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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2015, 09:40:00 AM »
Lazy people will go to all sorts of efforts to avoid work. 

This just underscores that all these BS political and social movements are just scam artists looking for a way to get money. 
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #26 on: October 28, 2015, 09:46:38 AM »
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β€œI am taking a vow to ban the word too from my vocabulary.”
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2015, 09:52:01 AM »
It would be too hard for me to work at not using "too" too much. I too am too lazy and too uncaring to be politically correct.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #28 on: October 28, 2015, 10:09:43 AM »
2015 the year everyone got offended by everything. :facepalm:
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Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #29 on: October 28, 2015, 11:42:35 AM »

MSNBC.  Mighty Stupid Nattering Blithering [as used by the Brits as opposed to American slang].

stay safe.

What did the "C" stand for?.....
Impressed yet befogged, they grasped at his vivid leading phrases, seeing only their surface meaning, and missing the deeper current of his thought.

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Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2015, 11:46:46 AM »
What did the "C" stand for?.....

Use your imagination
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2015, 01:13:39 PM »
Well, I'm drunk...
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Re: Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #32 on: October 28, 2015, 01:16:35 PM »
Use your imagination
Can I use BSL's imagination instead? Hers is more entertaining....
Impressed yet befogged, they grasped at his vivid leading phrases, seeing only their surface meaning, and missing the deeper current of his thought.

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #33 on: October 28, 2015, 01:59:03 PM »
I make no effort to not offend people.

Q: If I say Ron Jeremy is a hard worker, is that still somehow racially offensive?
A: I completely ran out of *expletive deleted*s to give.
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Re: Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #34 on: October 28, 2015, 03:08:07 PM »
Can I use BSL's imagination instead? Hers is more entertaining....

You wouldn't be able to handle it. Your brain would be mush in under five minutes.
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« Reply #35 on: October 28, 2015, 03:59:22 PM »
You wouldn't be able to handle it. Your brain would be mush in under five minutes.
Depends on which brain I use..... ;)

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Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2015, 10:00:11 AM »
What did the "C" stand for?.....

Try and keep some modicum of decency in the discussion and this is what you run up against.  :facepalm:

Let's try again, shall we?

MSNBC.  Mighty Stupid Nattering Blithering C***s [as used by the Brits as opposed to American slang].

Is that better?

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Re: Re: Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2015, 10:31:56 AM »
Try and keep some modicum of decency in the discussion and this is what you run up against.  :facepalm:

Let's try again, shall we?

MSNBC.  Mighty Stupid Nattering Blithering C***s [as used by the Brits as opposed to American slang].

Is that better?

stay safe.
Not really.....
Impressed yet befogged, they grasped at his vivid leading phrases, seeing only their surface meaning, and missing the deeper current of his thought.

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #38 on: October 29, 2015, 03:44:14 PM »
Wow, this again.   I think it was OCP where the HR folks said you couldn't use "hard worker" in performance reviews for whatever stupid reason I forget.   "Bias for Action" was the acceptable phrase.

It then became a contest amongst us managers.

"His hard bias for action works to make...."

"She works hard on improving her bias for action..."

"His action for work is biased in accomplishing hard tasks...."

etc.  IIRC, the rule was that all four words had to appear in the same sentence.  Also, every Group Leader had to have "it" at least once in their performance review.  The more stilted the phrasing the better.  


I do remember one of the other managers passing around a comic drawing of  "Bias"  running "for" the office of "Action."  Vote Early and Vote Often.  


Yeah, I had forgotten about that meeting we all had with Charlie.  Another were he sat at his desk with his head in his hands.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #39 on: October 29, 2015, 03:53:34 PM »
Wow, this again.   I think it was OCP where the HR folks said you couldn't use "hard worker" in performance reviews for whatever stupid reason I forget.   "Bias for Action" was the acceptable phrase.

It then became a contest amongst us managers.

"His hard bias for action works to make...."

"She works hard on improving her bias for action..."

"His action for work is biased in accomplishing hard tasks...."

etc.  IIRC, the rule was that all four words had to appear in the same sentence.  Also, every Group Leader had to have "it" at least once in their performance review.  The more stilted the phrasing the better. 


I do remember one of the other managers passing around a comic drawing of  "Bias"  running for the office of "for Action."  Vote Early and Vote Often. 


Yeah, I had forgotten about that meeting we all had with Charlie.  Another were he sat at his desk with his head in his hands.

You can't say "Charlie" anymore.  It's racist.  :P
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #40 on: October 29, 2015, 04:12:08 PM »
Can I lift my nose in the air and say "Charles" in a mock British accent?
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Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
for the motherland.

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #41 on: October 29, 2015, 04:29:28 PM »
Can I lift my nose in the air and say "Charles" in a mock British accent?

I think that's still okay.  For now...
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