Racist colleague

[MarisPiperPeas]

This is very vague, and I'm keeping it that way as do not want to be identified. The comments made were quite specific.

If you found out a colleague had made a number of racist comments at a work event (one which you were not present at), towards people who were of your ethnic origin amongst others, would you be unreasonable to put in a complaint or to confront them?

It's stuff I've heard through the grapevine but I'm now very uncomfortable around this person. They are a grade above me and I don't like that they could me making decisions about me and my work.

WIBU to bring this up in some way shape or form?

I would speak to someone about it - HR and/or their manager. I wouldn’t go about it as a formal complaint (initially at least) just that you have concerns you’d like to discuss. Tell them what you’ve said here, what you’ve heard and from whom. I would hope they’d ask whoever witnessed the comments about it and then take it from there. But at the very least if you do later experience discriminatory treatment, there is already a record of these concerns.

on reflection just the fact that you have had to hear these things from colleagues in your workplace is enough for you to have a word with HR - it has unsettled you, made you anxious and uncertain about your future at work