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[RustyNails]

Me, her (lets call her L) and another coworker (lets call him R) were in a meeting. L is a 50 something from northern Michigan. After working for a bit, L started talking about her daughter. It was not unusual. You want to lighten the mood/pressure from work every now and then. Her daughter started dating someone from Europe. Me and R were like Good for her etc.

And then it comes, "My mom has two cardinal rules on dating: No blacks and and no Jews!". Me and R stare at each other with our eyes widened and mouh agape for a good 10 seconds. She thinks its funny and continues on "Hey you gotta be careful who you let in your family!" Now R is an indirect manager. He gets up and excuses himself out and informs the higher ups. I tell L she shouldnt say things like that, and that she is wrong when she groups people like that and think all of them are bad for her daughter. She says that as a parent she has a right over who her daughter is dating and she doesn't want "Jive talking guy from the south side (Chicago) hanging around with her daughter!". I tell her she shouldnt judge people like that and that its racist. She is oblivious to how screwed up she is, both mentally and job-wise.

Anyway, the HR are on it and I spoke to them.

 

[Bgamer90]

You did the right thing.

 

[Prologue]

 

[Cuphead]

I would be the only employee if my co workers/bosses were fired for racist comments.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

So she wasn't joking, and continued to be an idiot out in the open.

Fuck her.

 

[Xenex]

L deserves all she gets.

 

[Manmademan]

So she wasn't joking, and continue to be an idiot out in the open.

Fuck her.

Pretty much this. Sayonara, racist lady

 

[Indrid Cold1]

She can hold that L.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Being from northern Michigan, I can even hear her say that.
We're pretty isolated and ignorant of the world up there.

 

[jordan0386]

She had shitty parents.

 

[Sir Abacus]

And then it comes, "My mom has two cardinal rules on dating: No blacks and and no Jews!".

I'm as pure bred WASP as you get and if I followed that rule I wouldn't be married.

Spoiler

*sigh* No mum you don't send the great nieces-in-law easter coloring books.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

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Fuck her and people who think like her.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

Good on you, OP.

I work with a woman from NY who has zero filter and awful sarcasm. We were meeting about a couple of the residents in a nursing home and one of the residents was having problems with dandruff and staff wanted to have something ordered to help.

Now, about 75% of our employees are Black and most of our female residents are Black as well. The group home manager is also Black. This woman is white and deep into middle age.

She says bluntly, "Well why don't we just give her some Crisco?" She tries to laugh it off and goes as far as to explain the "joke" to the home manager who just nods silently avoiding eye contact.

While I wanted to say something along the lines of "that's really uncalled for" but I haven't been there long and the situation was awkward enough.

Still, people need to have some sort of filter when they're at work, especially when it comes to race, religion, and politics.

 

[speculawyer]

"My mom has two cardinal rules on dating: No blacks and and no Jews!"

Who says something like that in 2014?

 

[reptilescorpio]

She can hold that L.

Yup. Not cool.

 

[Lord Thrappleper The 49th]

L deserves all she gets.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Goodbye employment.

 

[RustyNails]

Good on you, OP.

I work with a woman from NY who has zero filter and awful sarcasm. We were meeting about a couple of the residents in a nursing home and one of the residents was having problems with dandruff and staff wanted to have something ordered to help.

Now, about 75% of our employees are Black and most of our female residents are Black as well. The group home manager is also Black. This woman is white and deep into middle age.

She says bluntly, "Well why don't we just give her some Crisco?" She tries to laugh it off and goes as far as to explain the "joke" to the home manager who just nods silently avoiding eye contact.

While I wanted to say something along the lines of "that's really uncalled for" but I haven't been there long and the situation was awkward enough.

Still, people need to have some sort of filter when they're at work, especially when it comes to race, religion, and politics.

This is nuts. You know what's nuttier? Our direct boss is a Jew. L knows that as well.

 

[Fatalah]

Google should hire a new ad agency for Android L.

 

[uncredited male]

I didn't even know jive was still used as a word like that.

 

[Kinyou]

At first I thought she made a joke. What a nutjob.

 

[Lord Fagan]

Modern offices typically don't dick around with harassment training. The risk of lawsuit is just too great.

I'll bet bottom dollar that she saw the video, and took the test afterward.

I simply cannot believe that she didn't know there would be consequences for this kind of commentary. This wasn't happy hour. It was a meeting during office hours onsite.

Hope those principles can pay her rent and keep food on her table.

 

[Agnostic]

I don't understand people who can't keep shitty opinions to themselves at work. I would be fired from every job in the first week if I said the shit in my head out loud.

 

[maquiladora]

Fingers crossed she does get fired.

 

[Philia]

Fingers crossed she does get fired.

Not just fired but to seriously acknowledge the consequences of her racist comment and logic. I'm betting no. :\ She'll just think up some other reason that could had gotten her fired.

 

[rtcn63]

I didn't even know jive was still used as a word like that.

In the past decade, I've only heard it with the words "jump and" or "turkey" attached.

 

[Gamerloid]

Sad, her mother's rule completely poisoned her mind. She even believes she has a say on who her children can date. I wouldn't want to work with someone like that. Hopefully she's gone.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

If she said "No Europeans" we're all ok with that right?

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Sad, her mother's rule completely poisoned her mind. She even believes she has a say on who her children can date. I wouldn't want to work with someone like that. Hopefully she's gone.

She's a grown women in 2014, she has made this choice.

 

[riotous]

Twist: You work with Mel Gibson's daughter?

 

[studyguy]

L for sure lmao.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Who says something like that in 2014?

You'd be surprised. A lot of ignorant assholes exist.

 

[PAULINK]

Her kid is probably going to grow up with the same shit

 

[Makai]

I seriously thought she was joking at first. I think I've only heard that in a joking context.

 

[Hale-XF11]

L secretly wants the B D.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

L eh?

 

[BPoole]

She shouldn't say that but she should not lose her job over it

 

[nateeasy]

You know what snitches get?

 

[Ferrio]

So what's the point in firing her? What does it accomplish?

 

[Lord Fagan]

She shouldn't say that but she should not lose her job over it

You're half right. She's a hostile work environment lawsuit waiting to happen. Management is irresponsible to the organization and the workforce to let that kind of shit slide.

 

[royalan]

Nope. Shouldn't be tolerated. No excuse.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

So what's the point in firing her?

None, really. Her freedom-loving husk is naught but more cordwood for the fire of poisoned self-righteousness that all liberals warm their bodies by, like the reptile-people they are.












seriously though, the point is to rid the workplace of unacceptable behavior. Telling people at a meeting that you believe jews and black people are of a lesser form of humanity, one you wouldn't permit your child to marry, is pretty unacceptable. Firing her means that influence is no longer in the workplace.

 

[nitewulf]

so what, why is this news?

 

[Gamerloid]

She's a grown women in 2014, she has made this choice.

Oh, I understand that. What I find sad is that she grew up never realizing how messed up that train of thought is. She's completely out of it.

 

[uncredited male]

So what's the point in firing her? What does it accomplish?

It fosters a new bumper crop of racists ready to blame their misfortunes on 'those" people.

I think there is a quota or something.

 

[DigitalDevilSummoner]

Man, I wouldn't wanna work with a guy like you. You ratted her out and seriously trying to cost her job because of something silly as this ?

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

If she had stopped with the grandma bit, even I would have laughed it off. But she doubled down into that "no really, I don't like jigs and jews" nonsense and signed her own pink slip.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Man, I wouldn't wanna work with a guy like you.

Why, do you normally blurt out '50s-era baldfaced racism in the workplace?

If she had stopped with the grandma bit, even I would have laughed it off. But she doubled down into that "no really, I don't like jigs and jews" nonsense and signed her own pink slip.

Yeah, in reading the story, it really sounded like that was the moment where she realized she'd let a corner peek out from underneath the facade, and in a split second, decided to justify it full-blast instead of trying to tuck it back into the facade.

 

[Ferrio]

None, really. Her freedom-loving husk is naught but more cordwood for the fire of poisoned self-righteousness that all liberals warm their bodies by, like the reptile-people they are.


seriously though, the point is to rid the workplace of unacceptable behavior. Telling people at a meeting that you believe jews and black people are of a lesser form of humanity, one you wouldn't permit your child to marry, is pretty unacceptable. Firing her means that influence is no longer in the workplace.

Then you let her off on a warning.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Then you let her off on a warning.

That's terrible management.

You sacrifice her and her shit people skills and her stunning lack of judgment so that you don't end up keeping someone most co-workers are going to inherently distrust (provided you've hired decent people) while simultaneously undermining your own authority by inviting anyone with self-respect to second guess your decisionmaking abilities.