Based in USA. I used to work part time at a custodial job. For 4 years, I worked as a custodial for 4 years. I have never been fired in my life, before this event. When I started working, I wasn't perfect at first. I have received warnings, and criticisms, but after 6 months in, I was reliable workers. I even got this racist compliment from my manager, “you people are the one of best races I ever worked with.”
However, my boss was retiring, and we got a new boss, a 50ish year old white woman. I got called lazy, as soon as I started working with her. She wouldn't even bother to call my correct name. I don't want to disclose my real name, but she would call me “Ming”, when my name is something like Dave Park (not my real name, but my name does start D, and last name is Park). She is not just mispronouncing my name, just calling me some Asian name by the look.
She called me lazy multiple times, because she said that I was working with her during the 4th of July, and I was sitting my ass off, and refused to work. I did not work during the 4th of July. So I figured she was confused with another Asian worker, and told her that I am not the same Asian, and told her that I did not even work during the 4th of July. However, she refused to believe my story, saying that I am just bringing excuses after excuses. I was mad, so I contacted HR about her racist behavior.
I got fired for it. All white HR is for all white employees, they do not care about minority part time workers. HR said that Black and Hispanic workers never have this problem, so it is me that is racist.
Recently, I talked to my old coworkers. He told me that the boss kept talking about me and that I was the worst employee she ever worked with. I just hate how I was one of the good workers to the worst workers simply because I am Asian. I cannot believe this happened in 2022, and racist would not even know they are racist.
Workers need better rights, and discrimination should be more talked about, not just by all white HR.