Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Target Issued Awesomely Racist Memo to Its Warehouse Managers

Source:
   "Target provided its distribution warehouse managers a document titled, 'Organization Effectiveness, Employee and Labor Relations Multi-Cultural Tips,'" the complaint states. "This document instructs managers to note differences among Hispanic employees, and states the following:
     "a. Food: not everyone eats tacos and burritos;
     "b. Music: not everyone dances to salsa;
     "c. Dress: not everyone wears a sombrero;
     "d. Mexicans (lower education level, some may be undocumented);
     "e. Cubans (Political refugees, legal status, higher education level); and
     "f. They may say 'OK, OK' and pretend to understand, when they do not, just to save face."

This memo had to be a joke gone too far.  I'm picturing a room full of Target execs celebrating the end of some tedious cultural awareness and productivity project with key bumps and whiskey shots.  After a while they're fucked up and someone starts talking about all the "damn Mexicans in these warehouses."  This leads to another exec joking that they should come up with a new cultural awareness memo for the Mexican workers.  From that point, they're just taking turns spitting out Hispanic stereotypes between whiskey pulls and bursts of laughter.  Pretty soon they're blacked out drunk and giving the memo to one of their secretaries to distribute...

That has to be how it went down--cause NO ONE is distributing a memo to remind his managers that "not everyone eats tacos and burritos." No one sober anyway.  "F" deserves special mention though, cause that one is right on point--all my gardeners and cleaning ladies have pulled this shit with me at one time or another.

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