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Casual racism in your place of work

  • 03-02-2015 11:48PM
    #1
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭


    How do you handle listening to casual racism in the work place? I am having to listen to some fairly shocking and distasteful personal views on migrants which i find quite ignorant and a little offensive. Normally i just laugh at the stupidity of such views as you hear stupid views all the time and most of the time it is just some dumb passing statement but when certain work mates express fairly detailed hatred how would or do you react to it without making a fuss?
    It is a situation that any falling out could make things a little awkward but it is frightening that people with such dumb views are working as "professional"
    Note...i ask here as I am hardly stuck up and don't mind banter but this stuff i've had to listen to is totally moronic.


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  • #2
    RecordStraight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭RecordStraight


    Ask them whether any of their family ever emigrated.


  • #3
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Tell them about your black gay lover


  • #4
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Tried that one...got the old UK, USA story and it was to a place where they are "one of us"...you know the standard ape response.


  • #5
    harney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    I'm not a stuck up person, but......


  • #6
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I just filter out most casual conversations in work. Most of them are pretty dull. I've turned it into something of an art form where I appear to be fully engaged in the conversation but my mind is entirely elsewhere.


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  • #7
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Tell them about your black gay lover

    Did not try this angle...


  • #8
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    harney wrote: »
    I'm not a stuck up person, but......

    Ah continue...so seem to have some sort of opinion. Care to share it?


  • #9
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Lots of casual racism here, of course being Irish means I love the drink...
    I generally get over it though cos I get free beer from the company :)


  • #10
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Lots of casual racism here, of course being Irish means I love the drink...
    I generally get over it though cos I get free beer from the company :)

    That is a very mild stereotype..I do not take offence at it.


  • #11
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Tell them about your black gay lover

    Black gay Jewish Lover from China.


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  • #12
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Black gay Jewish Lover from China.

    need to throw polish in the mix too...really gets the venom going it seems, to Hitler levels it seems.


  • #13
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    I'm a Tipp man working in Cork; I'm on the receiving end of it for 20 years.


  • #14
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    'Sure the Polish are awful hard-working'

    I work part time in a cafe and one day 3 women with full burkas on came in. Not exactly a common sight in Ireland but I served them anyway. When they were out of ear-shot my boss whispered in my ear 'thought we were going to be bombed for a second'.


  • #15
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Both of the other 2 people in my office are equally as racist and bigoted as myself so it's grand. We've a great time.


  • #16
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Tell them you dress up as a black lesbian from Asia at the weekends, should cover all bases.


  • #17
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    thelad95 wrote: »
    'Sure the Polish are awful hard-working'

    I work part time in a cafe and one day 3 women with full burkaso came in. Not exactly a common sight in Ireland but I served them anyway. When they were out of ear-shot my boss whispered in my ear 'thought we were going to be bombed for a second'.

    Thats pretty mild in comparison to "nuke the whole place" "You need to take them all out so there is no more" "he had the right idea..gas them all" "they are infesting the place"


  • #18
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The boss has us working like blacks


  • #19
    johnohanlon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 67 ✭✭johnohanlon


    I have not heard racist comments and my last work place was about 70% foreign, just jokes about a Polish person being called Patrick, "Polish Paddy" and if the scones were "true Irish" or "true Polish", it was a bread factory you see


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My workplace is very ordered.

    We're only allowed show our bigotry on casual racist Friday.

    Perhaps suggest that and then you'd have cut the casual racism by 80%

    Unless you work six days a week.

    I can't do the maths on that one but you should get a new job - six days a week is too much racism or no racism.


  • #21
    berger89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭berger89


    I once had a dream that I was deducted 37euro from my pay check..and to quote my pay check: "because of racism".


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  • #22
    pillphil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭pillphil


    johnohanlon wrote: »
    I have not heard racist comments and my last work place was about 70% foreign, just jokes about a Polish person being called Patrick, "Polish Paddy" and if the scones were "true Irish" or "true Polish", it was a bread factory you see

    You probably heard them, you just didn't understand them. :P


  • #23
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    do you think such opinion should be sackable offences ?


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    berger89 wrote: »
    I once had a dream that I was deducted 37euro from my pay check..and to quote my pay check: "because of racism".

    Racist work kitty fund " for the foredinners" maybe?


  • #25
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    Will Casual Racism Fridays catch on?


  • #26
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Tell them about your black gay lover

    shouldn't that be gay black lover?


  • #27
    johnohanlon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 67 ✭✭johnohanlon


    pillphil wrote: »
    You probably heard them, you just didn't understand them. :P

    yes i wouldn't be surprised, foreigners can be quite arrogant and rude but if you said anything to them you'd be called a racist and it would be around the parish like wildfire like the father ted episode


  • #28
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    I think Irish people say stupid stuff without realising it. Like my friends friend was going on about the "puffs" and how someone was so fruity. You would think he is homophobic, but his brother is actually gay and he has zero issues with it

    Irish people need to learn to get a filter. Americans are racists in private. Irish people arent


  • #29
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Wang King wrote: »
    Will Casual Racism Fridays catch on?

    I will in low brow companies ...depends on your ambition


  • #30
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    hfallada wrote: »
    I think Irish people say stupid stuff without realising it. Like my friends friend was going on about the "puffs" and how someone was so fruity. You would think he is homophobic, but his brother is actually gay and he has zero issues with it

    Irish people need to learn to get a filter. Americans are racists in private. Irish people arent

    Fruity sugar puffs?.... The black gay honey monster strikes again!


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  • #31
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    None, luckily


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