Corporate Leavers - The Cost of Employee Turnover Due to Unfairness

Tarin Addington's Experience

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Tarin worked for the same Fortune 500 technology company for more than 15 years before leaving to work at a community college.

I went to a meeting in Boise, Idaho. The travel department even told me that it would be wise not to go out at night. The room service at the hotel brought my food and then walked away singing "Jig-a-boo pie." At a meeting the next day, I was the only black person.


I had finished a long week finishing a photo shoot up in Seattle. It was cold, snowing. I was waiting to be picked up by a town car to take me to the airport. The limo driver walked right by me and asked the guy at the desk, "Where is Ms.


I joined the technology company in the mid-80s. They wanted to be become a market-driven company, rather than an engineering-driven company. They recruited me because I had been at a large competitor and had been quite successful.