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)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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How To Reduce An Entire Department To Hysterics...It's quiet in the IT room, like an ancient tomb except the clatter of 15 keyboards. My boss comes over...
Boss: "Thanks for the chat and e-mail Jamie. There should be something we can work with there. If nothing else I'm sure we can make a special arrangement for you."
*keyboards get quieter in case there's some gossip coming"
Me *turns the volume up slightly*: "That sounds good - I did go to a special school in a special bus. The windows must have been sugar coated 'cos people kept licking them"
*5 second pause then all 15 staff start giggling hysterically*
Boss: "You are so wrong on so many levels!"
A well placed window licking joke can work wonders for morale :)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:35, Reply)
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