Had a customer rant to me about Juneteenth and how "the wrong race got a holiday" and the banks should be open. Dude, you're in a grocery store, please stop being racist to me 😭 I'm being paid minimum wage for this
I mean, I complain about our company’s executives sending out emails about how they want to recognize the importance of Juneteenth, but that’s because they send it just a few days after the email reminding us that it isn’t a paid holiday and anyone taking the day off has to use a vacation day or work a different holiday. I’m not even black, but it definitely feels like they want credit for acknowledging it’s existence while their actions are saying “it’s not a real holiday”
That's still better than my alma mater trying to send out "Winter Greetings" and acting like it was a "happy holidays"-type letter without trying to offend anyone by saying the wrong thing. It could have literally been titled December Newsletter and then at least it'd sound less like a robot wrote it (obvs this was before LLMs did write emails). Anyone who didn't celebrate Christmas or Kwanzaa wasn't getting their holiday off of scheduled classes, either.
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u/derailing-ruby Aug 07 '26
Had a customer rant to me about Juneteenth and how "the wrong race got a holiday" and the banks should be open. Dude, you're in a grocery store, please stop being racist to me 😭 I'm being paid minimum wage for this