For whatever reason and while wearily trying to scan and archive TY2003, I thought of Felix E. from well over a decade ago at one of my job. He was a short, dark-skinned Ecuadorian, who had complained to me about his new wife, who would nag at him. I told him that’s what wives do to their husband. Once all the glitz and glamor wears off, reality sinks in. He was the A/R person of that department. He would have had been paid more at another mentor and learned more compared to that mostly “white place” of minimal advancement.
Anyway, I was “laid-off”, not because there was nothing to do (seriously) but because the “white people” had overheard me “complain” about how small the prints appeared on the grid and how awful the coffee tasted. The “white controller” of our department had reported my honest opinion to his “white boss”. So of course, people like me don’t stand a chance with other slaves who do NOT criticize as much as I do. Employers just don’t like people who are honest. They don’t like to change. And they certainly don’t like to be reported to, well, “God”, I guess. Let’s put it this way: Felix and I were hired because of “diversity” and the wise crack and pals at my “temp job from hell” know why they kept the temp girl instead of us two “Asians”.
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