Today, my coworker and I were swamped with coffee orders. I told him I would "take care of the blacks", and a customer who only heard that sentence screamed at me for several minutes about racism. 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, a customer screamed at me, because her iced coffee tasted exactly like coffee, and she hates coffee. Sadly, this isn't even the most insane person I've had to deal with at this job. FML
Today, while working at Subway I joked with a customer asking him if he was going to order in Spanish. The women in front of him began yelling about how I was being racist and told my manager that I needed to be fired. The customer I was joking with was my Spanish teacher. FML
Today, my boss at my new call center job said he'd gotten complaints about me. Apparently I sound "too black" and it's "upsetting" some of our customers. I don't know what that even means, but my boss said I need to "tone it down or we're gonna have some problems". FML
Today, a customer called me "chink eyes", "dog eater", "bloody Chinese communist" and "ching chong." I'm black. FML
Today, I was accused of being a "racist whore" at work. I'd only asked a man if he needed help finding anything, as that is part of my job. FML
Today, at the café I work at, I was yelled at by a woman because the drinks and food she ordered were "taking too long". Before I had the chance to get a word in, she stormed out and said she would never come back. I didn't get the chance to inform her that she hadn't ordered yet. FML
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, our desks were rearranged. I was seated next to a coworker who spends the entire day on the phone, chatting loudly with his relatives in another country while he works. I complained that it was distracting. Management won't do anything about it and warned me that "my complaints reek of racism." FML
Today, while at work, a customer refused to speak louder, despite me asking her to do it several times. As a result, I took her order incorrectly. The customer then finally decided to raise her voice, but only to yell at me about my poor listening skills. FML
Today, I got fired, apparently for being racist to black people. When I told my boyfriend, he couldn't stop laughing. He's black. FML
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Jatok 17
Honestly, I'm more interested in what you did in response. Did you just look and listen? Did you go about your job ignoring/listening to him?
RememberSchlitz 9
Well now I guess I've got permission to snowflake out and start a furious row in Firehouse Subs next time I order chili and they insensitively ask me if I want 'crackers'.
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Jatok 17
Honestly, I'm more interested in what you did in response. Did you just look and listen? Did you go about your job ignoring/listening to him?
RememberSchlitz 9
Well now I guess I've got permission to snowflake out and start a furious row in Firehouse Subs next time I order chili and they insensitively ask me if I want 'crackers'.
meegal 12
People are too sensitive these days wow. They need to stop over reacting constantly and just relax.
longnight83 9
Hey, I still remember the person who got upset at me for referring to black construction paper as black construction paper. Apparently, I was literally supposed to refer to it as "paper of color." For the record, the person speaking wasn't just Caucasian, they were so pale that I'm wondering if they had ever experienced sunlight, and the confused expressions of the African-American couple waiting for my help was all the more priceless... I guess some people are too married to being offended.
species4872 20
I like that, "people are too married to being offended"
darshini_ii 24
Should've dumped a cup of hot scalding coffee right on his head.
species4872 20
Should have offered him a slice of watermelon to calm him down.
acmariner99 25
Social justice warriors strike again
jcash52426 5
Great if you take the blacks ill take the whites, ping can take the Asians, and Jose can take the Mexicans and everyone else.
RichardPencil 32
Senator Sessions, does "take care" mean deprive them of their voting right?
Thorin Bartlebaugh 2
People being offended for people that aren't offended