You may have heard that it’s illegal to discriminate. I mean, you can discriminate to your heart’s content against lots of people. For instance, in hiring, you can discriminate against people who aren’t as good at their job, or who you think won’t be as good at the open position for which you’re hiring. But you can’t discriminate on the basis of sex or race or age or religion. Some of that comes from the Fourteenth Amendment, and more of it comes from Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act, which say, you know, you can’t discriminate on the basis of those grounds.
And if you do discriminate, then the person against whom you have discriminated can go to the EEOC and tell them you’ve discriminated. The EEOC might do something or it might not do something, but whether it does or not, you still might face a federal lawsuit.
But if you don’t adequately prepare your EEOC complaint, that’ll come back to bite you because your pleadings to the district court are limited to what you argued to the EEOC. And as feared as they might be, a discrimination suit against you can be won!