Revealing Hidden Barriers through Stories
Racial jokes offend him too.
Name: Brian Cooper*
Title: Business Technology Analyst
Status: Married, one child
Age: 27
Brian is the kind of guy that every one loves to be around. Fun, outgoing, smart -just a great guy to know. It's no wonder he's constantly invited to ball games and rounds of golf with the management team. Though he loves to hang out with his co-workers in social settings, he is often uncomfortable when people use this time to share inappropriate jokes or stories. Brian sometimes worries what his co-workers will say when they meet his wife and find out that she is African-American.
*Brian Cooper is a composite of many people we've met in our own lives. Can you relate? Are you an insider but feel like an outsider because of the comments some of your co-workers make?
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