New job micro aggressions

[thejackpot]

So true. They will definitely be bolder.

[andwhat]

Nov 9, 2016 8:41:23 GMT -5 kicks said:

This morning this patient whom told the whole staff yesterday to vote for Clinton just questioned where I'm from.

She was on the phone with her mom and said "the doctor is here, I think she's from Africa, maybe Jamaica." I said no I'm from America.

Then going through the exam she said my accent sounded like I was from somewhere, like the islands. I said I'm from Maryland. She kept going on and I seriously raised my voice and said no I'm American and walked out the room.

What in the actual fuck. I can't even with any white people at all.

RAGE

[bugandbibs]

This was the wrong thread to come into today.

I'm so sick of the "where are you really from?" questions. I'm sorry for all of us having to face this while just living our lives.

[newnamesameperson]

All the time....where are you REALLY from? Sy bitch if my resting bitch face doesn't give it away my new fake white girl bs bless your confused heart line now should.
My personal fave in microagresdions is getting my name repeatedly confused with the other minority that works there because clearly it's too hard to distinguish the two brown girls from each other.

[hisno1girl]

Thanks to my husband's Czechoslovakian name, some people will often just be dumbfounded that I'm not white.

I can't count how many times I'd introduce myself to someone and the first thing they day is, "Oh. You're not white? I thought you were white. You sound white."

I started speaking in Spanish and used every curse word I knew.

[kicks]

Nov 9, 2016 23:24:33 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Thanks to my husband's Czechoslovakian name, some people will often just be dumbfounded that I'm not white.

I can't count how many times I'd introduce myself to someone and the first thing they day is, "Oh. You're not white? I thought you were white. You sound white."

I started speaking in Spanish and used every curse word I knew.

Ugh. I hate the "you sound white."

[hisno1girl]

Nov 10, 2016 6:36:33 GMT -5 kicks said:

Nov 9, 2016 23:24:33 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Thanks to my husband's Czechoslovakian name, some people will often just be dumbfounded that I'm not white.

I can't count how many times I'd introduce myself to someone and the first thing they day is, "Oh. You're not white? I thought you were white. You sound white."

I started speaking in Spanish and used every curse word I knew.

Ugh. I hate the "you sound white."

I've gotten the "you sound white" thing my entire life.

Ugh

[hisno1girl]

Nov 9, 2016 22:55:51 GMT -5 newnamesameperson said:

My personal fave in microagresdions is getting my name repeatedly confused with the other minority that works there because clearly it's too hard to distinguish the two brown girls from each other.

I recently stopped working due to illness but of the staff of about 50, there was only one other Latina working there and this guy always got our names mixed even though we look nothing alike.

Then he'd say, "Oh! I know Spanish!" and then he'd rattle off something about how to order a cerveza (beer) whenever he went to Mexico.

I finally told him that in order for him to stop confusing me with me co-worker he should email me.

It was the about the only way I wouldn't lose my shit.