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Honestly! I work with majority of white people. I am cordial with them polite, but they don’t know any personal stuff about me and I don’t actually invite them into my personal life. I keep everything surface level. I don’t even drink with them because frankly you’re coworkers not my friends. I don’t trust y’all when I’m drinking.
I'm not letting loose with you. Now, I may attend a function, smile, give a few high fives but - I'm not going out of my way or shifting my schedule, etc, and not having several cocktails with you. In depth personal conversations- no thanks. I smile and keep it moving. I honestly do the minimum to keep networking professionally possible.
To be straight up I have a smart ass mouth outside of work and the people who know me know that. I think if I brought that to work I wouldn't last the month without making the white somebody cry so I check that at the door.
Is this really a question or are you looking for the resounding “absolutely not” — we all know the parts. I think I’ve even said “that’s awesome” at work. Nothing has ever been awesome.
Lmao it was a real question but if that's your real answer that's totally fine. I also have heard awesome come out of my mouth and felt disgusting after.
It’s weird I had a bad experience at an all white college and having to work in a largely white company I honestly expected it to be full of micro aggressions/ shady peers. And everyone is cool. I don’t feel othered or expected to act/like/or do anything bc of what I look like. I feel like I act pretty normal. I’m pretty lucky that nothing has come up yet honestly and I’m actually really really scared that I’m comfortable where I am and that other places are going to be hell comparatively.
Before I got my current job in advertising I worked in social media. I hated the people I worked with and they did everything I said my current team doesn’t. I was so depressed and it was the height of 2020 with all the protests, being forced to constantly teach them about what’s insensitive to post or talk about and what needs to be said. ***literally had to tell them not to share graphic videos/images of black people being hurt or take them down myself.
I wish everyone could have what I have now. It’s so crazy how normal I feel
But ask yourself, why are the only one(s)? Especially if everyone is so accepting and you feel so normal?
I have to be waaaaaaaaay softer with whitefolks otherwise I get called too aggressive or combative. Way softer means not interrupting people and smiling all the time despite my white copywriting counterparts getting on camera with a scowl just to ramble over others.
Slang. Talking about black issues (I.e. Kanye and Takeoff).
That’s about it.
That’s totally awesome, lol.