Hughie talked a few weeks ago with a former boss from his time working at Chrysler’s Warren Stamping Plant on Mound Road in Warren, Michigan.

It reminded me…this was quite a while ago. It was on my birthday, so I decided that I wouldn’t work Saturday and Sunday, you know. One of those days was my birthday.

Saturday, they were working — we used to work seven days. “Oh, Fergie must be sick or something. He didn’t clock in. Didn’t clock in yesterday or today.” [So Al and another supervisor put in the paperwork.]
On Monday, when I came back to work, I got my pay, and here I had a full week, seven days.

So I said to Al, “God, I don’t know. I’ll have to go up and tell them that they made a mistake.”

He said, “You better not — there’ll be three of us on Mound Road.” They would have fired the three of us, thinking it was all a put-up.

When Al came in [the other week], he reminded me of that.