re: Phrase “slaving away” offensive to you?

I’m offended. I’m Slavic.

No you didn’t.

I wouldn't be shocked if the term did offend some.

Liberals are soft as butter, and nancies

Former LSU player Collis Temple III (who is black) wrote a book: “Work Like a Slave, Think Like a Master: Are You Working Like a Slave Toward Mastery and Thinking Like a Master Toward Your Mission?”

He was once invited to speak to a workplace group, but management canceled it because they got nervous about the slave reference.

Your secretary is retarded and is looking for something to be butthurt over....tell her to STFU and go back to typing

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No, but you shouldn’t use it in a business setting

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Someone said “like white on rice”. I was pretend offended, so I am waiting to hear back from the EEOC on my hostile work environment claim.

What are you talking about? If a term is not offensive and used to mean someone is working hard they should not use the term? If a boss doesn’t like to be referred to as “the boss” because it’s often used when people are complaining, and thus derogatory, am I supposed to stop calling them my boss?

When will this non-sense end? It must be a miserable life trying to make stuff up to be offended by and it belittles things that are actually offensive.

Had a very sternly worded write up for using the term "whipping boy" in room full of peers of which there was an African American gentlemen back in 12...whats funny/sad is that he wasn't offended at all, but... I still got the write up.

About a year later, same AA gentlemen used the term "call a spade a spade" in front of previously mentioned group of peers and nothing was said. A bunch made it a point to bring up my faux pas as an example. They told us to move on.

Perhaps they spoke with him privately but it made the entire group resent the diversity/sensitivity push because it felt one sided.

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What are you talking about? If a term is not offensive and used to mean someone is working hard they should not use the term? If a boss doesn’t like to be referred to as “the boss” because it’s often used when people are complaining, and thus derogatory, am I supposed to stop calling them my boss?

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use it all you want, I dgas

Just don’t complain when the wrong person hears it and reports you to HR

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What about "Jew Him Down" ?

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If you don't, you'll get gypped.

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I like the “I’m working like a Hebrew slave” one myself.

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Black co-worker used that at work the other day. I thought it sounded pretty cool and funny.