Re: discrimination

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On 3/26/08, denise wrote:
> On 3/25/08, Terry wrote:
>> On 3/24/08, caged312 wrote:
>>> There is documentation of a department manager who is not
>>> performing duties but the company refuses to fire or
>>> reassign her due to fear she will sue. She is 60yrs old,
>>> woman, and black.
>>>
>>> We are in a right to work state so tech. they don't even
>>> have to have a reason.
>>>
>>> I am having to leave the department I enjoy because she
>>> has made the working environment unbearable. Besides Im
>>> tired of doing all her work. She does get paid more and is
>>> actually the manager. I am only a worker in the department.
>>>
>>> This is not the first location she has worked at or had
>>> these issues with for the same company.
>>>
>>> What, if any, would be my recourses so that I could stay
>>> where I want and they would have to "deal" with her?
>>>
>> None. The tail doesn't wag the dog.
>>
>> If your employer wants to retain an incompetent manager,
>> they are free to do so. If the reason that they want to
>> retain an incompetent manager is because they're concerned
>> she'll sue for age, gender, or race discrimination if they
>> fire her, that's the company's business and does not result
>> in your having any legal claim to bring against the
>> company.
>>
>> BTW, "right to work" means you can't be forced to join a
>> union in order to be employed. What you mean to say is that
>> you are in an "at will" employment State.
> well i am seven months pregnant i started at a job when i was
> five months pregnant i notified the person in human resources
> that i was expecting in june. I am a certified nursing
> assistant. I do everything that my job requires. I feel like i
> am being harrassed by the boss because he is now telling me
> maybe i should cut my hours because i look like i am tired
> and cant handle it. He brought me in his office and began
> hollering at me because he wanted me to answer lights on two
> different hall ways I dont get lunch breaks like i am supposed
> to. I told him why would i cut my h ours if i only work
> weekends. He said that when i go off to have my baby they wont
> rehire me

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