Giving Notice » Featured Story http://www.givingnoticethebook.com Reframing the Discussion About Workplace Unfairness Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:02:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 I had to conform to move up the latter http://www.givingnoticethebook.com/2007/12/11/i-had-to-conform-to-move-up-the-latter/ http://www.givingnoticethebook.com/2007/12/11/i-had-to-conform-to-move-up-the-latter/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:20:32 +0000 Giving Notice http://www.givingnoticethebook.com/2007/12/11/i-had-to-conform-to-move-up-the-latter/

In my last performance review my supervisor told me, “You’re doing a great job and I don’t have any issues with your performance but you need to better manage perceptions.” On another occasion I was told, “You really need to learn to play golf.” The suggestions that I started to receive were not even performance related, rather they were based on perceptions and conformity. No one could explain why my bonus was reduced by 2/3 even though I had my best year ever. It seemed like people of color had to conform to move up the ladder.

Brian Walters, an African-American male in the real estate industry

]]> http://www.givingnoticethebook.com/2007/12/11/i-had-to-conform-to-move-up-the-latter/feed/ 0