{"id":10,"date":"2020-04-09T19:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-04-09T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:21:56","slug":"experiences-with-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/2020\/04\/09\/experiences-with-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiences With Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my opinion, a company&#8217;s reputation is everything. The way that any big organization acts will be broadcasted through the media, good or bad. As a consumer of their products, I would stop supporting them because by discriminating against individuals that have the same belief system as me, I must stand up for what I believe even if it means losing a brand that I love. By ignoring their actions, you would be showing them that people are okay with their actions and that they should continue. I have had to do this in the past with a certain company because they began to support things that I did not agree with. It led to me finding alternatives that were smaller brands which aligned more with my values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think about working for a company you want to get your priorities straight. If you value family, your morals, and your time, do not let money blind you into taking a position that you will not enjoy. The same applies for the companies beliefs and actions. Unless you are placed in a specific position that is geared towards changing the culture and correcting the discrimination that happened, I feel you should not be considering employment there. If you are able to get one job there will always be more available. This is something that I have seen with friends in the past. They start a job because they feel it is there only option. The company does not align with what they are looking for but they feel they still need to take it. A few months go by and the hate their position and dread going to work everyday. This is why I feel so strongly about my position on the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, a company&#8217;s reputation is everything. The way that any big organization acts will be broadcasted through the media, good or bad. As a consumer of their products, I would stop supporting them because by discriminating against individuals that have the same belief system as me, I must stand up for what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hallamjobapplicationexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}