My mother & her co-worker are tired of getting threats from their boss and being treated as 2nd class citizens just because of age and race. They have confronted the company about it numerous times to get their boss fired and no person will do a thing about it.

If they continue to let her work in a high position, they are planning to sue the company, but first they’ll need a lawyer’s opinion.

What type of lawyer do they need? Thanks if you can help!

Feminists fought for affirmative action and a lot of security for women in the workplace. Medium companies and up have to keep women even if they do not perform. Could that be the reason that although women get top grades in college (something affirmative action wont get them) and access to the working world they quit performing due to lack of pressure and end up getting edged by the male competition on the career ladder, because men can be subjected to pressure to push them while it would be considered creating “a hostile work enviroment” if the same is done to women ?
Croa and you think the reason women are immune to the lack of pressure and resulting drop in performance the way we saw it in communist countries (yes even glorious german engineers built $hitty cars in the red half of Germany)
is ?

This is a common question but I think my situation might be unique. I have a boring data entry job, so the screen changes to the next order many times throughout the day. I have noticed that there will be messages in the upper left hand corner. Very small black text that flashes very briefly before the next screen loads. It’s usually quite insulting (“You smell awful, go home.” or “You should kill yourself.” or “I know who you really are”. or variations on those themes). To me it’s obvious the IT guy had to set it up, but it’s not obvious to me if he set up himself or at the orders of someone higher up.

Basically the way this is set I’ll look insane if I say anything. Other employees have commented that their work was being sabotaged and were fired.

I know to just quit is the obvious move, but I tend to like to hit back and don’t know how.

I work for a supervisor that tries to run our workplace like a plantation. He talks down to people and harass employees wherever he interacts with them. He has truly created a hostile working environment. Please Help! Is there a legal remedy for this behavior?

I haven’t harassed anyone but I’m just asking this to find out what would happen in this situation if a man was falsely accused.

This “union employee” seems to have all the right “connections” because their underperformance is NEVER questioned but every accusation that person makes against me is FULLY INVESTIGATED & RESEARCHED. All I want to do is come to work and do my job as part of the team, but this person does NOT take her work seriously and resents the fact that I do “above & beyond” on every task I am given, no matter how great or small. Should I seek legal counsel? I do not have the same resources as a Union has, and being there one year, I don’t have the “political allies & connections” the 10-year union employee has.

I am the department head. I have two workers that do not get along with each other, but everyone else here, including me, likes both of them. They do not need to interact with each other, and do not. There are no problems that way.

My question is, one of the two workers has decided to collect money from everyone here at work, except from the one worker this person does not get along with, for our state lottery drawing. The worker who collects the money does this during the work day, and has a sign posted where everyone can read it to participate.

My answer to the worker who is not included is that “this is not work related, and I can’t make the other worker include you in this.”

I have a feeling that I am wrong, and I do not want any legal ramifications from this. I cannot ask anyone higher than me, as I am it. Are there any web sites you can direct me to that may offer me some guidance, or do you have any knowledge legally concerning these circumstances?

Serious responses only please, as I consider this matter to be a serious one. 10 points awarded to the best answer.

I am working for a wholesale club in the food court, I have a co worker who I have really tried to work with and I just cannot do it. She is very hyper, so much so that a customer asked her to calm down because she was making him nervous. We each have tasks for closing the department at the end of the night, she is always jumping in and doing my job then talks to me like I asked her to do it for me?! She has told lies to the manager about me and he is on her side because, as he put it, shes a go getter (he doesn’t seem to see the sloppy jobs she does) and she is a friend of his mother(that’s how she got the job) He told me he is not anyone’s friend but she is the only one who has his home phone number. He also told her that he was going to have to fire another employee and I don’t know the laws in every company, but are managers supposed to talk to one employee about another? This company guarantees 24 hours a week to part time people, which is what I am, and each week I see she always has 26 to 30 hours and I have no more than 25, and also you have to take a lunch at the 5 hour mark, which is mandatory, so he gives me 5 1/2 hour days to make it look like I am getting 24 hours and in reality I am only getting around 22-23 at the most. I have closed with all of the other employees and we always get the job done with plenty of time to spare but every time I close with her we always go over, I can’t really explain why, she gets in my way and is verbally abusive, and lets you know without saying a word if she doesn’t like the job your doing. She was hired at the same time I was, but she has proceeded to tell me from day one what to do, like she knew everything. I have talked to management, and they say I just have to get along with her and that I must just have a bad attitude because she is so nice to them, well they don’t have to work with her either, shes a different animal when they are not around. I am trying to find another job (I actually have an AS in computer engineering) but right now there are few jobs to be had so I don’t want to quit until i have another, but I don’t want to dread going to work. I am getting physically sick thinking about it.