[NYPOST] Alleged subway shooter Frank James complained his career as a machinist was derailed by discrimination — but court records show he was a shoddy worker who refused to fix his own mistakes.
| Untreated mental illness can be a distraction from perfectionism, and can make it hard to accept that outside observations are based on reality. |
James, 62, worked as a machinist at Curtiss-Wright, a massive defense contractor, for 17 months, suing the company for racial discrimination in Newark Federal Court after he was fired in March 1991 for insubordination.
So he was an incompetent racist crazy asshole over 30 years ago
| He complained about getting poor mental health treatment in his youth, which may or may not be true, so yes. |
His bosses at the time said James failed to fill out inspection sheets and made parts incorrectly, then blew off directives to fix the sloppy work, decades-old court papers reveal.
The only machinist in the US in 40 years to turn in crappy parts. They finally caught the bastard! Well done!
He was disciplined eight times in his final 13 months with the company, including for excessive absenteeism, and was once suspended for three days for "failure to perform," according to accounts from Curtiss-Wright employees filed by the company in response to James’ 1991 lawsuit.
James told a supervisor at the Wayne location that he wouldn’t fill out the inspection sheets as directed "until the Union told him to do so," said his then-supervisor, James Powell, in court papers.
A year earlier, in 1990, then-shop foreman Kevin Noon found in James’ work area five parts that were defective "because of Mr. James’ own errors in machining."
"I told him that he should correct his mistakes before his shift ended and not leave this work for the next operator," Noon recalled in the legal filing. After James ignored him, Noon’s supervisor gave James a three-day suspension, since it was the second warning "for the same violation within the past three months."
James was one of five employees fired for insubordination from 1985 through 1991, then Curtiss-Wright Human Resources exec Joseph Sangregorio said in court records, noting that the other canned workers were white or Asian and race did not factor into the decisions.
After being fired, James was arrested for repeatedly calling Curtiss-Wright to make "terroristic threats," local prosecutors told The Post. In 1995, he was found guilty of harassment.
Sangregorio didn’t recall the details of the case when reached by The Post, but said, "It’s unfortunate that Frank James did what he did, it disturbs me."
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