Reply #28: He sounds not only like a racist asshole, but a jealous, racist asshole. [View All]

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Shoot, much later he got me fire too

At least you got a free trip to Belgium out of it. Hopefully the company reamed his dumb behind and asked why he waited until AFTER you took an expensive learning adventure to Belgium before firing you! :eyes: I have my own stories of clueless whites I've worked with who practically sh*t themselves when I started working with them and did everything in their power from day ONE to get rid of me.

I had one (blonde) woman give me the most glowing performance evaluations but behind my back, was constantly whining to HR about how "belligerent" I was. Now, I'm not going to lie I can be as belligerent as they come when the need arises. :) But the thing that got me was that she was ALLOWED to do all of this behind my back while to my face telling me how spectacular I was. No self-respecting HR person in the world should allow stupidity like that. If you don't have the courage and professionalism to say something to someone's face, then YOU are obviously the one who needs to be removed and not the person you're whining about.

And the thing was, I WAS doing a great job. I almost always do a great job at the jobs I have. But as is the case when you're dealing with insecure, unintelligent people who are easily threatened because someone with more intelligence is working underneath them and they know it won't be long before everyone is wondering how that happened, the better job I did, the MORE it pissed her off and threatened her.

I've learned how NOT to manage from people like her. It's been a painful lesson but a very practical one too.