If you’re a woman, and probably worse if you have brown skin, you don’t get the same options as the white guys here. I keep getting passed over for being our team leader even though I have been here longer than the last 3 who were put in charge. And I end up doing a ton of their work anyway, like scheduling meetings and making sure the work schedules are done or getting paperwork filed. But no, I am not ever in the running to be the leader…
I have asked and once my boss said it was because he didn’t think the guys in the team would answer to me so he didn’t think I was the right man (interviewee added air quotes) for the job. It gets you down because there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. Who cares if I quit? Who would ever say anything to him?