Customers Easily Offended by Shirts

[Sacman]

as well as the Monty Python Shirt

Spoiler: It's Just a Flesh Wound...

I want it. *Jealous drool*.

t'was $7 at Wal-mart...

 

[CaseySmith]

This culture of unwarranted self-importance for being offended, never ceases to amaze me.


That woman with the shirt could of been really hard off, and paying off debts etc... And that evil hag could have totally ruined her life because she's a kid who can't take being offended. I got over being offended by words when I was 16; it's a part of growing up, or at least I THOUGHT it was.

I bet she didn't think of the damage she could have caused through her being offended did she? This is why you push people down flights of stairs.

 

[Elburzito]

I get confronted about what I wear all the time. I just tell them that I don't give a flying shite about their opinion and that I can wear what I want.

 

[Sampler]

Our HR Manager's been giving me grief recently about wearing shorts at work, they're baggy cargo pant style ones so it's not like I'm flashing a banana hammock or falling out of them. I cycle to work so damned if I'll wear trousers and have them eaten by the open chain on my road bike, she doesn't work fridays so I don't bothered to get changed only one day she came in and caught me (btw she'd been on holiday for a fortnight before that so I wore shorts all the time, my manager, the ceo - no one had a problem with me wearing shorts, just this uppity cow) so she arranged for a meeting the monday she was back in - so I wore my ThinkGeek binary t-shirt, basically says "you are dumb" in binary across the front.

Couldn't help but snicker to myself as she went on about how my shorts could be offensive to customer (I'm a data analyst, it's a non-customer facing role, hell there's a layer of management between me and the rest of the company so I don't see half the staff never mind customers) whilst wearing a t-shirt that would be offensive to anyone who could read it and she didn't even notice.

Reading that back it does make me sound like a kid doesn't, for clarification I'm nearly thirty. Maybe I should take her advice and grow up a bit..

 

[keve4433]

My
http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/video_games/jesus_saves.html?catid=1&cs=19&csd=jesus+saves#bigdesign
and
http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/video_games/fetch_flesh.html?catid=3&cs=2&csd=3#bigdesign
shirts have gotten me strange looks.

OT:
I just think that lady had a bug up her ass.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Firstly, proofread your posts. Your grammar and spelling are atrocious.

Secondly, find something interesting to write about. Humans being overly sensitive stories are almost as common as humans being bastards stories. The difference is that the latter tend to actually be entertaining.

So I take it they gave you your own knife when you were done with camp?

OT: Honestly the women should have minded her own business, your friend was there on her time off, basically as a customer, so she could wear what she wanted to.

Firstly, proofread your posts. Your grammar and spelling are atrocious.

Secondly, find something interesting to write about. Humans being overly sensitive stories are almost as common as humans being bastards stories. The difference is that the latter tend to actually be entertaining.

How about stories where people don't find value in any activity apart from complaining because they have nothing better to do? You bring shame to the name of spelling and grammar nazis. Seriously, what the fuck is the point in you even responding to this thread? It's only worthwhile blasting somebody about mistakes when they're trying to pass themselves off as an intellectual.

OT: The old lady is like Extraintrovert here. She most likely has personal issues that make her very unsettled about her own life and lashes out at others without much cause or reason. If your boss has any sense he will promise the little old pervert to have a word with his staff and then mention it casually to your friend. If he has a backbone of course.

Guys, he's a troll, just let him do his thang, or RAMO.

 

[Cazza]

Off time do what you want imo. Well not whatever don't say your workplace sucks or whatever. I have heard cases of people getting fired because a co worker/boss found a image on FB of an empolyee with a "sexy" shirt or whatever. It was unfortunate your co worker was Identified as a worker of your work. Everyone needs to be careful of this problem.

But you as an awesome co worker didn't tell the manager or downplayed it the best you could right?

 

[not_the_dm]

Sounds like the woman had a superiority complex.

On a lighter note, the best t-shirt I have ever seen is this one;

Spoiler

It says; "The fuuniest thing about this shirt is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late for you to stop reading it you dumb ****"

 

[fullbleed]

I have a badge that says "Goths Are Ridiculous" that has caused some offense in the past but I don't care, I just think it's funny when someone gets offended over something so insignificant. I was talking to the guy who I bought it off in Camden and he was telling me how the t-shirt that he the most flak for selling is one that says "Vegans are Attention Seekers".

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I used to rock a bunch of cannibal corpse shirts and stuff and I could understand people complaining about it. I don't think they were right but I can understand it. I mean my shirts had like decapitation on them and stuff, but now I wear skate shirts (since I work at a skate shop) and I've actually walked into another skate shop and the guy told me "Get that shit off your body, Element (a skate company) sucks. Rip it up and I'll give you a free one." and I actually told him him where he can shove his suggestion. I like Element, he doesn't. So what. But apparently he wants me to destroy a shirt I like so he can give me one he likes for free, but it's not the shirt he doesn't like, it's the brand, oh noes, I'm wearing a brand you don't like, better get that shit off me, right?!

I think he just wanted to get the shirt off you. =P

But to address the original topic, the only time I have ever confronted somebody about a choice of fashion was a girl who was falling out of her shirt. I just asked her to cover up. Those death metal shirts really don't bother me.

Hi! I saw you were new, so I'd like to welcome you to the escapist!

We don't like low content or offensive posts, but you seem nice so I don't think that's an issue. You also figured out how to quote people, which is great. I've seen people with hundreds of posts not know how to do that.

I'd recommend that you join some user groups, like this one. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Aardvarks-Anonymous] It's a pretty odd group, but funny.

Also, I also suggest you get an avatar. Here's a good place for them. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/The-Avatar-Store-New-and-Second-Hand] What you do is join the group, and then ask for one you like, make sure to say thank you. They have a little thing about how to get one, in case I'm not being specific, I've never got one from there.

Have fun!

OT: Fuck, who the hell would complain about that?

 

[s0denone]

Hello there, guy.

Why the hell didn't you just tell the old lady that your co-worker wasn't currently on a shift? She most likely thought so, and was therefore enraged as your co-worker was by no stretch of the imagination in proper "uniform".

 

[CouchCommando]

Try wearing a hammer and sickle shirt and see how many people confront you for been a .....NAZI wtf?

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Try wearing a hammer and sickle shirt and see how many people confront you for been a .....NAZI wtf?

What redneck could say that? Oh well, human stupidity isn't something new. A person once answered in "Who wants to be a millionaire" that an elephant was bigger than the moon.

People are easily offended, indeed. I don't have any offensive shirts. I have one though that says: "My parents told me I could be anyone I wanted so I became an asshole".

 

[CouchCommando]

Try wearing a hammer and sickle shirt and see how many people confront you for been a .....NAZI wtf?

What redneck could say that? Oh well, human stupidity isn't something new. A person once answered in "Who wants to be a millionaire" that an elephant was bigger than the moon.

People are easily offended, indeed. I don't have any offensive shirts. I have one though that says: "My parents told me I could be anyone I wanted so I became an asshole".

Admittedly I was in a public school in a housing area. Funnily enough it wasn't a redneck it was a self proclaimed rastafarian lol

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Admittedly I was in a public school in a housing area. Funnily enough it wasn't a redneck it was a self proclaimed rastafarian lol

Well that explains everything.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

I have one that says "I Put The Fun In Funeral", and another that says "Rock Out With Your Cock Out". I also have one that says, "Heroin; It's A Bit Moreish".

 

[Blueruler182]

Well, at work, my grandma (yes I work with my grandma) got uppity about one of the waitresses wearing cleavage tops on a regular basis. But a shirt with an owl and some words that may be conveyed as offensive? And while you're not working? Sounds like the lil old lady's a little over the top.

EDIT: The most offensive shirt I own is a shirt of Wolverine, which might be thought of as unprofessional, but I'm a delivery driver, so furked if I care.

Screw working with your grandmother, you own a Wolverine T-shirt? That's freakin' awesome, xD

(I'm a sucker for Marvel)




(In more ways than one)




(Hope someone found that offensive)

I wouldn't say "offensive" as "possibly hopeful" dependent on gender.

Yeah, apparently I'm enough of a Marvel geek that when one of my mom's friends went to San Francisco they saw a Marvel store and thought of me. So I got the most badass Wolverine shirt there is.