Corporate White America

[Scholar]

Can some of you older brehs give us young cats advice on how to move in white corporate America. General advice, stories, and shyt you wish you knew from the jump . Impart that knowledge . We gotta help each other survive and thrive

 

[Lady.Libra.]

Can some of you older brehs give us young cats advice on how to move in white corporate America. General advice, stories, and shyt you wish you knew from the jump . Impart that knowledge . We gotta help each other survive and thrive

Document & Paper-trail your butt off...from day one.

Negotiate your salary and don't be afraid to ask for raises or more responsibility.

Don't ever kiss butt because once you start, you can't ever stop.

Don't get comfortable or complacent and always look for new opportunities.

Don't date in the office.

Never discuss religion, race, or sex.

 

[Scholar]

Document & Paper-trail your butt off...from day one.

Negotiate your salary and don't be afraid to ask for raises or more responsibility.

Don't ever kiss but because you can't ever stop.

Don't get comfortable or complacent and always look for new opportunities.

Don't date in the office.

Never discuss religion, race, or sex.

Thank you, +repped.

I've heard negotiate salary a lot. Some people say if they are unwilling to negotiate on salary you should negotiate benefits. How many additional vacation days could you justify asking for?

 

[Jean Jacket]

Appear selfless. Appeal to egos to gain trust. Learn trade secrets. Establish footholds. Exert dominance. Profit.

 

[hatealot]

Go through your corporate directory and get familiar with the hierarchy, usually there is a nice tree of photos and job titles that shows you who is under who all the way to the CEO. Pull that tree up 3 times a week, and keep up with internal corporate information. Start plotting your movement up by focusing on a title of someone higher than you who has a higher rank, see who their supervisor is and who the executive officer is. You don't just want to be entry level, you need to maneuver, learn that corporate tree and leverage the connections, stalk them, get their background from various social media, do background checks. You never know when you might bump into someone who is higher up and you can hit them with a good impression from jump because you know their background. Chess not checkers...

 

[Lady.Libra.]

Thank you, +repped.

I've heard negotiate salary a lot. Some people say if they are unwilling to negotiate on salary you should negotiate benefits. How many additional vacation days could you justify asking for?

In most corporations vacation, personal time off, and sick leave are accrued and non-negotiable. Also, on the low end of the scale/paygrade, employees have $10, 000 in benefits, stock options, tuition reimbursement, etc. Also, perks and deep discounts with major auto/home, insurance company, cell phone providers, retailers, etc. However it is crucial to skillfully negotiate your salary.

Oh, if you can get a mentor and cross-train for other positions other than yours.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

Listen to the "C.O.W.S. workplace racism" podcast series on YouTube. Nelly Fuller Jr. is also essential for brothers looking to understand the underlying psychology involved in dealing with Whites and your own people as well under a system of White supremacy.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

Oh and if you are young like 21-25 with no children you MUST attend happy hours it is for your own benefit. Your liver can still take it and you'll be remembered more in the hallway and considered more likeable. It actually will be harder for them to get rid of you if multiple people on other teams like you especially in larger corporations. Drink as much kool-aid as you are comfortable with earlier in your career to "pay your dues". Once you get to my level (6-7 years) depending on the industry all the rules change however.

 

[Cynic]

Oh and if you are young like 21-25 with no children you MUST attend happy hours it is for your own benefit. Your liver can still take it and you'll be remembered more in the hallway and considered more likeable. It actually will be harder for them to get rid of you if multiple people on other teams like you especially in larger corporations. Drink as much kool-aid as you are comfortable with earlier in your career to "pay your dues". Once you get to my level (6-7 years) depending on the industry all the rules change however.

No. Spend that time figuring how to solve business problems.... be pre-emptive
and learn how you can add value within your organization whether through
client acquisition or fixing current productivity issues then MASTER how to position
ideas in a way that looks like your boss came up with it....

NEVER EVER EVER EVER GET COMFORTABLE

 

[Matt504]

Learn and remember names and voices.

 

[Astroslik]

Oh and if you are young like 21-25 with no children you MUST attend happy hours it is for your own benefit. Your liver can still take it and you'll be remembered more in the hallway and considered more likeable. It actually will be harder for them to get rid of you if multiple people on other teams like you especially in larger corporations. Drink as much kool-aid as you are comfortable with earlier in your career to "pay your dues". Once you get to my level (6-7 years) depending on the industry all the rules change however.

I can't do that happy hour shyt

 

[Billy Preston]

I can't do that happy hour shyt

Same here. I worked for a small electronics company and once a week the employees would either do happy hour or karaoke. I went with them once and said never again. I can't sit with a group of people and fake sincerity especially if I've been with them for the previous 8 hours.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

I can't do that happy hour shyt

You don't got to go ham just chop it up for like 2 drinks then go home.

Same here. I worked for a small electronics company and once a week the employees would either do happy hour or karaoke. I went with them once and said never again. I can't sit with a group of people and fake sincerity especially if I've been with them for the previous 8 hours.

If they fake as fukk and conniving sinister then nah. But if they ain't that bad at least try a bit. No one saying you gotta be best buds and shyt.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

No. Spend that time figuring how to solve business problems.... be pre-emptive
and learn how you can add value within your organization whether through
client acquisition or fixing current productivity issues then MASTER how to position
ideas in a way that looks like your boss came up with it....

NEVER EVER EVER EVER GET COMFORTABLE

Bruh I got "let go" 2 times in my life both times I outperformed my teammates.

So honestly the biggest risk is outshining the master and appearing to be a threat. No one saying get comfortable but if you sipping from the kool-aid jug no one looking at you funny.

Now it depends on how your org works and the culture. If your culture don't pass out kool-aid then yeah for sure focus on productivity and that bottom line.

But believe me I've worked in multiple environments where White people just sit around explaining away millions of dollars in losses of revenue and the stakeholders just buy that shyt and write it off.

They can make a big thing seem like nothing - All because of their skin color and title. So it's not always about productivity and what you can do but rather WHO YOU KNOW AND ARE ON GOOD TERMS WITH....

 

[Cynic]

Bruh I got "let go" 2 times in my life both times I outperformed my teammates.

So honestly the biggest risk is outshining the master and appearing to be a threat. No one saying get comfortable but if you sipping from the kool-aid jug no one looking at you funny.

Now it depends on how your org works and the culture. If your culture don't pass out kool-aid then yeah for sure focus on productivity and that bottom line.

But believe me I've worked in multiple environments where White people just sit around explaining away millions of dollars in losses of revenue and the stakeholders just buy that shyt and write it off.

They can make a big thing seem like nothing - All because of their skin color and title. So it's not always about productivity and what you can do but rather WHO YOU KNOW AND ARE ON GOOD TERMS WITH....

That's why it's important to give all credit to him or lead him down the path
to where what you suggest is the only "logical" step but the positioning is
crucial.

Acting dumber than you actually are works wonders ....


It's about leverage and finesse ... I've had brehs flat out lie about family illnesses to avoid
the happy hour shyt just so they focus on growing the client base/sign bigger fish. Then
dip to a competitor and negotiate for better pay/ownership/have an entire department.

You can be the silent negro while collecting intel for future use or to save your own job
/secure a payout for discrimination etc.

Office politics truely are some bullsh!t sometimes... I dunno how y'all do it.