Why are people so sensitive?

[Guest The Three Lions]

We have a new lass in our company who used to go out with a jewish boyfriend, she works on my team. She's canny enough but she's doing my head in now.

 

We have a message system like msn, and I've been helping her with gas engineers, contracts managers and directors, helping her understand what constitutes a good one and a bad ones we can promote to clients. So I gave her a really good gas engineer to do a write up for, she comes back at me "he has no gas experience", I said "look at his CV for fuck sake, are you radge, he's got more gas experience than the krauts in the early 40's". Now as soon as I said it I thought well slightly tasteless but meant in good terms, just a laugh, she comes back at me saying her ex boyfriend was jewish blah blah blah, that was yesterday and she's still going on about it today. I wasn't being racist, it was just an off the cuff comment. Fuckin PC has this country ravaged.

[ewerk 31230]

Not so much about being PC but making a bad taste joke to a new work colleague is rarely a good idea. Just hope she doesn't put a complaint in.

[Happy Face 29]

Didn't they use pellets?

[Guest alex]

I always had you down as a sensitive guy. Look at all the love songs in 'What are you listening to?'

Anyway, you'd think it would be funnier seeing as it was her ex. Personally I think it's a case of being a pain in the arse rather than being 'sensitive'. I.e. I bet she's just likes a whinge.

[Guest The Three Lions]

Not so much about being PC but making a bad taste joke to a new work colleague is rarely a good idea. Just hope she doesn't put a complaint in.

That's what I'm concerned about tbh. It was just a bit of crack though.

[Guest The Three Lions]

I always had you down as a sensitive guy. Look at all the love songs in 'What are you listening to?'

Anyway, you'd think it would be funnier seeing as it was her ex. Personally I think it's a case of being a pain in the arse rather than being 'sensitive'. I.e. I bet she's just likes a whinge.

She's canny but she does moan a lot, bit like a lot of lasses really. I don't think she'll put a complaint in, but there's the chance she might.

[Renton 22025]

Made up story imo.

[Andrew 4880]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

[Guest alex]

Made up story imo.

[Guest The Three Lions]

Made up story imo.

Why would I waste my time? What a cunt of a kid you are. I was just highlighting how over emotive people can cause you worry when you become tongue loose.

[Guest The Three Lions]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

Well once you've built "rapport" you expect banter.

[Guest alex]

Made up story imo.

Why would I waste my time? What a cunt of a kid you are. I was just highlighting how over emotive people can cause you worry when you become tongue loose.

Have you met Mr. Kettle?

[ewerk 31230]

Not so much about being PC but making a bad taste joke to a new work colleague is rarely a good idea. Just hope she doesn't put a complaint in.

That's what I'm concerned about tbh. It was just a bit of crack though.

 

Aye, I've learnt the hard way that what I may deem to be crack, others don't. Like it or not, there are arseholes out there who are overly sensitive and until employers/tribunals tell them to dry their eyes then you just have to be sure that someone is on your wavelength before getting risque.

 

Edit: I've also found there are a lot more overly-sensitive people in England than over here.

Edited June 10, 2010 by ewerk

[Guest alex]

If you want my advice Stevie, just watch what you stick in emails, because it's on record, as it were.

[Park Life 71]

Totally harmless craic tbh. Bring a pink star into work tomorrow.

[Andrew 4880]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

Well once you've built "rapport" you expect banter.

 

yeh of course but how new is she? a bit of polite conversation to making holocaust jokes is a bit of a lurch

[Renton 22025]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

Well once you've built "rapport" you expect banter.

 

You said she was new. Which is why the story just doesn't ring true. Nobody says stuff like that except with people they know well enough to know they're very unlikely to take offence.

 

I reckon its all an act on here with you Stevie tbh. Not saying that's a bad thing like, you're entertaining enough usually.

[ewerk 31230]

If you want my advice Stevie, just watch what you stick in emails, because it's on record, as it were.

 

As my company is learning the hard way at the moment, off the cuff comments sound a bit more serious when they're being read out in court and reported on the front page of the Irish News.

Edited June 10, 2010 by ewerk

[Guest The Three Lions]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

Well once you've built "rapport" you expect banter.

 

You said she was new. Which is why the story just doesn't ring true. Nobody says stuff like that except with people they know well enough to know they're very unlikely to take offence.

 

I reckon its all an act on here with you Stevie tbh. Not saying that's a bad thing like, you're entertaining enough usually.

I work from home most of the time, and in London at two/three week intervals, as I only came back from London 12 days ago after a stint, I only met her 4 weeks ago, but she's been with the company 8 weeks. Got on really well with her, she took the piss out of me and me her, general banter, but she's got emotional about this comment. Whether it rings true to a paracetomol mixer like you is inconsequential to me, a waste of finger cells for you.

[Park Life 71]

Didn't read the op properly, never and I mean NEVER make jokes via e mail. These days everyone is so fukin robotised with standardised thinking and scratch and sniff reactions it really isn't worth it. Banter by the water cooler or while you're picking up a coffee you can get away with as people forget stuff after a day or two, but never write shit down.

[Andrew 4880]

If you want my advice Stevie, just watch what you stick in emails, because it's on record, as it were.

 

As my company is learning the hard way at the moment, off the cuff comments sound a bit more serious when they're being read out in court and reported on the front page of the Irish News.

that sounds...bad

 

Id be remiss if I didnt ask what was said?

[Southern Geordie 1]

I almost had this sort of situation (but not as bad) where I was knocking about with this new Chinese girl on my IT course at uni. Saw this rather fat bloke and without thinking said to her "blimey, he's got more chins than a....."

 

She probably wouldn't have been that offended but was such a David Brent moment when I had to stop myself mid sentence.

[Renton 22025]

I actually cringed when I read that

 

I wouldve laughed but a bit of common sense wouldve stopped you saying that at work to a new colleague

Well once you've built "rapport" you expect banter.

 

You said she was new. Which is why the story just doesn't ring true. Nobody says stuff like that except with people they know well enough to know they're very unlikely to take offence.

 

I reckon its all an act on here with you Stevie tbh. Not saying that's a bad thing like, you're entertaining enough usually.

I work from home most of the time, and in London at two/three week intervals, as I only came back from London 12 days ago after a stint, I only met her 4 weeks ago, but she's been with the company 8 weeks. Got on really well with her, she took the piss out of me and me her, general banter, but she's got emotional about this comment. Whether it rings true to a paracetomol mixer like you is inconsequential to me, a waste of finger cells for you.

 

Really? You're coming across as a bit over sensitive.

[Happy Face 29]

I think there's enough distance to joke about it without repercussion now like....unless her ex-lad was actually there.

 

 

A St. Paul teacher is under fire after she made an offensive joke about the Holocaust.

 

According to Hazel Park Middle School Academy officials, the 8th grade English teacher sent an e-mail titled ‘Torture Time!’ via interoffice mail to alert other employees about a Holocaust simulation she was planning for her class next week.

 

In it, she wrote the Feb. 13 exercise was going to be a ‘day of sheer pleasure for the staff being themselves as Nazi Officers and becoming Adolfs.’

 

“She was trying to be sarcastic and amusing,” said the school’s principal Coleman McDonough.

 

It further explained the students would wear yellow stars, similar to those Jewish people were forced to wear by Nazi Germany during World War II.

 

The e-mail stated the reason for the simulation was to give ’staff need[ed] stress relief and entertainment.’

 

http://www.bagofnothing.com/2009/02/teache...holocaust-joke/

 

[Andrew 4880]

I almost had this sort of situation (but not as bad) where I was knocking about with this new Chinese girl on my IT course at uni. Saw this rather fat bloke and without thinking said to her "blimey, he's got more chins than a....."

 

She probably wouldn't have been that offended but was such a David Brent moment when I had to stop myself mid sentence.

 

see youve got to know the limits for who you're with, ive got a friend who is chinese and we joke about it a lot but we can because we know he doesnt mind its just part of our banter but Id never say half the crap I give him to someone at work or a new friend