Today, I got written up by HR after my new coworker told them I had an ignorant, offensive caricature of Native American people decorating my desk. It was a framed photograph of an actual Native American tribe that belonged to my history buff grandfather. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my extremely racist coworker was doing his usual thing. Since it was 9/11 he went absolutely hardcore on his "jokes" so I reported it to my supervisor. She asked what did he say specifically and I recited it to her. She decided to write me up for "making inappropriate comments at work". FML
Today, I was accused of digital blackface and culturally appropriating my own culture. FML
Today, at work I was bored so I started to doodle on MS paint. My boss walks by and asks me to join him in his office. When I do so, he fires me for drawing offensive material. I drew a rainbow. FML
Today, I was written up because my manager heard me insulting a customer. How did I insult her? I called her grandma. Who did I say this to? My grandma. FML
Today, I found out that my coworker shared a laugh with the boss about setting the office desk on fire (which he actually did), while ten minutes later I was threatened with being fired because I made paper snowflakes and hung a few of them next to the computer. FML
Today, my boss hung a dartboard in his office. It has a printout of my employee photo taped to it. FML
Today, I found out that my company used a nice photo of my coworkers and me for their corporate website, in efforts to make their office seem fun and relaxed. This wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't just fired every single person in the photo, myself included. FML
Today, my boss threatened to write me up, after I made a slightly rude joke about a coworker everyone hates. A while later, a colleague told me the same joke. Turns out my boss had gone around telling it to everyone else and taking all the credit. FML
Today, I was doing a presentation in front of my boss. On the last slide, someone had put a picture of a man's cock. I later found out it was my boss who did it. It was his "good reason" to fire me. FML
Today, I was fired for "blatant, inexcusable racism". My boss had asked me which website background I preferred for our company, and I said that white backgrounds are usually best. He thinks that I believe in white supremacy, and that's bad for the company's image. FML
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Top comments
grajax 24
Could you go to a higher up and show them the picture? This seems like an easy fix.
queerdragon 20
WHAT THE **** ARE YOU SAYING ABOUT CALIFORNIANS!!!?
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Comments (70)
yankasocky 7
Your coworker sounds like a little dbag. You also seem...odd. History is cool, but why would you have a framed picture of a group of friends and family you aren't even a part of? Heirlooms are for home, not for work.
Sparx1_1 16
You should file a grievance about the write up and make a complaint about your co-workers insensitive uninformed and racist attitude towards natives.
Sansational_ 18
Social Justice Warfare: The Revenge of PC Principal
cdb89928 7
I read so many posts like this and I always wonder the same thing..."Do these people not have a set of balls to actually say something/defend themselves so they don't get screwed over." And sadly it seems that no, the people who post stuff like this have no balls at all. Don't let ignorant people walk all over you!
DoomedGemini 38
It doesn't really say they didn't try to defend themselves. They got written up, sometimes trying to defend yourselves won't matter.
hardcorepunk87 18
You PC bruh?!
NostalgiaFreak9 43
That coworker sounds uncontrollably stupid if you ask me.
PhoenixChick 26
How do you confuse a photograph with a caricature?
Bragi 12
Lawyer up!
acmariner99 25
Saw the location and now I'm not surprised
TipTopCaduceus 11
"Actual native" and "caricature" aren't actually mutually exclusive seen as a lot of the photographs we have of Natives were taken by photographers who dressed them to look the way white people considered "authentic" rather than in a way that's actually in keeping with their culture.