在美国五百强公司向人事汇报受到种族歧视的经历

公司是亚裔在美国设立的汽车生产厂，效益还算不错，我入职不到一个月时接受了公司的信息安全培训。让人掉眼镜的是，培训师播放的幻灯片上，五星旗被当作“黑客”（专门偷取信息财产的那种，比如商业间谍之类）的象征。

因为我这人历来认为五星旗实际上是党旗，其实不认这个国旗。另一方面，又没法改变别人认为这是国旗的事实。如果我不上告，不是说一定就在公司会受到歧视，但显然这不能给自己和中国人增加credit。两难啊

其次我入职才几个礼拜，虽然美国法律禁止打击报复，我还是很不安。和身边的中国同事谈了，他们有同感，但不愿意和我一起找人事。

后来想想还是自己心安最重要，找了个机会和人事汇报了。人事让我写个电子邮件讲讲详情。下面是我的汇报和人事的回复。

今天和那个培训的经理也谈过了，我主动的，一白人中年男。就在公司的大庭广众之下。他说那个培训资料是总部寄过来的，不是他准备的。我心里说，你在美国好歹也不能算屌丝了，这点敏感度没有，讲台上还那么起劲宣讲那张幻灯片。不过关系很重要，再说他现在的态度也认为那个东西有问题，还算端正。我也就谢谢他listening to me。

心里有点不安，而且本人英文很差，还是担心受到报复，欢迎各种建议和拍砖。

From: **** (HR)
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:31 PM
To: yetaai
Subject: RE: My feeling of discrimated during Security training at June 28th session

Hello ****,

Thank you for your email below.

As we discussed today and as stated in our HR policy, all reports of discrimination are taken seriously. **** will conduct a prompt and thorough investigation and will take appropriate action.

I appreciate you taking the time to come forward with your complaint. **** is committed to maintaining a positive, constructive working environment for all of its employees.

Please let me know if you have further concerns.

Thank you,
****
Sr. Associate, HR and Administration
****
T: ******
F: ******


From: yetaai
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:01 PM
To: ****
Subject: My feeling of discrimated during Security training at June 28th session

Hi ****,

I had been here for one month and is very comfortable. Thanks your helping me adapt to a new environment here.

Unfortunately I want to report  you a case that I feel discriminated. On June 28th afternoon, Mr **** (IT security manager) delivered a training session of corporate IT security policy. In the PowerPoint slides he presented as training material, Chinese national flag was used as a symbol of hacker implying Chinese people is likely to be a hacker stealing information property. I want to comment it as below,

1): Even from legal point of view, there are a lot of unchartered area regarding information management in public and business area. I respect company’s policy but such behaviors shall not be judged out of business scope. It is not appropriate to use ironic style describing such people as theft and call them hacker in a discriminating tone.

2): It is absolutely discrimination using Chinese relevant symbol representing “hacker” in this serious business occasion. Because it is implying Chinese people is stealing or likely to steal information property without any evidence. Even the sharing information of Chinese is likely be classified as “hacking behavior” if we follow the underlying logic of those slides and Mr ***'s presentation.

My report in this email is slightly different from our conversation before lunch. I reported that Mr *** is not relevant of this material during our conversation. But I called my memory and now think that Mr ***'s representation agrees the contents of slides that lead to discrimination.

I wish those training materials could be corrected appropriately and presented in a right way. I highly appreciate your efforts listening to my feeling and declaring the policy of non-retaliation on this kind reporting behavior.

Thanks and have a great day!

****