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Then maybe they should have used the extra five brain cycles to decide to offer a pork chop dinner instead.

oh_sigh 7y ago
Person A: Do you want to get tacos for lunch? Person B: Sure - goes to taco stand - Person A: 3 tacos please Person B: I'll take the enchiladas Person A: Oh my god, we were supposed to be getting tacos for lunch. How could you do this to me?
- bastawhiz 7y ago
  The metaphor doesn't work. You wouldn't dangle a steak dinner as a reward to a group of people who you could reasonably assume were mostly vegan. The intended reward _is_ the steak, because steak is expensive and delicious when prepared well. Yes, you could order a nice salad, but don't you think it sort of misses the point? It's not on the employee to enjoy the reward they're being offered, it's on the management to pick a reward that's valued by the employee. And sometimes, that means having even a tiny bit of cultural sensitivity.
  - oh_sigh 7y ago
    'Steak dinner' is an American English idiom for 'a nice meal'. And it isn't culturally sensitive to assume that a group of Indians are vegans.
    - kyllo 7y ago
      That's debatable, I'm American and would take an offer of a "steak dinner" to literally mean steak. Even presupposing you're correct that it's generally understood by Americans as an idiom, assuming that non-Americans understand American idioms is a form of ignorance, if not deliberate arrogance. No one's saying "assume they are vegans," we're saying "don't assume they eat meat." Big difference.
    - egypturnash 7y ago
      I'm American and if someone offered me "a steak dinner" I would expect to be taken to a steakhouse, where steak was pretty much the only item on the menu.
    - bastawhiz 7y ago
      I'm American, and if someone told me they're taking me out for a steak dinner, I'd immediately assume we were going to a steakhouse. It couldn't be any less of an idiom. If they took me out for pork chops, I would be completely and utterly confused.

Person A: Do you want to get tacos for lunch? Person B: Sure - goes to taco stand - Person A: 3 tacos please Person B: I'll take the enchiladas Person A: Oh my god, we were supposed to be getting tacos for lunch. How could you do this to me?

bastawhiz 7y ago
The metaphor doesn't work. You wouldn't dangle a steak dinner as a reward to a group of people who you could reasonably assume were mostly vegan. The intended reward _is_ the steak, because steak is expensive and delicious when prepared well. Yes, you could order a nice salad, but don't you think it sort of misses the point? It's not on the employee to enjoy the reward they're being offered, it's on the management to pick a reward that's valued by the employee. And sometimes, that means having even a tiny bit of cultural sensitivity.
- oh_sigh 7y ago
  'Steak dinner' is an American English idiom for 'a nice meal'. And it isn't culturally sensitive to assume that a group of Indians are vegans.
  - kyllo 7y ago
    That's debatable, I'm American and would take an offer of a "steak dinner" to literally mean steak. Even presupposing you're correct that it's generally understood by Americans as an idiom, assuming that non-Americans understand American idioms is a form of ignorance, if not deliberate arrogance. No one's saying "assume they are vegans," we're saying "don't assume they eat meat." Big difference.
  - egypturnash 7y ago
    I'm American and if someone offered me "a steak dinner" I would expect to be taken to a steakhouse, where steak was pretty much the only item on the menu.
  - bastawhiz 7y ago
    I'm American, and if someone told me they're taking me out for a steak dinner, I'd immediately assume we were going to a steakhouse. It couldn't be any less of an idiom. If they took me out for pork chops, I would be completely and utterly confused.