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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 307624" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Thanks, lmf64. You are welcome to drop in any time. Any of you. husband & I will happily act as tour guides, we love sharing our coutry with people.</p><p></p><p>Back to easy child 2/difficult child 2 - I have been free in tellnig people. Because the wedding is looming, friends ask how it's all going. So I'm telling them about her lovely "wedding present" from her employers.</p><p></p><p>I was down at the school fair today when a good friend of mine snuck up behind me and said, "Guess who?" then asked about the wedding plans. I told her about it and she said, "A friend of mine used to work for that company, got sacked in the same way. They have a bad reputation for sacking people and trying to push them around."</p><p>She added, "I think easy child 2/difficult child 2 was too smart for them, people could see she was smart and this frightened them. They want their staff to be subservient and cowed. She picks things up too quickly, they don't want their staff to be too capable or it risks causing them problems."</p><p></p><p>I thought about it - she would know what she is talking about. She is Filipino, she has experienced a lot of discrimination here, people treating her like dirt (mail-order bride attitude, although she and her husband were very much in love until the day he died). She also has the sort of work ethic that she describes the company preferring. They tend to employ European-descent girls, or Middle-eastern girls. A Filipino employee, for example, would be very desirable - they want female employees who will do what they're told without question. easy child 2/difficult child 2 was a supervisor and of course believed that showing initiative would be valued. They did seem to value it - but I remember she told me back when we were drafting her letter requesting mediation, that she had to word the letter NOT in any official language or she would face reprisals. So any indication she knows her rights, or ids telling other workers their rights - a big problem for them. My Filipino friend is a lovely lady, underneath the hard worker is a strong, feisty woman who will fight for her children. But in the work environment, she has been walked over a great deal, there seems to be a cultural attitude of, "Her kind will put up with whatever bad conditions we put them in and won't make a fuss. We will get away with it." </p><p></p><p>Yes, we do have racism here.</p><p></p><p>On her request, I will share her information with husband and easy child 2/difficult child 2. She said she will try to get in touch with her friend so they can compare notes.</p><p></p><p>It's just not fair. And WorkChoices legislation gave us two years of employee purgatory and free rein for bad employers to get away with this sort of rubbish. I suspect easy child 2/difficult child 2's employers are acting as if Work Choices is still in force. Hey, they got away with it before... and if they have successfully cowed their staff, they will continue to get away with it.</p><p></p><p>But that haven't reckoned on a Warrior Mum on the warpath!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 307624, member: 1991"] Thanks, lmf64. You are welcome to drop in any time. Any of you. husband & I will happily act as tour guides, we love sharing our coutry with people. Back to easy child 2/difficult child 2 - I have been free in tellnig people. Because the wedding is looming, friends ask how it's all going. So I'm telling them about her lovely "wedding present" from her employers. I was down at the school fair today when a good friend of mine snuck up behind me and said, "Guess who?" then asked about the wedding plans. I told her about it and she said, "A friend of mine used to work for that company, got sacked in the same way. They have a bad reputation for sacking people and trying to push them around." She added, "I think easy child 2/difficult child 2 was too smart for them, people could see she was smart and this frightened them. They want their staff to be subservient and cowed. She picks things up too quickly, they don't want their staff to be too capable or it risks causing them problems." I thought about it - she would know what she is talking about. She is Filipino, she has experienced a lot of discrimination here, people treating her like dirt (mail-order bride attitude, although she and her husband were very much in love until the day he died). She also has the sort of work ethic that she describes the company preferring. They tend to employ European-descent girls, or Middle-eastern girls. A Filipino employee, for example, would be very desirable - they want female employees who will do what they're told without question. easy child 2/difficult child 2 was a supervisor and of course believed that showing initiative would be valued. They did seem to value it - but I remember she told me back when we were drafting her letter requesting mediation, that she had to word the letter NOT in any official language or she would face reprisals. So any indication she knows her rights, or ids telling other workers their rights - a big problem for them. My Filipino friend is a lovely lady, underneath the hard worker is a strong, feisty woman who will fight for her children. But in the work environment, she has been walked over a great deal, there seems to be a cultural attitude of, "Her kind will put up with whatever bad conditions we put them in and won't make a fuss. We will get away with it." Yes, we do have racism here. On her request, I will share her information with husband and easy child 2/difficult child 2. She said she will try to get in touch with her friend so they can compare notes. It's just not fair. And WorkChoices legislation gave us two years of employee purgatory and free rein for bad employers to get away with this sort of rubbish. I suspect easy child 2/difficult child 2's employers are acting as if Work Choices is still in force. Hey, they got away with it before... and if they have successfully cowed their staff, they will continue to get away with it. But that haven't reckoned on a Warrior Mum on the warpath! Marg [/QUOTE]
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