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When To Get Out
They said I was too friendly
and too mean
and both were unprofessional
They said I didn't wear enough clothes
and I wore too much
and neither was the right look for the job
They said I was too worried about being first
and then I wasn't fast enough
and there was no middle
They hired me to communicate
and told me I talked too much
yet I wasn't given a chance to state my side, my opinion, my view
They said I needed to mature, needed more experience
But they said they expected more from me than ones that had been there for 25 years because of my background
so I did everything I could
They said I wasn't the right fit
and this time I knew why
they'd called it "the piping" in the past
He said he'd never managed a woman before
And I knew the translation
He wasn't going to manage a woman anymore
Because he'd made the distinction
The discrimination
I was a female
in a man's world
and they'd say anything
to get me out.
