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That's stupid. I smile at literally every person I walk past in my day. It's how I acknowledge them.
Not smiling at people: Telling them to smile.
Yes that part is absurd.
Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about toxic work environment
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Re: Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about toxic work environment
#252Absolute BS. She sent an email to the entire company about this "incident", which I'll include here (names redacted). > 8:53:41 AM Person1: so am I the only one who thinks of the Bed Intruder auto-tune song everytime Person2 warns us of undisclosed persons in the building? > 8:54:47 AM Person3: hide yo wife? > 8:54:57 AM Person1: and yo kids > 8:56:02 AM Person3: well, you're not any more > 8:56:13 AM Person1: #winni…
Person1 should have just held their tongue. Both Person1 and Person4, along with others potentially, would have benefitted from the 8:53:41 AM message merely having never been sent. Can anyone express the argument against this position?
That is the "Heckler's Veto". The notion that if an action leads to a hostile response, then that action is to blame.
For example, in a civil rights march in the deep south in the 60's, police tried to argue it's the marchers fault if people riot.
Yes - had the first message not been sent everyone would have been better off. That does not mean that the initial message bears the blame for what happened.
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Avoiding funny jokes because they might offend someone won’t teach people anything. It’ll just make them feel like they have to suppress what they actually want to say. Most people have a thick enough skin to get over it, so the people around them don’t all have to adjust to their feelings.
funny jokes that are made at the expense of people really don't have any place in the workplace. In comedy there is a concept that anything can be made funny. So, limiting the kinds of jokes you make still leaves you an almost infinite amount of jokes to make :) Sure, people do have thick skins mostly, but you shouldn't rely on that. Again, it's just about being respectful of people.
Yes, but that can’t be done preemptively, see? Anyone I meet could be anything—any religion, any race, even a neo-Nazi for all I know—and it wouldn’t be evident from their appearance. So should I just avoid all jokes that are at anyone’s expense? Isn’t it better to be unafraid about what I say and to apologize if a joke I made was at the expense of someone in the room and they were offended by it? I never intend to offend anyone, but I’ve also had quite a few good-natured laughs at others’ expense without any intention of demeaning them. I don’t see anything wrong with that if I apologize once someone is offended and then avoid making jokes at their expense around them.