In a video, she says she was rejected by Target for a job.
She heard back when she changed her name to Tori.
Target has been accused of discrimination in the past.
After being rejected from several jobs at Target over the past few years, Naturi Greene decided to try a different approach. If they changed their names and race on their applications, they would get the job, she said.
To test her theory, a black woman named Tori changed her name to "Tori" and listed her ethnicity as mixed race. Target offered a job to "Tori" after she was rejected as Naturi.
"I don't know how it can be proven to be discrimination," he said. I can't help but to think that is the reason.
Her story has been viewed more than 264,000 times on TikTok. She showed Insider the first two forms she used, "Naturi" and "Tori," which were both rejected.
Target found that the two applications were filed several weeks apart and the store was not hiring at the time of the rejection.
There was a live job listing for a guest advocate, according to the reference on the email exchange. The store didn't hire in the rejection email. If Target wasn't hiring at the time, the job was posted online, but the company didn't reply to the request for comment.
The search jobs section of the website was where she applied for the job.
If the position was still available to apply for on the website, it's hard to believe the store didn't hire at the time.
Target has faced claims of discrimination in the past, which resulted in legal settlements and vows to change their procedures. Kalisha White, who is black, suspected her application for a job at a Target in Wisconsin was being ignored because of her race more than two decades ago. She was able to get an interview even though her fake resume was not as good as White's.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Target on behalf of White and three other Black job applicants, resulting in a $510,000 settlement.
Target paid a fee and changed its system after the EEOC found it was screening candidates based on race and sex. It paid $3.74 million to settle claims that it discriminated against Black and Latino applicants.
Target said it would review its screening and hiring practices after the settlements were made.
According to studies, job applicants with "Black-sounding" names are less likely to hear back from employers.
After sending 83,000 fake job applications to more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago found that half of them had traditionally white-sounding names and the other half had Black-sounding names.
Evan Rose is a researcher at the University of Chicago and one of the study's co-authors.
Retail was found to be less likely to contact applicants withdistinguishable names. Companies with centralized hiring representatives are less likely to discriminate than companies with a local branch manager.
The problem has not gone away, according to our paper. Some firms have figured out a way to not discriminate. Rose said that they hope there is a way to address the discrepancies.
People have shared their experiences of discrimination with her since she posted her video, which she believes is indicative of a larger problem in hiring.
Many jobs seem to be discrimination. The people have been supportive because they have been through the same thing.
Similar stories of discrimination were shared by other creators in March. She reapplied for a job after being denied an interview because she wasucasian. She said she received a call the following day. Gina Banks said she finally received an offer to interview after five years of rejections, but only when she applied as a white woman.
She doesn't want to attend the interview with Target.
She doesn't want to work in a place where she can't get hired for the person she is. People of all races should have access to the same opportunities.
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