Black man who was offered job interview after changing name on his resumé sues for discrimination

We agree again!!! WTH lol

 

I’m not saying there wasn’t any racial discrimination. Just saying it wasn’t necessarily based on a “black” name. Could have easily looked him up on LinkedIn or social media and saw that he was black.

 

Also, since had applied for multiple jobs in the past, knowing the race of the people hired for those jobs will either help or hurt his case. If they hired black people for the jobs he didn't get interviewed for, that would seemingly sink his case.

 

I think all discrimination in hiring for jobs should be ended...

We should live in an equal opportunity meritocracy... where the best person wins the job regardless of the color of their skin.

 

Oh I think my comment fit his perfectly. If you are going to simply call someone a usual suspect you really should try posting something original yourself.

 

Maybe it really was racism.
Or they had an opening that better fit his resume when he reapplied, or an actual opening (it doesn’t say whether he blind applied or applied for a specific job) or maybe they got further down their candidate list by the time he had reapplied. Or someone different looked at resumes that day and valued different things in who they called back, or they changed their key word search.
As I’ve said before, I just hate partial stories that “have to be” racism just because it could be, when there are other very plausible explanations.

 

Its not like multiple studies haven't found this IRL and its some unreasonable conclusion to make. Its more or less common knowledge to the point to where I'm surprised some bad faith cynic isnt suggesting the guy is exploiting that for a payout.

 

The last study I saw was more complicated than that. Larger companies, companies with centralized HR, wealthier companies were relatively fair. Retail companies preferred women regarless of race, it was small companies that seemed to have more problems. Don’t know much about the company behind this to see where they fall.
But he did change his employment dates between the two resumes as well. Don’t know how that might factor (like if he took out a significant work break that could impact a call back). or again, maybe it was just a racist person. I just hate the automatic assumption on an individual case.
Side note, is Dwight Jackson really a “black” name? Maybe he had a photo on his resume, or his high school is in a part of town that’s primarily African American? Because that name alone doesn’t sound that definitive to me. Someone else above mentioned something else I had t even thought of, social media. There wouldn’t be one under the new name, so if the real name had anything questionable that could have changed things too. Could have also “outed” him as AA.

 

Where's the fun in that? If everyone took that attitude there would be no Too Hot!

 

On the surface this looks bad, but a lot of questions need answered.

We're there openings every time he applied?

Does the organization have a strong track record hiring minorities to fall back on?

If those dont hold up in the hotels favor, I'd say his case is pretty valid.

I once got an angry phone call from a woman claiming we hadn't called her back because she was a woman. I asked her what job she applied for. (That position was not open), I then proceeded to tell her that my hiring manager for that position was a woman. And that any decisions for that position in the future were solely hers to make.

Anyways. It seems like a lot of open ends to this yet...But I have little doubt this happens way more often than we want to admit in 2024.

 

Since Eisenhower became our first black president.

 

Maybe someone at the hotel knew who he was and he had a bad rep with them. Not clear cut

 

It's the last name