After being rejected from a job at Target multiple times over the past few years, Naturi Greene decided to take a different approach. She joked to her boyfriend, who had also been denied, that if they changed their names and race on their applications, they would have gotten the job.
Greene, who is black woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, changed her name to “Tori” and listed her ethnicity as “mixed race.” After multiple rejections as Naturi, Target offered “Tori” a job interview.
To test her theory, Greene, a Black woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, changed her name to “Tori” and listed her ethnicity as “mixed race.” After multiple rejections as Naturi, Target offered “Tori” a job interview.” https://t.co/O31hQlEjiq
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“I’m not sure how it can be proved to be discrimination,” Greene told Insider during a interview. “But as a person of color in America, I can’t help but to think that is the reason.”
Greene posted her story on TikTok, where, as of July 20, it has been viewed nearly 264,000 times. She showed Insider screenshots of her application forms from May 18 and July 3, 2022, the first using “Naturi,” which was rejected, and the second “Tori,” which was accepted.
“After looking into this claim, we found that the two applications were filed several weeks apart and the store was not hiring at the time the application was rejected,” Target spokesperson Brian Harper-Tibaldo told Insider.
Greene told Insider the job she applied for was present in the “search jobs” section of the website. “It’s hard to believe the store was not hiring at the time if the position was still available to apply for on the website,” she said.
Target has previously faced multiple claims of discriminatory hiring practices, which have resulted in legal settlements and vows to change their hiring procedures. More than 20 years ago, Kalisha White, who is Black, suspected her application for a job at a Target in Wisconsin was being ignored because of her race. She sent in another one under another name, Sarah Brucker — and scored an interview, even though the fake resume was less credentialed than White’s.
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