Donald D. Waggener Still just a plain old fashioned bigot Lexington Kentucky

I worked for this crooked bigot as a paralegal briefly back in 2008 while attending college. He had posted an ad online seeking additional help in his office. I responded to the ad and he quickly contacted me for an interview and a typing test. I was hired immediately and began work within days. In his ad, he never mentioned that he was seeking an INTERN or a CONTRACT worker, nor did he verbally state this at any time before or during my employment.  I filed an investigation with the IRS in order to determine my worker status and after several months, the IRS determined that I was INDEED an employee, not a contract worker that he tried to write me off as. He also lied by stating that my pay was less than what we had agreed.

From the very beginning, he was skeptical of me. I would catch him peering out of the corner of his eye, peeking around the corner, and doing other little things that a paranoid or skeptic would do. He wasn't expecting a person of color to show up for the job interview so his views quickly changed once I showed up to his office. At one point he hinted around that he wanted me to come clean for him at his deceased mother's home (housekeeper) but never formally addressed it with me. This was told to me by another employee whom I was shadowing.

Within weeks, I quickly learned how much of a stingy, bigoted, and decades-lost person he is. He was quite the penny-pincher--like none that I had ever seen. He even weighed his own mail at his office on a scale that was so old it barely met USPS standards. He would buy rolls and rolls of postage stamps for outgoing mail. 

Fast forward several months during the 2008 presidential election, he terminated me within minutes of coming into the office because he was upset that President Barack Obama had won the presidency. It was convenient for him and the perfect opportunity to take his anger out on the first person of color he came into contact with. When I came into the office, he was on the phone with another attorney and he quickly hung up and began yelling at me. He even had the front desk receptionist downstairs play into the anger. She would usually speak whenever I came into the office, but that day she was upset as well. I was confused at first, but then it made sense to me because of the era he was born in and the environment. 

I'm glad everything happened the way it did because I was not happy working for someone like this. If you are a person of color seeking an attorney or seeking employment, do yourself a favor and skip this one.