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Originally Posted by Russ D
There certainly is career racism around today. In today's Mail on Sunday there's a story about this guy who proved he had the qualifications to be a firefighter yet was constantly overlooked for the job in favour of ethnic applicants as well as women.
When the ethnic candidates failed the fitness or written exams, the passmarks were lowered to allow them in. One candidate was under 5 feet in height - too short to reach the ladder on the fire engine but in order to reach quotas, the fire service gave him a job.
He took them to a tribunal and won - thereby proving he was discriminated against on the grounds of race and gender.
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I guess that one made the newspaper because it is more unusual for a complaint to be taken seriously when it's from a white person.
I guess that statement sounds racist, but I dont mean it to be it's just a fact.
One of my ex-girlfriends worked with a woman of caribbean origin, there were some big changes in the organisiation that they worked for and she got treated a bit more equal than anyone else because she was threatning to complain about racism. This particular woman was known for being lazy in work and had a history of receiving warnings for this reason and others, the employers were scared of her though because every time they gave her a warning she claimed that it was for racist reasons.
I heard another one from some ntl field techs about the police stopping everyone on a stretch of road in Newport to check if they had been consuming alcohol. One of the ntl techs is from a middle east country and was the only one to be waved straight through without having to wind down his window! The guy telling me said all the other ntl techs driving down that road were stopped.
I believe to stop racisim we also have to treat everyone the same, the guy in question could of been well over the limit but he doesn't drink.
But the fact that he doesn't drink is not the point is it.
