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Welcome to the community Constances.

When this happened to me, I arranged a meeting or two with my boss - the CEO and asked him what and why I was employed. You may get told as I did, that they need a HR department, so I then asked them what they wanted…

Welcome to the communities Dominika. Someone will I hope, answer this better than myself.

As a very rough measure of competence, you might just test yourself by going through posts on the forums and see how many you can easily do without recourse to a book or someone else and how many you would have to look up or research.

Although quite…

Welcome to the communties Caroline!

Did you pass this by your own manager? If not then you may have put yourself out on a limb.

As Tracey said, I'd still, non the less tackle the individual yourself. Don't be confrontational, just discuss it with…

Fiona

You might be interested in this post:-

www.cipd.co.uk/.../do-people-outside-hr-know-what-we-mean-by-the-people-profession

And I've just remembered that the programme I listened to, stated clearly that the term BAME is not used by those it attempts to label. Which is what the speakers in Keith's link also said.

It also reminded me that when I worked in Youth Training…

I can't help you. I listened to a long bit about racial terminology on R4 yesterday afternoon whilst I was driving back from Scotland. Unless I dozed off whilst driving (:-) there appeared to be little if any consensus of the 'right' term or an all…

Any one who manages to work through this period will come out the other side with much much more experience and confidence. After this it will back to normal life and I guess work.

Its not the relationship that matters. As long as they do their job and their relationship at work is kept professional then nothing else matters.

I don't care about the relationship side as long as it didn't cause an issue at work.

It only matters if one of the pair was treated differently than the other, or indeed other staff. And that might just need spelling out to them.