Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
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SubwayDunno if its true. But in Subway the workers are called "sandwich artists". What a loada shit.
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itsthebttower, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 13:44,
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Its trueI went out with a lass who used to work at one of the many we have here in Nottingham and they where officially named artists and if anyopne said otherwise they got bollocked
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Surely incorrectThe word artist implies that the person has some level of creativity in their job. Sarnie slingers are making the sandwiches to set recipies / instructions and are surely awarded as little creative licence as possible?
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A local Michelin-starred restaurant.......advertised for a hydro-ceramic technician.
He does the washing-up.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:04,
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The reason for this is to make people think they have better jobs than they do.It has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness.
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Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:42,
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I worked there for a monthWe were called sandwich artists. To be fair, I did try and make my sandwiches aesthetically pleasing, because I'm that kind of person.
There was one guy there who, despite this word being displayed at least 5 times in the shop, and the same number again around the prep table, insisted on spelling 'Steak' as 'Stake'. He was also hilariously racist. Since the part of Blackburn we were in had a higher than average muslim population, who obviously didn't eat most of the meat we had, we always offered to change our gloves.
In case we had touched ham....(badum tish)
He used to complain about this in front of the customers.
"Why do we have to do this anyway? Can't you just eat the meat? Is it really that bad?"
I might not believe in Allah, I might think your beliefs are stupid, but I bloody well respect them.
Plus, I'm sure they put crack in it at some point... I'm addicted now.
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Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:19,
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