Sample Complaint Letter
Ms. Marie Bobblehead
EEO Officer
P.O. Box 1715
Somewhere, DC 20202
Re: Complaint of Discrimination
Complainant v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Dear Ms. Bobblehead:
Please allow this letter to serve as my complaint of discrimination against the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. I have contacted your office both by phone and in person and have
received no response. Most recently, on December 16, 2004, I came to your office to file
a complaint of discrimination and filled out an Information Inquiry Summary. Since that
date, I have received no further communication from your office. I have therefore sought
timely counseling but no EEO counselor has contacted me. Thirty days have passed and
this is a Formal Complaint of Discrimination.
My complaint of discrimination includes the following:
• I am a 51 year old Asian female and I began working for United States
Corps of Engineers in 1990-1991 as a Procurement Technician, GS-5. As
of today, I am still in the same position.
• There are 6 Procurement Technicians with same series and title. Every
one of them, including 4 Caucasian females, is a GS-7 except for me. We
all have the exact same job title, and have at times performed similar
work. Yet, I have remained as a GS-5.
• I requested a desk audit at the same time as a Caucasian worker for the
same work; she was promoted but I was not.
• I have requested, on a continuous basis, Flexiplace/work at home. I have
been denied and a Caucasian co-worker was approved but it is not clear
what, if any, work she does at home.
• Management has intentionally given the Caucasian employees better work
assignments in order to promote them.
• I feel that I am being discriminated based on my race and age by
management because I have been treated differently than other, Caucasian,
Procurement Technicians.
• Secondly, I have been treated differently than other employees in that I
have received a lower rating than all of the other employees. My lowered