The Dangers of a Single Story...

So... I work for the Office of Student Life, Sorority and Fraternity Life division. I have been working here for almost 3 years now. I have 3 supervisors when I first started. Around my second year of me working there one of my supervisors left to go to Law School and we got a new one. I have always been skeptical of people I don't know and I didn't see a reason not to be skeptical now. I didn't really give the new lady a chance and that wasn't fair. She did a lot of things differently and at the time I didn't think she was as cool as my past supervisor. We were very close and I knew it would be hard to find a work relationship that I had with my other supervisors in a brand new person. I know this isn't the ideal situation, but I think it's important to know that often times we can create our own first impression. I know that our preconceived notions can cause biases that cause other people to act out of the ordinary. We can make people feel so uncomfortable without intent, but it can have a huge impact.