I work for a very liberal company with lots of liberal folks. It’s a good job and I am paid well but feel like I spend a lot of time biting my tongue. Anyone else in this situation? How do you survive?
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I work for a fortune 500 and many times I've heard my boss say "I've asked to fire him/her, but HR won't let me because in today's culture it is nearly impossible to fire a black person."
Yes! I also work for a fortune 500 company. We literally cannot fire anyone because HR does not want to hurt any ones feelings. It makes it nearly impossible to manage people and hold them accountable.
I'm a blue collar guy and I got into an altercation with a black coworker back in February that began with him throwing a ladder at me then me asking what his problem was and then he got in my face and started yelling about how he was gonna kick my ass/ knock me out etc. over me being a trump supporter. I kept saying "do it then" and he never did. But then HE went to HR to tell them how I made him uncomfortable and all this shit. Fortunately there were many witnesses that I didn't say anything over the line and he started it with the ladder or else they probably would have fired me. Other guy eventually got fired but it took them a week and prodding from other coworkers that he needed to go.