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  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

    @Mik said in More tales from vacationland:

    You work with idiots.

    Yeah, but they're so dumb it's hard to diagnose which kind.

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    @Aqua-Letifer said in More tales from vacationland:

    @Mik said in More tales from vacationland:

    You work with idiots.

    Yeah, but they're so dumb it's hard to diagnose which kind.

    Well a few weeks ago I'd say it was a pretty clear diagnosis of Covidiocy. Now it seems like it's General Idiocy, which is far harder to cure.

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    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

      Oh, here's another fun one: we started up this ad-hoc task force with another organization. Has 5 members, of which my boss is one. By the way, he was born in Germany.

      During the first virtual meeting, when introductions were made, a woman from the other org asked my boss, "so you're their resident Kraut, right? You're the Kraut?"

      Awkward laughter.

      Then she showed some WWII photos of Poland on the webcam. I shit you not, she said, "you see this? That's what you destroyed, That's what we all had to build back up."

      Laughter and a polite suggestion that that might not be very appropriate.

      He did tell HR about this. HR said they'll look into it. They of course have not and neither has anyone else.

      I keep telling him he needs to just quit.

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      @Aqua-Letifer said in More tales from vacationland:

      During the first virtual meeting, when introductions were made, a woman from the other org asked my boss, "so you're their resident Kraut, right? You're the Kraut?"
      Then she showed some WWII photos of Poland on the webcam. I shit you not, she said, "you see this? That's what you destroyed, That's what we all had to build back up."

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      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        @Aqua-Letifer said in More tales from vacationland:

        "so you're their resident Kraut, right? You're the Kraut?"

        Insert any other group, preferably with a racial overtone, and see what happens, amirite, spearchucker?

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          You should ask her point blank “are you the Polack? You the polack here?”

          And then point to pictures of Kielce or some equivalent massacre of Jews by polish citizens and ask her to account for it.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            And if she says her family was already in America show her clips of Mai Lai.

            Only non-witches get due process.

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              There are racists outside the USA.

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                Wow! 😲

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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                  You should ask her point blank “are you the Polack? You the polack here?”

                  And then point to pictures of Kielce or some equivalent massacre of Jews by polish citizens and ask her to account for it.

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                  @jon-nyc said in More tales from vacationland:

                  You should ask her point blank “are you the Polack? You the polack here?”

                  And then point to pictures of Kielce or some equivalent massacre of Jews by polish citizens and ask her to account for it.

                  Well, for crazy reasons, it was more about hatred for my boss's Germanic background; the Polish stuff was just a way to manifest it.

                  Think of the logistics, though: she had to print those images out ahead of time, before the meeting. And she'd never spoken to him before, but other people at our organization had. He doesn't have a German-sounding name.

                  So, somebody in our office "tipped her off." They had a conversation about my boss's background, and likely complained about it.

                  Please love yourself.

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                    It's like you work in bizarro world. Where I work everybody would bend over backwards to support the person.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                      At our place, we'd refuse to work with somebody external who behaved like that, and if she was internal she'd be spending large amounts of time with HR before you could say 'sensitivity training'.

                      If she went to that much trouble prior to the meeting, this stuff must rule her life to some extent.

                      I was only joking

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                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                        At our place, we'd refuse to work with somebody external who behaved like that, and if she was internal she'd be spending large amounts of time with HR before you could say 'sensitivity training'.

                        If she went to that much trouble prior to the meeting, this stuff must rule her life to some extent.

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                        @Doctor-Phibes said in More tales from vacationland:

                        if she was internal she'd be spending large amounts of time with HR before you could say 'sensitivity training'.

                        Our HR person once complained about how smelly Asians were. It's also been told to me by many that prior to my starting work, they fired someone on disability by removing her position and then hiring someone else with a different job title a month later. My understanding is that the woman was on maternity leave.

                        Please love yourself.

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                        • HoraceH Horace

                          It's like you work in bizarro world. Where I work everybody would bend over backwards to support the person.

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                          @Horace said in More tales from vacationland:

                          It's like you work in bizarro world. Where I work everybody would bend over backwards to support the person.

                          That's the way it is in normal, healthy organizations. I suspect they may be more difficult to come by near our nation's capital.

                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                            Unbelievable. Holy cow.

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                              There are some horrible companies out there. My SIL was let go whilst being treated for a serious illness, and then again when she asked for a reference as she was adopting a baby as they didn't want to give her the maternity leave.

                              I was only joking

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