Saying "Okay Boomer" at work?

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If your employees are using the "OK, Boomer" line on your older employees--including Gen X-ers and Silent Generations (what Shatner is), it can create a "hostile work environment." 

if you have an employee, of any age, dropping the "OK, Boomer" line against any employee who is over the age of 40, you have to take it seriously. You can't dismiss it as a harmless banter. Just the same way you wouldn't dismiss it if someone said, "OK, Mexican." It doesn't matter whether the employee is a Mexican or not, or whether the target of "OK Boomer" is a Baby Boomer or not. One time is a joke, but it can lead to patterns that create a hostile work environment, putting the company on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

So, you counsel that employee, and if it doesn't stop, you terminate the employee. You'd do the same for someone who continued to mock someone because of their race.

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