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I shit you not, my manager just told me this when discussing holding a brown bag lunch learning session where people bring their own lunch.

The joys of working on corporate America

I shit you not, my manager just told me this when discussing holding a brown bag lunch learning session where people bring their own lunch. The joys of working on corporate America

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[–] doggone 3 points (+3|-0)

If there's one good thing to come out of this, it's that all future lunch meetings will be catered.

I've never even heard of a slur that used the word bag. I really want to know what they hope to accomplish here. Has there been a history of people in your workplace calling others brown bags?

[–] ScorpioGlitch 2 points (+2|-0)

Douchebag.

Old bag.

[–] Justintoxicated 0 points (+0|-0)

Well if your whole team is going to "douche bag it" in a meeting you might be in the porn industry.

[–] 8675309 2 points (+2|-0)

What if someone packs a lunch in a brown paper bag? Is the bag offensive to other bags?

[–] Boukert 2 points (+2|-0)

Did you ask if you could keep drinking your coffee black, or should you add some milk to diversify?

[–] jobes [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I hope my coffee isn't a micro-aggression against my darker co-workers

[–] Butler_crosley 2 points (+2|-0)

Just as long as you don't say something along the lines of "I like my coffee black, same as how I like my underlings."

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

Why did they say it was offensive?

[–] jobes [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

No reason given to us, they only specifically told managers I guess

[–] CDanger 2 points (+2|-0)

When nonsense like this comes along, I've found it useful to act confused and ask "why?" and then act like you still don't understand whatever bs explanation and keep pushing them when they inevitably dance around since there isn't really a logically consistent reason behind these kinds of things. It's also enjoyable to see them squirm and try to carefully select the words to avoid any number of forbidden words while still trying to put together sentences that make sense. I guess they've caught on and learned to preemptively shutdown inquisitive troublemakers though.

[–] jobes [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Well the problem is my manager that told me doesn't speak English as a first language and has only been in the US for about a year and I have to constantly explain to him what all the stupid diversity stuff is because he doesn't understand it, so questioning to him wouldn't do anything. He didn't seem to know why either