> A coworker and I were de-duping records in a database. One of us said while pairing on the script "well, every slave needs a master."

> An african american woman in the office turned to us and said "maybe it's the master who needs the slave?"

> She wasn't really offend or anything and she said it with a sincere smile. She was just calling out our idiotic computer lingo for what it was.

So, neither excluded nor offended. But it was still in bad taste.