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What's a colleague said that you wished you had? (lazysoci.al)
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Did someone give a bully a bollocking? Tell higher ups how bad things were? Say something truly hilarious?

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[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not my story, but my mother's. We're Canadian, which is relevant to the story.

A few months ago she was at a large conference in the US for a very large multinational corp. During one of the talks being given, they brought out another Canadian speaker who addressed the fact that there were other Canadians in the crowd.

Behind her, she hears some guy shout "Our 51st State!"

She turns around to him, and very loud tells him "Oh fuck off, I'd rather be dead." He had quite a horrified look on his face.

Turns out he's one of the top Execs at the company. Fast forward to about a week ago, and guess who is visiting the Canadian offices? He received a very cold reception.