I don’t want to dox myself, but I’ve been at my job for 5+ years. I guess either my boss or I fat fingered something while I was on boarding, cuz just now I was going over some paperwork and… As far as my job is concerned I’m Native American. I am very much white. Nobody ever brought it up.
I couldn’t find an easy way to change it and I’d rather not talk to HR if it’s not a big deal. So, forget about it? Call HR?
As long as you aren’t accepting any undue benefit for the mistake, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. An error like that without consequence isn’t really a big deal. If, on the other hand, they were giving you special tax status or something, or if you applied for a promotion and you got the promotion in part because of affirmative action whose benefit you weren’t entitled to, that could be a problem.
Nah my job is terrible I’m barely getting the due benefits lol. Thank you though. I figured I’d have to do something malicious for it to matter, but I’ve never even thought about this stuff.
It is kinda odd that they ask at all.
I think it’s probably more likely HR purposely ‘fat fingered’ it to pad their minority stats for equal opportunity employment. Maybe I’m just cynical.