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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.
My supervisor's dinner conversation was about sex and orgasms
- Workplace Unfairness
- Female
- Caucasian
- Telecommunications
- Telecommunications
- Bad Boss
- Sexual Harassment
- Unbelievable
Once I was at a trade show conference in Las Vegas with a senior vice president. About 20 of us were sitting around a dinner and the senior vice president said, "I got an idea, let's go around the table and see which woman can best fake an orgasm." Later, that same evening he said, "Let's all talk about the most unique and amazing place you ever did it."