[align=center]Being Black in the Work Place[/b][/align]
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They take my kindness for weakness. They take my silence for speechless.[/b]

They consider my uniqueness strange. They call my language slang. [/b]

They see my confidence as conceit. They see my mistakes as defeat. They consider my success accidental. They minimize my intelligence to "potential". [/b]

My questions mean "I'm unaware". My advancement is somehow unfair. [/b]

Any praise is preferential treatment. To voice concern is[/b]

discontentment. [/b]

If I stand up for myself, I'm too defensive. If I don't trust them, I'm too apprehensive. [/b]

I'm defiant if I separate. Yet, I'm fake if I assimilate. [/b]

So, constantly I am faced with work place hate. My character is constantly under attack. [/b]

Pride for my race makes me, "TOO[/b]

BLACK". Yet, I can only be me. And, who am I you might ask? I am that Strong Black Person... Who stands on the backs of my ancestor’s?[/b]

Achievements, with an erect spine pointing to the stars with pride,[/b]

Dignity and respect which lets the work place in England know, that I [/b]

not only possess the ability to play by the rules, but I can make them as Well![/b]

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any thoughts on this?

I work in a supermarket part time during semester time & full time during summer vacation. When i first started work therethe staff, expect for one senior member (the manager), and use to think I was useless at putting out back stock on the shop floor. But slowly they began to realize that i'm very good at what i do. I’ve seen countless staff come &leave my work place. Recently two students left my work place because they thoughtthat the work environment was too much work. They are both white. Also they believed that the students where the ones being told to work all the time, while the full time staff were always up stairs drinking tea.



my time working at this supermarket, had been mixed for me.All the staff respects me now, and they don't make me do thingsthat i use too do when i first started.Just in the past 3 weeks this little white girl, started acting upin the place like she is runningtheshow. now this little white girl is like 17 years old and only been in the job since march. She gets special treatment from the rest of the senior management. Which puzzled me to the max. Also this was the mean reason why those two students i mentioned left the place.



i had an argument withthat littlewhitegirl about her laziness not to do work, which brought me in direct conflict with the senior staff. i was a very bad day for me, and that girl was ignoring all her duties, now if i had done this I wouldof been sacked/fired from the job.What puzzled me even further was the fact that other members of staff don't like her either, she is a useless worker, and does nothing but smoke on the loading bay with one malesenior staff constantly.



The main manager wants to get rid of her but for some reason he has not, also that little white girl left once and then returned to the job??? i really don't understand that's going on in my work place...that senior male staff that she smokes with on the loading bay told me that "if you don't like you job description, that's not our problem". In return i told him "i wonder what head office would think about you if you were paying a mindless staff to do nothing but smoke, and not playing a role in her job description" he said nothing after that. I’m cool with the manager of the store, he knows that I work hard and gives me credit for it.


I continue to work in the supermarket….