Mate at work fired

Why are people surprised that you can get sacked for saying something potentially offensive? Most places have swearing in their gross misconduct policy, let alone comments that could be considered racist...

If a complaint is made, there is a responsibility to investigate it and manage it according to the procedures involved. With temporary staff, it's usually even simpler than that, if you have concerns about the behaviour or performance, trade them in a new model that may be better...
 
Haha. People are so afraid of being seen to be racist! It's actually hilarious. I love the little interchange on the correct word to use for "black" people. Semantically, you should be calling them "light-tan-to-dark-brown" people, but I guess that brown could be misconstrued as faecal, and black doesn't really fit the remit. We could refer to anyone who isn't white by saying "coloured", but it just sounds so wrong!

If the guy at the o/p's work got fired for calling someone "******" or "a ******" then they have totally different meanings and it would totally depend on who he was talking to (was it a friend, was he being sarcastic?) and who was in earshot. I'm mates with a black guy ("The Black Guy") and an asian guy ("The Asian Guy") at work, and we have hilarious conversations about race - like when stuff goes missing, we joke that The Black Guy has sold it to buy crack. If bosses were around, we'd behave more appropriately because the conversations could be misconstrued as racist, even though all involved know that it's not.

Your mate got pretty unlucky, but if he was using the potentially offensive word "******" around someone he doesn't know, then that's pretty foolish and he should deal with the consequences and learn from his mistakes.
 
Dolph said:
Why are people surprised that you can get sacked for saying something potentially offensive? Most places have swearing in their gross misconduct policy, let alone comments that could be considered racist...

If a complaint is made, there is a responsibility to investigate it and manage it according to the procedures involved. With temporary staff, it's usually even simpler than that, if you have concerns about the behaviour or performance, trade them in a new model that may be better...
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This is one of the few intelligent comments I've read in this post. Human Resources/Company Enforceable Guidelines 101 reads :

Company policy (LEGAL) > Your personal opinion (SUBJECTIVE)
 
[FnG]magnolia;11067634 said:
This is one of the few intelligent comments I've read in this post. Human Resources/Company Enforceable Guidelines 101 reads :

Company policy (LEGAL) > Your personal opinion (SUBJECTIVE)
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yeah but come on what kind of man are you if you take name calling seriously like that.
 
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