Becx Was Discriminated Against for Being Asian by Other Asians

Written By:  Andrew Eide

We moved from Concord, California, to Duluth, Georgia, in September 2012 due to Becx receiving a good job offer from the President and Vice President of Lunex Telecom located in Duluth, Georgia.

This job came about due to the sister of the President and Vice President of Lunex meeting Becx in San Francisco and she asked her brothers to hire Becx to work in Project Management. They made the job offer and we moved to Duluth, Georgia in September 2012.

Things went well for Becx until around the 6 month point in her employment. There were two main issues with the company. The main issue is that the President and Vice President of the company are brothers and they are Vietnamese. Most of the workers with the company are also Vietnamese and relatives of the President and Vice President.

After 6 months in her Project Management job they demanded that Becx also take on Sales & Marketing. Becx flatly told them she has always worked in Project Management and IT Support and she does not feel comfortable working in Sales & Marketing. They didn’t care and they forced Becx to take on those added duties even though she begged them not to do it.

Now that Becx had the added responsibility of Sales & Marketing she had to deal with the Promotions and Marketing persons who were, seriously, located in Vietnam. Due to the situation of the Vietnamese working at Lunex having a difficult time understanding English there was a major communications problem between Becx and most of the Vietnamese at Lunex.

Then she received the ultimate insult when the Marketing personnel, and the President and Vice President of Lunex told Becx something like the following (I am paraphrasing):

You people from the Philippines are stupid and you don’t understand English! Becx responded that in the Philippines from 1^st Grade through graduation in college all your classed are taught in English. She further stated the fact that in every business environment, even if you only deal with Filipinos, you are required to speak English. Becx then told them she takes offense to their insult that she is stupid and that she doesn’t understand English. She knew, and they knew, that it was the Vietnamese working at Lunex who were the problem and who didn’t understand English.

Becx became so stressed out that our family doctor told her she either finds another job with less stress or she might suffer a stroke or heart attack. Becx started looking for a job but she left working at Lunex when her one year contract was up in September 2013. She was able to find a job located in Roswell but that story of what happened at that job location will come after I post what happened with the Georgia Department of Labor in that they also discriminated against Becx for being Asian and they refused to give her Unemployment Compensation for the time she was unemployed.