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There is a racist where I work...

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  • #62
    Noffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    It's just like being British and working over here... hear similar all the time (maybe not as serious as th OP gets but it's in joke and stuff)... boring... and then come on websites and all the anti Brit stuff... zzzz.

    It don't bother me...


  • #63
    scamalert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭scamalert


    Im not irish myself,but over 7 years i realized that this country is like south and north korea,instead of realizing that your neighbors are the same color language and most of them are 99% related at some stage in timeline of history,as people had to come to this island from somewhere close enough,Theres always this one friend or person who gonna be a Nazi towards the ethnic group,country or someones heritage or culture,as they still live in 1560s and cant let go of the past.


  • #64
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    It's clearly sectarianism, he doesn't really believe that Irish people are violent, if he did he wouldn't go around antagonising Irish people because he'd be working under the assumption they beat the face off him. Unless he's a violent thug himself and is only looking for a fight.


  • #65
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Throw him down a well


  • #66
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    complicit wrote: »
    I live in Anglia and meet these dickheads all the time . I tend to play the Fred West angle a lot - just bring Mr West into every conversation with this knob .
    I also like to tell them proudly about my grandfathers adventures with the IRA back in the day . Another angle is to ask if he is part of the gentry / peerage . No? Then he is just a commoner like most folk

    Posts like this make me smile. Keep on paying your tax dollars to the crown like a good man - I'm sure most English people are of the opinion that as long as you do that you can boldly go on about your grandfather's exploits and the RA as much as you like!


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  • #67
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Bluefoam wrote: »
    I'm living in The Middle East, & working in a very mixed office. Its a UK company, The senior management are British & the rest of the company are made up of Philippinos, Indians, Sri Lankans, both coloured and white South Africans, Me (Irish) & three English.

    We're all coloured. :confused:


  • #68
    complicit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭complicit


    bwatson wrote: »
    Posts like this make me smile. Keep on paying your tax dollars to the crown like a good man - I'm sure most English people are of the opinion that as long as you do that you can boldly go on about your grandfather's exploits and the RA as much as you like!

    Actually I pay my tax in Ireland and repatriate most of my profits there also ( yes , company director ) Nice try though cheeky cockney :-)
    Thats awesome that you know what most english people think too .


  • #69
    Chinasea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    I'm not too sure about this OP.

    I question the need to name the nationality here if you are genuinely looking for some unbiased feedback (no pun intended). Having sifted through most of the posts (yawn) I was very surprised not to see the auld favourite trotted out about the "no blacks no Irish" signs.

    Anyway, if true - sorry to hear bout it mate but you need to suck it up.

    If it ain't true you have fed the Brit Bashers – two wrongs don’t make yada yada yada


  • #70
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Don't drop the soap anyway whatever you do


  • #71
    Old Tom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Old Tom


    Bluefoam wrote: »
    • I love to sit outside pubs and watch Irish Catholics & Protestants beat the **** out of each other
    • The Irish just constantly fight each other
    • What was your first job? Laying tarmac?
    • Irish are all drunks etc...
    Did they mention anything about swans?


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  • #72
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Official way.

    Tell him it is unwarranted and unprofessional and you don't want to hear any comments like that again to him or others.

    If he continues go to a manager. If nothing is done at that point, or he continues then document everything and go to HR.

    In UK/Ireland, harassment the company gets in trouble, not the person making the racist statements. So HR will stamp down hard on it. If he is intentionally blocking resources to help the company that isn't going to look good either.


  • #73
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    He sounds like a thick fuck.

    Start building a case against him by writing down what he's saying and what has been said to you and how it's making you feel.

    Just in case, like.

    Building a case? :pac: Bit too much of this for you:



    Just go to HR or post to Facebook or plant some drugs on him :pac:


  • #74
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    plant a bomb under his car

    aaahh the good ol'days


  • #75
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,090 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Buy a set of cheap drums in argos and a orange jersey and start marching around just to make him feel at ease.


  • #76
    cadaliac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    Just to clear things up, it's the boss of the guy who made the comments , right?
    The boss approached you and said he felt tension? Between you and one of his staff?
    I wouldn't pay much heed to the halfwit that made the comments tbh, you probably not going to change his attitude much anyway. You probably won't change the attitude of the boss either, so I would ride it out for a week or so and see if it is effecting your work.
    Just see if there is an attitude issue in future or not. If there is, well take it further and get your cv ready.


  • #77
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    micropig wrote: »
    Blast him with p1ss Guinness :D

    fyp


  • #78
    Redjeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭Redjeep!


    Treat it like any other incident such as bullying, sexual misconduct etc. If you feel that it's worth fighting and have a case, take it to HR.

    Make a written complaint and keep a record. They will have to investigate it. Be careful though if it's just your word against his as unless there's other witnesses or previous incidents, they'll be very little HR will be able/ prepared to do and you may just make things worse.


  • #79
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    johngalway wrote: »
    Ask him how the Empire is going now that all the natives have followed the great white man home and are living at his cost in his country:

    very good :D

    They are quite sensitive at the min with all the immigrants in their country. You reap what you sow mother england ;)


  • #80
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    leggo wrote: »
    Just yesterday, an African lady asked one of the girls I work with if the place was still open and was met with a rude, abrupt reply. It was a simple enough question and she wasn't looking for any favours. Similarly, in another shop I've worked in, I've seen black people get deliberately ignored for ages when waiting at the till.

    I have pulled people up on this before and have been met with replies like, "Have you not seen the mess they make?" etc. And yeah, to be brutally honest, there are some black women who would make your blood boil with the disregard they have for other people's property. It happens with such frequency that I have to assume it's a cultural thing. The behaviours and profiles are too consistent with each other for it to be coincidence.

    But, then again, I've also seen it happen with Eastern Europeans and Irish people (what Irish people tend to do is drop something on the ground, look around to see if anyone has noticed, and if they haven't they'll walk swiftly away regardless of the mess someone else now has to clean).

    Oh dear. Here we go again....

    Why is it Irish people in Ireland automatically assume ALL black people are African??:confused: When I first moved over, yes I got the stares and rude service in the shops. I've had money thrown at me when paying. It's only when I open my mouth, (to pull them up on their lack of manners! :D)and it's realised I'm English, then people tend to be be bit friendlier...

    Just for the record. I do not live like a pig. I clean up wherever I go. I put litter in the bin or take it home. I even pick up after my dog. That's a trait I've noticed about here. Streets are VERY dirty with all the dog mess that people are too lazy to pick up, and let their dogs sh!t EVERYWHERE!!! How about THAT???


  • #81
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    woodoo wrote: »
    very good :D

    They are quite sensitive at the min with all the immigrants in their country. You reap what you sow mother england ;)

    It hasn't failed me yet once the correct target is identified, won't work on a normal person but the toff Tory, UKIP and BNP types, you can see veins popping.


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  • #82
    southcentralts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    just tell him you have fixed his car and he will never hear a rattle again. ever.


  • #83
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    Oh dear. Here we go again....

    Why is it Irish people in Ireland automatically assume ALL black people are African?? ???

    Some think they're all Nigerian. Expanding it to a continent is a big step.


  • #84
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    woodoo wrote: »
    very good :D

    They are quite sensitive at the min with all the immigrants in their country. You reap what you sow mother england ;)


    Your statement is simply ridiculous and very obvious the work of a man with little understanding of the British public as a whole.

    Lets look at it this way just a couple of months before the Olympic games - How many Irish are expected to win medals at the upcoming olympics for example? 1, 2?

    The Union Flag was hoisted high 19 times in Beijing, a great number of athletes who brought the gold home for Britain were, shock horror, of african and caribbean descent! I also still fondly remember the likes of the 4 by 100 metres team in Athens (four British athletes, not a single one of them white) and the gold medals brought back by Dame Kelly Holmes in 2004. Very sensitive? Yes I'd agree, on the whole very accepting and often very proud. "Immigrant" communities play a big role in modern British society and are for the most part wholly accepted and appreciated. Your phrase "you reap what you sow" is not only offensive to white British people but also to those who are black and asian.

    Clueless fool.


  • #85
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I experienced exactly the same thing from an English guy when I worked for a well known phone manufacturer when I lived in Germany. He was only in the door 3 days and started trying to rile me up with IRA remarks and such like. I complained and I was frozen out and eventually let go under the guise of a headcount cut.


  • #86
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    bwatson wrote: »
    Your statement is simply ridiculous and very obvious the work of a man with little understanding of the British public as a whole.

    Lets look at it this way just a couple of months before the Olympic games - How many Irish are expected to win medals at the upcoming olympics for example? 1, 2?

    The Union Flag was hoisted high 19 times in Beijing, a great number of athletes who brought the gold home for Britain were, shock horror, of african and caribbean descent! I also still fondly remember the likes of the 4 by 100 metres team in Athens (four British athletes, not a single one of them white) and the gold medals brought back by Dame Kelly Holmes in 2004. Very sensitive? Yes I'd agree, on the whole very accepting and often very proud. "Immigrant" communities play a big role in modern British society and are for the most part wholly accepted and appreciated. Your phrase "you reap what you sow" is not only offensive to white British people but also to those who are black and asian.

    Clueless fool.

    Good fer you.


  • #87
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    old hippy wrote: »
    You can travel all over the world and still meet idiots. Travel doesn't broaden the mind, in some cases, sadly.

    Exactly. When travelling, always travel light by not bringing a gob****e with you. You will always find one when you get there.


  • #88
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Bluefoam wrote: »
    Its a UK company, The senior management are British & the rest of the company are made up of Philippinos, Indians, Sri Lankans, both coloured and white South Africans, Me (Irish) & three English. All of the English work on one project team together, while all the other management of various nationalities run their own teams..

    The word you're looking for here my friend, is BLACK. No-one refers to us as coloured these days. It's considered offensive....


  • #89
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Nodin wrote: »
    Some think they're all Nigerian. Expanding it to a continent is a big step.

    Very true. It's like people at home thinking all West Indians are Jamaican. They don't realise the WI is composed of 1000's of islands of which Jamaica is only one. FFS, in some of the WI, their first language is not English!!:eek:


  • #90
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    OP did you actually want serious advice on this? Or did you just want a laugh at the stupid/pointless responses?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #91
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    Very true. It's like people at home thinking all West Indians are Jamaican. They don't realise the WI is composed of 1000's of islands of which Jamaica is only one. FFS, in some of the WI, their first language is not English!!:eek:


    I work abroad. With quite a few Africans. Most of them think Ireland is part of the UK.
    I also had an "WASP"y American woman ask me (when those Brit Royals got married) if I had stayed up to watch it. When I said I had no interest in it, and that they weren't princes/princesses of Ireland she just looked confused and tried to tell me they were

    It doesn't make them racist beause they don't know the intricacies of relatively small groupings of peole thousand of miles away.

    Would you be au-fait with the differences between Uzbekis and Kyrgyzs?

    Don't be so bleedin' sensitive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi-BB-j0u0

    Feckin Sasanachs :p


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