The
Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression
This incident happen on
Friday October 12, 2012, yesterday, and for the last two months or more I just
was getting strange vibes from some of my co-worker. It all came to a head
yesterday. I had notice that when I would
walk into this certain room at our office, there would be several people who
would ignore me as I walk in. God forbid that I asked a question for instance,
Sarah do you know where certain things are? She would never answer as though
she did not hear me I was being ignored, as I do understand know, and
eventually I had to ask her again or ask someone else. I just could not put my
finger on it, but to think that my coworkers are acting biased against me but I
wasn’t sure. So yesterday there was a disagreement between myself and one other
coworker, I did not think anything of it until our supervisor text, and said
that she needed to have a meeting with the two of us. And when we met with her
someone had called her and change everything to the fact that I had started the
whole situation, and made it look like I was the bad person and that I started
the whole thing. I was in shock, I explain to her what I said to fact, and that
I disagreed with what she had been told, and that I did not like the
insinuation that she had been told by whomever that took it upon them to give
her false statement, and I left it at that. My supervisor reprimanded us both
and said not to let it happens again. I can’t let this go, because I was
falsely accused and I am taking it higher than my supervisor, as she recommended
me to do, if I felt that her decision was not justified. So I did. And another
thing is that I am older than most of the coworker in our office.
We all should know by now
that certain federal acts prevent discrimination based on characteristics such
as gender, age (if you are 40 or older), ethnicity, religion, or race. Bias
means that someone is unfairly partial to one side or in has favoritism to one
side.
Hi Gloria,
ReplyDeleteYour incident was probably more of a jealous issue than racist. Your coworkers are probably jealous of you because you come to work and do your job and they are not doing what they suppose to do. Coworkers are offensive when you come in and get the job done because the supervisor and parents will admire what you do. Keep up the good work and don't let them get in your way.