Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Inappropriate Comments

To: All Employees
From: HR Department
Re: Inappropriate Comments

It has come to our attention that some employees have made inappropriate comments about a co-worker's decision to shave his head. Referring to that worker as looking "all Holocausty" or "like he just finished his chemotherapy treatments" is insensitive to the many victims of the Holocaust (including Jews, Catholics, Soviet POWs, Gypsies, disabled and mentally ill people, gay men, Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as well as cancer victims and survivors. It is always better to take a positive tone. For example, "Jim certainly has an interesting new look."

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