Hell in the Work Place

[Geek_Girl]

Working in a cubicle office environment you can't help but overhear peoples conservations. When the NO started flooding I overheard my manager say "they need to shoot the looters." Today I overheard someone complaining about Jesse Jackson. I've read op ed's from a local news website complaining about evacuees coming to our town. I'm pissed off to and I don't think I can take seeing one more Bush sticker, or here one more comment from co-workers with racist overtones. I can't take it anymore I feel like I'm going to explode.

:cry:

[Ce qui la baise]

1. I'm sorry, They are ignorant & heartless. This so sucks

[Mountainman]

2. You should put of a donation box for the victims in your cubie

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. If they can make racist comments

Why can't you say that you think the comments bare racist? Is one any less offensive than the other? If someone makes a racist comment to you, just say that you think it is racist to say that.

[chalky]

4. I got that "shoot the looters" comment last week , too.

I stared at the woman who made that declaration and said, "So which one would you shoot first--the one taking the Huggies, or the one taking the baby formula?"

She looked stricken and shut up immediately--but not sure if it was because she was digesting what I'd asked, or was practicing caution in the face of having me, a black woman, looking back at her with the wrath of God in my eyes.