Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
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Photographic FraudThe last company I worked for was part of a huge evil empire that attempts to run trains and buses (for the purposes of this entry, lets say they're called 'SecondGroup').
Anyhew - having just joined the company, we were sent to HQ for a 'welcome to the company' chat with the bigwigs. During the day of pointless powerpoint slides and corporate videos, someone pointed out that every person in the photos used on the slides was either black, asian or female.
"It's representative of our workforce" said the HR bod.
Looking around the room, all I saw were 11 other white males, between the ages of 21 and 40. Hmmm. Not really representative enough then...
The last part of the day was a group photo with the head guy himself. Having looked at the group, the HR idiot decided that we weren't 'diverse' enough - so three platform assistants were called up, along with one of the young ladies from the office in an effort to make us look more 'multi-cultural'.
Human Resources Department = misguided fools - didn't anyone tell them about photoshop?
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:10,
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Those who can't teachThose who can't teach go into HR.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 15:31,
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