Hathaway
Someday, We'll All Be Free
I'm not the type to cry racism every time something doesn't go my way in a white work environment. As I've mentioned before, I'm a quiet guy at work. Food industry. A top 3 worker there. The other 2 are in management. I'm the only black male there. I've been here for a little over a year. I work in the back of house.
Check this shyt out. The GM has spoken to me twice about a promotion onto the leadership team. I told him that I'm interested. This was back in March. I've heard no word from him since. I had a woman who was in leadership (Black). I was really cool with her. She ended up moving to another state but she saw I was leadership material and put in a word for me with the managers before she left and even started to train me in a few areas so I could be ready for a potential promotion. Black women really do look out for us man.
In my area, there is only one spot I'm not sufficiently trained in. I told her this so she went to a member of the leadership team and told him that he should train me in that specific area. This mf said "well we have enough people trained in this area already so it's not really necessary to have Hathaway up here".
To be in leadership, you have to be trained in all areas. Everybody knows I'm the one guy out of everybody there who is deserving of the promotion. Them lil cac teenagers be asking me all the time "wow man I can't believe you're not a Leader. I actually thought you were one". But he won't let me train up there. Instead, they keep me in the same 2 areas of which I am the best in the entire store. They've even approached me last week about being the Lead Trainer for the back of house area. I've already trained 5 people so far. No pay raise for that shyt though.
They've also been moving me up to the front of house in customer service once a week and the GM commented how he loved my professionalism with the customers. I've been working in customer service practically all of my work life outside of factory jobs so this shyt was a breeze for me.
So today, the manager of Catering and Deliveries came to me randomly and asked me if I would be interested in running a big delivery for her because they were shorthanded. I said absolutely. She prepped me through the entire process and it was easy money. A simple $350.00 catering order at a hospital. No sweat right? She came up to me 15 minutes later and said she talked to the Leader, the same cac who denied me before, and he said "Hathaway is my strongest person in the back. I'm not comfortable with him leaving us for an hour to make the delivery."
Ain't this bout a bytch
It's a mf Tuesday morning. We are slow on Tuesdays and it's not like they didn't have capable people there to fill in for me while I was out. Nobody there is better than me so no matter what, it's gonna be a huge void in my absence. Besides, I trained 2 of the cacs there so I would trust them to hold that shyt down until I got back.
So I stepped to this mf, non aggressively, might I add, you know how they are.
I was straight up. I said "Listen man, you know I've been trying to move up and me getting this opportunity to run this Catering order will open up opportunities for me when they see how efficient I am in handling this. I'll only be gone for an hour max, you don't think ya'll can handle this for an hour while I'm out?" He just said plainly, "I understand but we just don't have the people strong enough to fill in bro, I'm sorry".
Nah mf, I'm sorry.
I'm telling ya'll. That was bullshyt. They absolutely had the people. On my break, I called my wife to vent about this shyt. I told her these mfs being real shady about this shyt but I didn't wanna call it racism. She was like nah nikka, them mfs tryna sabotage you. She's worked in the food industry all of her life at all levels, the bottom to corporate and as a black woman, she recognizes the passive aggressive ways these white people will try and keep you in the same spot while praising your hard work even though you are deserving of a promotion/pay raise.
They don't want to see you amongst their ranks. Its a threat to them. They have black women in leadership here. 2 of them, but check this shyt out. Both of them mfs mixed. And mixed to the point where you can't tell they're mixed. One of em in her early 20's and she looks like a white girl and even speaks with a "valley girl" dialect. The other is mixed with German and Black but she look like a....I can't describe her ass. She got reddish brown hair. It's weird af. The rest of the managers are white males and females in their 40's or older.
I'm so tired of this shyt. These cacs play this game so well. They got this system down to a mf T. It's damn near admirable how well they keep this shyt going on the low. How inconspicuous they are with it. The last time these bytches had a Black man in leadership was 2014 and that mf was a "Carlton" type.
I'm done.
Check this shyt out. The GM has spoken to me twice about a promotion onto the leadership team. I told him that I'm interested. This was back in March. I've heard no word from him since. I had a woman who was in leadership (Black). I was really cool with her. She ended up moving to another state but she saw I was leadership material and put in a word for me with the managers before she left and even started to train me in a few areas so I could be ready for a potential promotion. Black women really do look out for us man.
In my area, there is only one spot I'm not sufficiently trained in. I told her this so she went to a member of the leadership team and told him that he should train me in that specific area. This mf said "well we have enough people trained in this area already so it's not really necessary to have Hathaway up here".
To be in leadership, you have to be trained in all areas. Everybody knows I'm the one guy out of everybody there who is deserving of the promotion. Them lil cac teenagers be asking me all the time "wow man I can't believe you're not a Leader. I actually thought you were one". But he won't let me train up there. Instead, they keep me in the same 2 areas of which I am the best in the entire store. They've even approached me last week about being the Lead Trainer for the back of house area. I've already trained 5 people so far. No pay raise for that shyt though.
They've also been moving me up to the front of house in customer service once a week and the GM commented how he loved my professionalism with the customers. I've been working in customer service practically all of my work life outside of factory jobs so this shyt was a breeze for me.
So today, the manager of Catering and Deliveries came to me randomly and asked me if I would be interested in running a big delivery for her because they were shorthanded. I said absolutely. She prepped me through the entire process and it was easy money. A simple $350.00 catering order at a hospital. No sweat right? She came up to me 15 minutes later and said she talked to the Leader, the same cac who denied me before, and he said "Hathaway is my strongest person in the back. I'm not comfortable with him leaving us for an hour to make the delivery."
Ain't this bout a bytch
It's a mf Tuesday morning. We are slow on Tuesdays and it's not like they didn't have capable people there to fill in for me while I was out. Nobody there is better than me so no matter what, it's gonna be a huge void in my absence. Besides, I trained 2 of the cacs there so I would trust them to hold that shyt down until I got back.
So I stepped to this mf, non aggressively, might I add, you know how they are.
I was straight up. I said "Listen man, you know I've been trying to move up and me getting this opportunity to run this Catering order will open up opportunities for me when they see how efficient I am in handling this. I'll only be gone for an hour max, you don't think ya'll can handle this for an hour while I'm out?" He just said plainly, "I understand but we just don't have the people strong enough to fill in bro, I'm sorry".
Nah mf, I'm sorry.
I'm telling ya'll. That was bullshyt. They absolutely had the people. On my break, I called my wife to vent about this shyt. I told her these mfs being real shady about this shyt but I didn't wanna call it racism. She was like nah nikka, them mfs tryna sabotage you. She's worked in the food industry all of her life at all levels, the bottom to corporate and as a black woman, she recognizes the passive aggressive ways these white people will try and keep you in the same spot while praising your hard work even though you are deserving of a promotion/pay raise.
They don't want to see you amongst their ranks. Its a threat to them. They have black women in leadership here. 2 of them, but check this shyt out. Both of them mfs mixed. And mixed to the point where you can't tell they're mixed. One of em in her early 20's and she looks like a white girl and even speaks with a "valley girl" dialect. The other is mixed with German and Black but she look like a....I can't describe her ass. She got reddish brown hair. It's weird af. The rest of the managers are white males and females in their 40's or older.
I'm so tired of this shyt. These cacs play this game so well. They got this system down to a mf T. It's damn near admirable how well they keep this shyt going on the low. How inconspicuous they are with it. The last time these bytches had a Black man in leadership was 2014 and that mf was a "Carlton" type.
I'm done.
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