Black People : Struggling with my new job and co-workers.

MsInterpret

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So I am no longer substituting in the school district. I thought it was about time I find a job with better pay, and so I did. The first month was cool, the girl who hired me and is training me was cool. But I have this boss who gives me the cold-shoulder for no reason at all. I have never done anything to this man, I've been to work and done my job, but I almost get the sense he doesn't care for me because of my skin.
There is another co-worker at my job who is also black, but he works out in the warehouse. And my boss wants him fired and gone, but my co-worker misses a lot of work and smokes in the warehouse and wrecks equipment and messes up orders. Which I think is a cause to let someone go. But my boss cannot fire him because he is not under direct authority with him, but someone else.
Whenever I (try) talk to my boss he will never look at me and he always tries to rush me out of his office when I come in there to file something away. If there is an issue that concerns my help or assistance he won't tell me about but instead tells other people which doesn't help the situation since I'm the one whose job it concerns.
Now he smiles and jokes with the other ladies in the office (whom are white) but I'm just a fly on the wall.
I don't seek this mans friendship or anything, I just want some communication and acknowledgement in order to get what work I need done.
And I do not like coming to work always feeling like I'm stepping on egg shells.
Now, this guy has said some pretty crazy stuff about people's other races. Last Friday, he got of the phone with our company's accountant, whom is Chinese, and made fun of how he talked and called him the "Little China Man"...and he's also made comments about the Mexican co-workers in another warehouse.
I don't want to quit my job on the grounds of this man possibly and probably being a total bigot.
But I really hate working with anyone like that.
What should I do?
 
What should you do? Nothing!

Keep your head down and try to do your job well! Remember you are there to work, not to socialise. Therefore, if you keep yourself busy, you'll be too preoccupied with work to even notice anything odd about this man's attitude towards you.

Like I said in my original statement...I'm not there to be his friend...I have to speak with him in order to do parts of my job...I have to interact with him.
 
be perfect. Do your job. Move forward in your knowledge and productivity each week.
Your boss is insecure, which is why he says those things about other races of people.
Race leaps from mouths when they are feeling insecure. Your first thought was he
didn't like you because you were black.. It might be true.. it probably is, but there are
a host of other reasons why he may not like you. But, unless it's important for him to
like you, don't trip.. just do your job. The only way you will gain social acceptance from
a guy like that is make him feel comfortable in his bigotry by chiming in and joining the
ridicule of one of the other groups. If he says something about mexicans, he's offering you
an opportunity to join him in ridiculing them.. it'll make him more comfortable to know
that you are not some super-sensitive black chic that will probably bring him up on charges
if he says something racist or sexist..
 

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