kapaja
Oct 20, 2008, 03:06 AM
I was recently teminated from my Management position for a company I'd worked at for three years. The reason stated was due to me being "disengaged" over the past couple of months... Please note that I had no performance issues/concerns documented or otherwise during my tenure.
The only change over the past couple of months is that I (white female) married a black man. I believe I was released from my position due to this. Feeling fully substantiated based on the following:
As a manager for this company I had hired a total of five black males (none of which was the man I recently married). After they were hired, the Director of HR (also the VP of Ops - one in the same woman) said to me "... the optics of all these black men working for me is that I was/had slept with them..." Important perhaps to note here is that they are each married to/dating white women. As equally important to note, there was a white male who worked for me during the same time which I wrote up four times and still couldn't get him fired. It wasn't until he quit that I was able to get rid of him.
Three of the five I was asked to fire approximately six months ago due to "their laziness" and the Director of HR said after they were terminated (one after the other the same day) "I always knew black men were lazy". Again, please note none of them had been written up by me (their reporting manager) or anyone else for that matter for performance concerns or anything else. The remaining two still work there with one of the two on the brink of being terminated - for the same reason (though he is not aware).
This is a sole proprietorhsip business with approximately 100 employees in AZ, NJ and Texas and the HR dept literally consists of the one woman serving multiple functions (Director HR, VP Ops and Director Sales/Marketing). When I brought to the owner's attention (whom I reported to) this concern in addition to some other concerns reference other discrimentatory acts - I am suddenly "disengaged" and terminated.
They've "offered" me a three week severance package in exchange for signing paperwork stating I won't sue them for anything.
Question - do I and the others terminated have a case or should I take their severance and move on?
The only change over the past couple of months is that I (white female) married a black man. I believe I was released from my position due to this. Feeling fully substantiated based on the following:
As a manager for this company I had hired a total of five black males (none of which was the man I recently married). After they were hired, the Director of HR (also the VP of Ops - one in the same woman) said to me "... the optics of all these black men working for me is that I was/had slept with them..." Important perhaps to note here is that they are each married to/dating white women. As equally important to note, there was a white male who worked for me during the same time which I wrote up four times and still couldn't get him fired. It wasn't until he quit that I was able to get rid of him.
Three of the five I was asked to fire approximately six months ago due to "their laziness" and the Director of HR said after they were terminated (one after the other the same day) "I always knew black men were lazy". Again, please note none of them had been written up by me (their reporting manager) or anyone else for that matter for performance concerns or anything else. The remaining two still work there with one of the two on the brink of being terminated - for the same reason (though he is not aware).
This is a sole proprietorhsip business with approximately 100 employees in AZ, NJ and Texas and the HR dept literally consists of the one woman serving multiple functions (Director HR, VP Ops and Director Sales/Marketing). When I brought to the owner's attention (whom I reported to) this concern in addition to some other concerns reference other discrimentatory acts - I am suddenly "disengaged" and terminated.
They've "offered" me a three week severance package in exchange for signing paperwork stating I won't sue them for anything.
Question - do I and the others terminated have a case or should I take their severance and move on?