An interesting thing where I work on success.

My immediate manager left the company a month ago. She kept getting into fights with the people around her and was begging for a resolution that was not favorable. She was fired.

One of her assistant managers is African American. My immediate manager did not understand the issues involved with being African American in the workplace.

I found out where my ex-manager had gone. I visited her recently. The last word was that the assistant manager was out to get her and disliked whites. This was sad for me to hear. My ex-manager does not understand how her ideas she hurt her and got her fired.

Much of rural America does not understand urban issues. My ex-manager was from out in the sticks. The assistant manager was just trying to stop the random comments directed at all sorts of people, not just African Americans. Those comments destroyed her career. The assistant manager was not trying to stop racism. The general manager got the reports from many sources on stray comments from the manager.

Discussing other people in the workplace is a self-defeating problem. Sad.

Would we go into the workplace and discuss the lazy people? It can cost you the job. In this case it was discussing "the competition".