{"id":9,"date":"2021-04-12T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/?p=9"},"modified":"2021-04-12T04:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:01:19","slug":"week-2-blog-post-experiences-with-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/2021\/04\/12\/week-2-blog-post-experiences-with-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Blog Post \u2013 Experiences with Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Note: I participated in the April 7<sup>th<\/sup> class session to fulfill the requirement. I am reposting my contribution here for reference and for further discussion with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 2: Consider the following scenario. You come across a news article reporting that your favorite company was faced with a public lawsuit in which they were accused of widespread discrimination against individuals from an ethnicity, culture, or belief system you associate with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 3: Then create a blog post (250-300 words) where answer the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Would the outstanding claims of discrimination change the way you felt about the company?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When I work for a company I try to get a good feeling and understanding of the company culture and ethics to help ensure that I support the company and are aligned with my own beliefs.&nbsp; If I heard this report and wasn\u2019t at least partly aware of these kind of complaints I would be surprised.&nbsp; I would seek to understand more of the circumstances of the complaints and if they are well founded.&nbsp; If they were well founded that I would side with the group being discriminated against and advocate for their rights.&nbsp; I would seek to help change the company in any way I could to address the issue and if I really felt the issue would never go away I would consider the issue as part of a basis for leaving the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Would it influence your decisions to support that company?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I would still support the company as long as I work there, but if there was a real injustice then I would advocate for change to address it.&nbsp; I believe that companies can change and address issues and strengthen their culture and corporate values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Would it change whether or not you applied to work for that company in the future? Why or why not?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was not working for this company and I was considering applying to the company, yes this type of issue would be part of my decision on whether to apply or not.&nbsp; I would try to understand how the company is addressing the issue and if they are going to be able to resolve it and prevent it from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: I participated in the April 7th class session to fulfill the requirement. I am reposting my contribution here for reference and for further discussion with others. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013 Step 2: Consider the following scenario. You come across a news article reporting that your favorite company was faced with a public lawsuit in which they were&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/2021\/04\/12\/week-2-blog-post-experiences-with-discrimination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 2 Blog Post \u2013 Experiences with Discrimination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tomrich05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}