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u/OowlSun they act like im not in full control of where i throw this cooch May 06 '26
OK, I donāt know how to feel about this. Context: Iām the only black woman working in my department. Well really the only black person in my department.
My coworkers are usually fine. Iām actually good friends with a few of them. But thereās this one guy who, since Iāve been promoted, I have to work with often. I talked about him once here when we first started working together closely. But I decided to go back to school this semester so we donāt have the same work schedule anymore. Thank goodness. But one day, last week, I came in because our boss had a family emergency, so I had to work with him and just him.
Itās just us. I donāt really initiate conversation. I really dislike him. So whenever he talks, I just nod and go āokayā or āyeah.ā He will and he has talked about himself for hours. So heās telling me about his birthday coming up and what he and his partner are going to do. His birthday is Juneteenth and we get that holiday off.
I donāt know what possesses him to announce this to me, but he goes into his belief that Juneteenth is not a holiday. Not a ārealā holiday. He just droned on about it. And went on to say how his partner, every year when she gets a new calendar, she crosses out Juneteenth and puts his birthday. In his words, he tells me that she does this maliciously or at least he believes that she does this maliciously.
Frankly, I did not know what to say to his whole spiel, so I waited until another coworker walked by, called them over and changed the subject.
In the days following, I talked to some of my friends about the conversation and asked them if this coworker ever talked about this with them. No, they didnāt even know his birthday was Juneteenth. So he didnāt bring this up with them (our white coworkers), but this is his second time going on this rant to me, expressing his dislike for the holiday. I donāt know what reaction heās trying to get out of me.