Working with a racist sexist co worker

[Old Greg]

If he's a contractor, then terminate his contract.

The problem I have at present is with permies who are useless, have no social skills and no other project to off load them to. Harder to deal with.

Man up FFS! Every contractor knows that the correct procedure is to have a 1-2-1 meeting with the offending permie and then run blubbing to HR that s/he touched your front bottom.

[Pondlife]

Before people waste too much effort on this. It isn't a real situation, as OS pointed out.

Ta

Pondy

[mudskipper]

Before people waste too much effort on this. It isn't a real situation, as OS pointed out.

Ta

Pondy

Well if you're going to waste our time with your made up fantasy situations, then why not waste HR's time too? If he's your direct report then either tell him how it is yourself, or get HR involved. If he's not, then snigger at him behind his back. Either way I'm sure you can ingratiate yourselves with the ladies by emphathising with what a cock he is.

[Mich the Tester]

An easy question. You have to involve HR now. If you don't then you are in the firing line. Literally.

WHS, because before long somebody who's the subject of his jokes will involve HR and then you're in deep tulip.

[EternalOptimist]

Before people waste too much effort on this. It isn't a real situation, as OS pointed out.

Ta

Pondy

oh. is it one of them Parody thingies ?

[bobspud]

All the teams that I have built have had a racist/sexist element. Most would put Bernard to shame. I make sure I have mixed teams and just let hell rip with as much offensive stuff as possible. Of note the Indians loved taking the piss out of the white guys. The office banter is enough to make HR cry but it only tends to last a few weeks. What is left is a remarkably tight team that works better than any HR driven crap because everyone REALLY respects each other as humans.

[TestMangler]

It must be a real situation There's a bloke in my team who constantly rhymes off Bernard Manning style gags, calls the female members of the team 'Luv' while telling them to 'Go get some tea, the men are talking' and slapping their arses occasionally.

Unfortunately, it's me

[CoolCat]

The biggest real life problems I see:

1 ex public school boys talking down to folk with humbler accents on the assumption that they must by lower in the pecking order

2 on defence projects: ex colonels talking down to ex NCO's despite the fact both left the military years ago and their old rank has little bearing on their current roles

3 Indian outsourcers being vigourously racists, caste on caste AND anti British

[Mich the Tester]

The biggest real life problems I see:

1 ex public school boys talking down to folk with humbler accents on the assumption that they must by lower in the pecking order

Yep, but why do people consider their accents to be 'humbler' than a public school accent?

[Scrag Meister]

Well if you're going to waste our time with your made up fantasy situations, then why not waste HR's time too? If he's your direct report then either tell him how it is yourself, or get HR involved. If he's not, then snigger at him behind his back. Either way I'm sure you can ingratiate yourselves with the ladies by emphathising with what a cock he has.

FTFY