A little off topic but addressing what you posted and I promise this is the last post on this thread.
In 1986 I put my job on the line for the guys I worked with (Black, white, Hispanic, etc). The company I worked for at the time was sending techs home after completing jobs they had billed with Matrix pricing. Guys were busting their behinds installing small key telephone systems (doing 2 or 3 systems a day) and they would finish by maybe 2 o'clock. Their reward was to be sent home when they finished so they didn't get a full 8 hours though the company was billing our customer Southwestern Bell Telecom for an 8 hour job (if it was estimated to take 8 hours). I was not affected because I was working on the Brown & Root project installing 3 Nortel PBX systems in three different locations. After them complaining to the union nothing was done for them. I was not a member of the union but at the end of the project I was on I was going to be sent to St Louis to work on an install there. I was the only Nortel certified tech in the company so I told the company I worked for (Hi-Tech Communications) that if they did not stop sending these guys home early I was not going to St Louis. Well, they fired me. When I got the word I was fired I went and prayed (still on the job site) and 30 minutes later I got a call from my supervisor that if I would go to St Louis they would guarantee every tech 40 hours a week until the end of the year (this would give guys time to find other jobs if they wanted to). The reason they made that offer was because once SWB Telecom found out what was going on and that I was not going to St Louis they were going to pull the exclusive contract they had with Hi-Tech. SWB Telecom was Hi-Tech's only client and they could not afford to lose them.
I am one of the few (being facetious) guys who actually believes the shit I say. I have stood up for people because I believe in the teachings of the Christ and because I was in a position to do so. Did I get any thanks...of course not, but that is not why I did it. I felt it was the right thing to do...so I did it.
Oh yeah, before anyone thinks I was single and had nothing to lose....NOT! I was married with a house I had built and moved into in 1984 and a baby on the way.