Racist colleagues forced me to quit job
Hello everyone,
I am a foreigner working as an engineer in Europe for the past three years. This is my 2nd job here. I just found this sub so i am going to write my story here.
During my first job i reported my racist colleague to manager and asked for his advice. I only said that i have never been in this kind of situation and i do not know what to do. He told me you did good by reporting this to me and let me take care of this. Things looked good for sometime. After few days i went home and came back next day to completely strange environment. Everyone in the company boycotted me including that manager. Everyone stopped talking to me, they would not respond to my salutations and pretend they didn't hear a thing. They would not share table with me during lunch. They would not assign me any work at all so they don't have to talk to me. Imagine being in a foreign country with no friends and the people you spend whole day with loathe you. I became depressed and eventually 6 months later i left the company after fulfilling my contractual obligation. I don't want to be in this kind of situation and would not wish it on my worst enemies. Mind you this was a multinational companies with branches in 8 countries and production plants in 4 including US. During first few weeks of this boycott i fixed meetings with manager and colleagues to ask them what happened and their response was everyone has their own worries. I brought it up in weekly meetings few times and they would just avoid it and finally i was kicked out of weekly meetings.
This all happened 2 months before my first daughter was born and everyone knew i was overwhelmed at the time.
Why are racist people heartless and why can't everyone live in peace. Everyone is trying to take care of themselves, their families and their kids.
Ps.
Three weeks after i quit the job they approached me in hope that i would come back. This was because that racist colleague was backbone of our department and he left which made them desperate i think.