Becx Was Discriminated Against by Jerry in Roswell

Written By:  Andrew Eide

After being discriminated against by Vietnamese Asians at Lunex Telecom, and being discriminated against by the Georgia Department of Labor, Becx located a job in Roswell, Georgia.

Since we had only one car at the time I told Becx to please not take a job that far away from Duluth, Georgia, as the travel time would be at least one hour each way and the pay was one-third less than she made at Lunex so we lose out getting less income with more expenses.

Becx was stubborn and she accepted the job offer from the owner of the company named Jerry. Becx was hired to be a Customer Support Tech and IT Support. That was what she was told her job was.

Immediately the two Account Representatives, both women, became jealous of Becx and they backstabbed her at every opportunity. The added problem, which was a problem we had with our family, was that we had to drop Keira off at Pre-K at 8 a.m. and then try to make it to Roswell for the job working for Jerry before 9 a.m.  We had to do this as I had to pick Keira up at Pre-K at 3 p.m. and then we drove to Roswell at 5 p.m. to pick Becx up at work.

Since the route we had to take to get from Duluth to Roswell was to take Pleasant Hill Road, which changed names to State Bridge Road, and then changed names again to Old Milton Parkway, and then we had to get on Highway 400 for about 5 to 7 miles, exit in Roswell, then drive about 4 or 5 miles more to get to Jerry’s office, we often arrived at Jerry’s office after 9 a.m. and Jerry was upset at Becx for always being late. She tried to explain the situation to Jerry but he didn’t care to understand.

The next problem is that there was a phone on a desk between Becx and the Account Representative in the office they shared. The phone would ring off the hook all day long. Becx wondered why nobody was answering the phone and she was told by the Account Representative to just let it go to voice mail and someone will check it later and answer the questions on the voice mail.

About 4 weeks into her work for Jerry she was asked by Jerry why she was not answering the phone that rings all day long. Becx told Jerry that the Account Representative told her not to answer the phone and to let it go to voice mail. Jerry told Becx that she should have known that part of her job was to answer that phone since it was Franchise owners calling with issues that need to be resolved and resolving the issues was her job. She explained to Jerry that she was not trained to answer the phones. When Jerry asked the Account Representative who trained Becx she lied and told Jerry that she did, in fact, tell Becx to answer the phones and resolve the issues.

So Becx started to answer the phones and resolve issues. After resolving numerous issues the Account Representative in the office with her would demand to know why Becx resolved an issue when she already took care of the issue. Becx replied that if she doesn’t tell her that she was resolving a certain issue then Becx would have no way of knowing she was doing something that was already done. Then you had times when Becx resolved an issue and a day or two later the Account Representative tried to resolve the same issue and she bitched Becx out. Becx told her that only one person, her, should be resolving issues so that everything runs smoothly and there are no duplication of efforts.

About two weeks later Jerry called Becx into his office and he went off on her. I am paraphrasing what Jerry said to Becx as follows:  Jerry bitched Becx out stating she should take an English class because she cannot speak English very well. Becx reminded Jerry, as she did with the Vietnamese at Lunex Telecom, that in the Philippines you are taught in English from 1^st grade to college graduation and in every business environment you are required to speak English even though you deal only with Filipinos.

Jerry then insulted Bcex further by stating that he felt she lied on her Resume and that he doesn’t believe all her work experience dealing with finances, Point-of-Sale systems, Computer IT Support, etc. Becx looked Jerry in the eyes and told him that everything on her Resume was the truth and he is welcome to contact anyone she has worked for to prove her right.

Jerry then basically spit in Becx’s face verbally with a few more insults and he walked out of the room.

When I picked Becx up that evening she cried all the way home. We had a discussion and I told her in the morning we are driving to Jerry’s office and she will tell him what an insulting stupid jerk he is, she will return the laptop computer Jerry provided for her to do work for his business, and she will gather all her personal belongings and she will quit. I told Becx I will not go into the office with her as I might get violent and kick Jerry’s ass so I sent her in alone.

Becx was in the building for about 20 minutes and she came back to the car minus the company’s laptop. On the way home she told me what took place during those 20 minutes.

Jerry jumped in her face when she got into the office. Becx said she didn’t say a word but walked into her office and got her personal belongings. When she came out of her office Jerry demanded to know what was going on and Becx told him that she quits as she will not tolerate discrimination, insults, and harassment in the work place.

Jerry looked at her and told her she was a jerk for quitting. Becx said she told Jerry, HOW DARE YOU! YOU ARE THE JERK JERRY! YOU ARE THE ONE HARASSING ME, THREATENING ME, AND DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ME. HERE IS YOUR LAPTOP COMPUTER! I QUIT!

Well that was the end of working for Jerry. I can only hope that his company will fail big time as he should not have treated Becx, an intelligent, smart, productive, woman, as he did.