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AIBU to object to a customer referring to one of my team as "the bird behind the counter"?

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soundsystem · 05/03/2015 08:06

And WIBU to say something about it?

I work in food retail and got an email from a customer with a suggestion (actually quite a good suggestion). He said he'd "told the bird behind the counter" but she didn't seem interested. To be honest, I suspect his attitude in "telling" her probably contributed to this - she's normally quite receptive to ideas and generally a smiley, polite person.

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IonaMumsnet · 07/03/2015 09:54

Morning all. Just wanted to post a reminder of our Talk Guidelines www.mumsnet.com/info/netiquette and draw your attention to the parts on racist language. We understand that there may not be racist abuse per se going on on this thread but we think that the N-word is pretty much beyond the pale regardless of context. The word does tend to cause offence, understandably, and we have had reports about its use here. We think in this case the important thing is where offence is taken rather than whether it was intended. For that reason we have deleted a few posts where the word was used. If you could refrain from using the term again that would be very helpful.

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