Would someone be able to tell a someone that a black waiter/waitress will have to work the back room and not the front by a request from a bigot? Would someone be able to get on a bus and tell the driver that they are not getting on the bus unless all the black people move to the back or move from the area that the bigot wants to sit?

 

The hospital should have told him they need to go to another hospital. They allowed someone to be discriminated, not only by the bigot, but by granting the bigot's wishes.

Good question. We also experience this and I have had this discussion with my male counterparts. Most are willing to work around that issue. OB/GYN is a whole different ball game though, because there is no getting around the very personal nature of the job. Not sure how I feel about it. I would be willing to bet most male nurses choose different fields of nursing because of it though.

 

I would be willing to bet that most women wouldn't care at all by the time they hit the maternity ward.

 

 

You are SO right about that!

Would someone be able to tell a someone that a black waiter/waitress will have to work the back room and not the front by a request from a bigot? Would someone be able to get on a bus and tell the driver that they are not getting on the bus unless all the black people move to the back or move from the area that the bigot wants to sit?

 

The hospital should have told him they need to go to another hospital. They allowed someone to be discriminated, not only by the bigot, but by granting the bigot's wishes.

I understand your point, but in your scenario, what if they asked the manager if they could have a table in another area if it was available with a different waitress? The bottom line, (no pun intended) is that the manager of that restaurant (or hospital) has people who pay for their service. The restauranteur would likely cater to the desire of his patron. Not saying it's right, but I bet that's how it would be. And in that scenario, that waitress was out cash in her pocket. She would have a better chance of claiming damage than the nurse, IMO.

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You are SO right about that!

It could be LRCW in a wrestling leotard and a hockey mask and they wouldn't care!!

I doubt it. If you boil that hypothetical conversation down to its fundamentals, it ends up looking like this:

 

"We're reassigning you."

"Why?"

"Because you're black."

 

And so you're stuck with a hospital admitting that it reassigned an employee based solely on race which, despite my ignorance of the law in this area, strikes me as a big problem.

 

 

Ummmm...i disagree. The hospital wasn't reassigining her based on her race, they did so based on a complaint from a patient/customer. Not saying its a legit complaint, but a complaint all the same. The hospital, and rightly so in my opinion when considering the safety and overall concern of everyone involved, thought it best to have another nurse do the job.

 

My thing is, why so quick to sue? And personally I don't think she will have much to stand on IF there isn't more to the story here. I work with clients all the time and in the past had someone assign me jobs where I might be dealing with who knows...could be anybody. If I ever showed up at someones door, and they looked at me and said..."I aint dealing with no 6'5 300 pound white cracker red neck"! I'd have shrugged my shouders, went back to my office, and told my boss I guess you have to give this job to somebody else to satisfy the "#%&*#@! %$&*#$!@" f(ill in the spaces as you see fit). Point being, suing someone would have never crossed my mind.

I'm thinking Hooters judged you!

 

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