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Hey all. So, this really has nothing to do with Christianity, but I thought you were all smart, mature individuals that could help me out.

Okay. I worked for 3 years at...a job...a fast food job...that I'm not going to name. Now, I eventually quit and started looking for something new. A few weeks ago, I was called and offered my job back. I was offered more pay, better hours, and a supervisors position. So I took it. I did not know that the woman who offered it back (whom I did work with for 2 of those 3 years) had no right offering me these things. I was under the impression that she had taken over hiring since I left. Turns out she wasn't. So I was really hired at the same rate of pay I left my current job at, was being forced into working weekends against my will (reason being that "Everybody works weekends" which is bullsh1t becuase neither boss nor the boss' daughter do), and nobody even mentioned the supervisor position. I also came to realize, after roughly 30 seconds, that there is huge favouritism going on (ie. The boss' daughter, supposedly a supervisor, does not wear proper uniform and always has her iPod and cell phone going when everybody else gets in pooka for it). There is also a lot of racism. Everybody is Fillipino of Vietnamese, and the two of us that are white were being discriminated against for it. They did not come right out and say "We don't like you because you're white", but they would not talk to us, even if we asked them questions, and they rambled on in their languages, and even without proof, we know they are talking about us. I was also being seriously bullied, being told that I do not do my job properly and that I'm lazy (Btw, I was told by my previous boss at this same job that I was one of the better employees the company has every seen). Anyway, I quit, and so did the other person that was being treated not as bad, but pretty close, to the same as me. I then found out that the person that offered me my job back (who has done this to many previous employees, most of them bad news employees, even though she was told by the boss to friggen stop it already) is now saying that I ran into her at the local swimming pool and that I asked for my job back. Btw, this particular pool that she named has been closed for renovations for well over a month.

Do you fine people think that I should leave it at this, or should I seek some sort of action on this issue?

Well, the other employee didn't have any authority to do this, and the company was not responsible to keep her from doing it. So you can't get them for that.

The nepotism isn't against you, because you haven't applied for that job.

You might be able to get something for racism, but that would only bump off the other employees, not the boss. Talk to a lawyer.

It is not a family-owned business...it is a massive fast food chain that you probably have even in USA (no, not McDonalds). There is someone I could call, I just don't know if I should...

Seconded. Corportate can equal power---I seriously don't know what I'd do if I didn't have the ability to call someone at the corporate office when my boss does something assinine.

I don't think I can count the number of times that word is used incorrectly.

You are white. You live in America. You cannot be a victim of racism, as it is a power construct (in the larger sense). You can be a victim of racial prejudice/harassment, but racial prejudice is only one half of racism. The other half is a power construct, and as a white person in this country, you benefit from white privilege. So, you, me, and most of the white people in this country are racist by it's sociological definition. (And this is me just ranting about semantics.)

Which is a round about way of saying: this definition will be and is used in legal situations. So, you will have a very slim chance of making that work out for you as far as legal action is concerned. Don't call it racism, call it "racial prejudice/discrimination." There is a difference.

If you're after a persecution case, I'd use your religion (or what you claim it is anyway) as a case if no one else there is, or claims to be, Wiccan. Religious discrimination. That'll probably fly smoother.

There you be.

Religious Intolerance doesn't usually fly well unless you get the Media involved(heavily), and the definition of Racism is Intolerance of another due to their race, regardless of what the main race is.

And, at the place, Everybody is Filipino, so how does that not count as a Main Race? Where is the Rule that White People can't be victims of Racism? I got the s**t beat out of me on a near-daily basis from the age of 6 to 13 by Mexicans because I was white, blue eyed and blond, if that wasn't racism, what was it?

It's the term "racism" that's being used incorrectly here. Racism is a power construct. That is the sociological definition of the term. It's an argument of semantics, but in essence, they cannot be "racist" towards anyone, but they may be racially prejudiced against her. There is a difference.

That being said, calling them "racist" wouldn't fly in court, because they stick to the sociological definition, and will tell you that they cannot be racist. You have to word the claim correctly. Say that you are being discriminated against as per your race, not that you are a victim of racism--because again, you are not.

Just an update, as she has had little opportunity to post...
She now has a new job, at a place that she loves. She is having a great time, and loves it.
As for me, well...
Meh.