WOMEN OF COLOR EXPERIENCE WORK LIFE DIFFERENTLY

gannett via bloomberg no url | 11/26/3

[The Clemson Tiger]

Perhaps y'all will find people are more comfortable around you when you're not ready to pounce on some ill-conceived but innocent remark and potentially ruin someone's career...

[mtbopfuyn]

Color? As opposed to transparent?

[.cnI redruM]

Translucent women get all the darn breaks!!

[Lazamataz]

You're pink.

Don't make me sic my dog on you.

[NativeNewYorker]

Yeah...but people see right thru 'em.

[labowski]

Obligatory: End of the World expected to affect Women and Minorities the most.

[Cable225]

``There is a ladder with different rungs,'' said Lesia Bates Moss, a senior vice president in the real estate finance group at Moody's Investors Service in New York. Moss is black. ``On those rungs, we are very well staggered, starting first and foremost with Caucasian men, who are running most corporations. Women of color are at the bottom of that ladder.''

Hey Lesia, you're the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT! How many rungs are on this f***ing ladder?

[thoughtomator]

Yeah heck I'll take that job if it's not good enough for her!

[looscnnn]

``Because of those feelings, they will discriminate, often unintentionally, when their behavior can be justified on the basis of some factor other than race or ethnicity."

What a load of crap, ever think that it is justified, plain and simple, no unintentional/unconcience discrimination?

[T.Smith]

"But, she said, many whites do still feel uncertain or uneasy around people of color. ``Because of those feelings, they will discriminate, often unintentionally, when their behavior can be justified on the basis of some factor other than race or ethnicity."

Wow!! This woman is brilliant! I had no idea I was thinking and feeling these things. It's amazing how deftly she is able to read the minds of millions of people she has never met. /sarcasm (as if it wasn't intuitively obvious)

[NativeNewYorker]

LESIA BATES MOSS has been with Moody's Investors Service since April 1997, and is currently a senior vice president in the Real Estate Finance Group, where she manages a diversified portfolio of REITs, real estate operating companies and government-sponsored enterprises. Moss also serves as the U.S. senior analyst for Japanese real estate. Prior to joining Moody?s, she was an associate with Glaves and Associates, Inc., an institutional real estate investment advisory firm. Moss has also served in various real estate-related positions in the public sector, including: director, New York State Insurance Department Liquidation Bureau; director, New York City Department of General Services; and manager, New York City Housing Authority. Earlier, she was an assistant manager in the retail division of Chemical Banking Corporation. Moss holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a M.B.A. in real estate investment and finance from New York University. She was the first recipient of the NYU Real Estate Institute Alumni Award.

More like a glass express elevator.

[anniegetyourgun]

I don't even think you are allowed to ask that question....at least not that way.....

[BabsC]

But, she said, many whites do still feel uncertain or uneasy around people of color.

Only when those "people of color" balance that "chip" on both shoulders.

I treat everyone as individuals if I say something that someone finds offensive I make them explain to me how that is offensive.

When I hear, it's a black thing you wouldn't understand, I tell them that's a cop out and they are the bigots not myself.

I also let them know that I prefer rational conversation and ask them if they are capable of discussing this subject rationally.

I also ask if they know the meaning of the word racist. They usually describe "bigot" which it turns out they usually are.

I love it when a black man tells me I'll never understand discrimination. That's when I inform him that no "man" can accuse a "woman" of not knowing what discrimination is.

[Old Professer]

I call it the Cracker Jack Syndrome.

[Revolting cat!]

And what do women of monochrome have to say about all that?

[dmanLA]

Yeah.

Short people experience work life differently.
Tall people experience work life differently.
Overweight people experience work life differently.
Skinny people experience work life differently.
Strong people experience work life differently.
Weak people experience work life differently.

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What a bunch of crybabies!!

[Sofa King]

I get the feeling that some of these people think that life is supposed to be easy. They seem to think that white people are just handed success on a silver platter.

[tacticalogic]

Check this out:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html

[Scott Mahrle]

``What stood out for me was the different issues and similar issues facing all of us,'' said Gloria D. McDonald, manager of diversity for Prudential Financial Services.

Maybe your poor English skills have something to do with your failure to advance, Gloria.

McDonald is black. ``We had an opportunity to all highlight the positive things we all brought to the workplace.''

[sheik yerbouty]

Wait ten minutes and the "people of cover" will begin whining.