Have you experienced gender, racial, or ethnic discrimmination? How much has it cost you?

[Anonymous]

"OP here, the men in my filed make about $200K more per year now, but I reduced the amount when I took into consideration my slightly lower productivity. Before I had kids, I was as productive as they were."

Dearie- This is not discrimination. This is called making a choice. If you are not as productive as they are, you should not make as much money as they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"OP here, the men in my filed make about $200K more per year now, but I reduced the amount when I took into consideration my slightly lower productivity. Before I had kids, I was as productive as they were."

Dearie- This is not discrimination. This is called making a choice. If you are not as productive as they are, you should not make as much money as they do.

I took that into consideration. As I said, before I had kids, I was as productive, but still made less.
You could have just written "OP" instead of "Dearie".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"OP here, the men in my filed make about $200K more per year now, but I reduced the amount when I took into consideration my slightly lower productivity. Before I had kids, I was as productive as they were."

Dearie- This is not discrimination. This is called making a choice. If you are not as productive as they are, you should not make as much money as they do.

I took that into consideration. As I said, before I had kids, I was as productive, but still made less.
You could have just written "OP" instead of "Dearie".

but then she wouldn't have revealed her true asshole nature

[Anonymous]

"but then she wouldn't have revealed her true asshole nature"

call 'em as you see 'em. thanks for the laugh.

[Anonymous]

I worked on the h1b visa for 4 years. I earned 50K per year when the going rate for my skills was 80K

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked on the h1b visa for 4 years. I earned 50K per year when the going rate for my skills was 80K

I have heard of this type of abuse with highly educated H1B visa holders. If employers didn't have so much influence over visa renewals holders might be able to get salaries competitive with those who don't need a visa to work in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked on the h1b visa for 4 years. I earned 50K per year when the going rate for my skills was 80K

under the covers that is the point of an h1B visa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked on the h1b visa for 4 years. I earned 50K per year when the going rate for my skills was 80K

I have heard of this type of abuse with highly educated H1B visa holders. If employers didn't have so much influence over visa renewals holders might be able to get salaries competitive with those who don't need a visa to work in the US.

Then what would be the motivation for spending thousands of dollars to sponsor somebody if you had to pay them as much as a local hire who did not need a visa? I know some H1B have specific skills, blah, blah, blah ... But especially now with such high unemployment in some H1B intensive industries. This is a serious question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"OP here, the men in my filed make about $200K more per year now, but I reduced the amount when I took into consideration my slightly lower productivity. Before I had kids, I was as productive as they were."

Dearie- This is not discrimination. This is called making a choice. If you are not as productive as they are, you should not make as much money as they do.

I took that into consideration. As I said, before I had kids, I was as productive, but still made less.
You could have just written "OP" instead of "Dearie".

but then she wouldn't have revealed her true asshole nature

Awesome!

[Anonymous]

I really thought that we were making progress on sex discrimination...then I spoke to my sister today. She interviewed for a management position yesterday. The man actually told her that he wasn't sure a woman in the management position would be able to command the kind of respect a man would be able to. He wasn't sure he was comfortable hiring a woman for the job.

WTF???

[Anonymous]

I face gender discrimination every time I'm in the market for a job.

I'm a male nanny.

[Anonymous]

When I started my job about 9 years ago, I found some old interview notes (not from my boss) that had "is a young mother" as a negative comment for a potential applicant. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really thought that we were making progress on sex discrimination...then I spoke to my sister today. She interviewed for a management position yesterday. The man actually told her that he wasn't sure a woman in the management position would be able to command the kind of respect a man would be able to. He wasn't sure he was comfortable hiring a woman for the job.

WTF???

I'd rather him tell me that up front so I know to avoid the place at all costs then to get there and be subjected to a bunch of crap on a daily basis. I know that's not the "right" comment but I've been in enough jobs where I was so stressed because of that kind of b.s. that I just wished someone had slipped me a note or something to tell how bad it was before I took the job. As gross as it was for him to say that, it was a blessing in disguise. I would also venture to assume that the company in question was a small company without any sort of HR infrastructure or culture.

[Anonymous]

I'm a manager who does 360 reviews. I spend a soild week on these reviews.

I have an employee that consistently does not preform year after year and EACH year I am informed by upper management that I cannot give this person (because of the color of his skin) a bad review. I have to give him a better review that his white colleagues to make it "fair".

As far as getting rid of this under preformer? Impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a manager who does 360 reviews. I spend a soild week on these reviews.

I have an employee that consistently does not preform year after year and EACH year I am informed by upper management that I cannot give this person (because of the color of his skin) a bad review. I have to give him a better review that his white colleagues to make it "fair".

As far as getting rid of this under preformer? Impossible.

As a Black woman, I find this troubling but also very common. Employers are so afraid of lawsuits that they go in the complete opposite direction and feed the beast. I know of many situations where underperforming Black employees were either passed on to different departments or left to their own devices because they were squeaky wheels. I am not stereotyping or generalizing but I've seen firsthand what PP is describing. It breeds such contempt among ALL employees and only perpetuates the myth that affirmative action and EEO = quotas, lowering the bar, etc...

The ironic this is that there are legitimate discrimination cases happening everyday but they are overshadowed by these situations because cowardly employers are afraid to take a stand. The real problem lies in nonexistent or ineffective HR systems that support comprehensive, legally defensible performance management programs.

What a shame!!!