Originally Posted by wjcandee

Just the nicknames given the two "incompetents" at Atlas unfortunately will be Exhibit A in their racial discrimination suits. Incompetence is a basis for termination. Being different is not. Unfortunately, when the Boys start mocking certain people because they are incompetent, identifying characteristics end up being used in the mocking nicknames, which then become evidence that the company may harbor a prejudice or subject them to a hostile workplace.

In other words, they are pointed out for incompetence, but the way the Boys point them out ends up as evidence of racial bias in the workplace. It will never happen, but better nicknames would be related to known errors they made, "Hey, there's the Gear Bender" or the "Tuna Can Crumpler," etc.

Otherwise, the people who are talking about them are doing exactly what they want them to do.

Aksa could talk very-intelligently in briefings and discussions, it seems from the report. His defects were only apparent when actually presented with an off-script moment in the airplane or simulator. Lots of people who would have spoken to him likely would have wondered whether he was being discriminated against. Only where instructors write stuff down and make reports and records of failures, and/or where the airline videos the guy screwing up in the sim, can spurious charges of discrimination be rebutted. The Company absolutely has to be willing to fire the deeply-incompetents, regardless of the consequences.