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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Fire escape madnessWhen my old office was converted into its current form, the powers that be removed the external fire escape because it was metal, uncovered and could therefore be slippery if wet. Fair enough. But what did they replace it with?
Nothing.
They blocked up the exit, so if there was a fire we had only one route out. Now personally, I'd rather take my chances going down a slippery fire escape than being burned alive.
But I suppose that if I had been burned to death I couldn't have sued, whereas if I'd survived the fire, but fallen on the slippery steps and hurt myself....
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:42,
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U MAPPIT!Thats not PC gone mad, that Helf and Saftey gone mad innit?
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^^^ What he saidI'm hoping that the H&S Gone MAd is the QOTW. Followed by petty beauracracy gone mad the week after.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 18:36,
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Its kind of funny...Now, im not sure where you are from...but working in the field of fire inspection, using US Codes I can tell you this much,... the exterior fire escapes are no longer up to code ones rennovation or new construction had been started on a building. However, all rennovated or new construction buildings requires 2 "paths of egress" in case of fire. So, in a smart money saving effort you company has removed a glaringly obvious code violation, and replaced it with one not many will think of.
Apparently it is safe for us firefighters to carry tools up ladders covered in ice during the annual winter fire season.... but the people must be protected from the horrors of slipping...which apparently are more painful, and detrimental to life... than fire. I love safety engineers.
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Yeah, I knowNot really PC gone mad at all.
But I was bored today at work.
And I would have thought two egress routes (one slightly dodgy) would be better than only one. But I'm not an HSE bureaucrat.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 21:48,
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I_live_in_AntarticaAre you really a firefighter?
*goes weak at knees*
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 22:15,
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YesI certainly am.
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