‘HR Doesn’t Care What We Do’: Black Fast Food Worker Sues After White Staff Drop N-Word ‘In Front of Customers’ and Flood Group Chat with Racist Rhetoric

A former fast food worker alleged in a new lawsuit that while he was briefly employed at an Alabama restaurant, his co-workers openly used racial slurs and added him to a group chat where they exchanged white supremacist and Nazi propaganda. Tevin Burrow filed the federal civil rights complaint on Feb. 25 against Jack’s Family Restaurants, an American fast food restaurant chain that operates hundreds of locations in the southeastern United States. On May 31, 2023, Burrow was hired to work as a cashier at a Jack’s location in Warrior, Alabama, just north of Birmingham. He alleges in his complaint that his employment at the restaurant was marred by a racially hostile environment that he suffered on a near-daily basis. Jack’s Family Restaurant location in Dallas, Georgia. (Photo: Google Reviews) For weeks after he was hired, Burrow, who is Black, reported hearing one of his white colleagues repeatedly use the N-word openly in front of other coworkers and Jack’s customers. According to the suit obtained by Atlanta Black Star, Burrow asked that coworker not to use the slur, but the colleague refused, stating “he was not afraid of Burrow and profanely told him he would say whatever he wanted to.”...