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.
Taking Credit
I was a merchandising assistant for a huge retail clothing company and when my supervisor was asked to take on another line of work, I became primarily responsible for the two lines we had been working on previously.
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When I left the second financial services firm, I had a doubled-edged situation. My numbers were so high that they couldn't deny that. I wrote a report and my boss said to me, "You wrote this?" She was surprised that I could do it.
Female African-American Asian Native American Left & is now a Small Business Entrepreneur Telecommunications Arts/Entertainment/Media
This one woman would never give me credit for my work. I would have to write the presentations, but she would get to present them. Then she would call me up to ask me about the information she was presenting, when she was supposed to know it.