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[quote=Anonymous]My read on this is that OP is working on autopilot. She doesn’t adequately prepare for her interviews/meetings because she feels like she doesn’t need to after 20 years of doing this as a business owner. She was unprepared for the interview and relied on who spoke the most during the interview and didn’t moderate the discussion well when there was one person who was not as vocal as the other person. She may have even been annoyed at the soft spoken person, because she was so soft spoken or inarticulate, especially when they spoke over each other, causing OP to make her strange double negative statement.

When OP was writing her piece, she worked with what she had and saw that she had more material from the loud man. Instead of reaching back out to the Asian woman, she smugly said to herself, “Well, this is what I have and I’m going with it. She should have spoken up more if she wanted more quotes in the piece.”

After seeing the piece, the lead author and the university came back to OP and called her out on the lop-sidedness of the piece. However, instead of criticizing her interviewing and writing skills, they mistakenly blamed the poor execution on racism. OP knows she could have done a better job with the piece if she had taken extra steps to include more from the lead author and feels embarrassed about the poor quality of the work, but also feels unjustly accused of racism. OP doesn’t understand that she may have biases that resulted in the way she handled the interview and writing because “some of her best friends are Asian.” Instead of owning up to the poor work product, she cried and now wants to figure out how to clear her name of the racism accusation. She still doesn’t understand that maybe she’s not as good at her job as she thought she was.

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