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discrimination issue at work

SurferBoyKai

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so, a few months ago, this kid, drew, refused to serve a tranny and two gay dudes. he called another co-worker up. and i walked with rachael because we were talkin. so, he flat out says "as a christian, i refuse to serve them. rachael, take the register. i will bot compromise my beliefs to serve them." i went to the store manager about it, the results are later on...but this time, i feel what he said was WAY worse...

so, i get to work on wednesday at 6, which is normal since it's truck day. so, i went into the office, and there were thompson, rodas, and han (all three managers) drew, and morine. so, the subject of another store manager came up, mr. o'dell, who happens to be gay, but the subject changed really fast. about 10 minutes later, the subject of store transfers came up, because han said he can't stand our store manager.

so, he tells drew that he would like to see him in pharmacy at mr. o'dell's store. drew immediately snaps, "the same o'dell we were just talkin about?" to which han replies "yes." again, drew snaps, "oh, i can't work for him then!" now, i immediately knew exactly what he meant. but mr. han didn't, and was all "why not?" drew, in the most serious yet dispised tone says "because he's gay. i cannot, and utterly refuse to work for someone that is homosexual!"

mr. han was speechless. he was all "drew, don't ever say that" and drew was like "well, it's the truth. i won't work for anyone that is homosexual. i refuse." mr. han was all "well, if you say it, then i have to write you up and you can be fired for discrimination." then drew was all "well, you remember phillip, right? i couldn't stand working with him because he's gay"

god fuckin dammit han! why they FUCK did you not say anything?! han said it himself! he could get written up and fired for discriminating like that! and everyone in the store knows i'm openly bisexual! so then rodas had to talk to han in private, and we were all dispersed.

like, 10-15 minutes later, drew came up to me all "oh, i didn't offend you, did i? because yer the exception to my rule. i befriended you before i knew you were bisexual. and you don't seem it anyways. usually i pick up on it in people, but you seem straight"

i've never wanted to fuckin hit someone as hrd as i fuckin wanted to fuckin hit anyone so hard in my life. i said "no" and walked away. he knows how i feel about his bigotry because i approached him on with the last incident. when i get back from my vaycay, i'm gonna talk to mr. levy (the store manager) because this is fuckin absurd. there were 3 fuckin managers in there, and even han (who's the second in the chain of command) was all "drew, you could be fired" etc etc.

should i even go to the store manager at this point? last time drew's bigotry shined through and i went to mr. levy, nothing was done. not even a fuckin write up! or should i try taking this above mr. levy? i went to levy before, and he was all "well, it's his religious beliefs, i can't write him up" and i was all "how is something like religion, which someone chooses, held more sacred than who someone is!" i got "no, it's his religious beliefs"
 
Drew has a well deserved world of hurt coming. If we're all lucky, he'll self destruct and go to hell.
 
If he worked for me he'd be gone.

Not because of against whom he discriminated, but the fact the he declined to serve a customer.
 
i dunno what to do. people are tellin me that i can lose my job if i start something. but i'm not the kind of person that allows shit like this to happen. i seriously don't know what to do
 
Don't take it upon yourself to deal with the situation.

Let the upper-echelon people deal with it.
 
i have encountered a situation similar like this before, [like how its work, i had to work in a group]

to make it short,

if you are gay, hell if you are not straight or religious,

99% of the time, the odds are NOT in YOUR favor
 
http://www.broward.org/civilrights/welcome.htm

"Did you know discrimination is unlawful?

Discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and/or familial status (housing) are unlawful in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It is prohibited by the Broward County Human Rights Act (Broward County Code and Ordinance Chapter 16½). The Act also prohibits reprisals that punish you because you have filed charges or spoken out against an unlawful discriminatory practice (retaliation).

The law also prohibits an employer, employment agency or labor organization to retaliate against you because you have filed a charge or complained about an unlawful employment practice. The Broward County Human Rights Act has been recently amended to cover employees with five of more employees."
 
Listen to looseliam if you need THAT job........
As pissed off as you are (and as an employer so am I) you can't win.
They can find ANY other "reason" to let you go and you can't do anything about it.
Sorry bud.......but for YOU it's a lose/lose situation....... :(

This is what I mean about being spotless. File charges and they will likely strike back by using any means of getting rid of you in hopes that you will be so preoccupied with finding another job and the lack of income that you will let it go. A few seconds late from break? Write-up. Not friendly enough with a customer? Write-up. Schedule changed to the worst hours and days? Too bad. Or they can fire you for no reason at all, which is usually the best reason for them.

You and your attorneys have to then prove your case. Your employer only needs to defend himself. "We fired him for tardiness/being impolite/poor hygiene/slovenliness/bad attitude" or simply, "We let him go."

They don't fight your unemployment claim, a relatively cheap way out of this for them versus having to get their lawyers working on a case against them, and that alone can be standing in court for them to say you weren't fired for cause.

Much depends on the courts. Some court won't buy your employer's reasoning, others will. It will come down to the sworn depositions from you and the employer. So long as all the employer's witnesses stick to the story that you were fired for something other than being gay, the odds are against you.

Your employer is, I believe, a national company with deep pockets. It can be very difficult to fight them. Too it can affect your future employment. Even though HR people aren't supposed to say anything, there is a sort of unwritten language among them that conveys more than what they are actually saying. It's tough to prove your employer is giving you bad referrals when they're not actually coming out and saying it.

This is why you have to talk to a lawyer with discrimination law experience in Broward. In some places the courts are friendlier than others and all will depend on the exact wording of the laws, the court, and how much of a case your lawyer thinks you will have against the employer.
 
Many coprorations now a days have have a phone number that you can call like an 800 # that you can call anonymous and tell them an issue like this that they can fix if it cant be fixed at store level
 
Dude that situation stinks. I don't know for sure that you're as powerless in this situation as some people have stated. I think Teasel, Harke the Heretic, and Heatseeker have all suggested potentially useful stuff. It probably *is* best to watch your back.

If Broward county has an anti-discrimination policy that is that good, it seems to me that, in your position, you don't need to do anything at work. All that really needs to happen is to have some reasonable gay people come into the store when Drew is working; Drew refuses to serve them, and they file a complaint. I bet that would be the end of that. I honestly bet that Walgreen's doesn't want something like that to happen.

http://diversity.walgreens.com/default.html
http://diversity.walgreens.com/ourcommitment/ceostatement.html
http://diversity.walgreens.com/ourcommitment/employmentopportunity.html
http://diversity.walgreens.com/ourcommitment/diversitypdf.html
 
...I also think it's interesting that Drew "forgives" you for being bi. And, that he has such big reactions to the topic. Methinks the lady might be protesting too much.
 
i don't intend to file charges. i just believe that drew should be seriously reprimanded.

oh, and aloha ryan! nice to see another bruddah of hawai'i here! i'm originally from hahuku, o'ahu! and i have native hawai'ian blood in me (1/4...my grandpa is native hawai'ian). and i'm 1/4 filipino, and 1/2 white. sorry to go off topic haha. anyways...

billybob, when i get home from my vaycay i'll scope out to see if we have one of those numbers. i know we have one if we suspect people of stealing haha. but right now, i'm back home in o'ahu, and i don't wanna worry myself over issues on the mainland.

heatseaker...so, yer sayin that, if i raise a stink with the company, they can't do anything to retaliate? or, can they be all "oh well, we can use the fact that he's called out before to mask our intent" because, yes, i have called out, but who hasn't, yah? i'm very valuable to them.

when i come to work, the first thing done is that i'm given a set of manager's keys. i work in photo, and, when needed, in the pharmacy. i've been told i'm the most valuable emlpoyee. so...
 
I could be wrong, but if there is discrimination going on in the company and they don't handle it appropriately i'm pretty sure you can sue. If you bring it up and they refuse to take care of it, you might want to bring up that little fact to them (after actually doing the appropriate research, of course).
 
<heatseaker...so, yer sayin that, if i raise a stink with the company, they can't do anything to retaliate? or, can they be all "oh well, we can use the fact that he's called out before to mask our intent" because, yes, i have called out, but who hasn't, yah? i'm very valuable to them.>

there is protection in the law for "whistle blowers", yes. it looks at a glance like local law protects you and probably Walgreen's has a nondiscrimination policy too. So you should feel a bit encouraged that you have some backing if it came to that. But I'm not a lawyer.
The best approach is probably the advice that Harke gave you. There may be a nondiscrimination law you can call on, but it's best to do that only after you exhaust all your other options. Like the other fellow said, the local gay community center or a group like Lambda Legal could probably give you advice.
I admire you for wanting to do something about this.
 
Presumably Mr Levy is Jewish - a few well chosen words about discrimination and the holocaust might help him see things differently.

I fail to see why Drew is being allowed to direct the way the business operates. I think you should begin discriminating against him by going to the managers and saying that you refuse to work with him - what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
 
i dunno what to do. people are tellin me that i can lose my job if i start something. but i'm not the kind of person that allows shit like this to happen. i seriously don't know what to do>
If you handle this the right way, it could actually be a good mark on your resume, an example of how you handled a difficult situation (a common question in job interviews). Just get some advice from people who are more expert in this and emphasize how this behavior is bad for the company's business.
 
<If Broward county has an anti-discrimination policy that is that good, it seems to me that, in your position, you don't need to do anything at work. All that really needs to happen is to have some reasonable gay people come into the store when Drew is working; Drew refuses to serve them, and they file a complaint. I bet that would be the end of that. I honestly bet that Walgreen's doesn't want something like that to happen.>

I am sure they don't, especially in an area where the gay community is very influential and has a lot of economic clout. They already have this P.R. nightmare to deal with:

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/Walgreen.racial.discrimination.2.335762.html
 
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