There are white guys who can make politically incorrect jokes and get away with it...

...and then there are white guys with that special inflection and tone, who can't say "Anyone else think its too dark in here?" without causing gasps. I think I'm the latter

Today is my boss' birthday so our department was having cake in his office. Several small conversations going on around the room. The person next to me says something like "There's way too much icing on this cake. This sugar's going to make me crash!" and I say "Yea, diabetes here we come". Later on, my supervisor comes to my cube to admonish me. Apparently my comment offended an unnamed diabetic coworker. She said I need to be very careful not to make any more "un-PC comments", or she'll be forced to send me to sensitivity training.

8/17/2009 2:20:59 PM

you unsensitive bastard

8/17/2009 2:22:04 PM

[Edited on August 17, 2009 at 2:22 PM. Reason : BIGGAR]

8/17/2009 2:22:20 PM

I made a mormon comment to a guy at work once and found out about an hour later that there were 2 mormons in hearing distance.

8/17/2009 2:23:06 PM

I am always getting offended when people tell someone they are acting bipolar.

8/17/2009 2:26:37 PM

Diabeetus, Serious Business

8/17/2009 2:26:37 PM

That's ridiculous. You now have to start putting sugar in everything at the office. Even the water cooler.

8/17/2009 2:26:38 PM

I mean, if the truth is that eating those products causes diabetes, then there's nothing wrong with your statements.

Is saying, "You might not want to fuck that hooker over there because she has aids and both types of herpes son" insulting to people who were stupid enough to fuck the hooker and get aids and both types of herpes? If there happened to be a bystander that got aids through a blood transfusion, then they should know that you aren't saying they got aids from the hooker... You're simply warning others to avoid the hooker if they wish to avoid aids.

Same case here. If she has diabetes from eating too much cake, then your statement is not prejudiced or incorrect. If she has diabetes due to genetics, then she should know you aren't saying that all diabetics get diabetes from eating cakes... You're simply warning others to avoid the cake if they wish to avoid diabetes.

8/17/2009 2:26:39 PM

if you were getting into a car with 3 black guys would you say, "kfc here we come?"

8/17/2009 2:34:30 PM

sounds like your boss is an oversensitive bitch

8/17/2009 2:36:06 PM

Was it one of the Jonas brothers?

8/17/2009 2:37:19 PM

This is why you shoudl never hire women. A penny saved is a woman fired.

8/17/2009 2:38:48 PM

Show her this thread.


Also, I don't think that was un-PC.

8/17/2009 2:38:55 PM

sometimes I'm glad I work in a restaurant where un-PC comments are expected and laughed at.

8/17/2009 2:39:23 PM

Man, I really hate it when people say that "too dark" shit. Also hate it when I hear wait staff talking about "Canadians."

8/17/2009 2:39:49 PM

Is the person in question a fat fuck? If yes, then tell them that their fatness offends your eyes then kick them in the knee. Seriously, people in America need to learn to take it. Screw this sensitive crap. Yes, its sad that someone has some debilitating disease, but get over it, everyone has problems in life. learn to fucking live with it and move on. Be happy and not piss on others because others are happy.

8/17/2009 2:40:20 PM

With a proper diet and exercise, diabetes is hardly debilitating.

8/17/2009 2:41:31 PM

if they had a proper diet and exercise in the first place...

8/17/2009 2:42:48 PM

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"you unsensitive bastard"

8/17/2009 2:43:04 PM

someone will always complain about anything

8/17/2009 2:44:51 PM

What the hell is sensitivity training?

8/17/2009 2:48:47 PM

"There's way too much icing on this cake. This sugar's going to make me crash!" and I say "Yea, and get as fat as the queen of the sea-cows like Julie over there".

8/17/2009 2:49:27 PM

Busted for un-PC comment at work...
I was like "SHOULD'A GOT A MAC!!!"

8/17/2009 2:50:20 PM

"canadians"

we used to bitch about canadian tables all the time.

Those crazy canucks love some fried food. Love that sweet shit too.

8/17/2009 2:53:06 PM

that was supposed to be my power up pack, im scott malcomson, i have diabetes

8/17/2009 2:57:05 PM

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"malcomson"

8/17/2009 2:58:56 PM

two other girls and I got busted for telling a dirty joke (considered sexual harrassment of course) in the break room.

8/17/2009 3:02:26 PM

You guys need cooler offices. And office-mates.

The only time any of my colleagues got written up for inappropriate conduct, it was because my friend Stuart got on Betsy's email and wrote a love letter to another colleague on Betsy's behalf.

Whoops!

8/17/2009 3:04:57 PM

You have to actually post the dirty joke.

8/17/2009 3:05:43 PM

I have to admit, When I saw the title, I thought Lumex was caught looking at some porn magazine in the bathroom... lol

The office I worked for last year was awesome. I got written up one time because I made a cubical fort, complete with security camera's and motion detectors. lol

[Edited on August 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM. Reason : ]

8/17/2009 3:06:26 PM

I told the new girl in office today that I had some other useful tools if she needed them, this was right after she borrowed my scissors...

8/17/2009 3:10:33 PM

diabetes isn't a protected class, you can say whatever you want

but you're going to be forced into going to sensitivity training, lol

you should have responded that you, too, have diabetes and are offended that you can't make light of your condition. fuck that bitch

8/17/2009 3:17:16 PM

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"You have to actually post the dirty joke."

it was over a year ago, and i honestly don't remember the actual joke...but it involved anal sex

8/17/2009 3:19:21 PM

I work with a lot of middle-aged women, many of whom are somewhat chubby.


Oh damn, I did it again

8/17/2009 3:21:06 PM

ive been to a strip club with my boss.. pretty sure i could retire on that event alone, but thats not how i roll and we were drunk.

8/17/2009 3:22:13 PM

^ I would like to work with you.

8/17/2009 3:25:03 PM

I got a sexual harassment warning after this, so ghey...

Training a new woman at work. I can tell she is a uber-fem after a couple days. She brings it up at lunch, starts talking about her past, etc. She closes the convo with "Don't get me wrong, I like men and I like having breasts, haha..." and I replied "Yeah, I like them too", not thinking about what I said. She went straight to HR and I looked like a fool, lol.

8/17/2009 3:25:43 PM

^ I hope she got written up as well. Why the hell would she talk about her breasts at work and then point fingers at you? That's teh ghey.

8/17/2009 3:30:20 PM

Yeah, that's why it was just a warning haha.

8/17/2009 3:35:06 PM

we need pics of the bitch plz. Just so we can agree or disagree on whether TWW ppl like dem titties too.

8/17/2009 4:02:57 PM

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"that was supposed to be my power up pack, im scott malcomson, i have diabetes"

AHAHAHA

don't forget he has a lisp too

8/17/2009 4:30:37 PM

this is preposterous

I could never work somewhere where gay and ethnic slurs weren't part of the everyday nomenclature

8/17/2009 4:32:52 PM

I made a moron comment to a guy at work once and found out about an hour later that there were 2 morons in hearing distance.

8/17/2009 4:42:29 PM

only two?

8/17/2009 4:45:56 PM

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"diabetes isn't a protected class, you can say whatever you want"

It is a disability though, legally speaking, and if somebody wants to take an ambiguous statement the wrong way and say it offends them because "x" they can, and often times nowadays they get away with it!

This is still some shit though. You got any fatasses in your office? That's likely the diabetic, and it's likely the sensitive one. I'm guessing, of course. I'm a type I and skinny as a beanpole (I'm like a stealth diabetic) and I greatly enjoy making fun of the disease. If I didn't make light of it I'd be a bitter little bitch who couldn't take a joke and ratted out coworkers for making diabetes jokes.

I guess this is just a warning that your office sucks and is filled with limp-wristed whitebread blowhards, so don't say anything entertaining EVER there. In all honesty, start looking somewhere else to work. Not the best time for it, but hey, who wants to work with a self-reinforcing cult of boring assholes?

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"With a proper diet and exercise, diabetes is hardly debilitating."

With a decent doc. A big problem with diabetes is how incredibly ignorant people with the disease and even the doctors that treat them end up being about the proper treatment of diabetes through medication, diet and exercise. I definitely agree with the basic premise behind this statement, but just wanted to clarify that it's more complicated than that (as everything always is). So many factors can affect the disease that living with the disease can become quite unmanageable with so little as seasonal allergies causing changes in what you have to do to control your blood sugar for the day.

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"if they had a proper diet and exercise in the first place..."

That only applies to type 2 diabetes, and even then not all of type 2 diabetics. Diabetes != Type I Diabetes != Type II Diabetes != Type 1.5 Diabetes

If there's one thing I hate, it's when those goddamn TV commercials come on with fat people complaining about how they have diabetes and how their dicks don't work any more (especially those dickgirls). Rarely do they ever differentiate between types on the TV/other forms of media. Not even on the fucking news.

8/17/2009 4:48:05 PM

i could totally see myself loudly declaring that all people with diabetes should die in a fire

8/17/2009 4:49:17 PM

^^

8/17/2009 4:52:50 PM

Next time a whorish looking chick is walking by me I'm going to say, 'Yea, herpes here we come'.


On another note, I'm tired of everyone saying that blonds have more fun, and therefore the next time someone says it I'm going to complain that it's totally un-PC because they are implying that I, as a brunette, AM not fun. Does this work?

[Edited on August 17, 2009 at 5:19 PM. Reason : I'm not black, if that's what you mean....]

8/17/2009 5:16:27 PM

you is not fun

i is blonde and i is fun

8/17/2009 5:17:14 PM

no one will read this post.

8/17/2009 5:51:11 PM