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captain_slinkyI said something stupid tonight. Apologized privately almost immediately, but it was aparently too little to late. I have been banished from The Ninja Chat, reprimanded by my superiors and been told that I need to go through our Sensitivity Training again because I obviously missed the point.
All becuase they read the instructions twice at the Special Olympics :(
The things that I'm the most upset about are that (a) Somebody I know was deeply offended by what to me was no more than a witty one-liner, and that (b) he was so unwilling to accept my heart-felt apology that he went so far as to report it to management. TO MANAGEMENT! My low-level flippant remark, not even as offensive as any episdoe of The Simpsosns produced in the past 6 years, was enough to put this guy IN TEARS! He even went so far as to tell me that he wants to quit now!
I'm really shaken that what I thought was just a little throw-away "ha-ha" had so much destructive power. ANd it makes me want to re-evaluate everything I find "Funny". Heck, what THE WORLD finds funny. I can't imagine this guy making it through an episode of The Family Guy without breaking don and crying.
Disturbs me that there are people in the world that thin-skinned, and disturbs me that I hurt one of them :(
All becuase they read the instructions twice at the Special Olympics :(
The things that I'm the most upset about are that (a) Somebody I know was deeply offended by what to me was no more than a witty one-liner, and that (b) he was so unwilling to accept my heart-felt apology that he went so far as to report it to management. TO MANAGEMENT! My low-level flippant remark, not even as offensive as any episdoe of The Simpsosns produced in the past 6 years, was enough to put this guy IN TEARS! He even went so far as to tell me that he wants to quit now!
I'm really shaken that what I thought was just a little throw-away "ha-ha" had so much destructive power. ANd it makes me want to re-evaluate everything I find "Funny". Heck, what THE WORLD finds funny. I can't imagine this guy making it through an episode of The Family Guy without breaking don and crying.
Disturbs me that there are people in the world that thin-skinned, and disturbs me that I hurt one of them :(
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Date: 2005-12-21 05:53 pm (UTC)You never know what kind of background or frame of reference people have. As a rule of thumb, humor in the work place can suck. :/
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