Wow.....I Found this Shocking and Sad

[rgcraig]

You really want to believe that we've made progress along the prejudice/racial lines, but I've decided we haven't.

Our company is extremely PC focused (politically correct - not Pentecostal church).

In one of my departments, I have two employees and they are people of color. A new employee with IT has come aboard and has tried to stir things up in that department and basically she's trying to take over. She is also a person of color.

Both employees had complained about the trouble she was giving them.

I had a "come to Jesus" meeting with her and told her to back off my employees and do her job. She thanked me for the meeting and said that just that morning she had prayed that God would show her what she was doing wrong.

THEN.....she went to one of my employees and read her the right act - mad and upset that she came to me with the problems. She even called her a skank and said she had thought of ways to get back at her, but decided not to.
She didn't think the male employee would complain (but he did too).

When I talked with my two employees about this situation, the male employee asked if he could be upfront with me. I said absolutely - it's all about candor.

He said, the reason she is so upset that we told you what she was doing and you talked to her about it is because she thought since we are all three people of color that we'd be her homies and stick with her. She never thought we'd come tell our white manager.

I WAS FLOORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sad thing, I think he's right.