I'll go first:

When I say something at work that's ignored until a white dude repeats it. Doesn't happen all the time, but what the fuck.

  • Nothing44 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    As one of few white people at my job, it's kinda fucked that I'm the one my managers expects to relay information to people, even though I really have no such position, or any real seniority.

    And many of the immigrants who work here speak just as good Swedish, plus their own language, and know way more people than I do. I bring that up with the managers, but what makes that a kinda losing battle is that they're continuously swapping out managers, so what's policy one month is completely new the next.

    Which is, rather selfishly, the one thing I hate most about my job. They keep swapping in new people who have no idea how things are done, so even when they have good ideas, they have no idea how to implement them. And since they're always changing, by the time you've convinced them about something they should do, they're already halfway out the door.

    And they keep re-organizing work groups, so even when you've started fixing the problems among yourselves, you're suddenly working with people you've never managed to form any kind of rapport with, so you have to start over again.

    And the few constant managers keep talking about how well it was going two years ago, and want us to work like we did then, as if they weren't among the people who made those methods impossible in the first place.