Discrimination In The Workplace

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Having experienced discrimination in several different forms, I have learned a few things from it. The one form that really touches home is youth discrimination, when I do not get the same level of service when I go into any store or restaurant because of my age. It is quite frustrating when my friends and I go out to eat, and we treated like we have the plague. After several times of this I decided that we were not going back to that restaurant. If the waiters are going to treat me terribly, then they do not deserve my money. I figured out why they were treating us the way they were. The waiters did not expect to get a tip from us, so they did not put in the effort to be nice to us. This is a more universal theme than just at restaurants.

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