A new direction

I think I need to change the focus of this blog. Yesterday I went to a mandatory compliance meeting. Most of the presentation consisted of legal blather warning us that is we get caught doing any insider trading, we will go to jail. And as commoners we won’t get the Martha Stewart treatment. ZZZzzzz. This thing that woke me up is when he mentioned that they do random surveillance of our e-mail. I kind of knew that already. They also perform random surveillance of our internet usage. Ugh. So while I will continue to make observations about corporate America, I am leery about posting from work. I don’t want to get dooced.

There is an interesting article in this month’s Essence. It’s about sisters hating on each other in the workplace. I must say, there is a fair amount of hate in my workplace and a lot of it is directed at me. Unfortunately, I work for a company that only seems to hire black women as secretaries and black men for the mailroom. I am one of the lucky few blacks with a six-figure salary (almost) and a window office. There was a time (before I became a group head) when I went out of my way to be friendly to the other black women in this office. I mean, I don’t care about titles, I was just looking to relate to someone who looks like me. However, it became painfully evident to me that many of these women were simply smiling in my face and ripping me to shreds behind my back. So I’ve had to distance myself from some people just for my own sanity. Later, after I was promoted, I tried to take a couple of my black staffers under my wing…you know give them pointers on how to get promoted, encourage hem to go back to school (especially since the company would pay for it) etc…but do you think these heffa’s would appreciate that? NOT! Oh well, their loss.