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It's a Sunday, a lazy day in our little store. I'm on shift with three other people in my department. I'm manning the orders desk, I have a coworker I'll call Josie being our drive through gate security, and a guy called Eric working as our floor person and break giver. Now, Josie's Australian, but she's part Malay/Samoan, so you know, she's a bit darker skinned than my lily white butt. Eric is white enough that he looks like someone bleached him. He jokingly gets called Canadian, because of something a customer once said (customer basically said that she just assumes everyone with a foreign accent is Canadian, because nobody's likely to get offended if she's wrong) Eric's nowhere near Canadian.
It's around 4pm, and the three of us are hanging around the desk shooting the shit. It's been pissing down with rain and there aren't any customers, so we're not too stressed about looking busy.
We're laughing at something Eric's said to me (some horribly inappropriate joke, Eric and I are both from cultures that have had a pretty big beef in the past, more on that later), when this real...derro sort of guy ducks under our exit gate and comes chicken strutting into the store. Real trailer trashy meth head looking dude, an I.Q. to match his few remaining teeth. Not the sort of guy that attacks people, the sort of guy that gets really mouthy for no reason and wets himself when anything vaguely threatening happens near him.
Josie lets him know that in future, he has to go through the entrance, since what he did could get him hit by a car. Mr rat tail...well, he doesn't take that so well.
He yells "Fuck off you fuckin' *derogatory name for Asian people*! Go back to your own fuckin' country!
Josie and I just kinda stare at the guy because what? She doesn't even look vaguely Asian.
Eric laughs at the guy. Guy gets agitated and starts chicken bobbing his head.
"What's so fuckin' funny dickhead?"
Eric: "I'm the only non Australian here and you told the completely wrong person to go home!"
Rat-tail Derro: "Go fuck yourself you Canadian cunt!" He scarpers off as Eric stands straight, looking offended, but the damage is done. Josie and I are now halfway to wetting ourselves laughing. Eric is German.
TL;DR Guy comes in and calls an Australian girl a racial slur that doesn't even apply to her. tells her to go home. Actual foreign coworker laughs and points out the stupidity. German coworker gets called Canadian and told to go fuck himself.
Much confusion and hilarity.
As for the cultural thing: Half my family is Jewish. Eric is German. Our boss tried to keep either of us from interacting for a long time just in case I somehow took offense to German people existing, I guess, but we get along like a house on fire. To the point that we tell really off colour jokes to each other about our cultures. He's a scat loving cannibal porn fiend, I'm a money grubbing agent of the illuminati, that sort of thing. We do, of course, keep this sort of thing away from customers and coworkers.
It's around 4pm, and the three of us are hanging around the desk shooting the shit. It's been pissing down with rain and there aren't any customers, so we're not too stressed about looking busy.
We're laughing at something Eric's said to me (some horribly inappropriate joke, Eric and I are both from cultures that have had a pretty big beef in the past, more on that later), when this real...derro sort of guy ducks under our exit gate and comes chicken strutting into the store. Real trailer trashy meth head looking dude, an I.Q. to match his few remaining teeth. Not the sort of guy that attacks people, the sort of guy that gets really mouthy for no reason and wets himself when anything vaguely threatening happens near him.
Josie lets him know that in future, he has to go through the entrance, since what he did could get him hit by a car. Mr rat tail...well, he doesn't take that so well.
He yells "Fuck off you fuckin' *derogatory name for Asian people*! Go back to your own fuckin' country!
Josie and I just kinda stare at the guy because what? She doesn't even look vaguely Asian.
Eric laughs at the guy. Guy gets agitated and starts chicken bobbing his head.
"What's so fuckin' funny dickhead?"
Eric: "I'm the only non Australian here and you told the completely wrong person to go home!"
Rat-tail Derro: "Go fuck yourself you Canadian cunt!" He scarpers off as Eric stands straight, looking offended, but the damage is done. Josie and I are now halfway to wetting ourselves laughing. Eric is German.
TL;DR Guy comes in and calls an Australian girl a racial slur that doesn't even apply to her. tells her to go home. Actual foreign coworker laughs and points out the stupidity. German coworker gets called Canadian and told to go fuck himself.
Much confusion and hilarity.
As for the cultural thing: Half my family is Jewish. Eric is German. Our boss tried to keep either of us from interacting for a long time just in case I somehow took offense to German people existing, I guess, but we get along like a house on fire. To the point that we tell really off colour jokes to each other about our cultures. He's a scat loving cannibal porn fiend, I'm a money grubbing agent of the illuminati, that sort of thing. We do, of course, keep this sort of thing away from customers and coworkers.
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