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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Scared of sacking the "ethnically different" guy...I’m quite astonished at the stories on here. It’s a cracking QOTW methinks…
Anyway,
I have a good friend of mine that is a head caretaker for a primary school, and he has something like 4 or 5 people that are under his control. A couple of them are African.
I was over at his gaff one night, and he was stressing about work, and one of his staff being a bit of a lazy arse. He was showing me video footage that was burned on a CD-R, from the security cameras. Because, it clearly showed one of his staff openly dicking around at his job, and slacking off (various instances, such as spending excessive time on his mobile phone or playing Tetris on it or whatever, or very long smoke breaks, etc). He is sick to death of said person slacking off, and he has been disciplined. But, he is openly taking the piss and my mate is sick of his slacking off antics.
He wants to sack him, but he is scared of giving him the chop due to him being African. For this character will start quoting racism, and quoted discrimination and being targeted upon. My mate says he uses this to his convenience, and acts as if he doesn’t understand too well. But, as my mate says, “He’s very quick to understand and let all hell break loose because he has had pay docked for slacking though”. So, my mate is stuck with someone that is shite at their job, openly taking the piss, being a thorn in his side because they’ll quote the racism card.
What sort of society are we living in, where the employer is scared of sacking someone because they are of a different ethnic background?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:22, 5 replies)
As long as he hasthe security camera evidence of said slacking there shouldn't be any worries of the "race card" making a difference. Slacking knows no color...or something.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:28, closed)
Yes.Make copies of the tapes and the disciplin reports and get them passed on up to higher managment, also keep copies to send to the Union/Equal Rights/anyone he tried to complain to. Remove every single leg he's got to stand on and watch him fall.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:52,
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"I’m quite astonished at the stories on here."Any other QotW, people take it as read that a goodly proportion of the stories, particularly the astonishing ones, are made up, exaggerated, retold as happening to the person when in fact they vaguely remember reading it somewhere, etc
For some reason, make it about 'PC gone mad' and all powers of discrimination and analysis for plausibility/being-debunked-somewhere-else vanish. Why are people so willing to believe that these stories are true?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:17, closed)
Not quite...I reckon a fair quantity of these posts are true stories, and not over exaggerated at all personally.
The instance quoted here is perfectly real, I don't feel a need to dramatise it at all. But, make of it what you will. Meh.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:07, closed)
If the story *is* real......then there's no PC angle, just your mate being an idiot.
As mentioned above, if he has the evidence available, there is no way he could possibly get into trouble for firing the guy.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 14:37, closed)
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