Judge Richard McDermott

Noted for 9:00 am January 18, 2002

 

 

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON

COUNTY OF KING

 

LARRY E. PITTMAN and SYLVESTER        )

PITTMAN, MICHAEL PITTMAN,                )           No.  99-2-52345-8 KNT

TERRANCE A. DAVIS, KEITH KERN,        )

YOLANDA ESKRIDGE, MICHAEL             )           DECLARATION OF SYLVESTER

DAVIS, GREGORY CODY, DAVID             )           PITTMAN IN OPPOSITION TO 

LISTIOWEL ABRUQUAH, ARTHUR           )           DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR 

FOREST, NATHAN A. KILCREASE,           )           SUMMARY JUDGMENT TO DISMISS

JOSEPH A. DONKOR, DARREL CODY,     )           PLAINTIFFS MICHAEL PITTMAN,

MARY COLEMAN, ERIC ARHIN,               )           SYLVESTER PITTMAN, RELASHIA

SHABAE DIQUAN, SIDNEY LANIER,        )           SEARLES AND JAMES GOODE AND

RE-LASHIA SEARLES, JAMES GOODE,    )           IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S

CURTIS HOLLIS, and BENJAMIN               )           MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

BARNES, individually,                                     )           TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS ABRUQUAH,

                                                                        )           BARNES, FOREST, KILCREASE AND

                                    plaintiffs,                       )           HOLLIS

            v.                                                         )

                                                                        )

KING’S COMMAND FOODS, INC.,           )

a Washington business corporation,                   )

                                    defendant.                    )

____________________________________)

 

            I, Sylvester Pittman, declare:

            I am a plaintiff in this case.

            I telephoned Terry Smith of King’s Command Foods, Inc. in the summer of 1999 to inquire about job openings. My brother Larry Pittman, who had been working at King’s Command Foods told me that there might be job openings.  He gave me a telephone number to call, and when I called it, Terry Smith answered.  I told him that I would like to come out and apply for a job, were there any openings?  He said yes, there were openings, come on out.

            I came out to Kent to the King’s Command Foods facility.  I was clean, had taken a shower recently, had on clean clothing, blue jeans, work shirt, and a cap.  I was dressed this way on most occasions when I was hired for blue collar employment.  I was sober, I had not drank any alcoholic beverages that morning, and I do not use illegal drugs.  Many years ago, I was charged with possession of controlled substances, but I have been clean since, including the day I went out to King’s Command.  When I met Mr. Smith in person in the hallway, for only a brief moment, he told me “There is no job and there won’t be no jobs.”  There was no interview, no sit down and talk, just the brief conversation in the hallway.  I was not supplied with an application form.  I concluded that if I cannot get an interview, get an application, and have no chance at getting a job, there was no point in staying.  I left.

            I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the foregoing is true and correct.

            Respectfully submitted and sworn to, December 13, 2001,

 

                                                                                    _______________________________

                                                                                    Sylvester Pittman,         plaintiff

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