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May. 20th, 2014
Multicultural Awareness Week
May. 20th, 2014 09:50 pmIt's Multicultural Awareness Week at Teranerd. The company shows its Midwestern cred by celebrating with a potluck tomorrow. My Polish co-worker told me not to bring a Greek salad. "Everybody always brings Greek salad," my Cameroonian co-worker agreed.
Teranerd likes being multicultural. It matters to them. They make a big deal of it in the training. The guy who gave the diversity presentation to the new hires said to us, with a great big grin, "And you get to be part of all this awesomeness!"
Teranerd is, undeniably, a little bit corny. But I have to say this about working in this environment: I had never quite noticed how I was always waiting for every new co-worker to say something horribly bigoted until I realized that I wasn't doing it here.
Teranerd likes being multicultural. It matters to them. They make a big deal of it in the training. The guy who gave the diversity presentation to the new hires said to us, with a great big grin, "And you get to be part of all this awesomeness!"
Teranerd is, undeniably, a little bit corny. But I have to say this about working in this environment: I had never quite noticed how I was always waiting for every new co-worker to say something horribly bigoted until I realized that I wasn't doing it here.