The Pros And Cons Of Discrimination In The Workplace

In the restaurant industry there are judgemental people everywhere. I have had a couple of negative experiences working under poor management. Honestly, I have never been so disrespected on a regular basis for no substantial reason. Discrimination in any workplace is just not a good environment to be in. The worst experience I have had was working at Perkins. I began at Perkins as a hostess. They later trained me to be a server. Being a server was great at first, I was getting paid a lot more than I was as a hostess. Being behind the scenes on the server line was an adjustment but I would get put into situations by management that required me to have to work as a hostess again. This was a bit frustrating at times because I thought becoming

Morning shift was mainly their older servers that have families and who were very experienced. Night shift was the complete opposite. It consisted of all the younger servers on staff that did not have very good work ethic. I thought I could handle it and still do my job well. I eventually found out that morning and night shift hate each other. The morning ladies felt that they had seniority over me and acted like my boss. They treated me unfairly just because they had more experience. They were discriminating against me because they thought I was like the typical night shift worker. The managers never helped ease the tension and they simply did not care about the negative performances that resulted from this discrimination. Nobody works well when they feel singled out or taken advantage of. I was just an outsider. I felt like their hatred for one another made them both automatically not like me. Each group would insist on looking at me to complain about something the other shift forgot to do before leaving, as if it were my

Knowing that I started my other job and that I did not want many hours, they scheduled me six days straight for my last week. I gave away half of my shifts. During one of my last shifts I was told by a manager that I 'm slacking off; the same night I stayed an extra two hours. I was offended by the comment since I did the right thing and put my notice in, instead of just quitting which would have been much easier. I thought it was very insulting that I was still finishing my two weeks and helping them but they still have the audacity to say I was not doing a good