Employment Law

This paper’s purpose is to detail what happened to me, a former employee of a MSO. Included I will discuss and analyze protocol and procedures, and how they were not followed. This level of conflict made the day to day work environment very difficult to maintain at a professional level.

There was a situation that happened to me personally and I will state the facts as I remember them. This issue was one of a senior officer of the company making racial remarks, and did them on a daily occasion to me. I was the Director of Finance at a management company that was minority owned and operated. The supervisor in question was the CEO of the organization and we some what of a long term friend of mine. Out of the 99 people we employed roughly 95 percent were African-American, four percent were Asian and there was I who was Caucasian. Now this had never posed a problem, mainly because I let the racial remarks slide and the others saw me as an exception to what the White Devils were doing to business and society. While I sat silently, I entered a world that was quite different, one where I was the minority and I would witness and hear comments about my own race constantly.

I accepted the job as Claims manager in 1997 and quickly moved myself up through the trenches until I reached my goal of Director of Finance. This move, in part, was with the aid of a certain individual named Lee who was the CEO of the organization. He was there from the start of my career opportunity at the MSO and was always there for me. Eventhough at the time of my advancement to Director, he helped me out over some really rough spots. First of all I wasn’t qualified to be Director in my opinion, but that never concerned him. He always saw it a placing someone in that position that he could trust and mold. What I would learn from their CPA, would prove to be very valuable information for me and my future. But what I didn’t know about the position and all the continuous remarks made me question what was the real purpose.