When the workers in your office decides to order Chinese food for lunch

[Orrex]

Is there a certain fraction of them who feel compelled to chatter in obnoxious faux-Chinese accents for the next hour or so?


Or does this only happen in my office?

[malta blue]

1. only in your office....

[Orrex]

6. How fortunate I am to have a front row seat at such cutting edge vaudeville!

Truly an enlightened time to be alive in western Pennsylvania.

[tigereye]

11. I live in PIttsburgh, and I haven't heard anyone do that since high school

when we didn't know any better...

[Orrex]

15. You're right--I shouldn't disparage the region as a whole

Nor even the entirety of my office. Just a few irrepressible wits who simply can't keep their overwhelming hilarity to themselves.

[TZ]

2. Uh, ..only there I think

Actually we are going out for Chinese today in awhile..but I can say (especially since we have several Chinese people in our group) that's not happening..
:yoiks:
Sorry you have to work with such jackasses...x(

[Orrex]

4. Me so solly, no have flied lice

Hardy har har. I swear it never gets old.


When I managed a sub shop a few years back, I worked with a woman from Hong Kong who was terribly self-conscious about her accent, which had a British tinge to it and was IMO quite charming.

A coworker once made fun of her diction, and she was reduced nearly to tears.

I spoke with her about it shortly afterwards:

Me: Don't let him make you feel bad about yourself. I mean, you speak how many languages? Three?
Her: Five.
Me: And he can barely speak one, so he has no business making fun of how anyone talks.

It seemed to help a little.


Anyway, I cringe every time the Charlie Chan crowd pops up in the office.
:mad::mad::mad::mad:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. only in your office

[Orrex]

5. Figures. Just my luck.

Can I scream at them?

[I Have A Dream]

7. Not in my office, and I also live in western Pennsylvania.

Sorry that you have to put up with that. x(

[Orrex]

8. Are you hiring?

If you need dirty limericks or clever variations of the Brazillions joke, you'll find no one better qualified, I assure you!

[quip]

17. Perhaps one of them penned this gem:

I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.

Short line.

Just one lady in front of me . . an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and she was a little irritated . . .

She asked the teller, "Why it change?? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I get hunat eighty?? Why it change?"

The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations" .

The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people, too".

[LibertyLover]

9. Not where I work -

some of them will be chattering in real Chinese accents, and not just for an hour.

[tigereye]

10. eek!

that seems pretty uncool. Are there any Asian- Americans present? Seems like that would be pretty insensitive...


I've never heard anyone do that, but...

Considering we live in a city where you can hear pretty much any accent (well in Oakland, Squirrel Hill or downtown).... you would think they wouldn't do that

[Orrex]

13. We're pretty uniformly pasty

And I have to admit that it strikes me as that low-grade, dumbassed racial insensitivity rather than deliberate racist cruelty, if that distinction makes any sense at all. So in daily practice you might not guess that the person is a festering boil of bigotry, but when the opportunity presents itself, it's an oh-so-witty free-for-all.

[Parche]

12. This better rice

:woohoo: :hi:

[DS1]

14. I had chinese today

and I didn't speak any different :shrug:

[Orrex]

16. Maybe it wasn't real Chinese?

What else could explain it?

[triguy46]

18. Nope.