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Network Omni, Omni Lingual Services "Cultural sensitivity training" provider's HR rep dresses as blackface pimp at company party! Westlake Village California
I was searching for cultural sensitivity training recently and was shocked and horrified to read in the news about a California company that provides translation and cultural sensitivity training who allegedly had their most senior HR reps dress up as a "h*o" and a "pimp", in BLACKFACE, at a company Halloween party.
How can a company that promotes racist behavior in the workplace then go around selling cultural sensitivity training? Buyer, beware!
According to some other sites, the #1 HR rep mentioned in the complaint is also a Republican councilwoman for the city of Moorpark, California.
Here is an excerpt from the story:
To bolster her discrimination complaint with the state, Kelly included photos allegedly showing the company's top two human resources executives dressed up for the 2005 corporate Halloween party as a black pimp and a white prostitute. The "pimp," a white woman wearing blackface and sporting a fake gold tooth, won the prize for best costume, the complaint said.
"These actions clearly demonstrate that discriminatory views of minorities and women permeate the corporate culture," the complaint said.
Kelly said she had directed many of her complaints about discrimination to the two human resources executives. She said she did not attend the party and only learned of the women's costumes recently when someone gave her the photos.
One of the products she developed for NetworkOmni was a training program in "cultural competence" for clients, such as doctors and nurses, to help them deal sensitively and knowledgeably with people of various nationalities and ethnic groups.
"I was completely shocked, because here I worked to develop programs to combat exactly this type of thing," she said in a telephone interview Monday.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070611&ID=7019179
Anonymous
Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S.A.
How can a company that promotes racist behavior in the workplace then go around selling cultural sensitivity training? Buyer, beware!
According to some other sites, the #1 HR rep mentioned in the complaint is also a Republican councilwoman for the city of Moorpark, California.
Here is an excerpt from the story:
To bolster her discrimination complaint with the state, Kelly included photos allegedly showing the company's top two human resources executives dressed up for the 2005 corporate Halloween party as a black pimp and a white prostitute. The "pimp," a white woman wearing blackface and sporting a fake gold tooth, won the prize for best costume, the complaint said.
"These actions clearly demonstrate that discriminatory views of minorities and women permeate the corporate culture," the complaint said.
Kelly said she had directed many of her complaints about discrimination to the two human resources executives. She said she did not attend the party and only learned of the women's costumes recently when someone gave her the photos.
One of the products she developed for NetworkOmni was a training program in "cultural competence" for clients, such as doctors and nurses, to help them deal sensitively and knowledgeably with people of various nationalities and ethnic groups.
"I was completely shocked, because here I worked to develop programs to combat exactly this type of thing," she said in a telephone interview Monday.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070611&ID=7019179
Anonymous
Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S.A.
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Anonymous
Nashua,New Hampshire,
U.S.A.
PHOTOS of Network Omni HR staff in racist blackface "PIMP" and "HO" costumes while CEO applauds them
#2Author of original report
Fri, July 27, 2007
These are the photos of the Network Omni company Halloween party that show: #2 HR rep Valerie Higgins dressed in blackface as a "pimp" #1 HR rep Janice Parvin dressed as a "h*o" CEO George Ulmer (dressed as Satan) Notice how both the CEO Ulmer and #1 HR rep Parvin are applauding and smiling at the racist blackface pimp costume. Disgusting. http://tinyurl.com/32qdfb http://tinyurl.com/37ejj8 http://tinyurl.com/34bfgl http://tinyurl.com/3ca2du http://tinyurl.com/2o88sx Parvin is an elected official. Her identity can be verified from this photo: http://www.mpacorn.com/News/2003/1030/Front_Page/ Ulmer's photo can also be verified online: http://www.hsdo.net/about.htm
