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It really depends on the degree to which your co-workers and clients lack a sense of humor. For example, in the early 00's I was working for a company that bui
by hahamrfunnyguy 4y ago
It really depends on the degree to which your co-workers and clients lack a sense of humor.
For example, in the early 00's I was working for a company that built a lot of CMS sites. One of the test images my co-worker used was Yoda driving a go-kart. A customer got offended, so we were instructed to use really boring images that just had the word "test" on them.
- gw99 4y agoSome people are waiting to be offended. I used Mighty Boosh as a test image a couple of years back and was told off for it. https://imgur.com/a/hOfmKpy https://imgur.com/a/hOfmKpy
- osrec 4y agoWhat about Yoda driving a go-kart is even remotely offensive?! A client being offended at something like that is a bit of a red flag for me...
- prange 4y agoPerhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5a355dfae4b01d429cc943c2 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...
- Rebelgecko 4y agoSince their story happened 20 years ago its probably not related, but Reddit banned r/LegoYoda because of the captions on some photos of Yoda driving a 2003 Honda Civic.
- hahamrfunnyguy 4y ago"It's completely unprofessional." is about what their reaction was.
- throwup 4y agoI once got in trouble for using Bacon Ipsum as placeholder terms and conditions, since the client's project manager was vegan. I wish I was joking. https://baconipsum.com/?paras=5&type=all-meat&start-with-lorem=1 https://baconipsum.com/?paras=5&type=all-meat&start-with-lor...
- mynameisvlad 4y agoThis one I can kind of understand. Moreso than the Yoda one. There’s a good chance at least one piece of copy will be missed when replacing the placeholder text, and for a vegan company, that can easily cause outrage for their customers since it’s just full of meat products. There are a lot of reasons for people being vegan and some hold incredibly strong beliefs on meat products.
- throwup 4y agoTo be clear, it wasn't a vegan company or even anything related to food -- it was a shipping company. There just happened to be someone who worked there who was an outspoken vegan.
- myko 4y agoOne time I built a product demo-ing a physician directory, I used pictures of Dr. Strange, Mr. T as Dr. T, Zoidberg–it was comedy gold. Boss made me use boring stock photos instead :(