Weird Racism At My Job?

[SomeDudeUDunno]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

Right....it could not POSSIBLY be that there are qualified black people out there, right?

Did you read what she wrote?

 

[SomeDudeUDunno]

I wouldn't even bother with bodecea...she didn't even read your OP through.

 

[miketx]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

She has evidence racist.

 

[Third Party]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

I love the way you say "a white person thinks". If you ain't white, you don't know shit. I don't know EITHER way about that office, but she should get out if she feels that way. And it sounds like you think blacks are unqualified-"It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified". Your statement.

That IS interesting, since I never said they were less qualified. In fact, I believe I specified that Nicole is very good at her work, and a reasonably nice person as well. None of the people have been unqualified at all. It's just that I very much get the feeling that she'd prefer an all-black office (except herself, which is what makes it weird), and that means I'd have to go. But I'm too good to ever be able to fire me.

DON"T ever think you are too good to be fired-seen it happen to many "good" people.

Let me put it another way I'm too good to be fired legitimately, without giving me a hellacious lawsuit and unemployment claim.

Be that as it may, I am looking for another job, because life is too short to put up with stress from other people's bullshit.

Good-that's the smart play.

 

[MizMolly]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

She has evidence racist.

Had the races been reversed, IM2 would think it was racist.

 

[Cecilie1200]

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?

No....your boss is a virtue signaling liberal moron who just wants to hire more blacks to feel good about herself. I also live in the Phoenix metro area, blacks are not really that plentiful out here, you are not dealing with a coincidence.

I think she just really wishes she was black, to tell the truth. And no, black people are about 6% of the population of the Phoenix metro area, half the national percentage. All four of the people who have been hired/considered for hire in the last two years? Can't possibly be a fluke.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I wouldn't even bother with bodecea...she didn't even read your OP through.

I have her on ignore.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

She has evidence racist.

Had the races been reversed, IM2 would think it was racist.

Despite the fact that the population percentages would make it very likely for all those people to be white. Or even Hispanic.

If I lived some place that had a high percentage black population, I wouldn't think twice about it. But Phoenix? No.

 

[FA_Q2]

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

Of course you're not imagining it.

Same thing happened to me.

I always got along with my immediate supervisors until they hired the most UNQUALIFIED black supervisor. The guy bullied, berated and badgered us (he was the only black guy) until everyone, one by one, quit. I was lucky. I found a better job with better people in March. Also got a substantial raise at the new place.

This is white, liberal Ann Arbor, but every new hire was black. Before I left, I was doing too much of their work.

The company that I spent 6 years with I was treated like an outsider. The Africans were all chummy and sat around talking and laughing while the two white guys left were always working.

Glad I left that place.

Hate to break it to you, but it wont end well for you. Hope you're looking. Try to leave on good terms.

Given that she's got herself stuck on the idea of me doing the distasteful stuff for which Nicole was originally hired, and at least two of those things conflict with disabilities I've told the company about, AND she's been told by the controller twice now that I won't be doing those things, I don't think it's going to end particularly well.

At least she's not hiring lazy, unqualified people. It's too small a business and too dependent on everyone working hard. I just get the distinct impression she'd like for the entire physical office to be black.

Oddly enough, Katie herself is not black. Her husband is (and her kids, obviously), and both of her non-work friends I met were.

It is not really odd to be honest as seeing color and making decisions based on it is now seen as something to be prideful of rather than rejected.

I, and I do not think anyone else tbh, can tell if it is a race thing or not without actually experiencing your office first hand but does it really even matter? The simple fact that you feel this is a strong/likely possibility means that your workplace does not have a proper atmosphere and you really should be looking for another one, as you said you were.

 

[Cecilie1200]

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

Of course you're not imagining it.

Same thing happened to me.

I always got along with my immediate supervisors until they hired the most UNQUALIFIED black supervisor. The guy bullied, berated and badgered us (he was the only black guy) until everyone, one by one, quit. I was lucky. I found a better job with better people in March. Also got a substantial raise at the new place.

This is white, liberal Ann Arbor, but every new hire was black. Before I left, I was doing too much of their work.

The company that I spent 6 years with I was treated like an outsider. The Africans were all chummy and sat around talking and laughing while the two white guys left were always working.

Glad I left that place.

Hate to break it to you, but it wont end well for you. Hope you're looking. Try to leave on good terms.

Given that she's got herself stuck on the idea of me doing the distasteful stuff for which Nicole was originally hired, and at least two of those things conflict with disabilities I've told the company about, AND she's been told by the controller twice now that I won't be doing those things, I don't think it's going to end particularly well.

At least she's not hiring lazy, unqualified people. It's too small a business and too dependent on everyone working hard. I just get the distinct impression she'd like for the entire physical office to be black.

Oddly enough, Katie herself is not black. Her husband is (and her kids, obviously), and both of her non-work friends I met were.

It is not really odd to be honest as seeing color and making decisions based on it is now seen as something to be prideful of rather than rejected.

I, and I do not think anyone else tbh, can tell if it is a race thing or not without actually experiencing your office first hand but does it really even matter? The simple fact that you feel this is a strong/likely possibility means that your workplace does not have a proper atmosphere and you really should be looking for another one, as you said you were.

Just being expected to do things outside of my disability parameters after having made very strong points of those parameters numerous times would be enough to have me looking elsewhere. If she pushes that too much before I find another job, I may get vindictive and hit her with an EEOC complaint on the way out the door.

 

[Slade3200]

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?

Thanks for sharing your story... I feel like I’ve heard a similar story from the beginning of my time in the world coming from Blacks in the workplace getting passed over by whites.

When it comes down to it the person in charge of doing the hiring is going to choose who they want and there are going to be favorites being played in the gender, race, and religion areas. The minorities are often the victims of this but in some situations like yours it might swing the opposite way.

It would be nice if we lived in a colorblind world but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

All we can do is our best with each day.

 

[boedicca]

I think you know the answers to your questions. Sorry it went that way, good luck to you. For what it's worth, anytime I changed jobs it always led to something better.

Oh, I don't worry about my ability to take care of myself and land on my feet. I'm ungodly good at what I do. I just know that I can be paranoid sometimes, and wanted to know whether or not I was imagining things.

I'm sorry your company has gotten vengefully Woke. You'll be better off in a new place that doesn't discriminate against you.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I think you know the answers to your questions. Sorry it went that way, good luck to you. For what it's worth, anytime I changed jobs it always led to something better.

Oh, I don't worry about my ability to take care of myself and land on my feet. I'm ungodly good at what I do. I just know that I can be paranoid sometimes, and wanted to know whether or not I was imagining things.

I'm sorry your company has gotten vengefully Woke. You'll be better off in a new place that doesn't discriminate against you.

You wouldn't think it would be so hard to find a job where they just let you disappear into your cubicle, plow through the work pile, then go home, but it is.

 

[Slade3200]

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?

No....your boss is a virtue signaling liberal moron who just wants to hire more blacks to feel good about herself. I also live in the Phoenix metro area, blacks are not really that plentiful out here, you are not dealing with a coincidence.

I think she just really wishes she was black, to tell the truth. And no, black people are about 6% of the population of the Phoenix metro area, half the national percentage. All four of the people who have been hired/considered for hire in the last two years? Can't possibly be a fluke.

Could it be that she wants to help the black community with the little power she has? When you see reports that their unemployment rate is twice as high as whites and they have higher poverty rates and they deal with racial hardships in other areas... it racist or even wrong for somebody to want to focus on helping that cause?

Also she is married to a black guy is that right? Perhaps she has better relationships and commonalities with blacks so she is drawn to them more than others. Like I said before everybody is their own preference, attractions, and comforts in all facets of life. We are never going to have a truly objective and uninfluenced society.

 

[boedicca]

I think you know the answers to your questions. Sorry it went that way, good luck to you. For what it's worth, anytime I changed jobs it always led to something better.

Oh, I don't worry about my ability to take care of myself and land on my feet. I'm ungodly good at what I do. I just know that I can be paranoid sometimes, and wanted to know whether or not I was imagining things.

I'm sorry your company has gotten vengefully Woke. You'll be better off in a new place that doesn't discriminate against you.

You wouldn't think it would be so hard to find a job where they just let you disappear into your cubicle, plow through the work pile, then go home, but it is.

I know. The Progs are very busy trying to transform our culture from "leave people alone to do their own thing" to "force people to participate in whatever the Woke folks decide". I just hope enough woke companies go broke fast enough for this nonsense to flame out.

 

[HenryBHough]

Highly likely those who you noted had left were a bit more observant than you. Now that you've figure it out do as they did. Next job? Keep your eyes open. I haven't seen 'em recently but a few years ago somebody was advertising eyeglasses with tiny mirrors in the upper/outer corners of the frame that made it a little easier to also watch your back. Consider such things an investment.

 

[FA_Q2]

Highly likely those who you noted had left were a bit more observant than you. Now that you've figure it out do as they did. Next job? Keep your eyes open. I haven't seen 'em recently but a few years ago somebody was advertising eyeglasses with tiny mirrors in the upper/outer corners of the frame that made it a little easier to also watch your back. Consider such things an investment.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NPGMHM/?tag=ff0d01-20

They are still out there

I like these better though - hilarious:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MFF6BZ8/?tag=ff0d01-20

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I have to laugh at this. Black unemployment stays double that of whites no matter what and that is not racism, but a single black person gets a job in a business with white employees and it's racism because a white person thinks, with no evidence, that they are trying to force her out for someone black.

It's funny how everybody black is always less qualified. Stop

Agreed. The OP's evidence is circumstantial at best, but this is precisely why I oppose affirmative action policies. Even if a minority is hired based solely on their qualifications there will be people who assume it was because of their race.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Highly likely those who you noted had left were a bit more observant than you. Now that you've figure it out do as they did. Next job? Keep your eyes open. I haven't seen 'em recently but a few years ago somebody was advertising eyeglasses with tiny mirrors in the upper/outer corners of the frame that made it a little easier to also watch your back. Consider such things an investment.

Jess and I are good friends outside of work, so I know for a fact that her reason of starting a new business with her husband and not having time for this job was legit (I also expect they'd be willing to hire me when their business is a little more steady). Word is that the other lady, who was a manager-type, got offered an ungodly amount of money by a legal firm we've interacted with to make a lateral shift. Who knows, since she worked in our East Coast office?

 

[karpenter]

The Africans were all chummy and sat around talking and laughing while the two white guys left were always working.

I've Seen This Myself
And When The Mexican Ethnics Leave For Lunch
It Gets Really Thick

And Here's How Easy It Is To Start
There Was Really Heavy Snows One Morning
I Was Giving A Black Co-Worker A Ride
This Morning I Had The Radio On For Traffic Reports
Except The Station Self-Identified As "Talk Radio"
Instantly Ostracized By The Black Workers For A While

Oh -- Obama Was President