The issues that I have faced with biases, have unfortunately come from people with similar social identities as mine. I thought that people would actually be happy to see me promoted to a better position, but it became clear that for many, it became a way to place blame and put things off on. It made me feel very uncomfortable and angry that a person would try to underhandedly go about putting things on me instead of just coming to me and explain how things were supposed to be done or how they needed things done to be effective. I could have respected that more than going behind my back to make themselves look better. My focus was on providing better quality services for the children and families that we serve, and reaching the population we were set up to serve. The other person's focus seemed to be on passing her work on to others and blaming others for issues she should have addressed.
These factors led to my current supervisor asking me to come over permanently to join her team at another site and the woman was later let go from that position. By her trying to justify the unfair ways in which she addressed issues, she was the one who ended up losing her job instead of making me look bad. I think that the way I handled myself and the fact that I had a supervisor who saw and heard what was going on in the background helped make the opportunity better for me.
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