I'm racist - anyone else?

[caelite]

I made a complaint about my manager to HR for some very inapropriate comments he had been making to myself and a colleague. He barely got a slap on the wrist it seems and I had bad-terrible quarterly reviews from him from that moment on until I quit (on good terms) a year later. Working in customer services sucks .

[bigkeeko]

HTP99 said:

A bit OT but it is due to racism; I have a couple of colleagues who are racist and it it is getting to the point that I'm getting increasingly fed up with their ill informed racist rants about immigrants, terrorists, muslims etc, now there is no one at my place of work who is what you may class as an ethnic minority; basically for all intents and purposes we are all "white British".

Am I able to make a complaint, even though the rants and racism doesn't directly affect me?

What a blurt.

[jshell]

caelite said:

I made a complaint about my manager to HR for some very inapropriate comments he had been making to myself and a colleague. He barely got a slap on the wrist it seems and I had bad-terrible quarterly reviews from him from that moment on until I quit (on good terms) a year later. Working in customer services sucks .

HR: Straight lines to easiest, hassle free (for them) answer to any problem.

[t400ble]

MarshPhantom said:

The firm I work for can't be accused of racism as they don't employ any black people.

[caelite]

jshell said:

caelite said:

I made a complaint about my manager to HR for some very inapropriate comments he had been making to myself and a colleague. He barely got a slap on the wrist it seems and I had bad-terrible quarterly reviews from him from that moment on until I quit (on good terms) a year later. Working in customer services sucks .

HR: Straight lines to easiest, hassle free (for them) answer to any problem.

Aye aparently the best course of action for a complaint against a manager regarding his bias to "certain" staff members (read; 16-18 year old part time girls, he was 30), innapropriate comments about said staff members, lack of ability to actually do his own job and open hostility to staff members he doesnt like. Best course of action = politely give the manager a written message asking to improve his behaviour in future and telling him who complained and for what reasons. The guy threw a hissy fit and tried to fire those of us who complained. When he realised he couldnt find enough good reasons to do so (he did managed to slap a "First & final written warning for misconduct" on me for exiting a food area with the wrong clothing on) he settled on cutting all our hours to nothing and making sure his "favoured" girls got offered any overtime going first.

What really pissed me off was the same manager was up for a pay rise that year and supposedly he got it irreguardless of half his department on both the staff and assistant manager level despised him.

[mph1977]

numtumfutunch said:

I reported a colleague yesterday through the appropriate channels for doing something dodgy, really really dodgy

She's been with us (big company) for over 10 years and has a reputation for being poor but as far as I know has never been the subject of any disciplinary action

I thought it would be a simple matter due to the nature of her transgression but on arriving at work today have found out she's reported me for racist abuse and bullying

Anyone got any experience?

Cheers

Dizaei defence