How do we bridge the “anxiety gap” at work? | Erica Joy Baker | TED Institute
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2017
- When was the last time you felt like an outsider? Now imagine if you felt that way every time you entered your workplace. This is what many women and people of color feel every day at work, especially in the tech industry -- they have to overcome the anxiety of being treated like an outsider before they can do the work they were actually hired to do. This isn’t good for company morale or productivity. So what can employers do about it? Erica Joy Baker shares her first hand experience with overcoming the “anxiety gap” and advice on how to close it.
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I have this problem at work at most jobs that I’ve worked at. I have disabilities and I am treated as if I am a liar, lazy and that I have either an attitude or that I’m abusing situations. It makes working SO HARD. I don’t know what to do because I work from home now it just sucks sometimes and I don’t have anyone to talk to about it. I want to push forward in my career but I’m never given the chance and it hurts.
Do you think it would have been better if you could go to the office?
@@shantanupathak6701 This was happening in the office as well.
I get this.
What I'm going through now 😢
Sistah, you are telling the truth. To live it is to know and walk in your truth. Life experience for WE is different. May your Ancestors continue to strengthen you. 🎉❤
I’m super outgoing to strangers. It’s safe. Not at work. I’ve been labeled, ostracized, bullied…you name it. People are their worst at work. I’ve had bad anxiety since a child. If people sense that in a “survival” work environment…they pounce.
At Church..best foot forward…be a Christian. At work…..compete…fear someone may get your job… need to fit in breeds pack mentality…work brings out animal instincts at their worst. That made me develop “work” social anxiety. Going into my new job soon, I’m scared my work anxiety will ruin it for me.
F u racism
...so this is why they make you sign an agreement to attend every one else's talks...
What happened is that maybe they were really worried about being able to be themselves around you...
Your defensive attempt to deflect doesn’t work. Do not try to dismiss others because their experiences makes you feel uncomfortable in some way.
Why is that unapologetically and publically racist person allowed to be at such high positions at Github? Have you seen her tweets? What a disgrace!