Work for a Racist???
In 2007, I was hired to work at Office Max. There were two managers and plenty of diversity hired in with me. Before working for this company I had never felt as though Racism even existed anymore. At the time I was also a student at a university, so when I had interviewed, I emphasized that my schooling was important and to have flexibility in my schedule was what I needed. About two weeks working into this job I was told by many of the other workers that, one of the managers in particular, was a racist. I swore that it was just them being a “glass half empty” type of a person, but I soon was snapped into the reality of the racism. This man would work me longer than the other “non minority” employees, I was put at the bottom of the barrel for my pay, I was yelled at, and called dumb, and one day I called in and asked what my schedule was for that week and that manger told me that I didn’t work on the days that I actually was scheduled for. Thus, giving me write ups for not showing up. Also, on the days that that manger was using my register, I would always come up short on that register. I decided to quit that job, because I felt used and discriminated against, but before I left I sent in a anonymous comment for the company to review about the situation. I soon found out that he had been previously moved from 3 other stores for similar incidents. I had thought that it was impossible for him to be racist because he seemed nice and he had just hired so many minorities, but I had to remember, Companies have “diversity quotas” that need to be meet, and his was not…
