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Know what else is unprofessional? A list of funny ethnic names being shared around. Edit: Like even ignoring for a moment how the employees felt about this how

• wutbrodo 5y ago
  It's unprofessional regardless, but I don't believe it was ethnic names in particular: > current employees were so mortified by the practice that none of them would give me a single example of a name on the list. One invoked the sorts of names Bart Simpson used to use when prank calling Moe the Bartender: Amanda Hugginkiss, Seymour Butz, Mike Rotch. > Many of the names were of American or European origin. But others were Asian, or African, and eventually the list — titled “Best Names Ever” — began to make people uncomfortable. What once had felt like an innocent way to blow off steam, amid the ongoing cultural reckoning over speech and corporate responsibility, increasingly looked inappropriate, and often racist. [1] [1] From the link dang shared, above: https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...