I just started a new job last night as a cage cashier on a riverboat casino. I get to witness stupidity at it's worst every night at work. And believe me, there are some amazing displays there, as money and alcohol and slot machines or gaming tables are seldom a good mix. But, thanks to company policy and the state gaming commission... I'm not allowed to discuss ANY of it... and it's killing me. I can understand not being allowed to discuss it with neighbors, family, anyone else in my immediate area, due to confidentiality of the customers, but to be prohibited to mention it anonymously online seems a bit restrictive to me. After all, the chances of someone out there in fu-land actually knowing who I'm even talking about, without mentioning names and/or descriptions, is slim to non-existent. It would require either one hell of a guess or having actually been present at the right place and the right time to witness the specific example mentioned.
And on a further note, I just read through my "Diversity in the Workplace" handbook that was given to me during training. Most of it was basic common sense, at least to anyone who has ever worked in the service industry before, since it covers the basics about not making racial slurs, height/weight jokes, etc. However, I noted two major inconsistencies with the policy.
First, the handbook reads as follows:
Examples of ethnic names not to be used when describing people: Hispanic, Asian, Black, Indian, etc.
Examples of proper ethnic names to be used: Hispanic, Asian, Native American, African-American, etc.
Could someone please tell me how it is both correct and incorrect to use Hispanic and Asian?
Then, when I started work last night, I was shown various transaction log forms, and lo and behold, there, on the bottom of the forms, was the codes to be used for race... and what did it say?
W - White, non-Hispanic
B- Black
H - Hispanic
I - Native American?
Can we say double standard?
