This can be due to ethnic, social, gender or sexual orienation background. Just curious to hear your experiences.
Yes, based on ethnicity. Small company. I’m a white guy from Eastern Europe, boss was an older white guy. Often made remarks about my country, stupid jokes, treated me like a low life, etc. I tolerated for 5 years and earned respect over time. He was very upset when I submitted my two weeks.
Bittersweet props for having tolerated it for so long. Have a very similar experience with my manager. Appreciate any advise and detail you could share on how you overcome it.
Sorry to hear you’re experiencing this. I didn’t have much dignity then and just focused on work and worked hard. Years of stellar work ethic earned that respect, but it was rough emotionally. Now, I like to think of that time as valuable experience of how not to be a horrible boss for my team. Not sure if I’d achieve what I have now without it.
Sexual harassment from boss. Couldnt do anything because "males cant harass males" back then. Total crock of shit.
Yep. Male director always pressuring me to have dinner and drinks with him every night on the road. When I wouldn’t he badmouthed me for months in front of the rest of the team. Foolishly let my boss and skip level convince me not to go to HR. Later realized if I had been female situation would have been different. (This was at a previous company, not current. I wouldn’t put up with that crap today.)
Was dude gay or just a Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy situation?
Mexican guy did the slanty eyes in front of me. A GM tried to convince me not to go to HR for 30 mins
😡
Crazy right? In freaking 2019!
My last manager asked me if I was “one of the good guys” when he first met me. I’m middle eastern.
😡😡
😳 what. the. fuck.
I’m surprised I haven’t or if I have I just haven’t noticed it.
One of my senior colleagues would just ignore and not respond to my suggestions. He would happily respond if the same thing comes from another colleague who is a white male. He is a white male and I am an Indian woman
Age. Your post is discriminatory for omitting age.
Is it discrimination against old or young people?
Cuz I’m 19 & done with my BSc in SWE. I don’t wana be discriminated
Many times. Had HR tell me that no good deed goes unpunished when I refused to provide extra documentation about my register domestic partnership (the law required it be treated the same as marriage and the company didn’t require documentation for married people). Had a rep from TriNet tell me I didn’t have a real marriage when they screwed up my withholding. Had to remain in the closet to avoid getting fired for being gay.
Holy shit I’m so sorry.
Gender. Yep. A VP would send only the women in my team an email asking “will one of you draft an email for me to send out to the dept that says x y and z, thanks” like we were just the secretary pool. He called us “incompetent” when no one responded within the day. This was a smaller, stupider company.
Should mention that once HR found out they hired an executive assistant for him and he stopped. So, there’s a functional resolution.
That’s ridiculous!! Good thing no one responded