I think Jaclyn’s friend’s boyfriend just got a job with me!
Monday a new guy started at work, and as per company training sat with several people in my department to get an idea of what we do. Within three days he had managed to piss off and offend half a dozen of the people in my department with racist, homophobic, and sexist offhand remarks. The final straw for me was when he said that Real Men™ don’t own cats, and I quote: “Cats are for pussies.”
Clearly the man doesn’t know his audience. In one statement he managed to insult me, my entire cat-owning family, my pets, and my gender, and compound that with layers upon layers of work inappropriateness. My irritation with the argument we had over cuts of steak — in which I was right! right, dammit! and he was wrong! — was trumped by the woman whose children were insulted for being interracial.
Finally somebody mentioned something to a supervisor and harsh words were interdepartmentally exchanged. No word yet on what that actually means.
Wow.
What an idiot.
As I often say, maybe I’m just naive, but I really, really don’t get how someone thinks that kind of behavior goes over well in the workplace.
Woah!
Hesaidwhat?!
That’s… insane.
I’m with Linnaeus, I just don’t understand how some people can think that the words that spill out of their mouths are even close to work appropriate, let alone generally so. How do you resist the urge to throttle people like that? Some days I think my hands are going to move on their own. *sigh*
Might be a good idea for you to report it to a supervisor as well.
Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Please, please just poke him with a stick until he sees sense….