What is the name of your state? New York
I work for a company that provides bonuses to the employees. Bonuses work as follow: the more time you save for the company the more money you make (for example: you complete an assignment is supposed to take you 60 minutes in 30 minutes). So if you save the company 8 hrs of work during the week you get 8 x your hourly wage added to your check.
If you are asked to work a department outside of your assigned department you are either given your average regularly incentive if you average an 80 in the department they asked you to go or if you are asked to work a department that doesn't provide incentive than you are provided with an extra $3 for every hour you work if it is more than half of your shift.
I work in two departments every day. No one in my department is required to do so every day. It can be anywhere from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 hrs and sometimes a whole day. On average I work 3 hrs in the department than I am to report back to my assigned department. I believe this is done for them not to give me the bonus since you have to work half your shift which is 4 hours. The next problem tied to this is that if I'm working 15 hrs a week in this department I am only working 25hrs in my assigned department. Keep in mind that you make money by how much time you save in a week. I am not given the same amount of time/opportunity that the other employees in my department are getting. They are given 40 hrs to save time and I am only given 25hrs.
They keep me in the department just long enough not to pay the $3 an hour bonus, doesn't provide me with the same amount of hours that the other employees are getting to save time to make the bonus in my regular department and when I do work the 4 hrs or more I am still not given the extra $3 an hour bonus.
The department that I am asked to do every day is physically exhausting so some days when I get back to my regular department I am pretty worked up and don't perform very well in my assigned department. With that being said if you don't average 100% or higher for the month you get written up. I've found myself written up 3 times for not getting to this performance level.
I feel they are creating a paper trail for me. I am not provided with the same normal time to get enough practice to do well as the other employees in my department as they are not asked to report other departments daily and I am not working under the same conditions. It is like asking the employees to run 3 miles in 20 minutes but asking me to run 5 miles in 20 minutes.
So I've asked my supervisor about the bonus and he said well you have to work half your shift which is 4 hrs then he quickly changed it to 5 hrs which doesn't make any sense because my shift is 8 hrs. And let's assume that half of 8hrs is 5 hrs -- I still don't get it anyway because when I've worked 4 or more I didn't get it. I've met both the criteria in order to get the $3 an hr bonus which is: working outside your assigned department and more than half your shift.
This has been going on for almost a year. So I started thinking about what is so different from me. Being the only protected characteristic of race in my department it's easy to conclude that the action is because of that characteristic.
I looked at everything the length of service with the company, performance level, job title, etc. Some employees have been here before and after me -- not treated this way. Some employees perform better than me and lower than me -- not treated this way. After looking at a wide range of things -- the only thing that makes me different is my race which is the only thing I don't have in common with the other employees in my department. I've even asked why I get placed over there every day and they tell me it's because they're short-handed over there. When you're short-handed for almost a whole year that's a problem and on top of that they have job fairs at least twice a month and hired 50 to 60 new hires if not more-- you can't tell me not one of those hires couldn't work in that department.
I am wrong for feeling this way. I am definitely being treated differently.
I work for a company that provides bonuses to the employees. Bonuses work as follow: the more time you save for the company the more money you make (for example: you complete an assignment is supposed to take you 60 minutes in 30 minutes). So if you save the company 8 hrs of work during the week you get 8 x your hourly wage added to your check.
If you are asked to work a department outside of your assigned department you are either given your average regularly incentive if you average an 80 in the department they asked you to go or if you are asked to work a department that doesn't provide incentive than you are provided with an extra $3 for every hour you work if it is more than half of your shift.
I work in two departments every day. No one in my department is required to do so every day. It can be anywhere from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 hrs and sometimes a whole day. On average I work 3 hrs in the department than I am to report back to my assigned department. I believe this is done for them not to give me the bonus since you have to work half your shift which is 4 hours. The next problem tied to this is that if I'm working 15 hrs a week in this department I am only working 25hrs in my assigned department. Keep in mind that you make money by how much time you save in a week. I am not given the same amount of time/opportunity that the other employees in my department are getting. They are given 40 hrs to save time and I am only given 25hrs.
They keep me in the department just long enough not to pay the $3 an hour bonus, doesn't provide me with the same amount of hours that the other employees are getting to save time to make the bonus in my regular department and when I do work the 4 hrs or more I am still not given the extra $3 an hour bonus.
The department that I am asked to do every day is physically exhausting so some days when I get back to my regular department I am pretty worked up and don't perform very well in my assigned department. With that being said if you don't average 100% or higher for the month you get written up. I've found myself written up 3 times for not getting to this performance level.
I feel they are creating a paper trail for me. I am not provided with the same normal time to get enough practice to do well as the other employees in my department as they are not asked to report other departments daily and I am not working under the same conditions. It is like asking the employees to run 3 miles in 20 minutes but asking me to run 5 miles in 20 minutes.
So I've asked my supervisor about the bonus and he said well you have to work half your shift which is 4 hrs then he quickly changed it to 5 hrs which doesn't make any sense because my shift is 8 hrs. And let's assume that half of 8hrs is 5 hrs -- I still don't get it anyway because when I've worked 4 or more I didn't get it. I've met both the criteria in order to get the $3 an hr bonus which is: working outside your assigned department and more than half your shift.
This has been going on for almost a year. So I started thinking about what is so different from me. Being the only protected characteristic of race in my department it's easy to conclude that the action is because of that characteristic.
I looked at everything the length of service with the company, performance level, job title, etc. Some employees have been here before and after me -- not treated this way. Some employees perform better than me and lower than me -- not treated this way. After looking at a wide range of things -- the only thing that makes me different is my race which is the only thing I don't have in common with the other employees in my department. I've even asked why I get placed over there every day and they tell me it's because they're short-handed over there. When you're short-handed for almost a whole year that's a problem and on top of that they have job fairs at least twice a month and hired 50 to 60 new hires if not more-- you can't tell me not one of those hires couldn't work in that department.
I am wrong for feeling this way. I am definitely being treated differently.
