The VP I work under, I will call her C, has a streak of treating employees very poorly. Specifically women that are part of marginalized communities.
Incident 1: coworker and friend of mine who referred me to the job was getting paid less than me even thought we did the same work. I am male btw. She met with C and requested a raise to match me and the other new hires. She was denied the raise many times by C. Eventually she explained to C that she was no longer happy at the company and is contemplating leaving due to the inequities and she eventually did. C made no effort to retain her. She was a woman POC
Incident 2: a coworker was not getting assigned the work she was hired to do and eventually got fed up and went to C to put in her 2 weeks. C fired her on the spot. She left the office crying. She has a daughter and is POC.
Incident 3: a female coworker works from home part time. She originally worked full time in the office but wanted to quit. Since she was very smart and good at what she does so the company made a deal with her that she could get paid to work part time from home. So she took the deal and worked a new job and took the deal as a side job from home. After some time C tells her to come back to the office full time by the end of that month. Essentially telling her to quit her new job and come back to the one she originally didn’t like. She put in her two weeks and C fired her effective immediately. She was an openly lesbian woman.
Incident 4: This one is very recent. My coworker is actively going through a domestic abuse situation. Coming to work with broken ribs and another time a cast on her arm. She denies it is happening and avoids people who are trying to talk to her about it. She is currently on medical leave for physical and mental treatment. But before she left, C berated her to tears about her work performance not meeting standards. She is a POC woman.
All these incident happened over the course of a year and are not cherry picked. She has never done anything like this to any male employees or straight white females.
Clearly there is a pattern here and as a POC myself, I don’t feel comfortable working under her any longer and am planning to not work here my next year.
But my question to Reddit is what could I realistically do about this? None of these have been done to me so I don’t have standing to file a complaint with the EEOC. And we all know HR is not gonna do shit 90 percent of the time.
I could try and bait a retaliation by opening the HR complaint and letting C know about it. I have been confirmed to be promoted some time in the future, so if I don’t get the promotion it could be viewed as retaliation from C.
Just another example of how shit employees are treated in US and how we cant hold higher ups accountable.