(November 29, 2024 at 12:55 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Either that or, if an employer says something sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or what have you, to an employee, said employee should just take it up the ass and not complain.
Correct.
If they harass you - i.e. continue to say these things around you after you have explicitly told them not to - you are in the right to complain to your boss for harassment. If it was an intentional "trolling" harassment, they should be fired on the spot without further question.
Otherwise, you are free to ignore it.
Coworkers said *plenty* of things I found offensive over the years, but I just ignored them, did my job, went home and ate my dinner. It's not hard, it really isn't.