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I remember when I landed a gig in college. On my first day at work, the boss placed a stopwatch over my neck and set it for 30 minutes when I took my lunch break. I was 21 and it both humiliated and radicalized me. #NationalBossDay
The incident deepened my understanding of the cross section between racism and capitalism. There was something perfect and tragic about this white lady placing a rope around my neck in the name of productivity, profit.
I'll never forget how she didn't say a word as she did it, how she didn't make eye contact after it was done. She just expected me to know my place. If I were the person I am now, I would have taken lunch and never returned. But I needed to pay rent and had no financial security.
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On #nationalbossday, I'll offer some tips, learned from a 25 year long mistake, by which I refer to my employment as Staff Counsel at Free Speech Advocates, as Litigation Counsel at Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, and from 19 years as Senior Counsel at @ACLJ.
First things first:

If your boss talks badly about EVERY SINGLE COLLEAGUE behind their backs, he's talking badly about you to them.

In 2012, when Jay #Sekulow was preparing to endorse Mittens Romney, he ordered the Washington DC office to absent themselves. He expressly stated
that he was afraid of what our office manager, Glinda Corbin, might say if a TV news camera would be put in her face.

No wonder.

Sekulow and the Confederation of Dunces managing @ACLJ had once circulated a memorandum, when our $5Million office opened on Capitol Hill. T
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