There's this young woman at the office who was educated in the US and she makes persistent racist comments about me and the other white guy in our company. She also often makes racist jokes about Indians in our team, but she kind of laughs when she's doing it, and they don't seem to kind either. When she's doing something like "what are you talking about, white boy", she looks pretty hateful. I don't really care she's doing that, especially since I understand that's probably what she is used to and you can't change a person, but still, is there something that can be done or should be done at all? I think reporting someone to HR for a minor thing like this would be crazy. It doesn't affect work and shit gets done anyway. Other colleagues at the office don't make the remarks like she does. This is a medium sized company outside the US.
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Next time tell her to STFU with a couple of the other people she offended
Where’s she from? I can teach you how to give her a taste of her own medicine.
Don't fight fire with fire, always going to lead to something bad. Just invite her to get her head out of her ass.
You prefer he write a letter telling her how inappropriate her comments are? Maybe invite her for a discussion over an afternoon tea?
Report her to HR or in case of inaction give her a taste of her own medicine. Call her out for what she is - a racist.
This needs to be reported to HR. I missed an opportunity like that in the past . He was fired but had I reported it would have had some way earlier with little damage.
At this point, she doesn’t even realize that you mind the way she talks. It’s better that you make it clear to her. Why don’t you just tell her something like: ‘Hey! I don’t like your tone. I would appreciate if you are more careful about the way you talk!’ And if she still continues after that, then you can think of other ways to deal with it!
Behavior like this should be called out immediately. If you’re not comfortable chastising her, you should just ask her to repeat herself every time as if you didn’t hear (e.g. “I’m sorry, didn’t catch that?). People generally feel dumb repeating offensive things when someone is being polite, doing it every time will be enough of a pattern that she’ll probably lessen the behavior.
Wow. I like this!
Just tell her to knock it off with the white boy stuff. If she won’t stop report it.
Escalate. Next time she says something racist, say something sexist in retaliation.
Don’t do this. The second wrong is always punished. The instigator walks.
HR is generally evil. I would inform your manager of the situation. Say that you don’t necessarily expect action but wanted to report the situation. That gives you some cover.
Depends on your local laws; in the US this would probably considered a hostile work environment