cloud you
thoughts, for your own opinion on how this hit me!
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Federal judge’s response in Boston
~ 100 ~
Federal judge’s response in Boston
~ 101 ~
The following letter was received by me from
Chrysler’s defense attorney sent me the following
letter which states that enjoins me from going to
another court. I did not believe this document as
everything was typed on it. all my other court
documents have a stamped from the clerk of the
court stating that this is a true copy, so in my
opinion any one could have typed this up just to
scare me. I not even sure that a federal judge from
one circuit has such power. I would think that such
a document would have to come from the Supreme
Court in Washington, DC and it did not!
Any I stop going to court because of the finical
burden on me and they judge refused to grant me
justice here is the letter, what do you think?
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Letter from Chrysler’s defense attorney claiming that the
federal judge in Detroit stops me from going to another court
page 1
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Letter from Chrysler’s defense attorney claiming that the
federal judge in Detroit stops me from going to another court
page 2
I decide to petition the judge to reopen the
case, so I made up a nice little sign and went to
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the Boston common, a town down the cape and
then I got really bold I went to the Chrysler
dealership. I was quite nervous so I did not stay on
the common very long but I tried several days
returning frustrated more than the day before. I
even went to the old north bridge in concord and
tried to get permission to collect signatures there
but I could not get their permission. I remember the
sending me everywhere, the ranger house, visitor’s
center I was riding my bike around concord for
hours and did not get anywhere. .but here is a
sample of my some of my signatures
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THEIR FINAL OFFER TO SETTLE CASE
While I was petitioning the federal judge to reopen the
case I did petition in front of one of Chrysler’s dealers
and sent them a photo of it. They had their high
powered lawyer contact me to discuss an offer. He
asked me to mail him something to I thought would
settle the case, as I recall; I think it was this way it was
a while back anyway here is my settlement list and
what their response was:
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My settlement list submitted to the Chrysler hired lawyer
~ 107 ~
Chrysler hired lawyer letter of response
~ 108 ~
As you can see by the letter they continue to offer
2000 dollars. On the phone call I had with their
lawyer I tolded him, I just go a bill in the mail for
$7000 (since I did not pay it for 10 years at the
time) what would $2000 do for me. He hummed
then replied if you change your mind contact me.
~ 109 ~
THE INTERNET
My first video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bqrNZL7YA
Based on how quick the defense attorneys
took my newspaper article and how mysteriously
the staff writer refuses to chat with me again after
that. I decided to go public with my story which is
very differcult. The newspapers, TV stations and
radio stations will not talk to me; they just ignore
anything I send them.
I was in the career center in town and
chatted with an official and he stated you could put
your story out on the internet. I had to go and get
an education about the internet.
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The above was the first video I put on the
internet to informing the public what the three
companies did to me in hopes that it will pressure
them to settle with me. I was quite nervous and
where, I had it filmed it just happened to be 98
degrees in the studio and I was sweating heavily. It
has done quite well, and people have taken it of
YouTube and load it on many other sites from
around the world. On the other hand a difficulty I
have to deal with is that many sites have label my
story as spam and simply delete it. I guess they
just don’t want to be involved with these
companies, ah you known how big they are. Also
they could be getting support dollars from these
companies, one never knows.
The Framingham public library is where I
started I go on their computer for 45 minutes in the
morning and if it was not busy the system would
give an extension of 20 minutes twice. If it was
busy then you had to come back in 2 hours. Wow it
was so differcult to get anything done. I went to the
Natick library to get more internet time and was
surprised the let you on for an hour and with two 20
minutes extensions. But I had to ride 10 miles
round trip on the bicycle.
I then found the Sudbury library and the first
time I went there it was really cool they did not
even want to know who you were, just sit down and
get you stuff done with no limit. However it was a
20 mile round trip on the bicycle.
Back to the Framingham library, on day a
librarian state that you could check out a laptop for
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three hours. Some librarians enter a contest and
the won two laptops and donated them to the
library; I use those for quite a while 3 hours a day
every day. However you could not save anything.
I manage to save a few dollars doing some
odd jobs, fixing my niece’s car and I charged her
only because I need a laptop. I managed to save
enough to buy a modest laptop. Cool now I could
save anything I wanted and I could be on for more
than three hours! So I went to town and putout 6
videos and placed my story on over 370 websites
My second video
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18783078MJZRZ89d?h1=chrysler+a
nd+compuware+blacklists+engineer
Well after listening to my first video I saw
many flaws in it so I decided to put another one out
that was much more refined, but I could not delete
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the first one since people were already exposed to
it. That is, they maybe telling their friends about it
and when their friends go to look at it, it not there
well we can’t have that!
Back to the Framingham library they have room
for just one person to study what a great place to
film a video but I needed some help on how to
create one. The librarian came to the rescue and
taught me how to film myself using my laptop’s
web cam and hot to save to load in to different
websites for other people to view, all over the
world. This video is the most popular one of all six
of them.
I loaded it on websites and as I Google
Chrysler and Compuware blacklisted engineer I
found it on websites that I never loaded it on. That
made me feel good other people were helping me
get my story out that had a much more vas
knowledge of the internet than I did. I found it on a
site in England that has to do with painting art, and
another site that had to do with drag racing in
Canada, another in a insurance in San Francisco,
California
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My third video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsITNaKLSU
My third video was filmed in Boston,
Massachusetts in front of the state house to drum
up some more viewers on the internet. I just set up
my sign and people were so interested it what was
going on. This is the place that you got to get
people’s attention and most people in Boston
know that. In fact a gentleman stopped his car
right in front of the state house and got out to ask
me what I was doing. I gave him my info and he
said he would help spread the word.
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My forth video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ82kK3X0Z0
My forth video was an effort to make
students at MIT( Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) aware of what Chrysler and
Compuware can and will do to you. I got attention
of many people as my banner seems to be an eye
catcher, One gentleman stop and chatter with me
giving me an avenue to get a job but when he
heard what happen to me he simply shrug his
shoulders indicating he did not know what to do,
wished me luck and walked away. A few others
commented as they walked by.
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My fifth video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlafXX32wI
My fifth video is quite interesting. I contact
the communication group at Chrysler and their
number was given to another group however the
lady was nice and she got me a new number. I
called it and the lady was not at her office so her
voicemail gave me here mobile number so I called
it. She answered and said she wad driving down
the highway and could not do anything right now I
said I would recall her office and leave my contact
information for her, she agreed and then stated
would call me back. About a week later some
security specialist contacted me and said that I
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need to contact Chrysler’s Boston legal
department. I asked how I would find that
information he said that he would get that info for
me. About a half an hour later he gave me the
mailing address and who to contact and stated
that we need to resolve this issue. I mailed my info
to them and the rejected it stating the need the
precise name of the division of Chrysler in order to
process it. I called the security specialist back and
got the info and remailed to Boston nothing
happened, so I called the specialist back and got
no response. So I called him on a weekly basis to
inform of my internet video viewer count. He
picked the phone after a week or two and stated
that if I did not quit calling and emailing the
communications group, that Chrysler would have
to take me to court for harassment since he felt I
was boarding it. I thought that you are doing
nothing for me so I said I never call you again,
however my internet campaign will not stop till I
die, he hummed and said he had to go.
I thought it was quite funny that I was
contacting Chrysler legal department in Boston if
the headquarters wanted to stop my internet
campaign why wouldn’t they have the legal
department in Boston contact me. What kind of
game were they playing? I decide the public
needed to know what kind of progress I was
making.
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My Sixth video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4imO8M6vEU
I was biking in a nearby town and went into
the hardware store to purchase a bolt. I was talking
to the sales clerk about my story and he was quite
interested. He asked why they did this to me and
told him I had a theory. I explained to him about
the steel baffle plate being attached to the plastic
valve cover by sheet metal screws. He understood
since he sold fasters. He suggested that I do a
video showing the public the actual part in question
that was a great idea. I went to the nearby junkyard
and found one . I took it of the car and brought it
back where I stay. I was very nervous taking of the
baffle plate, maybe they change the design after
they asked me to leave. Woo, they did not change
the design it was exactly like I left it. So I put the
above video out.
Chrysler has gotten quite angry with me no
very angry with me, recently I found that the CEO
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of Chrysler has a facebook page and I attached a
link to my video and the next day my viewer count
of that video went up by one. It is a new video so
not to many people were looking at so I feel some
one at Chrysler looked at it. As a result this is what
happened I have been banned for leaving comment
on all three facebook pages Chrysler
communications, and the CEO of Chrysler as
shown below. Compuware has stop me from living
a comment too.
This is what I get when I logged on to
facebook with my user ID, this is a blog from
Chrysler communications. Notice there is no
window that opens so I can leave a comment, they
use to be
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Chrysler ‘s CEO facebook page again no window for
leaving a comment, my current friends have checked this out
and they can leave a comment on the same page.
Chrysler has also blocked me on YouTube as
indicated
~ 120 ~
The latest as 9/21/11 on facebook when I use their
name it will not post my message. it puts the word
undefined where my post should go. when I don’t
use their name, Chrysler and Compuware it posts
!
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Let’s not forget the forums where people just read
your post and tell their friends here at some
samples, as of 9/11/11 the names are purposely
left off, viewer count is:
1,872,396
507,729
148,750
A video 69,890
20,165
17,398
147,840
As you can see by the above numbers people that
read about my story tell all their friends!!!!!!!!!
The latest on the internet Chrysler unblocks me
for one day after they read my book, the
Wednesday after they return from the Christmas
vacation, then I am blocked again!
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MY THEROY ON WHY THEY DID THIS
TO ME As I have said before but now I will get into
more detail now. I was responsible for the design
of the PCV system and another engineer was
responsible for the valve cover design. During my
prototype testing I attached the baffle plate with
sheet metal screws and the all fell out of the valve
cover. I know that my prototype was a made of
aluminum and I had different screws however,
you have to inform the players of what happen.
You see when designing parts for the public, the
last thing as an engineer you want to happen it is
a failure in the field. This is extremely costly and
must be avoid at all times.
I informed the engineer of the valve cover and he
seemed not to concern. I them chatted with his
supplier and they told me not to worry it would be
fine. I them informed my supervisor on my
concern. I just listen to ne and show his head in
agreement. In other word he just blew me off.
Here are some pictures:
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Steel baffle plate 2.0l SOHC engine
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Steel baffle plate with sheet metal screw shown
10 in total
Close up of sheet metal screw installed
Size of Sheet metal screw in relation us dime!
~ 125 ~
THE POLITICIANS…Michigan,
Massachusetts and Washington, DC
Numerous politicians stated time and again we
can’t get involved in with your case, in the state of
Michigan. When I move to Massachusetts and got
nowhere with the federal court, so I went to ask the
late Senator Kennedy for help. I of course did not
meet with him, I met with his aide. I gave here my
story and she said that would they do anything this
office could do but, she needed a week to review
my case and asked me to call back, ok. I called in
a week and they would not even let me talk with
her. They said that she was a new aide and she
should have not told me that the senator could get
involved.
I called Kerry office on the phone and they
connected me with an aide and she stated the she
need a letter of permission from me to get involved
with my case, ok. I sent her a letter and that was
the end I could never get in touch with her again.
The governor of Massachusetts, I had a sign
made as shown below and I was showing it off in
front of the state house. I got a student Wentworth
Institute that happened to be on the Boston
common to take my picture for me. After that I
walked my banner right into the governor’s office
and sat down with his aide and rolled it out on the
floor, it about 7 feet long, we were discussing my
case when her supervisor walked by and asked her
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if everything was ok the aide replied yes. She told
me, that the governor’s office could not get
involved in my case but could help with services to
support my life. I said that I am ok and I was all set
up. Well it just happened that I was just awarded
social security disability and the cut my food
stamps down to $4 a month, I said nothing of this
to the governor’s aide. A week later I got a letter
from the food stamp program indicating that my
food stamps will raised to $150 dollars. Did the
governor’s office do this?
The next politician was congressman Markey
he had an office here in town, I never met him I
worked with his aide for 5 weeks and she produced
nothing, I ask the congressman to write a private
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bill in congress and his reply through his aide was
no, they do not go anywhere….great!.
I went to the US attorney office here in
Boston and asked them to file a criminal case
against Chrysler and Compuware. The next day I
got all my paper work sent back to me with a note
stating that they did not break any federal law. I
searched the federal laws at the local library and
found one, law 29 CFR 516.5 and states that they
need to keep employee records 2-3 years.
I went back to the U.S. attorney’s office and
showed them a copy of the law. I receive a phone
message from the assistant U.S attorney stating
“go away we told you we can’t do anything for you
and don’t come back!” wow I was shocked!
Here is the law: notice it states they must
retain my records of employment for 2 years and
have them available, my private investigator’s
report is 14 months after my termination. So they
did break the federal law and this law is under the
department of labor!
~ 128 ~
Federal Law the companies broke
~ 129 ~
I contacted the white house, at first I
faxed them a letter as I stated before I asked
congressman Markey’s aide help to find the
faxed letter at the white house. She could not
even find the fax number! I then sent a copy of
the letter to the white house and guess what I
got a response, here is the letter
Letter from the White House
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It was from a M------ K-------, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential
Correspondence. It stated that he took the liberty to
forward my information to the department of labor. I
received a letter from a H---- C. O’----- an official
from the department of labor here in Boston stating
that I should go get a job and she even provided
directions where to go, wow!
~ 131 ~
My letter faxed to the president
~ 132 ~
Fax cover sheet to the president of the United
states
~ 133 ~
Letter from the department of labor
~ 134 ~
Letter from the department of labor
I was quite upset with the government, it fails to
help me again, but it has no problem taking my
money when I was working. I wrote and told her
that it was next to impossible to get a job in
1998 because of this injustice/blacklisting, why
did she think that it would be easier 11 years
later, wondering again.
~ 135 ~
My letter to the official at the department of labor
~ 136 ~
My letter to the official at the department of labor
I never heard from her again so I decide to fax
the president again and continued till the shut
off the fax, no they just blocked my fax
~ 137 ~
Second letter fax to the president of the United States
~ 138 ~
THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
As you inspect I sent both Chrysler and
Compuware a letter to inform them of my internet
campaign and how well it is doing. I would mail a
letter two ways certified and certified return
receipt. On certified letter you just type in you
number they give you when you pay and it tells you
where you letter is, you do the same for return
receipt however the mail you back a green card
that is supposed to be signed by the party you
mailed it to. The last two letters I mailed just
disappeared the computer showed they were
received but never got delivered
And my letter with the return receipt, well I
never got the little green card that I filled out. We
have two post office in the town I live in I went the
one in town and they checked the computer and
said they could not help and suggested that I to
go the main branch. I talked to the manager there
he checked the computer also and he said he did
not know where it went and later he would call the
Detroit post office and check and to come back.
When I went back he said no one knows where
your letters are.
I contacted the post office consumer
affairs in Boston and she looked for me and came
up short and gave me a nice letter to make me go
away, well I did not. I contacted the post master
general in Washington dc as I had trouble with this
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situation before so I knew who to contact. She
contacted Boston and asked them to look again.
Here it the result the Boston office sent me
a green card with the information I gave them and
the wrote the word duplicate on the card and with
that, I was supposed to be happy that the
company received my letter.
What kind of idiot do they think I am, if the
letter was delivered what happened to my green
card, why do they just say what the US attorney
said “go away and do come back we can’t do any
for you”.
I must add the local postal workers were very
supportive in my situation and are very much
today, hats of f to them!
Emails between me and post office officials
my address
bill butler
110 Arlington street
Framingham,Ma
mail to
Legal Department
Chrysler corporation
1000 Chrysler drive
auburn hills, MI 48236
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, D----, D------ F - Washington, DC
<-------------------------> wrote:
From: D-----, D------ F - Washington, DC ------------------
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------------------->
Subject: Not signing for package Certified
#70071490000422614555
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 8:56 AM
Dear Mr. Butler, Your email to the Postmaster General was forwarded to this office for handling. In order to appropriately investigate your request, please email your complete mailing address, including the address where your Certified letter was sent, in Gross Pointe, Michigan. Sincerely, D. D---- Consumer Research Analyst Postal Service Headquarters [email protected]
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Message flagged
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:44 AM
Dear Mr. Butler:
Your email to the Postmaster General regarding a Certified package, Article Number 70071490000422614555.
We will be working with our managers in review of this issue as they have the local knowledge vital to such evaluation.
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Please understand we remain involved, but the managers with immediate authority over your local area will be able to move swiftly to review this matter and develop a response. For any future Postal Service issues, please feel free to contact the Consumer Affairs Office nearest you at (978) 664-7641.
Thank you for contacting the United States Postal Service.
Sincerely,
D. D---- Postal Service Headquarters
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February 16, 2011
Dear Mr. Bill Butler,
This acknowledges your inquiry to the Postal Service
regarding your certified package
70102780000267420664.
We regret learning of the situation you outlined in your
inquiry. Certainly, such a report is not good news to us
and does not reflect the service we want to provide to
you. We are always concerned when a customer has
had an experience that does not meet their expectations.
~ 142 ~
We realize your situation will require the knowledge of
management officials overseeing the Post Offices in
your service area. Accordingly, I have forwarded the
information to your local Consumer Affairs Manager
for appropriate action. Please understand referral does
not reduce the scope of the review. The managers who
will receive your inquiry are those with both the
authority and responsibility to ensure their local
customer’s issues are addressed.
To discuss this or any future Postal related issues, please feel free to
contact the Consumer Affairs Office at 25 Dorchester Avenue, Room
4009, Boston, MA 02205-9631; Phone: 617-654-5740, as they have
the ability to respond to local issues in a timely and efficient manner.
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
Sincerely,
Here is a letter from the United Post office,
Boston Consumer affairs, in the official state ”I
think it is important to explain that Certified Mail
provides a receipt to the mailer at the point of
mailing and it is dispatched and handled in transit
as ordinary mail with no definitive tracking
capability
~ 143 ~
Print out from the U. S. post office
showing tracking of certified mail…this
contradicts the statement made by the official
in the previous letter.
~ 144 ~
Another Letter from the post office consumer affairs
stating that the letter certification program is not a
means of tracking a letter in which we all know it is as
you go on the internet type in the number they give you
and you see where your letter is???
~ 145 ~
ACLU Boston Office
The ACLU that’s, the American Civil
liberties Union, I contacted them twice and I
even went to Boston and they said sorry can’t
help you shaking the head no. Then you come
home and on the news you see the fighting for
somebody else’s case, but they can’t help you.
They did send a letter recommending me to go
to the NELA here is the letter;
I contacted them and they said it would
cost me 250 dollars for an hour and at the end
they may say we can’t help you……without any
money at the time this was out of the question.
~ 146 ~
Letter from the ACLU
~ 147 ~
THE SURVRIAL OVER 14 YEARS
As I sit here remembering what I have gone
thru in the last 14 yrs, I know that my teeth are
rotting away I almost feel the falling apart since
Massachusetts heath stop repairing teeth, they just
pull them out when the cause a problem. I should
not complain though, they have fixed a lot of other
stuff, and probably will fix a lot more before it all
over.
Let’s start out this part of the book with
something positive ok, it was the summer of 1998
and I decided to go on a nice vacation for a
change. Instead of rental a car and driving around
New England, I decided to go wind jamming off
the coast of Maine and booked it for September.
For those of you who do not know what wind
jamming is well, it is sailing in an 85 ft schooner. I
had a lovely time the food was great, it was all
cooked on a wood stove and there was plenty of
it. I helped raise the anchor, sails and
centerboard, one day I was feeling a bit sluggish
and did not help raise the center board and the 2nd
mate spoke up and said are you helping today or
what….well ok.
We went to an uninhabited island and had a
lobster bake there on the shore in maine They had
potatoes, corn, onions and of course the lobster,
all you can eat. The record according to the
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captain was nine; I ate seven of them and then I
could not move. Well the trip ended and I went to
visit my uncle as he lived in the area. I only stay a
day as I had to get back to Detroit and go back to
work. This was my last vacation before Chrysler
and Compuware dismissed me.
I stayed in Detroit for about a month, I had
conversations with my sister about moving back to
New England and she said I could stay with her
until I get a job. I needed some convincing though
as I knew there would be trouble if I had to stay
there a long time. Well after several conservations I
agreed to move and I would put all my possessions
in storage while I stay with my sister.
I called my friend in Connecticut she was
excited that I was coming back to New England as
a matter of fact she made me an offer I could not
refuse. She stated that if I flew her out to Detroit
she would drive one of my cars back to New
England, I agreed. I had a 70 corvette and 91
Grand Am. I sent her a ticket and then met her at
the airport in Detroit. I had rented a truck and trailer
and was ready when she arrived so I thought. She
did not like the way I packed the car so she took
out everything and repacked it oh well at lease she
was not happy. I had bought a pair of two way
radios so we could keep in touch as we drove to
New England.
It was a scary adventure for me as I never drove
a truck before, especially one that had a trailer
attached with my antique corvette that I just
finished restoring on it. I remember going through
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Toledo, Ohio the first big city I had to drive through
cars coming from every direction and because you
are driving the truck slow they all cut in front of you
and they cut it close enough so the only think you
can do it stop.
I manage to get through it all and then get
slammed onto the Ohio turnpike, let me tell you I
think the whole country’s trucks are on that stretch
of road. I also think this is where the word convoy
was created just miles and miles of trucks one right
after another non-stop all the way to Cleveland.
I reach Cleveland, Ohio and the pressure just
increased, the highway in that city just weaves in
and out of those tall buildings and the thoughts
that were going through my head, will the trailer be
ok did I secure the corvette to the trailer right, the
thought just did not stop. They were so many turns
in that city, I just had to stop, relax and get a soft
drink. Half an hour later I was ready go on the road
again. We got to New York was and it was time to
stop for the night. We pulled into one motel and
the rates were very reasonable so we checked in
and then went to this very nice restaurant
suggested by the motel clerk the food and service
was so country, it helped me wind down from the
drive. However I was unaware of what was
happening back at the motel.
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My 70 corvette
We got back, it was begin to rain, I did not
have a cover for my corvette that was waterproof
and this motel had a bar that was buzzing. I was
pissed all that restoration and some drunk was
going to crunch my car, the one that I put my heart
and soul into and I just got it painted, that night
was a sleepless. My friend tried to help by stating
that the drunks will stay in the bar cause it was
raining hard that night, well that helped somewhat
but not enough.
I got up in the morning and jumped to the gl
window to see my corvette, all was well and shortly
we were back on the road again. I go to
Massachusetts and it was late, my sister did not
even know where the storage place was never mind
having axis to it that night she did nothing. I still
had to bring my friend back to Connecticut where
was I going to put my corvette, I thanked my sister
with a smirk. I went up to a swanky motel in the
area and got a room, they assured me that my
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corvette would be ok so, drove my friend back to
Connecticut. I checked my corvette when I go back
and it was ok so, I was a little relieved.
The next day I had to unload the truck as I
needed to return it. I got into the storage place and
my sister and her son were nice enough to help so
I thought. I was having trouble backing the truck
and trailer up so my nephew did it for me. We
unloaded it into to storage, one for my house hold
goods and the other for my corvette it belongings,
tools, jacks and extra parts that sort of stuff. It
took us a couple of hours and it was done. Image I
had to pay my nephew, I was out of work ,thirty
dollars, my sister suggested, oh wait it even gets
better!
I settled in with my sister only to find out she
never asked her husband if it was ok, strike one.
I got to sleep on her old couch and boy was it
uncomfortable and that was a lot of fun. After a
few months went by one of the spring came apart
and I had to repair because I got blamed for
breaking it.
When I first arrive I got sick I think it was all
the smoke, there was a layer that you could see
about 4 feet of the floor through the house, I kid
you not. The only place I had to recover for my
illness was the couch, my sister got upset that I
was laying on it to much.
Her son was remodeling someone’s living
room and they wanted to dispose of the old couch
so my sister got it through her son. I was not
allowed to sleep on it anymore since I was blamed
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for breaking last one. I went to get an air mattress
that I would put on the living room floor and sleep
there. I had to deflate every morning and blow
every night as it was in the living room. While I laid
there asleep every morning my sister would awake
me to feed here fish, by pushing the mattress aside
to get by. I asked one day can you feed you fish at
night when I don’t have the mattress blown up then
you won’t wake me every morning, I got a flat no.
I did not pay here any rent as I was not
working but I did many things for her. I remember
redoing her kitchen, sanding and refinishing all her
cabinets, removing a wall between the kitchen and
dining room and adding a new floor. When she sat
at the table the night I finished, she just dug the leg
of her chair into the new floor and when told about
it she said it is ok I don’t like the floor I going to
change it, it was never changed. I wallpapered her
bathroom and dining room. The dining room had
wallpaper that had to be removed so you could put
the new paper on. We had an argument about me
not knowing what I was doing, and I did not need r
remove the old wall paper. I did not listen and strip
the many layers of old wallpaper and paint. Some
of the wallpaper was painted before the next layer
of paper was applied it was a mess. I got it all off
right down to the bare walls and I had to do some
repairs. I prime it then I sized and installed the new
wallpaper. The new paper was the kind you could
paint it look real nice, not a peep out of my sister, I
don’t even think she said thank you. I put a stereo
in her car she got from the salvage yard, fix her
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brakes exhaust, I told her anything that I could do I
would.
She never let me cook there so, I had to eat
out all the time luckily I was getting unemployment.
I asked her if I could make some cookies once and
said “no, what you want to do run up my electric
bill” that pissed me off after everything I did for
her, later she realized that she made a mistake and
asked me I wanted to make some cookies. I
replied “no” the damage was already done. She
use to make spare ribs and to show her power over
me, she would cut off two and give them to me
knowing I did not eat. She did feed once and a
while if she cooked a large meal like turkey or ham,
not too often though.
My sister asked if I would help her son fix his
truck as it had an exhaust leak and it could not
pass Massachusetts inspection and he could not
go to work, he repaired and installed hardwood
floors.
I looked at the problem and saw that the
stubs in the exhaust manifold were broken.rhw
manifold had to be removed from the truck and the
studs had to be drilled out and install new ones
after tapping the holes.
I t was an old truck so every was rusted and to
remove the manifold you had to remove the EGR
tube which was rusted heavily. To remove the tube
you would have to break it and buy a new one, I
told him that, he agreed. We got it all apart, drill,
tapped and installed new studs and got everything
back into the truck.
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Well he did not have the money for the new
tube…$80 dollars. I left his house and he was
quite upset, I got back to my sister’s house only to
see she was on the phone with her son and he
blame the whole thing on me. He told his mom
that I wrecked his truck and he had no was to get
to work. Huge argument everyone upset, he states
I never ask you again to help me. So to keep
peace I agreed to buy the dam tube. I bought it
installed it and every was ok again, except one
thing he said he would pay me back, 14 years later
I still waiting.
Let’s move on to the next one my sister’s
daughter and her husband liked to go to the casino
in Connecticut and invited me. I went along and
guess what I won and won and won. One night I
was down to my last coin and I won 700 dollars in
front of them. Oh boy were they all angry I could
tell by the tone of their voice. I was only able to go
with them a few more times as they stopped
inviting me. Was it because I was winning and they
were not, I guess we will never know the truth.
Next my sister love to barbeque and one day
after her work she asked if I want, ok. We were out
in the side of her apartment on the sidewalk and
shortly her husband came home, he grumbled
something as he walked by the grill and that was
the last of our communication, never said another
word to me. From this point on he would come out
of his room while I was watching TV in his
underwear, only his briefs. This nightly event, a
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discussing one at that I might add, was it done to
drive me out of the house, you bet it was.
I was wining a lot at the casino driving
myself now, so one night I decided to stay at a
motel in Connecticut, give myself a break from the
crap going on at my sister house. That trigger
everything she said she wanted 200 a month from
me to live there from now on. I said the hell with
you, you don’t let cook here, you don’t let me
shower here, you barley let me sleep here and
wake me up morning feed you dam fish, so I took
her keys and threw them at her and said have a
good life
I went to a motel in eastern, Massachusetts,
for the night, boy was I relieved, I took 13 showers
that night. It was good to remove all the smoke
and everything else obtained at my sister’s house
off and guess what, the next morning a knock on
the door. It was housekeeping they want to know if
I needed more towels, oh I thought I was in
heaven, after staying at my sister house for ten
unbearable months.
I only stayed there one night at first, as I
owed money on my car and I thought they were
after me so every night I went to another motel.
Some of them were very scarcer than others. I
remember one I enter the room and the door was
splintered like it had been broken it with a police
battering ram and they glue it back together, you
could still see where the cracks I asked for another
room, it was better I guess. I went to the restaurant
next door and they informed me of the reputation
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of that motel, they said all warrants were served at
8 pm, if you were still around at 8:01 you were ok, I
was. Boy I was glad I was just staying the one
night.
Another place I stayed was a single cabin
and the heater in my cabin was making strange
noises like it was a signal for some mother ship.
Finally I got up and went to the office and the
manager came in and shut it off and gave me a
little space heater, wow I thought how much worst
can it get.
I stayed at another that reminded me of
being in a box made of cement all the walls were
just painted cement block, very cold.
Still another was so old I thought when I
walked across the room I thought it was going to
fall apart and when I got on the bed it just
confirmed my thoughts, it made so much noise I
did not dare to move and the lumps had lumps.
Another one was close to a prison it gave
me the creeps since I was not paying my bills, well
I think you know what I mean.
Finally I said to myself that this is too much
and I just decide to stay at one motel and I took a
room way in the back to hide my car. That was the
winter of 1999, 350 to 400 a week, there goes my
savings. I did not go anywhere just watched TV and
snuck out at night to get something to eat. I
remember one night I went to the office to chat
with the night crew and there was a flat bed
wrecker parked in the lot. I thought they had found
me and I was going to lose my transportation. I
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panic and hurry down to the office, blood pressure
rising and asked about that wrecker and they
explained that every now and then the driver wants
to get away from it all and this is where he can get
some sleep so don’t worry they have not found you
yet. She continue if there was a warrant for your
arrest they would come and get you and we here at
the office could not do anything so go relax. I went
back to my room to relax, boy was that an
experience, I will never forget; remember I always
paid my bills.
The next day was another big surprise, my
niece came over with her 4 kids and Chinese food
what a break from silence, and they were a site for
sore eyes. They brought all kinds of laughter to my
silent room, I was sure happy about that; you know
the four walls were closing in on me. She use to
take me for rides, we would go out to a department
store or to the grocery store or any other errands
she had to do, I was grateful it got me out of the
little motel room. I learn for her that my sister was
mad that I did not agree to pay her instead I chose
to pay the motel.
The winter had passed and my niece was
going on vacation and she asked if I wanted to
watch her apartment while she was away. I agreed
and moved to Worcester while she was on vacation
to Missouri. I think they were gone for about a
month. When they came back she asked me to
stay with her and her family for 100 dollars a
month, ok it was cheaper than the motel.
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One day my niece decided to get a part time
job and convinced me to try, so we went down to
the local supermarket and we both applied, some
time went by and she got hired and I go called in
for an interview. They wondered why an engineer
was applying for a part time deli job. I told them
my story about Chrysler and Compuware
blacklisting me, her response was hmmm and she
shook my hand and off I went. The following week I
received a letter from them denying me
employment in the store, Chrysler strikes again.
Summing up things I was paying my niece
100 per month, feeding her kids, putting them to
bed at night and letting her use my car to go to
work, and any other thing she might want. What a
deal she was getting, even my brother comment
how good it was.
I was trying to get the children to eat their
vegetables, yeah every night and the little one said
some sort of lie to his father and well I saw the
writing on the wall, it was time for me to leave. I
told my niece, she gave me a hug and my 100
dollars back and I got my car driving back to the
motel. She quit her job that night.
I stayed at the motel for only a week since
they went up on their rate it now was 2000 per
month.
I went to Vermont to camp in the woods at
one of their state parks; I figured that I would be
safer there instead of just in the woods. I started
with a tent and my car which was illegal. I had to
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go back to Massachusetts to get is inspected so it
look legal. Here is my campsite and parking pass;
Parking pass
State park
The first night I must have removed enough
stones to fill a dump truck and when I told the
ranger in the morning, she smiled and thanked me.
I also tolded here that there was so much noise
that it was differcult to sleep, she said I be right
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back and brought me some ear plugs and that did
the trick.
It was fun at first building a fire and cooking
food, I guess that I like it because it was a change
from the motel room. I had to buy firewood split it
and build a fire to cook my food. That was getting
expensive, the range said that the army core of
engineers just left and they thinned out the forest
and left a lot of trees lying on the ground. If you
can get the wood back to your campsite you can
have it. I rushed to the nearby hardware store and
bought a little saw, it was tough cutting the 18 inch
green oak logs but it needed to be done so I
thought to myself suck it up and get the job done
so you can eat.
I went to by an ax to split the wood but it was
green so I need a hammer. The hammers mangled
the end of the ax, so I went to get a wedge. Yes
you guessed right, it mangle the hammer…any way
I got the wood cut and split and was able to cook
my food and stay alive.
The stay there was scary at times as during
the week I was the only one in the park because all
the weekend campers went home. I use to go to
New Hampshire to the movies to kill most of the
evening and I got to know the ticket agents. At the
time the Blair Witch Project was showing, she would
not sell me a ticket because she knew I was
sleeping in the woods. The scariest part was when I
would get back from the movies and drive down
those dirt roads with dead trees hang down over the
both sides of the road. It reminded me of a horror
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movie, once I got to my site I was ok, Chrysler
strikes again.
One afternoon this mom can by with her two
children and chatted with me a while, she made the
evening a little more pleasant. They left and I threw
another log on the fire it was just about a couple
hours before dark. I heard a little voice stating hello
there, it was her little daughter she brought me a
steak her mom had sent her, and then her son
came with more food, and now I felt special. I was
glowing more that the fire and that saying a lot. I
sent a very big thank you back with both her son
and daughter. The next morning they were gone it
was the end of the stay I did not get a chance to
thank her.
Another time the ranger came to my campsite
and said a very bad storm is coming through and I
want you pull up your tent and go to one of the
lean- to get out of the rain. She said I don’t want
you floating down the drive in the flood. Just make
sure you out first thing in the morning. I pulled up
camp and went to the lean- to and spent the night
there. The storm did not come it just blew by, not a
drop of rain. The next morning I went to a different
tent site.
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Lean-to site, state park
I was told about the air mattress so I went to
department store and bought one, I was so excited
no more stones in my back. I got back and it just
fit in my tent. I blew it up and immediately I laid
down on it, I was in heaven I could not wait to go
sleep that night. The fire went out and I was tired,
but excited to try out my new sleeping
accommodations, so i went to sleep, only to be
woken by those stones again. The mattress lost it
air, no they was no whole it, simply it would not
hold air through the night, I know I exchange it
several times and none of the lasted through the
night, so I just put up with it, it was better than
having the stones all night.
Well the rain finally came and did it rain, I had
left my cup on the picnic table and in filled right up
in minutes. The tent leaked the floor was wet along
with everything else. I just kept the air mattress full
and rode out the storm, it lasted for hours and at
times it was quite a down pour. It finally stopped I
got out to string a line and hung everything up to
dry. I was ok nothing ruin just wet and it all dry.
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The nights were getting longer and longer
every day, I did not have much money so it took a
lot of thinking. I finally cracked I went to
department store and bought a boom box. I was in
touch with the outside world again—yay. I played it
all day and at night I had a set of ear phones to
listen to those late night radio shows. It was great
and I was happy it worked and there were no
problems with it, I did not have to exchange it, I
had my fill with that dumb mattress.
I discovered an unemployment office in New
Hampshire; it wasn’t too far as I was at a state
park close to the state line. I visited it almost every
day with no results, I chatted with the official there
about what had happen to me, mentioning that I
had filed a lawsuit against them in Michigan She
convince me to go back to Michigan to fight the
lawsuit. I was getting close to my three weeks
stay,( in Vermont they allow only three week since
they don’t want you living permanently) so I
decided to go back to Michigan but first I needed a
little vacation so I went east to visit my uncle on the
coast of Maine.
I arrived and got the usual greeting, a solid
hand shake from my uncle and a warning from my
aunt; when we die we are leaving this place to my
two daughters. I got that every time I went there, I
always tolded her I don’t want anything I am just
visiting my uncle, she smiled.
The next day I awoke and went down stairs
and they were both sitting on the back porch and I
said good morning, the both laughed; it was a
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normal thing to say so I was a bit confused. I
asked them why are you all laughing. They regain
themselves and stated that it was 5 o’clock in the
afternoon and that I had slept the whole day away.
Wow, I felt grand and quite rested to, now if I could
only get about a dozen more of those days…fat
chance of that ever happening.
I told them this was not I vacation and I
would like to do some things to help them out. All
right my uncle said, first I put up a new flag pole
made from cedar post he had left in the barn, I lap
jointed two of them together, it turned out ok. Next
we erected a fence and I got emotional and he
caught me and said what was wrong, so I
explained. Hey I put up a fence on the coast of
main using cedar posts, I continue that cedar was
my favorite wood and I was in my favorite place,
the coast of Maine, and my uncle was here. How
often would this happen again, he shrugged it off
and said it is no big deal’ it was to me.
One day they surprised me, they invited
me to go to my uncle class reunion, which I found
out later it was my father too. how cool! You see
the school is so small out there the invite all
classes even the current graduating class. I got to
meet some of my dad’s classmates and oh did
they speak highly of him, except they said he was a
quiet type. I knew I was not getting the real scoop
they were just being nice, so some of the younger
people snag me to play a round of croquet, I could
not resist as I use to play it at my grandmother’s
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house every time we visited so it brought back
some memories, I had a great time.
My aunt and uncle at the time were getting
old and they could take so much of me so I only
stayed a week and went off to Michigan. I said my
good byes and they surprised me again, they gave
me 50 dollars for a motel room. Later I learn that
the past away while I was in Michigan, I glad I went
to see them for my last time.
When I departed I was sad as I did not want to
leave Maine to go back to that state of Michigan. I
traveling along and I look up in my rear view mirror
and there was a police car following me. I stiffen
as you know my car was illegal if he had stopped I
probably… well I just don’t know. In this part of
Maine all the roads are country roads and the go
on for miles, there is not place to turn off and if I
just pulled over he would stop to see if I need any
help so, I just followed the rules. He followed me
for 5 or 6 miles my blood pressure was at it max,
finally a convenient store I turn right in and he
whizzed right by me. I told the clerk in the store
that he needed to give me some time to cool down
before he could help me and he understood when I
explained. The rest of the trip I had no encounters
with the law.
I arrived in Michigan toward the night I called a
friend and ask if I could crash for the night, she said
ok. I had every plan to camp in the woods but she
made me an offer I could not refuse, she said I
could sleep in her front room, great I took her up on
her offer, however I pointed out to her that I wanted
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to help her doing things around the house and then I
told what had happen to me, she was overwhelmed.
I started with cutting the brush in her back yard
wow it was over grown, estimated cost was about
900 dollars. I save her that money and got to meet
the neighbors she never talked too. I put new grass
in her front lawn as what she had was dead. The
neighbor saw that and asked me if I knew anything
about ceramic tile, I told yes because I had tiled my
cousin’s bathroom in his new house. He asked me
to look at his bathroom and I did. What a can of
worms, as it ended up I replace the tub, sink and
floor. Once I removed the tub and floor the sub floor
was all rotten so that had to be replaced also. The
subfloor got repaired the down went a new piece of
plywood to make the floor the same height and the
hall floor, finally it was all done and then they ask
how much did I want, I said, you mean money, yes
how much do you want. I had no idea what to
charge so I told him 2-300 hundred dollars he ok
and paid me. I was in shock and I took my friend
out to dinner. Well as it turn out I did a lot of this
neighbor, put a new front door, new ceramic tile in
the foyer, new ceramic tile in the kitchen, new tile at
the fire place, and the biggest job was finishing of
the basement. Wow I was getting paid and I had
money now to file my case in the courts.
Well out there in Michigan the houses are only
the width of the driveway apart, so you pretty much
know what you neighbor is doing. The next door
neighbor stopped by one day and said I next; I want
my kitchen to be refinished. New ceramic floor, new
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countertops, new tile on the black splash, refinish
the cabinets and new paint was the task at hand.
We went to pick out the counter top color and
she liked it, the more expensive one, she asked how
I like it and I said it is very nice, so she ordered it
and when it came I installed and it look really nice. I
also put a new ceramic floor in for her. I started the
back splash and before I could finish she
disappeared. She never answer the door, I never
seen her outside or anything. The thing is that I was
staying right across the street and a small street it
was. Six weeks later I caught her in the yard and
she complained that I spent all her money and she
could not finish the job. Really I told her, I spent
your money that is silly, you decide what to buy not
me and with that the job was never got finished.
One good thing came out of it though, another
neighbor came by and he wanted me to do his
kitchen.
He was gun ho and it was exciting to work with
him, he knew what he wanted and it full steam
ahead every day except Sunday until the job was
done, I liked that. We laid out the job right away he
wanted the cabinets sanded and refinished, new
counter tops, new ceramic tile on the floor and back
splash. We got it done and he loved it. Later he
gave me a job of taking out a wall to increase his
master bedroom size.
The a fourth neighbor asked if I could put
ceramic tile in her laundry, well she wanted to put
vinyl tile but I told her it would not last with all the
water from the laundry so she agreed to the
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ceramic. She also was nice and she let me do it the
job right but she did constantly complain I need you
to finish so I can clean. We are having relatives in
from Iraq, you I never saw those relatives I think
they never came.
I had so much work I could buy new tools and
also buy supplies to redo my friends house so it
would not cost her anything and did I redo it, here it
the list, new wallpaper in the hall, new wallpaper in
the bathroom, fixed all the gutters on the house,
new ceramic tile on the floor in the foyer, repaired
the living room ceiling cracks, painted the living
room both walls and ceiling, replace bathroom
faucet at 12 midnight so she could shower in the
morning, and vinyl sided the front of the house, all
with no cost to her.
Well all those neighbors that I had work on
their house had relatives and they all had work for
me to do since I not did charge a lot and they all
like the finished product. Guess what they all picked
me up and took me to the home center to get
supplies and then to their home, since the
registration on my car ran out. One lady use to
knock on the window at 10pm she wanted me to go
to the home center to get supplies for the next day.
I went each and every time she knocked on the
window just to keep the peace.
Well two of the many stick out from the rest
one was unbelievable at times. She wanted
everything done the same day she gave me the job,
and she would let you know it you were taking too
long.
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She wanted the kitchen done new ceramic tile
and a few other things done. So she hired another
guy to work with me to get the job done quicker. I
was laughing at her every day and she knew it as
she had to scream at him every day as he did not
do a good job, he was in a hurry to get paid and go
onto another job, We put the backer board down for
the tile and if he cut it to long he would just whack it
with a hammer until it fit. You are supposed to leave
a gap between each sheet, he did not. When he laid
the tile out it was so uneven it was sad, but he had
only one thing in mind get it done and get it done
quick.
She gave him another job because she
thought I could not do it. It was to redo the back
step and she want I couple of ceramic inserts
installed, he screwed it up so bad, he had to bury
them in cement, she was very angry. It was getting
quite tiring for me to go over on a daily basis and
listen to them fight all the time. Finally I said this is
my last day let him finish the job. She said no, no,
no we want you to stay and finish, I did not like that
because she would and did ask me to fix all the
things he messed up. Well somehow we got
everything fixed and I moved on to another job,
only to return to do another job for her at a later
date.
Well it happened sooner than I thought she
asked me back for another job as a matter of fact
she asked me back several times. I install both
front and rear doors; put in a bathroom and laundry
in the basement and extended the driveway.
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She put two really nice doors in the front entry
the main door had a lovely oval with etch glass and
the screen door was a full light. I got the front door
in and it took me the better part of a day, she
complained that it was taking too long. I looked her
right into the eye and said this is your front door
every one that comes to the house this will look at i
it, it must be prefect in every way and I don’t care
how long it takes….understand, she said nothing
and walked away. A few weeks passed and she
bought the screen door. I was taking it out of the
package on the front lawn and she was watching
me. I thought it would be good time to joke with
her, so a pulled one part out, with the instructions
in my other hand and said we don’t need this and
threw it over my shoulder. She called out my name
with her loudest voice and I turned and said I was
just joking she shook her head no and walked
away, the door was installed, worked perfectly and
they all were happy.
The next job with this same woman was to
extend the driveway 20 feet I built the forms and we
decide to mix the cement ourselves to save money.
We rented a mixer and she had her son mix the
cement while I spreaded it. If you know anything
about cement/concrete the most important part is
the mix. I got a bucket and told him for every bag
you need to put this much water in. He did that for
one or two bags, then he just fill the mixer with
water and threw in the cement. Some of the
batches were dry while others were soupy, I told
him about it and he just ignored me. I had to squirt
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it with water because it was so dry and that was
not good.The next day the surface had a thin layer
on it and you could peal it off with your hands.
When I arrived she came out and let me tell you we
were 40 miles away from Detroit and I know they
could her out there, she scream, and scream and
would not stop I started to walk off and she
stopped me. She threw her hands out and said
what you are going to do…nothing as long as you
are yelling at me, she stooped and I told her we
could rent a grinder at the home center and I would
grind the whole surface 11 ft by 20 feet, I was
pissed, because her son would not listen to me. I
ground the entire surface and it turn out lovely, she
had me edge it with red brick and then I was finish
with her for a long while.
The other lady was on the opposite end of
the stick she was really nice and as time went on
she knew what kind of work I did and how cheap I
did it for. It started that she wanted me to just paint
her bedroom. I finally got around to painting it 4
years later, oh you think I was a goof off, well you
wrong about that, she went nuts she had me redo
the whole house, I am not kidding here is the list,
New upstairs bathroom, panel and install old
kitchen cabinets in the garage, new kitchen, new
doors inside and out, new den, paint everything,
new patio floor, raised her pool house, added
foundation and a window to the pool house, fixed
her sprinkler system, installed a new vinyl fence
and finally then I did painted her bedroom
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Let talk about her kitchen, I stripped it out
completely everything was removed, installed a
ceramic floor in the kitchen that led to the dining
room, that led down the hall encompassed the
laundry, and the half bathroom then, it finally
ended in the front foyer, what a tile job. I tiled the
kitchen first so we could get it back together so she
would have a place to prepare food, then I finished
the rest of the tile later. All new cabinets in the
kitchen new counters and a breakfast bar. It came
out so sweet I was so proud of it. She then wanted
it painted it a dark pumpkin which matched the oak
cabinets lovely and may I add that the light tan
floor brought it all together.
The walls in the den were painted a dark red,
cranberry I guess, it turned out lovely, then I built a
desk and added crown molding and new base
boards all stain in oak. She added a gray carpet
with a nice chandler done in bronze. She told me
all her friends loved it and she thank for several
weeks.
The raising of the pool house was scary and
fun at the same time as I never did anything like
this before. It did not have any foundation the sill of
the building sat below the pool deck so all the
water went right into the pool house and which
rotted out it the structure. I had to replace all the
sills and some of the wall studs. We then jacked
the building up 2 inch at a time starting in on
corner and then going right around the building and
when it was all up two inches we went to 4 inches
and we continued this method until we had the
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building jacked up 12 inches and then we laid the
cement block in between the wood blocks holding
up the building. After letting them dry we place a 2
inch block of wood on top of the cement block and
then jacked the building so we could remove the 12
inch wood blocks and set it doun on top of the
cement/two inch wood blocks. We did this so we
could slide cement blocks where the 12 inch wood
block were. After the entire cement blocks were in
place and the cement was hard we removed the 2
inch wood blocks and finally rested the building on
the 9 in cement block, job done. I must add one
more thing I kept say we as my assistant was her
teenage daughter, she was a excellent addition to
getting the job done, and I am still thanking her,
good job!
I don’t remember when but I think it was the
week after she pick me up from the house I was
staying like she did every weekend and I suggested
that she put a window in the pool house ,it would
be good she could open it and dry the inside if it
got wet. Well at first she rejected the idea and I
need something at the home center she stopped
on the way to her house. When I came out she
asked if I looked at the windows, I laughed and
told her that I did. I gave her the price and we both
went back in to purchase a window for her pool
house, that afternoon I finished installing it and it
brought the pool house alive! That is no more
damp musty smell and if it did get wet then it
would dry out quickly.
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I always enjoyed working for her and she
never had a problem paying me. In fact at times
she would pay me before I finished the job, unlike
some them they figured that he homeless so what
can he do if I don’t pay him. Over the 4yrs I lost 4
thousand dollars by people not paying me. I
installed a laminate wood floor and a ceramic floor
for some friends of the lady I was staying with.
Week after week they promise to pay and they
never did. Another one I was redoing his bathroom
and when I stripped the vinyl floor there was no
plywood it was rotted out. I told him that he had to
pay more but he refused and I left the job. One guy
paid me every Friday until one week he forgot and
paid me on Monday. The following Friday he did
not show I went home and the next Monday he was
looking for someone else. Then let us talk freebies
they would pay me and then add a little job figuring
that I would do it because I just got paid. Well I
would consider how the job went and how often
they yelled at me and then I would decide if I would
do the freebie or not, most of the time I did but
they were time I simply refused. Since I charged so
little and the work was top notch I was holding all
the cards, they would always call me back time
after time.
Well my friend was getting tired of me being
there so she started to make it differcult for me to
stay there. She would make little demands on me
then they would get bigger and bigger until I had a
week to leave and it was in the middle of the
winter.
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I was lucky I met a family that wanted to
redo their kitchen and other jobs. I said yes but you
have to pick me up in Pontiac about an hour away,
they questioned why, that the closest shelter. You
can stay in our basement no problem boy was I
lucky! I packed my bags and left her house leaving
my car behind figuring if she wanted to throw me
out in the winter she could get rid of the car, and
she did.
I started their kitchen before I move it and
they agreed to pay me for the kitchen, they only
paid me half. I stripped the kitchen right back to
the walls and installed all new cabinets and a
counter top and black marble floor tile with a black
and white ceramic tile black splash, it came out
really nice, it was a black and white kitchen. It did
not stop there; I replaced the floor tile in the
fireplace room with the same black marble tile in
the kitchen, sanded the hardwood floors, finished
off the basement. They never paid me for none of
it as I was staying there. The first weekend I worked
on somebody else’s job they got quit angry until I
explained, then they were ok with it. You’re not
paying me and I still pay for my storage back east
so I have to maintain a job that is paying me.
One day I came back to the house and I
went the room in the basement or as I thought of it
the dungeon because It had no window and it had
the damp musty smell. I checked my radio and
there was a tape in it that was not mine, it was in a
foreign tongue so, I checked where I keep my cash
and it was gone all 2000 dollars that I had saved. I
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said nothing as I had no place to sleep and if I did
they would throw me out. Just about the time my
money was gone they bought another car. This was
quite upsetting for me as I did not have much. I
had to keep my mouth shut and be happy every
time I was with them so they would not know I
discovered it, now it was much more differcult to
live these people, I adjusted.
I filed my case Michigan’s Supreme Court
and I need some papers notarized the gentleman
asked if I could come back at night, ok. I had to
meet the man at 7:30 pm so I got on my bike as
that was my only way of travel spring, summer, fall
and yes even winter.
My bike in the snow 14 winters so far
I got my coat on and rode up the street it
started to rain I met the man to notarized my
papers and off I went still raining, I was crossing a
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side street and a SUV took a left and hit me I went
over his front left fender and landed on my back
underneath his SUV. Everyone jump out of their
cars yelling for the man not to move his SUV as I
would have lost both my legs. The ambulance
came and I was worried about my court papers, I
got the EMT angry because I asked about the quite
often. Off to the hospital I went, lying in a bed in
the emergency room the doctor took look at my left
wrist and said he would be right back and left, a
moment later he came around the curtain and
grabbed my hand and pulled it, what are you doing
I said are you out of you mind I just had a accident
and is probably broken, he said I know and I had to
reset it, now it is ok. I had snapped my radius bone
if half and he had to stretch my arm out to get the
ends to meet again, so they could heal together.
He put my entire arm in a cast and I was on my
way. I called the people where I was staying to
come and get me but I could not get through.
About an hour later I got through and the picked up
and was in wondering what had happen to me…..it
was all phony I felt they did not even care
Scar from where the metal plate and 8 pin are
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Scar from the pinched nerve
I had to go to my doctors for checkup and
they did not even asked if I needed a ride, in fact it
was snowing and I could not ride my bike, because
of my arm, so I had to walk and I did not have any
boots so my three toes on my left foot froze and
now and then the go numb on me. I had to go for
surgery and the installed a metal plate with 8 pins.
I went to physical therapy and my fingers were
going numb I asked her why and she said come
back in a week and I did, she said she was too busy
to help, and the doctor refused to answer my
question also, was it because there was a lawsuit
pending. Years later I need surgery for a pinch nerve
now I am no doctor but before the accident I never
had a problem with any of my fingers going numb.
The house was pretty much done and a year
had passed, the wife got pregnant and I guess they
did not want me around any more. To my surprise
the yelled down the stairs one day and asked me if I
had a minute. I came up and they told me, you got
one more week, and then we would like you to
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leave. Again I find myself homeless in the middle
of the winter.
Lucky again I was on a putting in some
interior stairs for a lady in the neighboring town was
cutting the wood outside and a couple was walking
their dogs as they asked me if I was available to
work on the house, again I said that I could but I
had to move to the shelter in Pontiac as I lost my
housing. They agreed for me to move in their
basement.
This was the most differcult one of my stays
in people’s basements. It seems that the wife
could talk to me more than she could her husband
and he resent that. He worked on the second shift
and she worked on the first so she would come
and chat with me. The room they put me in the
basement, it was smaller than the dungeon I just
move out of, but this had one of those cellar
windows. The biggest problem was they had two
dogs and I would be lying there on the bed and all
of a sudden one or two would come in the room at
high speed and lick you right in the face, scaring
the hell out of me, then you would hear the owner
yelling down the stairs at the dogs.
One of the dogs was a runway he was a full
grown hound and when it got loose it had one
speed full throttle he was gone it a minute and he
was impossible to catch him. I remember we
chased him to a ball field and he would run back
and forth one side to the other side, we never did
catch him, after his run he would show back up at
the house like nothing happened. That would upset
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the man of the house and if he was upset enough
with me being there, then everyone would be upset
or he would make sure you were.
When it came to my bike accident I just
wanted my medical bills to be paid, well his wife
had different ideas, she asked me to contact a
lawyer he friend recommended so I went to the
convenient store and called him, before I got back
to her house he had called me back it was about
1/4 mile. I went and met with the lawyer and guess
what he was in the same building that my lawyer
for my Chrysler/Compuware case was in. He
agreed to take my bike accident case. He then
took the better part of the hour trying to convince
me to stop from continuing my case with Chrysler
and Compuware as I told him that I had another
lawyer in this building, a mistake on my part.
Back to my survival I was eating out all the
time now, I would buy a chicken at the local super
market one of those roasted ones and have to eat
it in the park. I ate so many of those the deli clerk
knew me by my first name. I was running real low
with money down to my last 5 dollars and no food
to eat. I was at the convenient store and one of the
delivery guys just threw out 20 cakes. I went into
the trash bucket and got them out, now I had
something to eat, don’t worry they all wrapped up
and they were only in there for a few minutes. I was
ok then and soon I would have a 401k withdrawal
coming, in a few days.
I will say that where I was living he would not
feed me, I asked him to cook me some noodles
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that I bought and he agreed so I gave him three
packages and he gave me a bowl of noodles. I
was working on his basement so right after he gave
me the noodles. I ran up to ask him a question
about my work and guess what the s.o.b.. was
eating my noodles. That was the end of that I never
asked him to ever cook anything for me again.
When my 401k check came in I could eat
again. That span of time I ate so many $1.00
hamburgers, now I can’t eat them because it brings
back memories of those hard times and I want to
forget them. Someone had one the other day and
the very smell of it rushed all those memories in
that I had forgotten.
I work hard for this couple; I installed in the
basement a kitchen, bathroom, laundry, a tool
room a living room and a bedroom. In the
bathroom I had to break up the cement floor to
putting new plumbing in for the drain of the toilet
and shower and sink, and then I had to cement the
floor, build the walls and tile the whole room. He
wanted a design in the bathroom that I had to cut
1.25 inch triangles and boy did I have to cut a lot
of them. He also had to have a urinal in the
bathroom yes it took more plumbing but I got it all
together and finally it was ready for use. I was so
happy I could now shower downstairs and I did not
have to disturb them, what a relief.
There was still a lot of work to do, he wanted
to build a platform close to the ceiling were he
could install his model train and he wanted it to go
through all the walls. He also wanted a model car
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display case built into the wall. He got the display
case but was talked out of the train platform, let
me tell you not a happy camper and he let
everyone know about it.
During construction the neighbor down a few
houses wanted to redo his bathroom so a few
nights a week I would help him. He was a
independent fellow and he love to argue with me.
He also was not a supporter of my case with
Chrysler and Compuware, and he had no problem
letting me know about it. He said to me once, at
least I not asking someone to support me for the
rest of my life. I don’t know I think he just was an
angry old man that lost his wife. Any way we got
his bathroom done and he then kept to himself.
On day the next door neighbor had a fire in her
house and it burnt quite badly. It go so hot it
melted the vinyl siding on the house that I was
staying at, another source to make him angry. The
neighborhood smelled burnt wood for several
weeks because of that fire. They strip out
everything that was not repairable and then came
with a spray gun, covering everything else with an
oil base primer and then they rebuilt it. She hired
someone to do it boy was I glad of that. Did I
mention that I still chasing that bloody hound dog?
Well the basement was pretty much done it just
need a final coat of paint and they said that they
could do that, so they asked me to leave. I was
excited I was going to a motel I had my 401k
money and remember that my lawyer got me
12,000 dollars for my bicycle accident, well it was
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20,000 dollars but he need to take his cut. So
adding up my money I had 25,000 in cash in my
coat vest pocket riding around Detroit suburbs on
my bicycle.
I got my friend to pick me up with all my
tools and I was on my way to the motel so I
thought. He surprised me he said you going to my
house and stay in the basement while you fix it. Ok
I said if that what you want. There must have been
a huge family discussion, before the agreed to
allow me to stay there because of their culture. I
got a room in the basement and it was the smallest
yet a TV that got one channel. I remember I use to
go to the movies to stay out of that basement at
night. I would go to the show that ended at 10 pm
and ride my bike 5 miles through the night to get
back where I was staying.
It was quiet at first in the basement because
I did not finish the bathroom, once the bathroom
was finished it got real noisy, everyone was using
it. At times they would have parties all night and
never invite me. It got real noisy and there were
many people so if I had seen all the movies then I
would take a bike ride late into the night and get
back late to avoid the noise, going right to sleep, I
think I even wore ear plugs once.
They just built a bedroom on the back of the
house and they got caught hammering late at
night, I guess one of the neighbors call the police
because of loud noise. When the police came they
found out that there was no permit and the police
got the building inspector involved. They now
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needed to have it inspected to see if it was to
code. Well it was not they hired some fly by night
builder who did not even put a foundation in. We
had to dig all around the new room down over 4
feet deep by hand because he did not want the
town to know what we were doing. The rear of the
build was the toughest it had a huge tree. We had
to cut it down and then grind out the stump and
roots. We manage to get through that one. The
neighbor knew how to run the stump grinder so he
came over and did the job as he visited quite often,
he was retired. We got the tree stump all out only
to uncover a huge rock boy did my friend get
upset, he screamed out what we do now. I said we
rent a rock cutter and chop the thing up until we
can get a foundation in, he was not sure about the
plan as he had no experience with it. We went to
the home center and rented a gas powered unit
with a 12 inch diamond wheel on it. We cut the
rock in parallel cuts about a couple inches apart
and then chip out the rock until we cut it back
enough to put our foundation in. I set the forms
and we began to mix cement, wait they began to
mix cement bag after bag. They would mix it I
would pour it making sure we did not have any air
holes. One night they asked me to work late and I
ok 10 pm it the latest I would work, they all laugh it
was already 3 am. Let wrap it up. Well we got the
foundation in with no air holes and the town passed
it and all was well.
The next task was to vinyl side the exterior of
the room, we used a white siding. It was the first
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time I did siding, well it did not come out that bad
as a matter fact they all liked. We continued with
the inside and I added a ceiling joists and I wired it,
and they had to have it inspected, since they
started the addition without a permit, the town was
quite harsh on them so, they had to rewired it to
please the town. Then we dry walled, prime and
painted it and it was ready for use.
Now it was time to do the basement one of
the brothers started and I guess threw up his hands
a refused to finish it, so that was my task. It was a
mess the plumbing was all wrong, I had a problem
with building a wall between the toilet and the
exterior wall of the house since he put a clean in
the plumbing between the toilet and exterior wall.
The only place I could put the wall was within
inches of the toilet which made it uncomfortable
when you use it oh well they agreed to live with it.
The plumbing for the pedestal sink was wrong also
it came out of the floor instead of the wall, which
was all built before I came, so comprises had to be
made and the plumbing for the drain was exposed.
They agreed and the construction continued. The
sink, toilet and tub I finished I needed to put a fan,
heat and a light in the room. I managed to get
through all that and now the tile needed to installed
both on the floor and the walls it was a irregular
shaped bathroom due to being stuffed in the
basement so I had to cut some irregular shapes in
the tile. I remember that one wall came to a point
so I had to grind the tile to a razor edge to fit right.
The floor was not level, one end had almost no tile
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cement while the other was quite thick. As a matter
of fact you had to step up when you entered the
bathroom. Well I got it all finished and it was a
blessing I could shower with no problem. I went out
and bought a new towel right the next day.
I did not mention it before there was four
brothers, two sisters and the mom that living there.
One of the brothers bought a Nissan sport car one
of the z-cars. He wanted to customize it and since
I did fiber glassing on my corvette he put his bid in
with the family and they agree to stop the work on
the basement to work on his car. I got my clay,
plaster, fiber glass out and went work. He had
bought a panel for the front of the car and I
glassed in some parking lights in for him. He
wanted a spoiler and what a spoiler he wanted a
foot and a half tall. I made him one and he simply
did not like, understand I made it to what he
wanted and when I finished he did not like it. So
after some words we built another, he like this one.
I glassed it and bolted it on the car and he was
happy. I bonded and bolted all the modifications
on the car and then glassed them all they were
imperfections.
We now into the primer stage he jacked the
car up and took of the tires and I primer the whole
car. He wanted me to paint the car and I said no
you need a booth he insisted so I painted it and the
day of the painting there was the stuff called
summer snow all over the driveway, hence all over
the car.
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What a mess and I was angry all that work
and now we had to start all over. Later after I had
moved he brought it by the motel and showed me
it because he took it to a body shop to have it
repainted, angry again he owed me money and
claimed he did not have any. How much does it
cost to paint a car, a lot I know?
Back to the house they wanted to tile the living
room, kitchen, hall and foyer in ceramic. What a
job it was huge. I wondered am I still wondering
how I ever did it. The tiles were 18 inch square and
bags and bags of adhesive, as I write about it now
the nightmare comes back to me. I was worried as
you see this was their living room, where they
entertain all their friends and relatives so it had to
be right. More pressure just what I needed, yeah
give the clamp one more crank what the hell I can
take it. Well it again came out nice and I sure they
are still enjoying it today. With it finished the
pressure was reduced as I then went back to the
basement.
I had to finish the laundry, living, bedroom and
install an egress window in the bedroom. They was
a ceiling, walls and floor tile to install. The most
interesting part was installing an egress window, I
never did it before, and I had to cut into the
foundation which was a cool thing to do for me. I
put my 7.5 inch diamond blade in my portable
circular saw and boy did it make dust I filled the
whole neighborhood, the mosquitoes did not come
around for days, no I am just kidding. I got the
window in and the oldest brother even comment on
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how good it looked, wow he never said anything.
They had to get the town to approve it so the set
up a time and they all disappeared give the bag, to
deal with the inspector. He came looked at and
said ok, gave me a slip of paper stating everything
was ok and that was a done deal. Well things were
all getting done and everyone was happy and the
wives were coming so I need to leave.
I went to a motel just outside of Detroit, it was
the cheapest I could find and I found out why when
I moved in. The place was run down and the
owners fix only the things that need to be fixed to
continue to operate, oh well I will adjust.
It started out good, it was quiet and I go some
rest but as I go to know the people there it was like I
jumped out of the pan into the fire that is, I was going
from a basement room to this motel. They had all
kinds of walks of life there, drug addicts, ladies of the
night, alcoholics and people that were changing the
gender of life. One night the undercover police were
there and arrested people prostituting over the
internet, yes the even arrested the laptop. Another
time a father and son pulled up and a woman went in
a room. The son went after her when he came out
then the father went in, they both left. The woman
came out and went to the office wanting her money
back for the room. A day did not go by that someone
didn’t ask if I had some drugs to sell them or did I
know where to get some.
I said to myself if I going to live in such
conditions then I going to eat well and I did. There
was a great seafood restaurant up the street and
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the bread their own shrimp, jumbo as I remember
and it was so good. I ate the quit often really every
time I got depress because where I lived and what
has happened to me. I go buy a shrimp dinner and
things seem to get better even though they did not.
Seafood restaurant in Michigan
Also there was a ponderosa steak house
down the road and they had a buffet, all you could
eat that was a treat too. You could get a big feed
for 10 dollars. I liked to go there as soon as it open
that way one meal could feed you for the whole
day. They had many things to choose from as it
was a buffet which included pizza, chicken wings,
French fries, mash potatoes desserts and many
others.
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Ponderosa steak house
There was a Cinemark Theater were, if
you went to the first show it was I think a dollar or
so. I went there often the shows were older shows
but that was ok I had not seen them. I went there
so often one of the ticket agents said to me one
day, we are going to have to charge you rent you
are here so often. I smiled and said I will pay it. I
would go to two shows a day it would kill the time
I had to spend at the motel. They also had a
arcade there where you could play games and get
tickets to cash in for prizes. I remember the day I
was leaving for New England I brought all my
tickets in and gave them to a mom and her two
kids, the mom said are you sure and I explained
that I was going to leave the state, she just smiled
and said thank you.
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A lady that was a clerk at the home center
ask me to do some work at her house as I was
always at the home center for one thing or another.
She asked me to install a laminate floor in the living
room and ceramic tile floor in the kitchen and
marble tile on the back splash. We chatted a lot
too, about her issues and about my case.
We were always laughing and having a good
time. She help me sell my tools when I left for New
England at the local use tool shop, boy did I get
ripped off there I had over thousand dollars of tools
and I had to let them go for 150.00 dollars, oh well
I could not bring them with me
As you know the best is always left for last
and in this case too I stopped all home
improvement projects except for three people. The
lady that wanted me to paint her bedroom, I was
going stick with her until I left, a lady I meet that I
met at the home center and the mother of the
friend that I first stayed with in Michigan.
The mother of the first person I stayed with
need some home improvement also, I did a lot for
her and I use to go over every Tuesday and chat
with her for an hour or so then get her job done. If
she had a fireplace you could call our chats
“fireplace chats” also lol. Oh I put a new sink in her
bathroom, new sink and tile in the kitchen, painted
the living room, paint her son’s room, reinsulated
the attic, repaint her back door and there was a
whole slew of other things too.
She was always asking me about my case
and what was happen next. She would ask me,
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what if that does not work what you are going to do
next. I always told that I had no idea, but I always
came up with something. I think at times she was
amazed with my next step. We use to say if we
only could be in the Chrysler’s lawyer office when
they learn of my next step, you know the old
classic saying “I wish I was a fly on the wall” and
then we would laugh for a while. We both agree
that they were very angry with me for all the courts
they had to go to.
She was nice she always included me for her
family Christmas, which was a lot of fun for me. I
was telling her about a girl friend I had in Grand
Blanc and how we went to a market and bought
some roast beef that we cooked at home and it
was it so good. Well she had a car and I had a
license and off we went to get some of that roast
beef for Christmas dinner, what a big hit. This was
a special one for me as I enjoyed our chats and we
still talk today.
It came time to get on the bus and depart
the lovely old state of Michigan, was I happy I was
going to Massachusetts and file a case in Boston’s
federal court. I called a friend that I had met when I
was redoing his father’s house boy was this a big
job, new bathroom, new kitchen, new floor in the
basement. He was studying to become a
mechanical engineer and he could relate to what I
was going through. My first advice for him was to
not take a job with Chrysler direct or contract no
matter what the cost was. He dropped me of at the
bus station and said his good bye and off I went.
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I went to Detroit and waited hours for the bus to
Boston, we change buses several times and in
Albany that was the last change, the bus brought
me to Worcester, Massachusetts and I then took a
cab to a local motel. One of the clerks still worked
there that was there in the winter of 99 and she
remembered me. I stayed there for a week and
wrote my brief for federal court. I moved to and
cheaper motel and the clerk knew of the place and
she said no no no do go there, I had to it was
cheaper.
I stayed there for a year and half. It was kind
of fun the employees were very nice, we were
always joking with each other and having a good
time.
Well I was back in New England and I had
missed the seafood so I immediately went to the
closest seafood restaurant and some fried clams I
think it was at legal seafood. Then I found another
for another day and pretty much I ate fried clams in
every restaurant I could find, I think they were six or
seven of them, love each one of then, it is a New
England thing, we just have to have our seafood.
Now I got the seafood out of my system or
in my system i had to settled down and eat normal
stuff well cheaper food that is.
There was a Boston market in one of the
local supermarket, they had a buffet there you
could make your own plate and pay so much per
pound it usually work out to 5 to 6 dollars a meal.
That got expensive after a while so I had to do
something else.
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So the motel let me use a microwave that my
niece gave me. I could cook my own food and
save some money. At first I had a cooler to keep
my food cold I had to change the ice 2 to 3 times
a day so my food would not spoil. Did you ever
have chicken thighs that were microware and I do
not mean a warm up I mean cooked from scratch,
they are terrible, but they fill my stomach and I
guessed that what it was all about. After a while all
the food I cooked in that microwave tasted the
same or maybe my taste buds were just burnt out,
today the really have not recovered. A local
department store used to sell pizza for 1.25, I
won’t be able to tell you how many I ate of those
from the microwave.
I had a old computer and it save my files on
a 3.5 floppy disk and I did not have a printer so I
went to a office store and had to the open the file
and print them out. I got to know the clerk quite
well and I told him of my quest for fried clams and
he laugh and said you know the clam roll is better
for you than the clam dinner, I was in question and
just looked at him, he said they are better because
there are less clams in it, we both laughed and I
had a clam dinner that night.
I met a friend there at the motel and I
later learned she worked at the local grocery store,
well today we still are friends and when I need the
straight scope, that is no BS, I go and chat with
her.
Well lets brighten up things a bit I started to
reconnect with my family not to successful at first
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but, then my niece and I got connected. She came
down to see me from the Cape Cod,
Massachusetts to introduce me to her son. What a
treat he was so smart. This was the start of a
friendship that still flourishes today. My brother I
help him fix something things on his house and we
had a good time it felt good to reconnect with him.
Since my niece lived on the cape I would
go to visit her now and then, I remember the first
time I went there, we went to the ocean and I rolled
up my pants and I put my feet into that cold water.
My feet needed to be it that cold ocean water, I
miss it so much living in Michigan, so bad it was
almost like steam was coming of them. I had been
land locked in Michigan for several years fighting
working and my case. I was home and for good
never to leave again. Here is the beach my niece
brought me to, lovely yes.
Cape Cod beach, Woods Hole
I was the only one that put my feet in the
water that day they all claimed it was too cold for
them. At the time I did not think that I was starting
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a tradition but I did. Every time I went down to the
ocean and now matter how cold the water or what
the weather was, I went to put my feet in the salt
water, it was a thing my mother use to do. I guess I
am carrying her tradition on, it is a lovely thing to
do.
One winter it was New Years Eve (that my
birthday) I was down the cape visiting my family,
my niece and I went to the beach, I did my
tradition, to my surprise my niece decide to join
me, so there we were a few minutes before the
new year and we were in the ocean ice cold water
and a cold stiff breeze blowing in our face, an
experience that neither of us will ever forget, we still
speak of it today. She thought wow I now know
want uncle likes about putting his feet in the cold
salt water. We then went to a local restaurant to
have a warm drink and small bit to eat. Later we
visited her mom to wish her a happy new year!
Well the weekend was over and I was back
at the motel and the usual routine. Since I spent a
lot of time at the motel I got to the employees and
one called my room and said come quick to the
office the space shuttle and space lab is going to
fly by. I ran down to the office and around 9 pm we
saw it fly by wow did it go whipping by we compare
the motion of a plane; it was three time as fast.
The show only lasted 2 minutes and it was gone.
Another event was when housekeeping
knocked on my door and asked me to come out in
the rain and she pointed out all these bits and
pieces of some paper money. I collected them all
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and carefully taper them together. We had all the
pieces except of the upper right corner we could
not find it. I brought it to the bank and they gave
me a new twenty dollar bill. I gave the
housekeeping lady 5 of the twenty dollars, everyone
was happy.
A scary situation did develop two people got
to know me for whatever reason, I don’t remember
and they would visit me and they were drunk all the
time and would drink even more. Sometimes I
would get a called from the office warning me that
the where coming and I would close my room and
not answer the door, they would go away
eventually. One night they got really out of control
and I had to through them out of my room.
I was thinking one day and I was running out
of options everyone was saying no to me so I had
the notion to contact the United Nations, human
rights department. I called New York and they
stated that the department that handles human
right is Geneva, Switzerland oh great I have get up
in the wee hours of the morning to contact these
people. I failed a couple of times and just went
back to bed on several occasions. I got through a
couple of days later and I spoke with a official over
there and told her my story and she replied go get
a lawyer. I told I did but no success and she just
replied get another and said good bye, another
dead end.
I got antsy one day and the clerk said just go
of a bike ride, I took a ride to the next town and
found an antique shop, I was looking for a light for
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my house (one I designed on paper). There was a
beautiful one there; it was from the medical
building from Harvard University in Boston. They
wanted 50,000 dollars for it and you had to hire the
owners to install the chandler. That was my
excitement for the day.
Well I have been at the motel for over a year
and half and my money was running out. I decide
to go to Boston to the federal building and talk to
the tax man. I withdrew money from my 401 k and
never dealt with the taxes. Everyone in the motel
said I was nuts if they can find you don’t go look
for them. I told what does it matter, I out of money
and I got to move to the woods. I went and sat in
front of the IRS preparer, he did all his calculation
and then he asked me to read line 25, I was
sweating. it said that they owed me $ 2500 dollars
and then we did another year and again he ask to
read line 25, like before I did, I joked with him and
said now I owe $5000 dollars right no he said we
owe you another $150 dollars. I got back to the
motel and they were all happy I did not get locked
up for not paying my taxes.
Well I did not get the money for 4 to 5
weeks so I did had to leave the motel and move
into the shelter.
Wow this was a shock to me I had to get up
at 5 AM and be out by 6 AM and I could not come
back until after 4 PM. They would bus everyone
down to the center of town, but I had a bicycle so I
rode it down. The first day I had to leave I found
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myself sitting on the steps of city hall wondering
where I was going next, wait for the town to open.
As time went on there was a guy in the
room I stayed who called his wife at 10 pm every
night, well 5am came early so we had a problem
every night as we all need to sleep. I reported him
several times to no avail. Finally we got him to the
bathroom where he could talk to his wife all night
and not disturb anyone, everyone was happy again.
One morning I was in the center of town
and I had to go to the bathroom and we are not
talking a leak behind a tree. Where was I going to
go I thought and thought finally I went to the
hospital they must be open and they were, just in
the nick of time, it was really sad at the companies
were allowed to put me in this position.
After I did the days errands and go
something to eat I would hang out at a park and
feed the ducks and catch up on some sleep I
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missed the night before. There was a hill so where I
laid down no one could see me from the street. I
would sleep right there at the base of the tree.
Park in Massachusetts
One morning it was time for me to leave and
there was a guy that was sick and throwing up and
I did not want to go by him because I knew he was
going to hit me the moment I walked by. There was
an official that was behind me edging me on and
as soon as I go close he came from behind and
startled me yelling out watch out, it was a false
alarm the official was just teasing me. A shock I
did not need at this time!
It was not all bad at the shelter the
weekends we could sleep in and there always a
movie to watch it you liked it. One day they said
they were going to have a barbeque please come,
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ok I did. There was so much food I could not eat
any more.
I still was having problems with that guy
who wanted to talk to his wife. He did not like me
after what happened. I decide to go back to the
motel, I just got my tax money so I left, I stayed
there for about a month and again I ran out of
money. I contact the director and she got me a
room, wow a room all to myself. It was nice there I
could to close my door and shut it all off. You
might know people in those places people come
and go like the weather and after a while a guy
came in and he was always joking so we had a
great time. I use to sit at the kitchen table in the
afternoon and play solitaire by myself for hours
glazing out the wind to see what was happening on
the busy street below.
I learned that the was a house manager and
every week you had to go to a house meeting when
you would discuss things about the house, making
sure it was running smooth. We all had chores to
do and would rotate each week to do a different
chore keeping the house clean.
In the summer they had a barbeque in the back
yard and I just had gotten food stamps (image a
mechanical engineer on food stamps that’s what
these companies have reduced me to). So I would
grill quite often and that was always a treat for me.
I remember the day that my case worker bought
me a pair of sneakers as my canvas top shoes
were quite bad they had many holes in them and
were barely staying together, that meant alot to me
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and I will never throw out those sneakers, my heart
was touch that day and i was never the same
again, years later I still think of those shoes and
still have them.
There I was going to the library every day to
spreading my story thru the internet, the food
pantries and soup kitchens and the doctor’s office
to keep me healthy. I even went to other towns to
use their libraries to get more internet time to
spread my story.
I had been out there for about 7 months and
just came out of the hospital from toe surgery. I
got a call from the director and she wanted to
move to another house, ok but I said It would be
differcult I just had toe surgery and I on the second
floor, she said do worry we will help you. We
loaded up the truck and there I was off to another
house just like that, it was just right down the road
a little so my life did not change much. It was away
from the center of town so things were much
quieter than where I lived before and the train
whistle also was quieter too. One day somebody
had nothing to do so he counted the number of
trains that went through in a day; he said 170 trains
with all of them blowing their whistle more than
once.
The new house had much less people living
there so that was nice and it was a duplex so I only
had to deal with half of them, you must understand
I was use to living alone, that all changed now. It
was good for me I continued to go to the library
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every chance I got to spread my story through the
internet.
I had been at the new house for several months
and things were going smoothly when I got a call
from the director and she asked me if I wanted to
be the house manager where I lived as they were
going to ask the current one to step down, I would
like to talk to the team before I take the position.
So I went in to meet the team and it seemed that
everyone was happy with my appointment. They
move out the previous manager and I move down
to his room.
Currently I have a good bunch of guys
and that makes my position a little easier, oh now
and then the boys will be boys and the need to
open the steam valve to let some out then, they all
settle down and peace has settle in again. In
peace times I am asked to do just about anything
and you have to be quick to respond, as all 9 of
them, I think say let the house manager handle it
and so far I have. Here are some examples, last
winter one of the boys had to go to the hospital,
there were many feet of snow on the road at the
time. I called the ambulance and they came, boy
did they come a huge fire truck and the
ambulance, well we got him in the ambulance but
we had to get the fire truck out ,was which was
blocked due to one of the neighbors having the van
stuck in his driveway. I got the van un stuck which
got the fire truck moving and the ambulance could
go to the hospital, lucky the ambulance did not
have to leave right away, they were doing some
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medical stuff before they took off. Well all is good
the guy is up and running again.
Another time we smelled gas at one of the
houses so I had call the gas company and wait for
them to show up. Meanwhile I had to asked
everyone to leave the house, and do not smoke,
the gas man came and we checked all around and
no leaks, peace arrived again in the house.
Two kids in the backyard hang around a tree
looking up; well their ball got stuck in the tree and
yes I got it out for them and off they ran with a
laugh in the voice.
One of the boys got a serious flat on the
bicycle and I have a pump so he required my
services, we got it fixed and of he went as a happy
camper ready to conquer his next task.
So you can see I have to wear many hats and
have to change them in a minute notice depending
on the situation that is at hand.
But the most rewarding to me is when they
come back at the end of the day and they just want
to talk with me about their day, yes sometimes I
can help them and sometimes I just listen and that
seems good enough.
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PLACES TO EAT, SOUP KITCHENS Let us take a look at the different places that
you could go and get a meal for free in the town of
Framingham, Massachusetts. Salvation Army every
night except Saturday, on Saturday night there is a
church you go to except the third Saturday of each
month, you go to different church. At this time
there was a brunch every Saturday morning and
this was all within the town I live in now.
The Salvation Army feeds people every night
that they are schedule to. I use to go the everyday
to eat and I also would volunteer there helping wrap
the plastic forks and spoons in a napkin and then
set the tables. The food at times was good and at
times it was food to fill your stomach, my favorite
dish was the sloppy joes that they would make one
a month. You also could sign up for the food
pantry and receive food every three months.
The church that fed you on Saturday night
made a good meal and they had a small food
pantry where you could pick up some needed
items. In the basement they had a selection of
clothes and usually you could get something you
needed.
The church that fed you on the third Saturday
of each month was a real treat everyone looked
forward to that meal, and if any was left over they
would package a meal for you to take home. The
made baked chicken, meatloaf, and spaghetti to
name a few dishes. They make this wonderful drink
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that everyone loves and it is all gone before the
meal is served. I don’t know what they put in it but I
caught them pour ginger ale in it once, I think it is a
mixture of kool-aid and ginger ale, I don’t know
what else is in it.
The soup kitchen on Saturday morning closed
they was no more money to keep it open and we
all miss it dearly. A lovely women and her husband
ran it. They made meals that were grand and she
was so nice she would listen to any problem that
you had, I guess she understood what it is like to
be in the homeless position. I use to tell her about
my internet campaign and how many people were
looking at it, she always gave a positive response.
The meals, to mention some of them, meatloaf,
roast pork, ham and spaghetti they were all good
and you could have seconds and/or take a meal
home, also they would give you a bag lunch and
we use to trade the contents with each other if we
did like what we got. I use to help set up the tables
and after the meal take them down, she always
gave me an extra bag lunch.
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FOOD PANTRIES I was in the hospital due to some meds a doctor
gave for cholesterol it gave me chest pains on two
occasions, I stayed overnight and a lady came in
the next day to give a prayer. I had heard that there
was a food pantry at her church, she told me all
about it, when I got well, I went and they all knew
who I was, they even knew my name. That pantry
has help through some really tough times in
respect to what I ate. I will never forget them no
matter where I go, no matter what I do. They use
to give us whole chickens so when Sunday rolled
around I use to bake it in the oven and it would last
for a few days and give me a break from the soup
kitchens. You can go to this one once a week.
That is another pantry in Framingham that you
can go to once a month and they do a good job of
helping you out. They are very nice and want to
make you feel welcome. They give out the same
time of food also, you can go to this one a month
There were other pantries in the area that you
can go to, in the neighboring town of Sudbury you
could go to theirs once a month and get quite a
lot. The only drawback with that one is that it to a
long time so you had pretty much give up you
afternoon and it was quite far away so you could
not go on your bicycle. You needed to schedule a
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rig with someone, I believe you could go the once
a month.
In the town of Natick there is a food pantry that
you can go once every 3 months, they give you
quite a lot of food. They also have a selection of
clothes and if they have something you like and it
fits it is yours. They give out mostly the same thing
cans of food, pasta, and usually a meat, eggs, or
cheese, something of that sort.
I sure they are more food pantries around but
that is all I know of and if you to all them all you
get quite a buildup of canned food, but that ok
because we load it in a shopping cart and take it
down to the salvation army and at dinner time we
donated to all the people that get to the food
pantries and believe me they need it.
During the holidays the food pantries really go
overboard and the just give and give, turkeys and
all the fixings to go with it. I eat turkey for at least 2
weeks, stuffed just like the bird.
In the town of Framingham there is a club that
makes a turkey dinner for whoever wants to attend
and it quite a feed. The only questions they ask it
do you want whatever they are dishing out,
seconds they insist! I like to go to wish everyone a
happy thanksgiving, which makes me feel good.
At Christmas time there is a Christmas party
that we go to where there is a meal and usually a
gift and an opportunity to wish everyone a merry
Christmas.
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FOOD STAMPS Do you all know how embarrassing it is to buy
food at the store and whip out your little blue card
to pay for it. Everyone knows what the card stands
for but they do not know your story why you need
the card and if I may say it gives me 148 dollar per
month. On the other hand I am quite thankful for
such a program and I thank my sister all the tie for
paying her taxes, you see she is an accountant and
she is always concern about money, so it kind of a
joke…so far she says you welcome and she was
glad it is helping someone she knows as opposed
to a perfect stranger.
MY CURRENT INCOME I was trying to obtain social security benefits for
disability with my problem wrist, toe and knee I got
it but I needed to axis my pension I was entitled to
from another company. Yes because of this
blacklisting I was force to take my pension 10
years early so I only got half of what it would have
been it I applied for it when I was 65. Know I have
a little money to buy a pizza or go to a movie if I
want. They strike again.
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MY PERSONAL TRANSPORATION
Lets talk about my personal transportation for
14 years I have rode a bicycle through thick and
thin. I ride through the winter, spring, summer, and
fall. At times I have enjoyed it and at times it has
made me quite bitter. One night in Michigan I had a
serious amount of ingestion and the only thing that
helps is some ginger ale. It was 2 o’clock in the
morning and I need to get some so I to got on the
bike in the middle of the winter and rode down to
the all night store. You try riding with a stomach
ache in the middle of the night to get some ginger
ale to relive you ingestion, not fun at all.
When I go food shopping I take my bike and
carry the bags on the handle bars. If I want to
do something and I can’t on my bike then I
don’t do it. When I go to the library I use my
bike, when I go to the food panties I use my
bike. In the last 2 years I have had it stolen
twice, how low can people around here be so
low, but the word around town is that we rank
pretty high on the list when it comes to bike
stealing.
Now went I go for a ride on Sunday morning I
do about forty miles into Concord at the old north
bridge. It is cold in the winter but I still enjoy it.
Only once I had problem it was too much for me. I
had to stop at the hospital, don’t worry I just visited
the waiting room they had a huge heater and I was
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warmed quickly. I continued and the next stop was
at a grocery store where I could walk around to
warm up, I stopped at several of these, I made it
back alright with no problems, me or the bicycle it
was 4 below zero. It saddens me that I have been
reduced to only the use of a bicycle for my
personal transportation.
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CONCLUSION
Being trained as an engineer I am use to
give a conclusion at the end of the document as I
will in this case. Here is my life presently after
sleeping a few hours a night , I awake in the wee
hours of the morning and lay there wondering how
it is all going to end, and where will I be. 7am rolls
around and I now online collecting the number of
people that have seen my story on the internet the
night before so, I can email the companies on
Sunday on the increased amount of viewers. Then I
switch over to word to continue writing this
document in hopes it will get published and put
more pressure on these companies. I stop at noon
and fix whatever my food stamps or food pantries
have given me then it is back to writing. Around 3
pm I take a break watch a few TV shows and then
it back to writing until 6 pm where I fix something
more to eat and then I quit for the day or if I feel
good I will write some more.
When I meet some new and I often do
and I tell them my story the moment I say
homeless then the look down on me as if it is my
fault. The look at me as to say what did you do to
put yourself in this position and you just want to
start screaming at them as you did nothing, yes
nothing at all, rarely does anyone understand. They
just think that you are some kind of bum and you
should go try to find a job.
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Sometimes I rum across an individual
that really does understand as I did when I went
picking apples with my friend the other day and I
was talking to the clerk there about what they had
done to me and was she understood. She took all
my info down and looked my videos that night. She
told me about a phone company sent her a bill for
6.09 dollars. She refused to pay it and her whole
family was all nervous finally her sister sent a check
it to get rid of the bill and they sent her the money
back. So we both agreed to never ever-ever give
up. I thanked her, she smile and said goodbye.
Let us talk about what I have lost because
of this blacklisting. The most important thing I have
lost is a family of my own. When you go meet a
woman the second thing that they asked you is
what you do for work. What do you think they say
when you tell them that you are jobless/homeless
for 14 years.
I was in Detroit waiting for a bus and a
woman who just happened to come along and wait
for the same bus, we got to talking and I said I
never see you again so you can tell me the truth. I
told her if you met a man on a date and when you
asked what he did for work and he told you he
jobless/homeless, what would be you next
response. She said she would have developed a
severe headache and would have to leave, I
responded just what I thought. The injustice started
when I was 45 and now that I am 57 it is differcult
to meet anyone to start a family with, this is a lost
one they can not fix.
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Other things I have lost due to this
blacklisting, I use to ski both cross country and
downhill, lost all my equipment and no way to get
there. I use to golf, lost my clubs. I use to take
pictures of the country side lost all my camera
equipment. I took up painting lost all my brushes
and paint. I use to gourmet cook, I had all the neat
cooking equipment lost it. I use to have a antique
corvette that I restored myself gone too.
These companies destroyed my lively
hood which is directly related to my life and if it
was not for the program that I am in for chronically
homeless people it would be safe to say that I
would have perished by now, so a great big thanks
to all of them involved.
It is my intent to pressure and embarrass
these companies to the point that they want to
settle with me, so if you be so kind to look at my
videos and increase my numbers, it will pressure
and embarrass them to the point they want to
settle with me and if I am so lucky some of you
won’t buy their product, that will piss them off big
time. With 3,113,005 million viewers as of
12/12/11, they are losing a bunch of money
already. If you just take 10 percent of my viewers
you get 311,300 viewers. Multiply that by say
35,000 dollars per car,(some are cheaper and
some are more expensive), you get________
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10,895,517,500 dollars. I use to get over 30,000
viewers a night now I get a couple of hundred a
night. They continue to hide behind their big
corporate walls. Let’s see if we can break down
those big corporate walls and show them what this
country is about, the people and do not let them
forget it, after all did we not just bail them out of
going bankrupt!!!!
Look at my internet section for the addresses
to my videos, or just search
‘BLACKLISTED ENGINEER’
Chrysler Compuware Combustion Component Associates Blacklisted Engineer
BILL BUTLER
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YOUR NOTES:
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Trained as a mechanical design engineer
going nights to get his BSME against all
odds, with no support from his family, he
receives full degree in mechanical
engineering only to get blacklisted by three
companies and everyone he contacts to
help refuses. Jobless and homeless for 14
years he continues to fight these
corporations to regain his life.
Read inside to learn what he has gone, is
going through and that he will never give
up!