Comment about someone's race at work: big deal or not?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

39. Yep. The person who makes the "joke" now has a bag of trouble floating in the air.

And alli it takes is someone, maybe someone with a grudge, to cash it in.

A friend of mine got fired for saying an ice cream cake looked like a big black d-ck. I used to work with her. She and some of the other gay guys (I'm gay) would play gab ass in the office. I was smart enough to stay out of it.

Anyway, she went to Countrywide as a branch manager. She had disciplined a loan officer for lying to a customer about a loan lock that ended up costing the loan officer a lot of money in charge backs. All of the sudden the joke she made months earlier about the cake caused the loan officer to feel like he was in a hostile work environment so he reported her to HR.

Was that bull shit? Absolutely. But try explaining that to the lawyers. They usually don't get the joke. And there was no denying she said what she said.