Anon goes to dinner with coworkers

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Report the Israeli to HR for the potato joke before anyone reports you. Also mention everyone else and say that they were all laughing and pointing at you.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Go ahead and warm that resume up too lol

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    • ToyDork@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Resume? I’d have a lawyer on the phone. No money for a lawyer? Kill your boss and then yourself, fuck reality.

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actual autist here: Took me a loooong time to figure out a whole bunch of social concepts when it comes to what neurotypicals basically deem as small talk.

  Firstly, you basically just have to accept that for most people, a level of classist, racist, other kinds of stereotypical insults are socially viewed as basically acceptable, even though its usually quite obvious they are, in fact, insults.

  Then you have to understand the concept of proportionality in small talk. You have to reply with something that’s very obviously and directly relevant, and of the same magnitude.

  (Jumping from an insult about dietary preferences to an insult about war crimes is not the same magnitude)

  Encapsulating this entire social interaction is the setting: coworkers of mixed nationality likely and an after work dinner likely implies an expectation of basically corporate social etiquette, ie, back handed compliments to establish a social dominance hierarchy, where the name of the game us getting as close to breaching the invisible ‘wow what an asshole’ line without actually stepping over it.

  To avoid looking meek, docile, awkward or antisocial, you have to figure out an appropriate small talk style reply, which actually requires a fairly detailed knowledge of the other persons you are conversing with. Their culture, personal history, personal beliefs, etc.

  So ok, if you know a bit about Israelis, you might attempt to insult back along the lines of dietary preferences.

  But, its a faux pas to escalate even within this realm of responses: If you retort that you ‘prefer your potatoes with pork’, well, that’s probably going to be viewed as quite rude, as that’s still a higher magnitude, as it references something that is commonly known to be forbidden to most Israelis.

  What might be a proportional response would be ‘Sorry, I’d make them (the potatoes) into latkes for you, but I don’t have any eggs’.

  But that may still be deemed as overly offensive, depending on the temperament of the Israeli and the level to which the other coworkers feel the need to be defensive toward perceived anti-semitism.

  So, as an autistic person, you have to consciously have all this knowledge and think through it all logically in real time, all while your actual emotion is anger because you don’t give a fuck that the potato comment was supposed to be a joke, because it was in actuality a racist insult that actually references a fucking famine and a dietary stereotype that exists largely due to imperialist exploitation of your ancestors.

  In summary, yeah small talk is an absolute nightmare for autistic people who are in an aggressive, hostile social environment, which, at least in my experience, is almost all of them.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    (Jumping from an insult about dietary preferences to an insult about war crimes is not the same magnitude)

    The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide, though.

    Like “How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?”
    “None”

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      seriously.

      insert potato joke

      “why is that funny?”

      *let them try to explain

      “oh, I thought it was about he Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.”

      see how awkward it can get.

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    • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As someone who lived 5 years in ireland and saw the history its absolutely fucking horrible. If you think about it its kinda ironic. Uk occupies a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. Israel is occupying a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. By the way as a neurotypical who has autistic family members and friends, in this case what happened is that the irish potato famine got normalized over time but the genocide in gaza is a current event. Also the israel one is political. Third thing is most neurotypicals are pussies, if you spend time with neurodivergent people you realize that a lot of things they say are funny as fuck, even if its a bit raw sometimes.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is true, (see my last paragraph) but … that is not as widely known.

      Most people just think ‘Idk, Irish people like potatoes’.

      Most people think it is just in the realm of dietary preferences and cuisine and don’t know why.

      Even though there is a fairly direct equivalence if you actually know the history of the stereotype, most people don’t.

      Thus you are perceived as overreacting if you jump right to genocide.

      To attempt an analogy:

      It’s like if a boomer tells a millennial or gen z to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and they point out that the original meaning of that phrase was meant to encapsulate the literal physical impossibility of doing so as analogous to making a decent living for yourself in an economy where very very few people have the means/opportunity/connections/dumb luck to earn more than basically a subsistence wage.

      The boomer just gets offended or bewildered because they didn’t know that, or they don’t believe it, and they’re too arrogant to admit they have no real, useful advice, and that all they have to offer is infantilization.

      Their ignorance (and inability to admit their knowledge is flawed) allows them to keep using an offensive phrase and not see this as offensive.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I laughed

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    • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you explain how the joke references “a genocide”?

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  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m autistic and I’ve learned to stop trying to play this game. Instead, I just make assholes like this explain their sideways ass comments in a straightforward fashion for the group. Forcing people to explain bigoted comments and not allowing the subject to change has now made everyone uncomfortable. Not so fucking funny anymore. I usually don’t have to do this more than once or twice within a specific group.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I also stopped playing ‘the game’ long ago and no longer put up with shitty people, but I can only do that because I’m on SSDI and don’t have to interact with people in an employment setting.

      Anon here is learning the hard way that basically, to advance in almost any modern, monetarily lucrative career, and most non lucrative ones, welp, you have to play this stupid social jockeying game because that is subconsciously how most others determine your worth as an employee, as a coworker.

      You can do the ‘explain why thats funny’ angle, but that just makes … you look like an asshole, a killjoy … to the people whose jobs are their lives, their selves.

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also autistic here. Let’s say you reply with “So why is that funny” and that person or a third person says “Don’t be so sensetive”. What’s the best way to force the explanation?

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    • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Well, you know, Irish cuisine has a lot of potatoes in it.”

      Joke fucking explained. How do you figure the guy’s going to be on the spot, exactly?

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TBH that’s a great advice for anyone dealing with assholes, autistic or otherwise.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      we’d get along well

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  • JameUwU@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honest question: Are neurodivergents functionally a protected class from discrimination in the US, the way religion, race, sexuality, gender are?

      The only even theorerical backing for that I can think of is the ADA, and I have never once heard of it or any other law being actually used by a neurodivergent against discrimination.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also autistic here, I feel calling people out works pretty well for me. No need for extended knowledge except about your own culture, just point out the offensive part and make them regret.

    Example: “Are you referencing the Irish potato famine?”

    It forces the person to either back out or admit that it was offensive. Third option could be “Don’t be so sensetive, it was a joke”. Then you can say that you don’t mind jokes but that you found that one offensive.

    With knowledge about the person’s culture you can always use it for a counter-attack with “I thought that Israelis would know that some jokes are off limits”.

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One thing specifically about Irish vs Israeli is that, if I’m not mistaken, Ireland and Israel are not on remotely good terms and haven’t been for a while. If the Israeli was a natural-born Israeli citizen they may have truly meant to piss Anon off.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fuck, I’d actually forgotten that.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most people are not aware, but potatoes are a reference to a holodomor-like government-induced famine that occurred in Ireland when the government of England made a policy of paying far over market rate for people to ship food out of Ireland.

    This weakened the Irish food market, leading to a situation where many people subsisted on the one crop that they could grow on their own property (as collective farm output was put on ships to elsewhere), which was potatoes.

    In that brittle situation, a fungus called a potato blight caused many people to starve to death because they were down to one last food source after the English mucking about.

    It didn’t happen in a time of war so it wasn’t a war crime, but what the English government did to the Irish people was definitely genocidal.

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  • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    (Jumping from an insult about dietary preferences to an insult about war crimes is not the same magnitude)

    The potato joke is a joke about war crimes even if the person telling it doesn’t realize this. They actually responded in kind.

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  • Xanis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is this dude’s coworker threw him an impossibly unfair underhand in order to hide, even if by accident, behind their nationality or beliefs.

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  • mr_satan@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not gonna lie, I would’ve spit my drink laughing if I was at that table.

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I bid that non autistic people be named and categorized in a way that highlights their hostile, aggressive, backstabbing, cruel nature. You know, the common household “psychopath” who doesn’t actually meet the requirements for real psychopathy, but is still pathologically a dickish cynic playing a social game for wealth and status, instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

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    • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I bid that non autistic people be named and categorized in a way that highlights their subtly hostile, backstabbing, cruel nature

      Are you sure you’re “autistic”? Are you sure you’re not just a fucking asshole?

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    • TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

      Do you think allistic people are inherently incapable of doing this earnestly?

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I propose we start Zionism for Autists.

      I’m sure that’ll go well rofl.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Words aren’t bad in and of themselves, usually. For one, “psychopath” freely translates to “suffering soul” but you could also do “mind in disease”. Neither sound too insulting, per se, do they?

      You’ll alway have euphemisms and if there’s a difference that can be noted, then usually the people’s who differ from the norm will be called something “bad”.

      Take left-handed people. Sinister. That’s where the word comes from. “Sinister” as in the Latin word for “left”.

      Then we’ll just end up on the

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_tread…

      Why care about what words someone uses if you know you have better ones yourself? It’s the intent behind the words that most often matters. To neurotypicals, anyway.

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  • ToyDork@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s not “a nightmare for autistic people”. He had every right to be angry about a famine and this was all just “submit to my authority” bullshit. I don’t care who you are descended from, that is not logical nor fair nor reasonable in any social setting. I literally would have just decked him in the face and stormed out because that’s the only scenario where OP is making it clear that authority does not equal privilege. Respect your employees.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What I mean by nightmare for autistic people is that autistic people, while often excelling at tasks and activities that have firm, mechanical, logical rules, are also often totally bewildered by social interactions because, on their face, they don’t really seem to follow any black and white rules.

      Autists try to logic their way, consciously, through a challenging social interaction as if it were a game of chess, even though the rules are basically calvinball rules.

      My point is that this kind of catastrophic social interaction is more likely and more challenging for a neurodiverse than a neurotypical, not that the Israeli’s incitement was justifiable.

      literally would have just decked him in the face and stormed out because that’s the only scenario where OP is making it clear that authority does not equal privilege.

      Yep and that’s how you ruin your career and possibly go to jail, have fun paying off your student loans at a min wage job the rest of your life after everyone hears about the guy that freaked out over a friendly dinner and broke the funny popular guy’s orbital bone.

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    • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He had every right to be angry about a famine

      A famine in 1845? Caused by Irish reliance on monocrop agriculture?

      Why would any living person in 2024 have a right to be “angry” about a joke that barely refers to it?

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Remember when a colonizing power tried to exterminate your people?”

  Haw haw.

  Though seriously most Americans think the potato famine was a natural disaster and have no idea why it is called the great hunger.

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  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    During the American War of Independence the reins were loosened a little. Further concessions had to be granted during the French Revolution. Ireland rose so quickly that her people threatened to outstrip the English. The English government drove them to rebellion and achieved the Union [390] by bribery. The Union delivered the death blow to reviving Irish industry. On one occasion Meagher said: all Irish branches of industry have been destroyed, all we have been left is the making of coffins. It became a vital necessity to have land; the big landowners leased their lands to speculators; land passed through four or five lease stages before it reached the peasant, and this made prices disproportionately high. The agrarian population lived on potatoes and water; wheat and meat were sent to England; the rent was eaten up in London, Paris and Florence. In 1836, £7,000,000 was sent abroad to absent landowners. Fertilisers were exported with the produce and rent, and the soil was exhausted. Famine often set in here and there, and owing to the potato blight there was a general famine in 1846. A million people starved to death. The potato blight resulted from the exhaustion of the soil, it was a product of English rule.

    Through the repeal of the Corn Laws Ireland lost her monopoly position on the English market, the old rent could no longer be paid. High prices of meat and the bankruptcy of the remaining small landowners further contributed to the eviction of the small peasants and the transformation of their land into sheep pastures. Over half a million acres of arable land have not been tilled since 1860. The yield per acre has dropped: oats by 16 per cent, flax by 36 per cent, potatoes by 50 per cent. At present only oats are cultivated for the English market, and wheat is imported.

    With the exhaustion of the soil, the population has deteriorated physically. There has been an absolute increase in the number of lame, blind, deaf and dumb, and insane in the decreasing population.

    Over 1,100,000 people have been replaced by 9,600,000 sheep. This is a thing unheard of in Europe. The Russians replace evicted Poles with Russians, not with sheep. Only under the Mongols in China was there once a discussion whether towns should be destroyed to make room for sheep.

    – International Workingmen’s Association 1867 Record of Speech by Karl Marx

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  • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    honestly I just read it as Irish people liking potatoes, similar to the stereotype that Germans like sauerkraut

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    • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Irish people were forced to eat potatoes because they were subjugated by british lords who took everything else they farmed. When the potato “famine” happened, they were actually still producing plenty of other food, just that the British lords didnt care and still forces them to hand it over.

      Admittedly this is the extent of my knowledge on the situation, so you should look it up yourself if you want to know more.

      The “Joke” at the irish guy in the greentext is actually pretty insensitive and rude, much moreso than asking a german why he didnt order sauerkraut.

      Potatoes aren’t even native to Ireland.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Racism was the cause.

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    • Juice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It was colonialism and the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism, but racism often runs in the same circles

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• BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That is some savage shit. If Eminem were at the table, he would have taken notes.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a joke about being the victim of genocide.

      In this case the equivalent joke would be a holocaust joke, which would probably get you fired even faster.

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    • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, then what’s the problem?

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wasn’t the potato famine a natural disaster though?

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• Superfool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would have spat my drink out laughing.

  Fuck them all if they deal it out but can’t take it.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Insult someone, get insulted back with a good burn and threaded to go to HR. Loads of adults in that room

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  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There were no adults in the room because this story is fake.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seems like everyone there but anon didn’t understand the insult implied and got upset when it was returned in kind.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like all other 4chan it’s just fake news, but it would make a lot more sense to school them and what the potato famine was actually about rather than to assume they’re getting in a pissing match.

    Also, in any case where coworkers are worried enough about race and politics to go to HR they’re not going to sit around and talk about ethnic stereotypes. If you’re going to sit around and talk about ethnicity and stereotypes you’ve already made a social pact that everybody isn’t going to get butt hurt and go to HR.

    At my old place five of us got together once every few weeks and had a nice dinner out. It was America so nobody that was there was first generation anything. We were descendants, Irish Israeli, black, Vietnamese. If the Jewish guy would have made the potato famine joke to the Irish guy, and the Irish guy did come back with bombing hospitals, The worst outcome would be the Jewish guy would have said touche new subject and we would have continued bs about work, sports, or technology.

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    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If it were actually a true story, maybe autistic OP thought he was returning the joke in kind. “Lol shouldn’t you be starving because the British stole all your crops but potatoes”, “lol shouldn’t you be bombing hospitals”. Seems like a fair trade if you don’t understand what was implied. Signed: an autist.

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rule #3: always assume the anonymous 4chan poster is making it up

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I see this comment all the time and I don’t care. It’s entertainment and the last time I checked most movies were made up.

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• Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who fucking reports comments made outside of work to HR? Learn how to handle uncomfortable social situations on your own you little tattler.

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  • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The fact that some event happened outside of work hours by no means disqualifies it as legitimate harassment. We should absolutely not be disparaging people for invoking this protection. Think of all the vulnerable groups who may be less likely to speak up after some shitty behavior if we start shitting on people for invoking this protection.

    A hostile work environment claim may include conduct that occurs in a work-related context outside an employee’s regular workplace.[219] For instance, harassment directed at an employee during the course of offsite employer-required training occurs within the “work environment,” even if the training is not conducted at the employer’s facility.[220]

    Example 53: Harassment During Off-Site Employer-Hosted Party Was Within Work Environment. Fatima’s employer hosts its annual holiday party in a private restaurant. One of her coworkers, Tony, drinks to excess, and at the end of the evening attempts to grope and kiss Fatima. Although Tony’s behavior occurred outside Fatima’s regular workplace and at a private restaurant unaffiliated with her employer, it occurred in a work-related context, the company-sponsored holiday party. Therefore, based on these facts, the harassment occurred in Fatima’s work environment for purposes of a Title VII sexual harassment claim.

    eeoc.gov/…/enforcement-guidance-harassment-workpl…

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    • Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I agree, this is a work function so HR could be invoked.

      That said, I’m with Anon on this one. His coworker started it, and while on the surface Anon’s response sounds much darker, Anon is punching up and Israeli Coworker is punching down.

      The potato famine was an economic genocide incited by colonial powers. You’d think if they get a laugh out of that they’d also get a laugh about currently ongoing genocides.

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes please daddy HR please mediate this mild discomfort between two coworkers because we cannot be bothered to just apologize to each other and move on

      Dont get me wrong i dont disagree with you that some people depend on the protection it offers, but it also makes me wonder how the person gets by outside work when they have to solve disagreements and rude interactions on their own.

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• whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The way I see it, don’t dish it out if you can’t take it…living memory or not

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe get rid of any walkie-talkies or pagers you might have.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Haha, remember that time the Irish were nearly exterminated via forced famine?” Odd thing to joke about with a random coworker. Should’ve instead suggested potato vodka served by a teenage split-lipped ginger mother of six and then segued into the specific reasons Ireland deserved the troubles. Or just avoided atrocities entirely. Either/or

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Haha, remember that time the Irish were nearly exterminated via forced famine?”

    Doesn’t seem too out of character for an Israeli.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Russians seem to be doing fine with it.

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One thing I learnt in Ireland is you better have a thick skin because no quarter is given when it comes to slagging and taking the piss. And the more you take yourself seriously and the more they will gang up until you learn to shut the fuck up. Absolutely love it.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So it sounds like the Irish and the Aussies would get along

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    • lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Funny thing, that…

      Nearly a third of Aussies claim Irish heritage. And a lot of those families ended up there because of, you guessed it, the Famine.

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    • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Famously well, in my experience… as a Masshole who gets along with both groups equally well.

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Man I thought that insult was golden.

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gotta say, it’s fun to read in-depth conversation explainers from other autistic people. As an autistic person myself I think it’s quite fun and informative.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, there should be a book filled with these stories or something.

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• cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The only response to that should have been a “too soooon!” Followed by uproarus laughter

  That’s a hilarious retort imo.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe not if it’s something you’re sensitive about

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• nycki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i want to like this but I have to assume anyone still using pepe against the creator’s wishes is a shitbag

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  • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean I’d wager vast majority of the internet doesn’t have an inkling of who the creator was or his wishes, they see the format and make their own.

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  • RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sir, you are on greentext. Idk what you’re expecting.

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  • Laborer3652@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If there’s one thing I do when I male a meme its definitely contact the creator and ask if my specific meme goes against their personally held beliefs. Yes, this is a completely normal thing to do.

    Its really annoying when I want to make a Huck Finn meme because I have to hold a seance for Sam Clement and he can be a real asshole when you wake him from the dead.

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  • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s a frog

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck Israel but don’t blame your coworker.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Coworker was insensitive too

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    • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The same goes for the Irish car bomb drink. As I heard one comedian say “imagine how many Americans would be up in arms if I made a drink that was two kamikazes in a Manhattan and called it a 9/11.”

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t throw around insults if you don’t want to be insulted.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Today: “erm akshurally did those kids condemn Hamas, obviously not therefore they deserve it”

  Ireland (before independence): “erm akshurally did those kids condemn the IRA, obviously not therefore they deserve it”

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Once I had a teacher who was trying to boast to me that his uncle or someone worked in engineering some American bomber, and I responded with “how many iraqis did that kill?” I didn’t get into trouble.

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• Crazyblu@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bro each time i laugh, look at the comments and remember its fake, Each fuckin time

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anon shouldn’t care about working with people who support genocide.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not autistic, but this is a burn I’d only (but definitely) use of the other guy was an asshole. I’m not a good person lol

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As that old saying goes, Fuck around and find out!

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some make a lunch order, some make a launch order

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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• Eol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So many races employed…

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  With this kinda thing, better to report to HR first than make a counter joke.

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• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most employed tankie

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• rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  guy punched me, it was only fair to bomb them!
  to be fair, we’re talking about racism

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