The help

Octavia Spencer won the Oscar for
Best Supporting Actress in The Help

In Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help (but not in the Academy Award-nominated movie based on it), the character Minny Jackson's mother told Minny when she was fourteen, "Sit down on your behind, Minny, because I'm about to tell you the rules for working in a White Lady's house."
    Rule Number One included the advice, "Don't go crying to White Lady with your problems. You can't pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don't want to hear about it." [p. 38]
    Like most of the while folks (not all of them) depicted in The Help, many employers (most? nearly all?) are not their employees' friends either. When push comes to shove, their employees, too, are just "the help."
    I'm coming to know this well.

Of course, I can't tell you about it right now.
    But there are only thirty more days until retirement.