mourning, work, affiliation
Oct. 8th, 2021 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiMy boss, his boss, and his boss (all with whom I'm on a first name basis) sent me gift basket to mark their acknowledgement of the loss of Janiene. My company has been very understanding about my need to be out to care for her during home hospice, and now that she's gone. I've said semi-jokingly that I feel like I'm working for Hank Scorpio; my company may not make the most socially responsible decisions about how they create and broadcast content, but fuck if they don't go out of their way to take care of their people.
"Their people", I suspect, comes with caveats. I don't know how much of this upper management (up to at least the SVP level) affiliation has to do with becoming "one of theirs", one for whom allowances are made and ranks are closed (to an extent). Part of me wonders to what extent it's boosted by the assumption that I'm white/cis/het: it makes me being a manager among managers more understandable, I suspect.
But all that aside, it's nice to have space, even if I decry others not also having space.
"Their people", I suspect, comes with caveats. I don't know how much of this upper management (up to at least the SVP level) affiliation has to do with becoming "one of theirs", one for whom allowances are made and ranks are closed (to an extent). Part of me wonders to what extent it's boosted by the assumption that I'm white/cis/het: it makes me being a manager among managers more understandable, I suspect.
But all that aside, it's nice to have space, even if I decry others not also having space.
