"Overwhelmingly white" workplace affecting mental health

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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I remember one place i worked at - the core directorate said prayers before eating lunch together, and if you didn’t have the right upbringing you were shunned.. the ceo is part of the Vatican’s leadership.
Being non-religious.. it was pretty clear I wasn’t going to fit in.
 
Isn't it quite likely that no Muslims would be involved in the senior editorial process, seen as they only make up 6.5% of the UK population...Not sure why he is surprised.

How many senior editors are there at Radio 5?
 
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People at my workplace think i like tea and Premier league football. Racists.
 
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Begbie said:
What a way to cause division, wonder how well this thinking would work in Pakistan.
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pretty sure it involves stones.


we probably have the least push back out of all the different cultures around the world.

The fact people can be racist here towards us surely means we can;t be racist for allowing it to happen
 
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