Corporate Leavers - The Cost of Employee Turnover Due to Unfairness
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Were They Afraid We Were Planning a Coup D'etat?
I spent my first summer during Columbia Law School at a firm in Philadelphia described as one of the best places in the city for black lawyers. I believed that if there was any place where I would have an equal chance at opportunities, be treated fairly and succeed, this would be it. There were three black female summer associates out of sixty that year but any time all three of us were in an office talking, one of the partners would knock on the door to see how we were doing.
Hermon Nelson's Experience
I worked as an engineer for a manufacturing company in England where there were very few blacks. After I had been there awhile, I wanted to lead teams but I noticed I was getting overlooked.
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I quickly learned that competence or capability will not get you hired or promoted but political suaveness will. Being a good engineer I thought would get you promoted but actually people who were going out to the pub after work and had similar cultural backgrounds as the management were the ones getting promoted. Most of the time, I was the only black guy on the team and I didn't drink or smoke.
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When I worked at the stock exchange, I noticed a not so subtle division of engineers into an "A" team and a "B" team.
I was a pioneer as the only black person in team "A" so everything I was involved with was a perceived risk for management.