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Amateur Hour: Bullying Distorts Doing the Right Thing
I had never been in an environment that was so quick to label and then pigeonhole people—you’re the foreigner; you’re the tomboy; you’re the gay.
The post-meeting slap across her ass startled Isoke into silence.
“Good job in there,” he said, flashing a slimy smile as she turned around to face him.
Months before, when Isoke had joined an investment bank, she was a young, Black woman fresh out of Florida A&M, where she’d been a sprinter and scholar. She’d grown up on an island, and her voice had the lilt of the ocean waves in which she’d swum as a young girl.
This was her dream job.
“The lights were bright,” she said. “I was working in a highly charged environment with highly charged personalities.” ...
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