PrioryRoad
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- May 20, 2008
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Report him to my boss?
Report him anonymously (via letter)?
Confront him personally?
Do nothing?
PS - he is a supervisor.
DRY BUM HIS MUM.
Report him to my boss?
Report him anonymously (via letter)?
Confront him personally?
Do nothing?
PS - he is a supervisor.
He constantly uses racist language, and has some fairly vile views. He isn't racially abusing anyone, although there are no black or asian people in my office.
Tell him your wife's black. That usually brings them out in a lovely shade of crimson and it'll put him in his place.
He constantly uses racist language, and has some fairly vile views. He isn't racially abusing anyone, although there are no black or asian people in my office.
Why not just tell him to stop making those bone-headed comments because it's really starting to piss you off?
ps Did you see what I did there?
He constantly uses racist language, and has some fairly vile views. He isn't racially abusing anyone, although there are no black or asian people in my office.
It might be better to attack it incognito if there is a risk that you might end up being seen as 'the office grass'.
He constantly uses racist language, and has some fairly vile views. He isn't racially abusing anyone, although there are no black or asian people in my office.
Thats part of the problem. I f***ing hate corporate back-stabbing and "grassing" at work. I despise that kind of one-upmanship in the work place. However, I don't think I can listen to someone going on about "wogs" and "nips" much longer...
Usual story. Thinks he's got permission by assuming that everyone around him is in his 'club' because of shared skin colour. They usually go all meek and mild if a different colour face appears on the scene though ( I've witnessed this on building sites before )
I don't understand. Why would it be my problem that someone else is racist? Please explain yourself.
I did something similar at the Goldstone, there was a bloke running the lines in front of the East Terrace who had very short arms and may or may not have been a thalidomide victim...for those of you too young to remember what that was, it was a drug given to pregnant women that sometimes damaged the unborn foetus and resulted in a child being born with either very short arms/legs or both. Anyway, there were three people (two men and a woman) stood in front of me who were making endless abusive comments about the linesman, it was really starting to hack me off. All I did was tap the woman on the shoulder and tell her that said linesman was my uncle, haven't a clue why I did it as it was an outrageous lie, but she shut up immediately and I didn't hear a peep out of any of them for the rest of the match.
God, I get that at work all the time. People will quite cheerfully assume you share their views on "pakis", "darkies" or (God forbid, I did hear this once) "spear chuckers", and reel off the old anecdotes on the basis that you too are white, therefore will automatically share their views.
In my place of work, there would be an expectation that such behaviour would be challenged by others, the implication being that if you don't do so, then you are compliant by association.
Frankly, I don't see the issue with raising it with him. You don't have to be part of an ethnic minority to be offended by that kind of thing- and lets face it, if a black or Asian employee felt victimised by it, they'd have to take it seriously. It shouldn't be any different for you. He's the one living in the 1970s, after all.
Just that you hadn't elaborated on why you thought he was racist. I was just wondering if you were seeing something that really wasn't there.
Seems like the guy has his opinions that you don't agree with but he isn't abusing anyone one in the office is he.
I would do that if I felt it would make a difference. I think he would just laugh it off.
God, I get that at work all the time. People will quite cheerfully assume you share their views on "pakis", "darkies" or (God forbid, I did hear this once) "spear chuckers", and reel off the old anecdotes on the basis that you too are white, therefore will automatically share their views.
In my place of work, there would be an expectation that such behaviour would be challenged by others, the implication being that if you don't do so, then you are compliant by association.
Frankly, I don't see the issue with raising it with him. You don't have to be part of an ethnic minority to be offended by that kind of thing- and lets face it, if a black or Asian employee felt victimised by it, they'd have to take it seriously. It shouldn't be any different for you. He's the one living in the 1970s, after all.
Just that you hadn't elaborated on why you thought he was racist. I was just wondering if you were seeing something that really wasn't there.
Seems like the guy has his opinions that you don't agree with but he isn't abusing anyone one in the office is he.