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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by manigandham on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:22PM (#20718003)
All of that is subjective. Every single person will have a different interpretation and clearly the colleagues were fine with it. Without knowing what was actually said, there's no objective measure of whether anything even crosses the professional line or if it was this person just finding it personally disagreeable (which seems likely given the rest of the note).

There needs to be some pushback on how far people expect others to constantly read their mind and cater to their level of offense and sensitivity. Otherwise workplaces and society itself will start to grind to a halt.

Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by elefanten on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:41PM (#20718227)
Agreed. With these stories, I tend to think the safest takeaway is "The narrator clearly felt XYZ" rather than "X1, Y2 and Z3 strictly happened"