*Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that

this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except

under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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No. 96-21070

Summary Calendar

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ALBERTO J. SANCHEZ, JR.,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

GENERAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT COMPANY,

Defendant-Appellee.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas, Houston 

(H-95-CV-3795)

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January 23, 1998

Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Plaintiff-appellant Alberto J. Sanchez, Jr., appeals the

district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the

defendant-appellee, General Growth Management, Inc. (“General

Growth”), in Sanchez’s Title VII suit. Sanchez alleged that

General Growth discriminated against him on the basis of his race,
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constructively discharged him and created a hostile work

environment. Sanchez also asserted state-law claims for

intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of the

covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In a thorough Memorandum

and Order of Summary Judgment, the district court set out the

requirements for proving each of the claims asserted by Sanchez,

reviewed Sanchez’s pleadings and the summary judgment evidence

offered by both sides and provided reasons for its decision to

grant summary judgment in favor of General Growth.

On appeal, Sanchez argues at length that he has provided

adequate summary judgment evidence that he was constructively

discharged because of his race and that he was the victim of a

hostile working environment. As the district court pointed out,

however, Sanchez’s EEOC charge alleged only discrimination in the

acceptance of his resignation, specifically that General Growth

accepted his resignation but did not accept the resignation of a

white security director. The EEOC charge did not set out a

constructive discharge claim or a hostile working environment

claim. Having failed to include those claims in his EEOC charge,

Sanchez did not exhaust his administrative remedies as to them and

the district court correctly concluded that it lacked subject

matter jurisdiction over them.

Out of an excess of caution, the district court looked at the

summary judgment evidence on Sanchez’s constructive discharge and

hostile working environment claims and concluded that even if the
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court did have jurisdiction over them, Sanchez had failed to

satisfy his burden of proof on either claim. To support a claim

for constructive discharge, the working conditions must have been

so difficult or unpleasant that a reasonable person in the

plaintiff’s shoes would have felt compelled to resign. McKethan

v. Texas Farm Bureau, 996 F.2d 734, 741 (5th Cir. 1993). In

support of this claim, Sanchez adduced only vague statements that

he had been verbally attacked, belittled and “nick-pick[ed]” by

his supervisors, together with his subjective belief that race

discrimination was at the root of it all. The evidence does

reflect considerable unpleasantness between Sanchez and his

supervisors, but it does not add up to a constructive discharge on

the basis of his race. Nor does the evidence that Sanchez adduced

add up to a hostile work environment actionable under Title VII,

i.e., a workplace permeated with discriminatory intimidation,

ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to

alter the conditions of Sanchez’s employment and create an abusive

working environment. Sanchez can point to no concrete evidence of

racially motivated conduct, only to personality conflicts and

strong differences of opinion of the sort that workplaces commonly

feature. 

As for Sanchez’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional

distress, on appeal Sanchez points to his high blood pressure and

shattered nerves. As the district court recognized, the level of

“outrageous” and “extreme” conduct required to sustain a claim
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under Texas law for intentional infliction of emotional distress is

very high. It requires conduct “so outrageous in character, and so

extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency,

and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a

civilized community.” Twyman v. Twyman, 855 S.W.2d 619, 621 (Tex.

1993). The district court correctly held that, as a matter of law,

the alleged acts of General Growth and its employees did not meet

that test.

The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.