This is not just a fast food environment issue. Here is an example from real life:
Location – a workplace in corporate America
A minority employee (by sex or race even though the majority of employees in this workplace are minority) can cry “racism” or “harrassment” and get his/her way.
However, a white male, especially a conservative Christian, can be treated like garbage.
He can have a furious minority female storm into his office – shouting, getting “in his face”, being physically threatening (actions that he would be fired for) – and nothing will be done to the out-of-control employee except to give her a promotion. HE will be told that it must have been his fault.
He will be required to work 60 – 80 hour weeks to cover when a female employee is out for four months on maternity leave. None of the minority/female employees at his level of management will help him pick up the slack. (He did not get any extra leave when his children were born, and he was reprimanded for taking more than a few days off for an emergency operation by a minority female supervisor.)
He would find it very hard to win a lawsuit in this environment, with the possible exception of one based on age discrimination. He puts up with it because he is very close to retirement – it’s the price he’s decided to pay to get a little more income from the employer.
Sad, isn’t it…
