HELP! How do you handle a client who is racially discriminating? The client is a goverment office in the Middle East and has discriminated everyone from staff to SM level. Client is always right and nothing youll say is ever right because of the difference in our race. The difference on our race was an issue for him. Our project doesnt require you to be a local to be able to carry on. Any tips on handling racially discriminating project ASIDE from going to the partner and ethics committee?

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Gift your client some pork charcuterie to try to appease things

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Taking all this at face value, assuming OP is accurately describing the situation:

Ask to be retasked for the good of the project because you can’t meaningfully contribute in a hostile work environment.

If you’re that honest, I would be careful to have documented (if not recorded) evidence, as your firm can interpret that as a threat to their business.

Not saying that’s right but it is how the old white partners think about things sometimes 🤷

Sorry you’re going through that OP. Lots of ME cultures just put a heavy emphasis on men being dominating in public spaces — offering even very polite or purely collaborative pushback against even an objectively bad idea can leave your client in a position where they either have to treat you like dirt or get treated like dirt by their peers who witnessed it.

Super toxic dynamic; I’ve run into it a couple times. But it is a fact of life — gotta work around the “saving face” thing to do business over there.

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What kind of race discrimination? Like what exactly?

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