"Overwhelmingly white" workplace affecting mental health

throwaway4372 said:
This is why it's good for the BBC to have offices around the UK. Makes them realise how London-centric their thinking was. The Government should do the same thing.
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I know it sounds silly but far too many people don't seem to understand that the UK is still massively white.

I lived in Norwich for years and there were very few non white people. Go to London and you would think that 40% or so of the UK was non-white instead of 10-15%.

Everything has to have diversity and representation in it so people are easily fooled into thinking that this applies to the whole country.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Welcome to one of my previous workplaces. If you were Christian, white, male, able-bodied and straight, then you were ok. I only got the job because I was a previous customer of theirs and didn't know the working culture at the time. As time went on, I got bullied on 2 fronts - disability and being a non-believer.

Although I didn't know what a union was at the time, I was advised by the MD not to join a union. I didn't think much of it at the time, but hindsight eh.

Sweeping assumptions were made as well such as me being into witchcraft because I liked Harry Potter and being a druggie because I liked clubbing.

A gay friend couldn't come out because of this workplace.

In a redundancy round, they got rid of nearly all of the women, leaving only 3 women left and absolutely no one of colour at all.

There was even in-fighting between the different Christian denominations.

I had 2 bullies and it took nearly 2 years to get rid of them in another redundancy round, but it was too little too late. The company folded 3 months later. I had to get the redundancy money from the government in the end because none of us got redundancy pay.

I'm in the NHS now. Busy busy busy, but I'm in a better place.
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You make it sound as though being into drugs and witchcraft is a bad thing.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Yeeeeee outside of London, every time I visit London now I'm not sure anymore.

Not to mention Bradford, Coventry, most of Birmingham, Luton, Leicester, Slough.......
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Well isn't this the issue. You go to certain parts of the UK and its massively non-white and yet the majority of the UK is still white. Its pretty common sense that if a large chunk of those non-white people are condensed into certain areas then there will be a lot of areas with a very white population and their workforce etc will reflect that. Its not racist.
 
BUDFORCE said:
They are probably just trying to get back at their employer anyway they can.

We've had this before when they've thrown the race card etc but it's simply a case they were just **** at their job.
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I'm a bit surprised it's not some sort of misconduct thing, bringing your employer into disrepute or something.
Again, if he was white and everyone else wasn't and he said that the **** would be hitting the fan.
 
What always confuses me about diversity and representation is that its fundamentally a bizarre concept. Its the idea that people should be categorised by the colour of their skin, their gender, their sexuality or religion and yet the end game is a society where these things don't matter...

I also cannot grasp what is considered enough. Do we need a christian, an atheist, a scientologist, a muslim, a buddhist etc high up in the radio 5 editorial process? What about the super niche ones. Perhaps there should be a satanic representative?
 
I sometimes feel like we should just play the game.

"Oooh I'm sorry but we are going to have say no, we've checked and only 8% of the population is gay and 15% non-white and we already have Trisha in accounting who is gay and Indian so our quota is filled. I would love to hire you but, you know, representation".

I'm also confused as to how we have laws against discrimination and yet we are clearly allowed to discriminate against certain groups as long as they are the right ones. Companies openly advertise that they are going to prioritise certain demographics to great fanfare.
 
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