(May 12, 2017 at 9:09 pm)Nanny Wrote: I have friends who voted for the Hairdo in Chief.
To a man they are subtle racists, closed-minded, territorial, and less educated. As friends will do I tease them about this. They take it way too seriously.
Two of them have been laid off, their jobs sent elsewhere. This reinforces their subtle racism - some [person who looks different from me] took my job. They have been unemployed for almost a year, both of them. But it's not their fault. The "system" is against them.
They are about 10 years older than me (I'm 44) and they never really build competitive resumes. They've bounced from individual contributor job to individual contributor job. They haven't sought positions of increasing responsibility. They criticize me for "going for it" in corporate culture (I'm in senior management), saying how awful it is that I work 60-70 hours/week. When I explain that I'm doing this for my family, they fail to understand. They tease me about the car I drive, the house I moved into, all material things that don't really matter to me.
They seem to hold on to the notion that "if I've been doing this job for x years I deserve a promotion." That's not how public companies operate.
Advancement in corporate culture is tied largely to the amount of bullshit you can handle, how you dissect the BS, and how you offer solutions rather than restating the problem.
The inferiority complex they have is based on others "having" stuff they don't have and are not willing to work for. The words are different, but they're really after handouts, just like the people they see as the "other." They don't get irony, either.
You might suggest they move to West Virginia. I hear coal miners are going to be in bigly demand.
“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
