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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. It happened too often to be a coincidence that sometimes we would purposely agree to meet in so-and-so's office to test our theory that we were being monitored. Like clock work, ten minutes after we would get together a partner would stop by.
I didn't have the energy to fight
- Workplace Unfairness
- Female
- Arab/Arab-American
- Information Technology/Internet
- Considering Leaving
- Impact/Effect
- Bullying
- Coworker
- Exclusion
- Harassment
- Unwelcoming Environment
I left a month ago and I am going through this trauma. They were doing things to harass me and I didn't report it. I didn't have the energy to fight. I didn't want to make things more complicated for myself. One of my co-workers would come up to my cubicle when no one was around and shake it like there was an earthquake. They were doing these things so I would go. And I left. It took me two years out of my life to realize that it wasn't getting me anywhere.