How is it with other blacks in the corporate world?

[RhodyRum]

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.

Yup. You go to work worrying about one color. And it sure as fukk ain't skin color.

The color of grass.

Get my drift?

 

[Reality]

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Not much more to say. Lots of companies/industries have black people underrepresented unfortunately.

I enjoyed my work much more when I worked around at least 1 or 2 other black people, so I’m jumping at either working for a black person or at a company with better representation for my next move.

 

[Mastamimd]

Cool from what I know

OG helped me more than anyone else

 

[8WON6]

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

 

[8WON6]

met some cool people, and i've met some c00ns that do performative blackness for the white folks at work.

 

[NinoBrown]

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?

Hit or miss tbh, but I can tell pretty much right off the bat if they are on code or c00n.

Dress, dialect, and eye contact/body language cues. c00ns have a cold/surprised response like..."How dare you work here?" Coded up folk are elated to see me...

Also, after formal intros, if the handshake or dap isn't ours, then I can't trust them...

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Black people in the federal government sector (contractors and federal employees) are high key on code. Out of the hundreds I've come across over 20 years I can only think of one that I have my suspicions on and it's only because the youngin didn't head nod me back. That was 7 years and I still remember that shyt


Private sector, the black engineers are on code but the it's a mixed bag with the few black folk I've come across in business development.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Stan is out the circle

 

[GoAggieGo.]

I’ve had nothing but great experiences with black folks in corporate, but maybe that’s because I’m here in Atlanta. In all my time, black men have looked out for me the most. I try to repay that when doing hiring, and when I take in some of these black engineering interns and co-ops; outlining some of the pitfalls and traps that come along this ride.

With all that being said, I don’t like corporate. I hate it. As an engineer, I’ve had the opportunity to do both corporate and working out on the field(warehouse/manufacturing plant/distribution center). I’d rather be in the field amongst production workers; black production workers at that

 

[BunchePark]

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.

That nikka was on one

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Hit or miss tbh, but I can tell pretty much right off the bat if they are on code or c00n.

Dress, dialect, and eye contact/body language cues. c00ns have a cold/surprised response like..."How dare you work here?" Coded up folk are elated to see me...

Also, after formal intros, if the handshake or dap isn't ours, then I can't trust them...

Black people in the federal government sector (contractors and federal employees) are high key on code. Out of the hundreds I've come across over 20 years I can only think of one that I have my suspicions on and it's only because the youngin didn't head nod me back. That was 7 years and I still remember that shyt


Private sector, the black engineers are on code but the it's a mixed bag with the few black folk I've come across in business development.

I’ve had nothing but great experiences with black folks in corporate, but maybe that’s because I’m here in Atlanta. In all my time, black men have looked out for me the most. I try to repay that when doing hiring, and when I take in some of these black engineering interns and co-ops; outlining some of the pitfalls and traps that come along this ride.

With all that being said, I don’t like corporate. I hate it. As an engineer, I’ve had the opportunity to do both corporate and working out on the field(warehouse/manufacturing plant/distribution center). I’d rather be in the field amongst production workers; black production workers at that

Would y'all say it's work life is better under black management if they on code? How's the work typically? I think cacs take shyt too seriously a lot of the time and be going by the book and shyt

 

[LuuqMaan]

In my life, I’ve never had a black manager/director
I’m currently the team lead only reporting to SLT.
Only deal with Indians, geeky white geniuses that I believe have undiagnosed autism and stressed out white woman consultants.

Doesn’t help when they love you because you don’t ‘stress’ or they like to pile shyt on you


Work Life was easier and fun when I worked warehouse and had more black or road guys working with me.

 

[BunchePark]

It depends on the brother


Still very upset that my company hired two brothers and they both have up too early and I know they would have succeeded here


My one dog Reggie was damn nice...he wasn't from FL I was trying to send signals like hang in there my nikka WE got this

But dog wasn't eating enough as quickly as he wanted and went back into real estate I think...still mad he quit

Then right before the pandemic we hired a Zoe, man I tried to put him on game even quicker...happened to be both getting gas on break I approached to let him know I had the inside scoop and this man quit out of nowhere like he hit the lotto

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

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.

I'm gonna have to disagree. If you work in any capacity for a multinational corporation...you're in corporate America.

 

[ItsPeople]

Lmao. Rep