“I work at one of these places that’s so woke it’s kinda racist,” the joke reads in part. “Like this lady asked my boss, she’s like ‘Yo, does Jad consider himself a person of color?’ because she was making a list of us. Fucking hell? Sick, alright. I get to be in this lady’s brown dude Pokédex.”
lol
The arbitrator was not a fan across the board. They found that one joke was “insightful, principled and serious, but not very funny.” Sleiman said he was disappointed by this review.
This is widespread, one of the Amazon building coordinators I met at one of my old jobs pointed to one of her employees across the room and referred to him as "that brown guy". My coworker was completely silent so I simply reiterated "that brown guy" and she briefly tried to laugh it off then acted busy again and left. At least it made her stop talking to us about how she hadn't prepared for the event.
Burgerland white collar corpo jobs are like this. As far as they’re concerned, you represent the corpo image. They put you through training and make you sign agreements to this effect. You need to get permission slips to open your mouth in public. Even code monkeys like me get this treatment.
