Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Okay, you guys tell me whether I'm imagining something or not.
For two years, I've had a job I really loved at a small business which was fairly well racially-integrated, particularly given the locations of the primary offices (Arizona and Israel). Everyone who was there when I got there had been chosen by either the owner or the controller. Then one of the girls in my physical office left to move out of town with her boyfriend, and my supervisor was given the chance to replace her. She hired Nicole, who happens to be black. She's very good at her job and quite pleasant, so okay. Clearly a "hired on qualifications" choice.
Since then, she and my supervisor, Katie, have become super-buddies. This was also okay, because the other girl in my physical office, Jess, and I were also pretty buddy-buddy. Everyone worked hard, and we had a pleasant environment, and I always felt appreciated and valued for the job I did.
Then Jess left. We were already shorthanded because a lady from another office had left, and there was a lot of scrambling to reassign jobs to get everything covered. Weirdly enough, instead of just apportioning the work of these two ladies out to the remaining employees, Katie decided to totally reorganize everyone's responsibilities, and I suddenly found myself doing the worst and most menial parts of my job and Nicole's job, while Nicole was doing the more administrative aspects of both, including job functions I myself had created, developed, and organized from the ground up.
Nepotism, right? Then Katie decided she had to hire someone soon to replace Jess, because we were all swamped and barely hanging in there (possibly because we begged her to). Out of a large stack of resumes, she chose three people to interview - THREE. Two of them were black men; the third was a woman named "O'Sheena". While no one said it out loud, it was obvious from overheard conversations that she was expected to be black. She showed up for her interview and was half-Asian. Unlike the guys, her interview only last five minutes. No joke.
Katie swore there was no one else in that stack who was really qualified. Mind you, the basic skills needed for this job are not the least bit uncommon or difficult. So she decided to try a temp-to-hire through an employment agency, the way the company acquired me. She did phone interviews, and brought someone in. Guess what race SHE was?
For the record, the Phoenix metropolitan area has, on average, about half the national average for black population. I think it strains coincidence for every single replacement and prospective replacement to be black, and I have the distinct impression that Katie is trying to remake the office into her own racial preference.
I know I'm not imagining the attempt to squeeze me out, but am I imagining the reason behind it?
For two years, I've had a job I really loved at a small business which was fairly well racially-integrated, particularly given the locations of the primary offices (Arizona and Israel). Everyone who was there when I got there had been chosen by either the owner or the controller. Then one of the girls in my physical office left to move out of town with her boyfriend, and my supervisor was given the chance to replace her. She hired Nicole, who happens to be black. She's very good at her job and quite pleasant, so okay. Clearly a "hired on qualifications" choice.
Since then, she and my supervisor, Katie, have become super-buddies. This was also okay, because the other girl in my physical office, Jess, and I were also pretty buddy-buddy. Everyone worked hard, and we had a pleasant environment, and I always felt appreciated and valued for the job I did.
Then Jess left. We were already shorthanded because a lady from another office had left, and there was a lot of scrambling to reassign jobs to get everything covered. Weirdly enough, instead of just apportioning the work of these two ladies out to the remaining employees, Katie decided to totally reorganize everyone's responsibilities, and I suddenly found myself doing the worst and most menial parts of my job and Nicole's job, while Nicole was doing the more administrative aspects of both, including job functions I myself had created, developed, and organized from the ground up.
Nepotism, right? Then Katie decided she had to hire someone soon to replace Jess, because we were all swamped and barely hanging in there (possibly because we begged her to). Out of a large stack of resumes, she chose three people to interview - THREE. Two of them were black men; the third was a woman named "O'Sheena". While no one said it out loud, it was obvious from overheard conversations that she was expected to be black. She showed up for her interview and was half-Asian. Unlike the guys, her interview only last five minutes. No joke.
Katie swore there was no one else in that stack who was really qualified. Mind you, the basic skills needed for this job are not the least bit uncommon or difficult. So she decided to try a temp-to-hire through an employment agency, the way the company acquired me. She did phone interviews, and brought someone in. Guess what race SHE was?
For the record, the Phoenix metropolitan area has, on average, about half the national average for black population. I think it strains coincidence for every single replacement and prospective replacement to be black, and I have the distinct impression that Katie is trying to remake the office into her own racial preference.
I know I'm not imagining the attempt to squeeze me out, but am I imagining the reason behind it?
