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"If one of her buddies brought up an issue that was off the primary agenda for the meeting, if it was something that she wanted to chat about, she would chat about it," [Stephen Young] recalls. "But if I brought up a topic or Martha [did]-a black woman who happened to be a Ph.D.-the response, before even getting to the third word, was an audible and visible sigh and a looking-around impatiently, [followed by] interrupting and saying, 'You know, that's all very interesting but we really...
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Rooting Out Subtle Office Insults
The alarm jars you awake for another day of work. Feelings of inadequacy race through your mind. You remember yesterday's meeting when the novel idea you pitched to your boss was dismissed out of hand, only to be welcomed moments later from the mouth of a favored colleague.
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