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tehstone  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Words and their use in USA

    Too good a life? I don't hear people being offended much when they have shit to worry about, like not losing one's job or risk being evicted for not paying in time.

I don't think that's entirely it though, but I don't have much to back that up.

    Have you tried explaining the situation to the HR personnel? Are they this dumb in reality? It's hard to believe.

Oh yeah, I explained inside and out what was going on and tried explaining the context in which I was upset enough to say what I said (Not to mention I was working in a kitchen, where even my boss would use that kind of language regularly). But to HR, all that mattered was that I had told someone to fuck off and that person had come to them about it.