there is no peace now
one person has damaged us
our higher ups f a i l e d
a meeting brought out our beasts
an unsolved problem lingers
On Thursday, March 27, 2025, we received an email from HR about their “investigation”, and I’ll simply say it was a waste of my time. So, I spoke with the center manager of the site where I am placed, and she’ll be working on creating a job for me so I can stay at the facility.
But she’s already said if I’m not doing the genetic testing for cancer screening, she doesn’t want the testing and company connected to it there anymore.
These people have forgotten that I was an employee at the site where they placed me for over 2 years. Upper Management loves me. The staff love me. I interact well with the patients. I am a valuable asset and they know this.
So, prayerfully, I’ll be putting my notice in with my current company in the next month, maybe two, at the latest. And it may not even be that long. The beauty of it all is that I get to stay at a facility where I feel at home because of my history there.
The center manager is going to start getting things going early next week. She was off yesterday and will be off again on Monday. I am prayerful she will be able to iron out all kinks with those in positions above her to keep me there. After she explains what has taken place, I am sure their organization will want to detach themselves from my current company.
My co-worker will be working with her center as well. Her center manager is doing the same thing for her. Our other co-worker has a great rapport with her previous job. She simply wanted to try something new. So she can return there.
And it’s best for us because yesterday, Friday, March 28, 2025, we had another meeting with our supervisor and a rep from HR was on the call – they wanted to monitor us. And the supervisor has no wherewithal of what she’s done wrong, just ignorant, and must’ve thought we were going to just sit there and take her power point explanation and the act of trying to gaslight us.
NOPE! She got her hind-end handed to her professionally by all three of us. We came correct in our interaction with her and called out her lies while holding in our anger and forcing ourselves to be polite under the active re-triggering we had all been subjected to.
She said something offensive that truly struck a chord in me and before I knew it, I was breaking her down like IKEA furniture, and my younger co-worker (she’s in her early 20s) said to me, “As soon as you started talking and using all them big words, I know you lost them cuz it went over their heads, but I was listening, and I was like, “YES, TRE!” Needless to say, she was proud of me.
I am proud of both of them because we have endured an event in the workplace we never wanted to and now the damage is done. Our image of Human Resources is sullied and is forever etched in our minds as a department WE (women of color; Black women) cannot trust.
Found you through Michele. Sounds like a huge mess on their part. So glad you gave them a piece of your mind! There’s nothing more triggering than betrayal of trust and gaslighting, but it’s also incredibly uplifting when people have your back. Abundant peace and blessings upon you. 🙏❤️
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Hello! Thank you for stopping by! And thank you for your comment here, too. 🙏🏾🩵
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Whew! That’s a lot. Sending prayers up for you and hugs your way. Everything will work out. Enjoy your Sunday, trE!💕
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Thanks, lady. I am prayerful and hopeful. I am not worried. Peace and blessings. 🙏🏽💙
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You’re welcome!🙏🏽
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Morning Tre. When I read Spinning initially I was so angry. Angry for you and me and every woman of colour, I had no words. (Actually, I had a lot of words, but words best left untyped).
Now, as I read Spinning (again), I am still angry but have words today.
I am happy you got the opportunity to shut down that gaslighting BS and make them look you in the eye as you called out their lies. It made me glad that they saw you and your fellow colleagues disdain, hurt, and distrust. If they chose willful blindness and continue their harmful actions, they will think twice knowing people aren’t going to sit there and take it. Good for you!
I hope you are able to find something that allows some light into the daily 9-5.
Wishing you a peaceful weekend.
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Thank you so much, Abigail. I truly appreciate this comment. I was angry most of Friday. I was hurt. But this weekend, I am calm. I am at ease. I know I did what was right. I know my co-workers did what was right. We have voices and we will not be quieted.
I spoke with my father last night whom is a preacher. I get my critical thinking and speech from him. He poured into me the peace I needed and is praying for a positive outcome for me to continue to remain where I am comfortable but to not be employed by the contracted company anymore.
I really feel like God has something bigger and better for me. I am also not putting all my eggs into one basket. I am now actively applying for other jobs as well. I could always go back to my previous job in radiology scheduling, but I am of the mind-set – never look back, keep moving forward, and I had my reasons for leaving that position as well.
I have a feeling this supervisor will continue to foot-mouth herself and we will have to endure this mess until we are no longer there. The plight of the Black woman never ends. We get no rest.
Peace and blessings, Abigail. Peace and blessings.
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Bravo. I’m so glad you had the chance to have your say. Employers often forget that employees have rights.
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🙏🏾🩵 They do forget. And I hate that it’s come to this for all of us. But it is what it is.
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You stood your ground, trE. Praying higher ground awaits.
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Thank you, Mitch! I am prayerful it will. 🙏🏾🩵
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what a horrible mess; how did things ever come to this? Let’s hope it resolves satisfactorily–
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🙏🏾
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💚💚💚 & {*{*{*hugs*}*}*} dear lady!
[but having said that, I wish you had a video of you at the HR meeting, because I bet you KICKED ASS]
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My co-worker said she wished she recorded it on her phone. 🤣😂😆
Why are y’all like this?!
Thank you, Jack. *Big hugs*
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Hoping for the best for you trE.
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Thank you, Jan! I truly appreciate this. 🙏🏾🩵
Happy Saturday to you!
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This is awful, I’m so sorry. I really hope things work out in your favour.
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I hope they do, too, lady. Thank you kindly. 🙏🏾🩵
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You’re most welcome 🙏💗
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Tre no one should have to deal with this in their workplace.
Well done for standing your ground 🙏
Bullying tactics are not acceptable anywhere in any situation .🙄
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They are not! Not one bit! Exactly.
Thank you, Maggie. Enjoy your weekend.
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Thank you Tre.
You too.
Take good care 🙏
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trE, I pray everything works out for you. 🙌
I always say…
*Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready. 😀
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That’s right! We really do have to stay ready. And sometimes it’s really rather exhausting.
And thank you!
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My pleasure. Have a great weekend.
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Thank you! Please do the same!
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Ouch sorry to hear this trE but proud of you as well for handling it like ya’ll did. 🙄 These are NOT great times.
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Nope, they’re not. But I’m ready for them. Really, I always have to be ready. Sad but true.
Thank you.
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🤗💞
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Oh, I am so sorry to read this update Tre, but I pray things will be better soon.🙏
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Thank you kindly. I believe they will. 🙏🏾🩵
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That’s good because you know who’s got this!!
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YUP!
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That is awful, Tre. I pray with you that your company will do the right thing to get you placed where you want to be. 🙏🙏
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Thank you. If all goes well, I’ll stay onsite with the location where I perform tests but I will no longer be employed with the organization for whom I conduct genetic testing. So I will do something different but will remain at that site.
I believe all will be well. I feel at ease and calm and I am not worried.
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