A graduate who spent three years toiling away at Burger King has told his employers exactly what he thinks of them after accepting a place at law school.

The unnamed American sent the following memo to his colleagues:

     

One of the recipients posted it on the website Passive Aggressive, so it's now had a rather wider audience than originally intended. Note the casual racism and the mild hysteria. Also note that despite saying that he's heading for a "real job", he doesn't appear actually to have one yet, so burning bridges seems a high risk strategy.

   

A racist yesterday


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Comments

Anonymous 19 April 13 11:06

Have you missed off the bit where he is "casually racist"? No? Cos, IMHO it is not casually racist or even racist to point out that people he worked with couldn't speak his (and presumably the company's) operating language.

Please don't think of this as a request to correct any apparently unwarranted slur on your part.

Think of it as query as to whether there is a difference between trolling and casual trolling…

You are better then this.

Please fix (that or publish the bit where he is racist).

Anonymous 19 April 13 11:11

Please help, you have me worried now. Is it still okay if I don't like my colleagues just because I'm a miserable b*****d?

Anonymous 19 April 13 12:04

He'd better sharpen up his grammar before he starts applying for jobs in the law.

Anonymous 19 April 13 15:19

@11:04 - he's American, so criticising grammar and spelling is a little unfair.

Anonymous 19 April 13 16:58

I thought I had good attention to detail, but obviously not. I cannot find any evidence in the letter that the author is racist.

Anonymous 21 April 13 07:04

Cheapest, laziest use of the term "racist" seen this year.

I'd say "come on, ROF, you're better than that", but you're not, are you.

Anonymous 23 April 13 12:56

Interesting comments from ROFers re: casual racism.

Also interesting that this future Supreme Court Justice chose to single out lack of language skills as the reason that he did not like his fellow employees. Not laziness, not rudeness, not incompetence, but poor language skills.

Given the intimate connection between language and race, I am not so sure that ROF isn't misplaced in its use of the term in these circumstances.

Anonymous 25 April 13 15:12

There isn't enough information in the letter to concldue whether its author is racist or not. It could be he felt marginalised because of the langauge bareer, hence, the hatred. But in principle, without more, to "hate" an entire class of persons not because of their attidue, perfomrance, personality, etc. but simply because they do not speak the some language as you is tantamount to racism.

Anonymous 23 May 13 10:56

Wrong use of the word "racism" anyway. If anything, "xenophobia" would have been the correct one. Look it up, RoF, if you don't know what that means.