Work & Life

[Heero Yuy]

last two posts are so real lol

[Seydou]

Yeah

Fuck them "throw you under the bus" Asians

[underwriter]

asian in my team is from endz - always adds man to his words

 

makes me feel right at home

 

/

 

what annoys me about this corporate world is the 'blanket' slangs that whites/everyone use

 

MATE

FELLA

PAL

BOY

SON

 

but if you say brav its a next ting

[yhfam]

the whaitez rule it and are the majority

 

[Realone2016]

Been in my first corporate job for nearly a year, the way everyone picks up on each others lingo time has been quite a discovery for me. I've done it a few time ffs.

[That Guy Son]

On ‎30‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 5:01 PM, Supermalt said:

Used to it. Other Blacks you encounter are either specialist coons or cool as fuck, one or the other. 

Trust me. On my floor at work there is about 500 people (all open plan) and there is about 6 black guys and 2 black ladies on the floor.

Luckily all the guys are super bless. I always find it jokes the tone/slang/language used depending on who you talking to LOL

[Bobby Reds]

[underwriter]

to everyone think thats what the last words on the sentence were

[Mame Biram Diouf]

On 01/02/2017 at 10:11 PM, FA23 said:

 

Guys are actually calling you boy & son ?

No ratings

Pmsl

 

 

Getting that Conte treatment before his coffee run

[Former]

Just went back into that corporate environment today after spending the last 3 years freelancing. 60 employees and I'm the ONLY minority in the office,  no asians, blacks or other ethnics.  

Im getting bombarded with nothing but cat gifs in the work slack chat. Been sitting at my desk with this expression all day....

[Zizouz]

[Seydou]

Why do these man love cats soo much?

One guy has 4 of them creatures

[M.Dot]

I've got a cat. Cool nigga. 

/

The ignorance some people have is mad, company recently added a compulsory online course about equality & diversity. If you don't pass you gotta retake it. The amount of people in the office I could hear cursing & moaning at their desks whilst they're struggling on their 2nd/3rd attempt smh.

When I started working in my current company there was two other black people on the floor, floor of about 100 people. One of the two started the same day as me(old African man), the other a black girl in my team. As it was my second corporate environment I felt a lot more comfortable going into it than the first time round*. Every new black person spotted in the office we'd flag it on the office chat 'we got another one'. A few years later I've lost count of the amount of black people in the office, but it'll be around 15-20(5/6 males), but the multichannel team got split out last year with everyone sitting on different floors depending on their roles, so we're all segragated & minorities on our specific floors, but I've got my people to fall back on when I hear pure ignorance.

What's funny is the work drinks we have where at some point in a night the 'realer' ones will come together and be chatting & after a while realise we've segregated ourselves(no more than 6/7 of us).

Some of these girls are wild though one time there were social drinks set up by the social team within the building, just through coincidence there ended up being a group of us together. These girls were waved and they notice the split in a room, we were all laughing these girls start mentioning how they're scared of us, they start holding up black power fists and shit A few shook ones in the group broke off like nah this is too much for me lol.

[M.Dot]

9 minutes ago, M.Dot said:

I've got a cat. Cool nigga. 

/

The ignorance some people have is mad, company recently added a compulsory online course about equality & diversity. If you don't pass you gotta retake it. The amount of people in the office I could hear cursing & moaning at their desks whilst they're struggling on their 2nd/3rd attempt smh.

When I started working in my current company there was two other black people on the floor, floor of about 100 people. One of the two started the same day as me(old African man), the other a black girl in my team. As it was my second corporate environment I felt a lot more comfortable going into it than the first time round*. Every new black person spotted in the office we'd flag it on the office chat 'we got another one'. A few years later I've lost count of the amount of black people in the office, but it'll be around 15-20(5/6 males), but the multichannel team got split out last year with everyone sitting on different floors depending on their roles, so we're all segragated & minorities on our specific floors, but I've got my people to fall back on when I hear pure ignorance.

What's funny is the work drinks we have where at some point in a night the 'realer' ones will come together and be chatting & after a while realise we've segregated ourselves(no more than 6/7 of us).

Some of these girls are wild though one time there were social drinks set up by the social team within the building, just through coincidence there ended up being a group of us together. These girls were waved and they notice the split in a room, we were all laughing these girls start mentioning how they're scared of us, they start holding up black power fists and shit A few shook ones in the group broke off like nah this is too much for me lol.

*me & my manager (old asian guy on the verge of retirement so didn't give a shit) vs 60. Was my first time in an office role full stop so I wasn't sure about how to play it but as he was so laid back he was just himself & made me realise I can be the same as long as I do my job well(which has stuck with me).

[MGEEZ]

Ppl over think this race shit imo 

[Mame Biram Diouf]

1 hour ago, MGEEZ said:

Ppl over think this race shit imo 

Interesting, what are you basing this on?

 

Guessing it's not the 100s of studies into racial discrimination in recruitment, pay, promotions, social inclusion and the rest in the work place? 

 

 

[yhfam]

^ I swear he doesn't work in a corp environment ethier pmsl 

[Wavant]

32 minutes ago, Mame Biram Diouf said:

Interesting, what are you basing this on?

 

Guessing it's not the 100s of studies into racial discrimination in recruitment, pay, promotions, social inclusion and the rest in the work place? 

 

 

Loooool

[_Fivestar]

Who currently or in the past has done field based work. Is it a big change going from an office based role to a field role?

Im about to make that jump 

[MGEEZ]

2 hours ago, yhfam said:

^ I swear he doesn't work in a corp environment ethier pmsl 

Wrong

[M.Dot]

How/in what way does it get over thought?

[underwriter]

i see blacks in this company im in

the most amount of blax ive seen in a company..... i mean i must have seen around 15 maybe

some i kinda smile at.... and theres some who just pass me....

theres one black guy who sounds white - he sits 4 desks in front of me... when i started coz he was close i used to say 'morning.....' or 'have a good evening......' but his responses just felt dead/frosty - so now when i  pass him or grab coffee i just do my ting -

 

but the other black donnies i try speak to -

 

wallahi theres a black ting in my team who sits right around the corner who i dont speak to - she comes up to the chill area with her friend - EYYYYY TODAY SHE WAS IN A TIGHT FITTED PENCIL SKIRT OH MYYY DAYYZZZ

[dub]

I don't think its a case of it being over-thought, its a case of thought being put in the wrong place.

Political correctness is served up because actual equality can't be.

[i5_PRODUCER]

9 hours ago, _Fivestar said:

Who currently or in the past has done field based work. Is it a big change going from an office based role to a field role?

Im about to make that jump 

I was a field engineer about 2 -3 years ago

It was okay , driving is long though. Make sure you find out about finishing times and getting your time back. Some companies are sly.

What's the line of work? , IT?