Pink slip Santa sucks. I say let's take out the mofo.

WTF, Daniel? Are these people insane? (Rhetorical question. Of course they are.)

Maybe they wanted Daniel to be an EXCELLENT racist?!?!?!

Daniel, I'm so sorry.

Juliana -- I'm glad there is good stuff too. I'm glad you have enough remaining respect and affection to feel good about being a good ER-stayin' egg.

{{Juliana}}

Meant to do that earlier. Got distracted, dunno why.

{{{{{{All da Bitches}}}}}}}}

Where's a llama when you need one?

Where's a llama when you need one?

Get to know the llamas!

Xmas llama!

Christmas Llama

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Daniel, what the fucking fuck???? Are you employers smoking the BAD crack???

Big llama faces over their little llama feet, so cute. Dolly Parton Llama dressed in gold llamee.

Here is the letter I've composed for the Unemployment Office:

An employee who identified herself as part black and several others in our group of people were chatting while processing forms one day. During the conversation various types of nuts came up, and I mentioned I'm glad that we don't use the derogatory term for Brazil nuts any more. Apparently the other employee thought I was trying to compare her to the Brazil nut, and I did not catch this.

She asked what the name was. I repeatedly refused to tell her the old nickname for Brazil nuts.

The next day, in late afternoon, I was again asked by the employee as to the name of the nuts, and again refused several times. Another employee from a different section dropped by and when asked, he immediately said "Oh! N---- Toes!" I was chagrined, but after some discussion, I finally said I had a funny story about how someone made a mistake with the name.

I intended to tell the story about myself at age nine, but being embarrassed, I told it about "a guy." I was going to reveal at the end the moral of the story was that I personally spent time purging it. The story was this: "I have a funny story about when someone realized what they were saying, and accidentally changed the words in mid stream, and made it worse. Instead of just that word and toes, he accidentally said that word and nuts." She didn't get it, so I tried clearing it up, still refusing to use the word. I laughed about my mistake, intending to tell her that guy was me at 9 years old or so, but she took offense.

It turns out she thought I was making a racial joke and using her as the butt of the joke. I tried to apologize for whatever I had said, and asked her to stay and talk about it, but she brushed by saying she was offended and was going home, and said and that it wasn't me. In retrospect, she may have been trying to be sarcastic. I don't know.

I checked with another co worker nearby and said I hoped it wasn't anything I said, and she didn't think so, but I still worried about it, and agonized that she might have misunderstood me. Perhaps it was my high glucose (over 200 three hours later) that day, but I was very confused.

Then two days later, today, I got called into the HR office. Apparently the other employee that sat next to her went in with her to HR and swore a complaint. In their version, somehow I not only compared her to a Brazil nut, but that I had used the term, and then the second day not only used the term, but laughed at her and used it again, including N----- Toes and N----- Nuts.

The whole thing was a complete misunderstanding, and I can't explain why she is saying that I said the words outright. It just isn't true.

I deeply regret the misunderstanding, and wish I had a chance to explain things to her.

Any suggestions that don't involve a time machine, let me know.

ETA: Spelling, and there is no such thing as a "laughing board," that I know of.

So, I've also killed the thread.