A 2021 survey revealed that Black women are less likely to feel treated with respect in the workplace. Today’s story from Reddit user tinanottiana revolves around that premise.
Tina is the only Black person in her office. According to her account, colleagues have repeatedly mispronounced and misspelled her name, likely as a form of cultural appropriation. While she doesn’t see it as overt racism, Tina is nonetheless annoyed by it.
As a form of payback, she stopped correcting her peers and instead began addressing them with generic “white” names. Feeling unsure if she was wrong for doing so, she sought answers from the internet.
