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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An equal opportunities employer...Working in IT I'm more than concious that predominently (but not exclusively!) is an industry staffed by white males, probably closely followed by Asian males.
In fact of the probably circa 200 - 400 colleagues I've worked with in IT over the years you could count the women on your fingers.
Anyway, whilst working for the Open University my colleague put in his notice when the big bucks beckoned from the real world. After adverts etc had been done interview day came around, always a laugh as we (being professionals) would sit the interviewee with their back to the glass wall in the interview room and then make gestures at the interviewer facing us in an attempt to make them laugh and put off the potential employee. yeah, nice i know!
Anyway the boss, a tall stern Scotsman, is grumpy and upon enquiring I'm told;
"It's been pointed out we're the only sub dept who don't have a woman on the staff!"...
Followed by words that I will remember forever more....
..."So now all we need is to interview a black one armed lesbian and we're home free!".
Genius. Sadly the boss dropped dead one morning and is greatly missed as the nicest boss I've ever had.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:56, 1 reply)
Mmmm..."the women on your fingers"
/drool
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:13, closed)
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