egrizzly
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My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Texas
At the workplace we recently got a new technology manager. His patterns are somewhat odd. What he does is that in a team where there are two employees of the same rank/role he lays out more projects for one employee than he does the other. One employee is african-american (Employee A) while the other is hispanic (Employee B). One relevant factor to note is that the manager had previously worked with Employee B in a previous organization.
In the present company where they all work together Employee A has more experience with the set of technology tools used in the workplace while Employee B, although having experience with similar tools, does not have direct experience with the specific brand name/model of tools in their current workplace.
Still, another behavior this tech manager exhibits is that when Employee A presents reasonable projects ideas he dismisses them as "not useful" but then takes the same exact idea and uses it to assign a project to Employee B crediting him with the completed goal and experience.
Yet another behavior shown by the tech manager is that whenever a normal discussion arises he "injects" unrelated words that change the narrative of the discussion to something that makes Employee A look incompetent. (hope I'm using "narrative" correctly here.). Anyway, an example would be the example conversation below:
- Employee A: "Hi guys. Which computer do we use for receiving external email. Is it computer1 or computer2?"
- Tech Manager: "Be sure you're not installing Adobe Photoshop on computer1. It's strictly for email only"
- Employee A: "I don't get your meaning? Where does Adobe Photoshop come into the picture?"
- Tech Manager: You have to be careful which software goes into Computer1 and computer2
- Employee B: "Yes. Adobe Photoshop would absolutely cause a lot of problems."
The discussion is now driven from a legitimate question about which computer is used for external email to Employee A being coached on an activity that never took place, with the Tech Manager and Employee B being on one side and Employee A on another.
Anyway, I certainly don't know much about employment law but since the previous two tech managers did not do any of this and coordinated work fairly between employees I thought to post this here to the legal community that has deeper insight on such things. A dozen hi-fives all for your suggestions, comments and contributions.
At the workplace we recently got a new technology manager. His patterns are somewhat odd. What he does is that in a team where there are two employees of the same rank/role he lays out more projects for one employee than he does the other. One employee is african-american (Employee A) while the other is hispanic (Employee B). One relevant factor to note is that the manager had previously worked with Employee B in a previous organization.
In the present company where they all work together Employee A has more experience with the set of technology tools used in the workplace while Employee B, although having experience with similar tools, does not have direct experience with the specific brand name/model of tools in their current workplace.
Still, another behavior this tech manager exhibits is that when Employee A presents reasonable projects ideas he dismisses them as "not useful" but then takes the same exact idea and uses it to assign a project to Employee B crediting him with the completed goal and experience.
Yet another behavior shown by the tech manager is that whenever a normal discussion arises he "injects" unrelated words that change the narrative of the discussion to something that makes Employee A look incompetent. (hope I'm using "narrative" correctly here.). Anyway, an example would be the example conversation below:
- Employee A: "Hi guys. Which computer do we use for receiving external email. Is it computer1 or computer2?"
- Tech Manager: "Be sure you're not installing Adobe Photoshop on computer1. It's strictly for email only"
- Employee A: "I don't get your meaning? Where does Adobe Photoshop come into the picture?"
- Tech Manager: You have to be careful which software goes into Computer1 and computer2
- Employee B: "Yes. Adobe Photoshop would absolutely cause a lot of problems."
The discussion is now driven from a legitimate question about which computer is used for external email to Employee A being coached on an activity that never took place, with the Tech Manager and Employee B being on one side and Employee A on another.
Anyway, I certainly don't know much about employment law but since the previous two tech managers did not do any of this and coordinated work fairly between employees I thought to post this here to the legal community that has deeper insight on such things. A dozen hi-fives all for your suggestions, comments and contributions.