Today my boss walk talking to a CUSTOMER about his dog, and very casually compared the kennel he got his dog from (this is a kennel that bread a Canadian national champion dog, and it happens to be my bosses dogs dad or something like that) to Auschwitz. Normally its pretty hard to offend me, but comparing what I'm sure is a very nice dog kennel to a death camp goes WAY past that line, and being that I have BEEN to Auschwitz makes it even worse. So right then and there I start calling him out on it saying its offensive. Instead of getting an apology he says quote "well, it's not exactly like Auschwitz, there's no ovens or gas chambers" then he proceeded to laugh about it. I am all for racist and anti semitic (some times even holocaust) jokes. But making a serious comparison to well treated dogs, to what happened to Jews (and many others) during WW2, is simply inexcusable, and then laughing it off and making ANOTHER ignorant comment puts the icing on the cake.
My boss is an insensitive jew hater
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who ya gonna call?
don't worry puppies... it's only a shower
If he is in the Bay Area I will be happy to drop by the shop and leave a vibram pattern on whats left of his nuts as I walk out
Idiot. if it were a private conversation between friends, fine. But NEVER say sh!t like that to a customer!
Unless of course, you customer is Degussa.
Unless of course, you customer is Degussa.
Even cows know words sometimes hurt.
actually if this is an ongoing problem, maybe call the BBB, or your boss's boss. That kind of behavior is unprofessional and unacceptable.
Lance Bass?who ya gonna call?
You should take a big ole steamy one on his desk.
Being a gentile that has not been to Auschwitz I don't find the statement that hurtful. Before you tear me a new one, I'll let you know that I am polish and that both of my grandparents spent almost 4 years as Nazi prisoners. But, I mean, he was just making a compairison between the cramped conditions... No excuse I suppose, but I wouldn't bat an eye at that statement...
Agreed. Workplace goes from guy talking about his dog to someone being offended. Get the hell over yourself.
Hope you never join the Marines.
Part of it is the fact that he is comparing the deaths of 11 million people (he isn't joking mind you, he is making an actual comparison) to the treatment of a dog at a championship kennel. Its the fact that he is marginalizing those deaths and that suffering that makes me mad, ignorance is not an excuse in this case either, the guy has a general enough idea of history. Joking about it is one thing, it's a good way to make a difficult subject easier to deal with, and a lot of times its funny.
I am also mad that he made an oven crack when he was trying to defend his actions. When some one is offended, making another ignorant comment instead of apologizing or even stopping is in no way OK
I've often thought that your crimes against the English language were comparable to what Nazi Germany did to the Jewish people.
I'd call it even...
I'd call it even...
I was there, and what bothered me is the casual attitude our boss had toward the whole matter.
I make horrible jokes about Jews (and I receive horrible jokes about Asians), but I don't make casual or serious comments that are racist or anti-Semitic.
Privately, I gave my boss a ton of crap, and I was accused of being too sensitive toward race. I told him that I didn't care what his opinions were, but if he thinks he is not racist, then when a customer accuses him of it, I won't support him, no matter what the circumstance is.
I make horrible jokes about Jews (and I receive horrible jokes about Asians), but I don't make casual or serious comments that are racist or anti-Semitic.
Privately, I gave my boss a ton of crap, and I was accused of being too sensitive toward race. I told him that I didn't care what his opinions were, but if he thinks he is not racist, then when a customer accuses him of it, I won't support him, no matter what the circumstance is.
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To compound one insensitive comment with another is well, insensitive. And indicative of a big dose of dumbassosity.
But is it a cool dog?
But is it a cool dog?
i feel your pain...i had a relative that died in the holocaust...
he fell off a guard tower
he fell off a guard tower
note to self, never ask themontashu what the difference between a jew and a pizza is...
No the dog sucks at life. The thing is so worthless, it won't be friendly to ANYONE, or eat dog food.
Pizza's don't scream when you put them in the oven, as long as you don't ask me what the Nazi said to the black Jew we are good to go.
Done yet?
Get to the back of the ovenDone yet?
Purebred show dog...yep.
Let's breed German Shepards with such a sloped back that they can barely walk and make it a standard! Let's breed Collies with a pointy nose above everything else!
It's stupid. And I have a purebred Lab...
I've been breeding some West Virginians with such close-set eyes that they're nearly cycloptic.
And insensitivity is not the same thing as anti-semitism. I also think people are far to sensitive about insensitivity.
I hate you...you made me blow milk out of my nose. Do you know how much that stings?
One time I was eating a chocolate chip cookie with really really big chocolate chunks, and lots of them. It was closer to a chocolate bar than a cookie. Someone said something really funny, and I shot melted chocolate out of my nose. That sucked. It hurt, and my nose was full of chocolate all day. I was blowing my nose continually, and it just kept coming.
If you can pull off a real cyclops, that'll be about the coolest thing ever. Get back to me on that.
i was eating general tso chicken once, and didn't realize that i had eaten one of the peppers and gagged...the pepper some how got stuck in my nose...it burned like hell...i was standing outside for about 5 min trying to blow it out of my noseOne time I was eating a chocolate chip cookie with really really big chocolate chunks, and lots of them. It was closer to a chocolate bar than a cookie. Someone said something really funny, and I shot melted chocolate out of my nose. That sucked. It hurt, and my nose was full of chocolate all day. I was blowing my nose continually, and it just kept coming.
this is a stupid thread.
Like you can do better?
Time to start circulating the resume.