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Said something offensive at work today… now worried!

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JumbleBrain · 13/11/2025 23:46

Today I was talking about my accent being tricky for people who don’t speak English as a first language, to understand, but I said the word ‘foreigners’. I have lived in multiple countries and genuinely never use that word and I don’t really know how I happened to say it, but there were a couple of senior colleagues there and now I’m really worried. The context was about my own accent being a pain, but I’m worried now that what I’ve said was worded awfully. The word somehow came out before I even realised I had said it. Am I overthinking this?

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exaltedwombat · 15/11/2025 11:26

Your only fault was grammatical. The term is ‘Bloody foreigners’.

TheCheekySloth · 15/11/2025 18:57

I dont think you should worry op.
But in society now it hard to speak up crack a joke or even have an opinion because we will be called a racist for doing so.

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