How is it with other blacks in the corporate world?

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I don't work for a big company and my city ain't primarily black

But I've always wondered how is it when you meet other brehs or sistas? Are they c00ns and wenchs or on code? Do cacs try to butt in y'all conversation or keep y'all separate?

 

[ItsPeople]

met a breh manager from a different department at a gas station once, I went in for the dap and he countered with a handshake. Told me everything I needed to know right there

 

[Chrishaune]

You can't expect folks that have been indoctrinated to act differently than they've been taught.

 

[MarcMan]

It varies.

I'm a black manager for a large cpg giant and there aren't many of us.

The black women definitely are checking for you.

The most of the brehs are cool as shyt but 1 or 2 are definitely on that



But unless someone wrongs me personally, I'm still rooting for everybody black

 

[hatealot]

FYI, just because you have a desk and work for a big company doesn't mean corporate America. Corporate America to me is when you work at one of the principle offices of that company and report to the director level or higher.

If you have meetings and it's just your supervisor and he is on the field level, you do not work for corporate America.

 

[BaggerofTea]

I work in IT, but alot of brehs my age and younger move goofy, will flat out ignore etc.

Its sad how much engendered self hatred we have for out black skin.

One thing I wish I could change on a mass scale

 

[Reality]

3 Black coworkers total across my last 3 jobs in the last 6 years, and I’ve never worked with another FBA breh (no shots at the diaspora or black women).

It sucks and has been a drain on my well-being if I’m honest.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It varies.

I'm a black manager for a large cpg giant and there aren't many of us.

The black women definitely are checking for you.

The most of the brehs are cool as shyt but 1 or 2 are definitely on that



But unless someone wrongs me personally, I'm still rooting for everybody black

What you mean the black women are checking for you? They all be tryna smash?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

FYI, just because you have a desk and work for a big company doesn't mean corporate America. Corporate America to me is when you work at one of the principle offices of that company and report to the director level or higher.

If you have meetings and it's just your supervisor and he is on the field level, you do not work for corporate America.

Corporate or not, it's the same drum and beat with every company. You dealing with the same shyt. I'm just wondering how brehs and sistas move amongst each other

 

[hatealot]

Corporate or not, it's the same drum and beat with every company. You dealing with the same shyt. I'm just wondering how brehs and sistas move amongst each other

Since you are okay with regular rank and file employees sharing exp. I don't put no real stock or care about if you are black to a certain extent. My job is stressful enough with high workloads. It's no kumbiyah, no special privileges.

I had a guy I worked with that loved to talk outloud and try to drag me into his extra talking black this, black that, cracker this. Just screaming it out in the middle of the office floor whenever he got frustrated.

Then he would go off on conspiracy theories that you will see online. After awhile it was embarrassing. He was a dr.sebi, vegan, type of guy.

We all connected after work and talked our shyt but I'm not throwing my job away because some pro black militant is talking like this infront of 100 plus people every other week.

We all had a good laugh when he came to my desk and was fired up because some white girl reported him to hr for saying the word nikka too much in the office.

I felt like he was frustrated, overworked, and just fed the fukk up. He was gonna leave (which he did) but I can't go down that sinking boat with him. He trusted me to vent to but there are 100 of eyes watching and he knew that. There's a time and place for shyt. Any grievances we all told him he need to report these managers and let them have it.

It was just too much passive aggressiveness when he would talk. He was always dropping subliminal which weren't very subliminal.

 

[Knuckles Red]

3 Black coworkers total across my last 3 jobs in the last 6 years, and I’ve never worked with another FBA breh (no shots at the diaspora or black women).

It sucks and has been a drain on my well-being if I’m honest.

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[Roger king]

The rule of thumb is act professional at all times and dont assume allegiance simply due to race or skin color

 

[Son Goku]

What a dumbass thread.

Black folk at work wouldn't be any more or less than the black folk you meet going about your daily business, regardless of what type of company they for at/for. Some will be cool, some won't, and your experience with them will in part depend on what type of energy you're putting out.

 

[Vandelay]

You test the waters. If they respond to the head nod, you see what music they like, and what part of the town they from.

It's funny, I'm traveling for work and I'm at this sales meeting. Previously, I was in supply chain, hell...I really am still in supply chain, but I see why the uninitiated have the perceptions of black people in the corporate world that they do. Some are a little goofy. Not all...some. But that's all people. Black people, white, indian people, chinese people...some are cool, some are on the fukk shyt.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

this seems like a cac-ish question