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Having spared you all an entire summer of work bitching, I now feel no guilt indulging this one time. Turns out my boss isn't just a stupid bitch - she's a stupid, bigoted bitch. Nice.
We hired a new student assistant yesterday. She seems very nice, very intelligent - time will tell if she actually is or not, because workstudies can tank pretty quickly. (No offense to any of you workstudy folks out there, but undergrads are idiots, by and large. I know, I am one.) The girl collected her paperwork and left, at which point this particularly enlightening conversation took place.
Me: She seems very nice.
Boss: She does. But you know, when I saw that her address was in St. Clair Shores on her application, I thought she'd be white. But she seems very responsible... even though she had a teen pregnancy. She's 25, and her oldest son is nine. She's got two kids - she's a single mother. But she seems very responsible.
She then proceeded to tell me how much I was valued, and how nice I am, and how much they appreciate having me around. Why, because I'm pasty enough to count for three white people? Because I don't have any kids? Because I'm not a single mother?
Good to know you're appreciated for all the right reasons.
Oh, and I gave notice that I'm taking Nov. 3 off. I plan to be very hungover on Nov. 3, no matter which way the election goes.
We hired a new student assistant yesterday. She seems very nice, very intelligent - time will tell if she actually is or not, because workstudies can tank pretty quickly. (No offense to any of you workstudy folks out there, but undergrads are idiots, by and large. I know, I am one.) The girl collected her paperwork and left, at which point this particularly enlightening conversation took place.
Me: She seems very nice.
Boss: She does. But you know, when I saw that her address was in St. Clair Shores on her application, I thought she'd be white. But she seems very responsible... even though she had a teen pregnancy. She's 25, and her oldest son is nine. She's got two kids - she's a single mother. But she seems very responsible.
She then proceeded to tell me how much I was valued, and how nice I am, and how much they appreciate having me around. Why, because I'm pasty enough to count for three white people? Because I don't have any kids? Because I'm not a single mother?
Good to know you're appreciated for all the right reasons.
Oh, and I gave notice that I'm taking Nov. 3 off. I plan to be very hungover on Nov. 3, no matter which way the election goes.