Being the newest employee and the only one of my ethnic background I put up with everyone I worked with. Put up with the way they look at me, treated me without respect, yelled, swear indirectly or not, etc. Over 3 years later and finally feeling the acceptance when suddenly a new person was hired. She belongs to the majority of the race, not surprisingly, treated well by most. After many training events, frustration arose a few times not just from me but I ended being "the one with a problem" when confronted by the managers as the new person complains only of me while crying a river. Certainly a big question mark on my forehead. I just didn't feel I deserved to be given a warning considering the hell I have gone through and sometimes still do. Anyway I see myself getting another warning so I decided to quit my job before the managers was able to say anymore and before I flood the office myself. What would you have done?
2007-01-11 10:50:02 · 4 answers · asked by hurt 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Discrimination and racism are hard to fight, especially when nobody will admit that it exists in the workplace. You need to go to the Human Rights Commission and file a complaint against this company. The next time that start a job I encourage you to keep a diary of every single even that transpire that even suggest discrimation. I gaurantee the first time you get called in for an interviw and you bring up some dates and people and their attitudes and remarks they will be dealt with immediately. This is somthing that should not be tolerated by anybody. A person that stands back and doesn't step up to the plate to protect another is just as guilty. I believe this even with someone who receives an email joke about some oppressed group and doesn't mail back to the sender stating this is offensive and please do not ever send me this hate literature again. You need to stand up for you rights and if not for yours for you childrens and grandchildrens. We cannot allow these attitudes to prevail in our society thay just perpetuate hate and intolerance.
2007-01-12 16:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that human resources nowadays can help. They 'should' be the ones that you can come too with problems or situations that occur to you or other people. Their jobs is to make sure that the work space is a place where one can feel comfortable, safe and not look down upon. Sometimes the best thing to do is leave if management are not doing their job.
Good luck in life.
2007-01-11 19:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by **smile** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quit three years ago, or if I really did think that is discrimination, file an EEO. That largely depends on how much that job pays, if it is less than $15 per hour, to hell with it, you can do better easily. choose your battles wisely, and "crying a river" is childish and unprofessional in any workplace. Good Luck, it is a jungle out here.
2007-01-11 19:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were unhappy there and felt you were unfairly treated, it was right to quit.
However, are you sure they were discriminating against you because of ethnicity and not for some other reason? There are many other factors that could cause a manager to be biased against a particular person.
I don't know you, so I won't presume to know whether or not it was ethnically-motivated or something else.
2007-01-11 18:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Iris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋