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Thu Apr 30, 2015, 08:00 PM Apr 2015

Denver company won't service one neighborhood, for racial reasons.

Hey, the company can always beg for money on the Internet...

‘We call it Mount Ghetto:’ Colorado HVAC company won’t service ‘colored’ neighborhood

heating and cooling company that claims to serve the entire Denver region refuses service homes in a racially diverse neighborhood it refers to as “Mount Ghetto,” a local Fox affiliate reports.

A concerned employee at Mile High Heating and Cooling in Westminster, Colorado alerted the “Problem Solvers” at FOX31 Denver to the company’s racist service policies. To investigate the claim, the reporting team sent a producer to apply for an “appointment setter” position Mile High happened to be advertising at the time.

A manager at the company, who FOX31 Denver refers to only as “Andrea,” hired the news producer to book appointments at “one of Denver’s premier residential and commercial HVAC companies” almost immediately. Within an hour, Andrea was training the reporter on how to cold call around the region to identify new customers.

Andrea gave the producer a paper schedule of which zip codes to concentrate calls on in the coming days. The producer asked why one certain zip code — the one for Denver’s Montebello neighborhood — had the words “do not call” written under it on the list.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/we-call-it-mount-ghetto-colorado-hvac-company-wont-service-colored-neighborhood/

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Denver company won't service one neighborhood, for racial reasons. (Original Post) Archae Apr 2015 OP
They just need to claim it's against their religion. cyberswede Apr 2015 #1
Better Business Bureau and YELP reviews are not favorable. Downwinder Apr 2015 #2
Certainly has nothing to do wth the Do Not Call list. SwankyXomb Apr 2015 #3
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