Before you jump to conclusions it’s important to understand the background.
My team is VERY diverse and VERY small. There’s 11 of us total. Every single person is either a different race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. 90% of the team has a good relationship but there are a couple seeds who outwardly stir up trouble.
An example of the type of reports being sent to HR is the only black girl on our team referred to her own hair has nappy during a team meeting in reference to talking about going to get her hair braided over the weekend.
Only our team was in the room during that and someone anonymously reported it to HR as a racist comment.
Another example, I was talking to my work friend, who is in on our team and in our team pod and I said “I’m a Jew”… because I am… and was reported to HR. I also said my family are immigrants who came here illegally to escape war… because that’s what happened… and that was reported.
Similarly another teammate referred to herself as super gay in a side convo… because she’s a lesbian… and was reported.
Another girl on my team is Cambodian and she said she felt bad eating her food because Asian food sometimes is smelly, and got reported to HR.
I think I know who is doing these reports but it’s caused SO much tension on our in office days like we can’t have any conversations without offending this one person but this one person is technically anonymous. I also think it’s this one person because we can see HR meetings on everyone’s calendars and for each incident, HR talked to her first, every single time.
What would you guys do?