Be Careful Who You Select As Your Role Model!
No one likes a jerk—especially a Black one! Just because White employees can get away with being eccentric, dysfunctional, high strung, arrogant, mean or rude, don’t think these allowances will be made for you. Taking on the persona or copying the behaviors of your coworkers or managers won't greatly enhance your career. For whatever reason a White obnoxious person’s behavior may be tolerated, you are not them. Find your own path! If you can’t get great things accomplished with kindness, than the work that gets done based on cruelty isn’t as quality as you think it is! People will go the extra mile for you if you treat them with respect. For example, I (the only Black person in my department) was often the only member of my unit who could ask staff in other departments for favors (quick turnaround times on projects, to attend last minute meetings, etc.) because of my positive relationships throughout the company. Always work on developing a large list of allies at work.
posted by S. Mary Wills at 4:31 PM
1 Comments:
You have it backwards, my friend, but you are naive because you have a cushy job.
Racist black people do band together at work and say all the same bullshit that racist whites do. A racist white will be fired on the spot because even setting a discrimination case out of court will cost thousands of dollars, so it's better to not let it go on for even a minute.
If you fire all the racist blacks at the same time, it will look like they're firing black people en mass.
You can't yell at a black person that comes in late a lot if you are white because it looks like something out of Jim Crow. If a white is late a lot, they get shown the door.
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