Then you need to have a speak with someone in HR. (ed: to understand the impact) Attorneys on the other side of the courtroom dream of the payouts such a "comedic" situation would provide.

Unless you’re a woman.

At an old job of mine, we'd all often work at golf courses, in a fenced area, thus we had a mountain of golf balls everywhere in the shop.

We'd always play a game where you'd throw a golf ball at the shop floor, trying to bounce it into the nuts of your coworker. I'd never even think of playing something like that in an office.

I worked blue collar jobs for a long time and I was always offended by the kind of speech you mention. I just didn’t say anything because I needed the work and didn’t want to become a target.

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Eh, it can be but often times there's people in the wings cringing.

Reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain really opened my eyes up to how different the work place is at different class levels in modern society.

I used to believe this, too, and participated in this type of humor... I thought it was ok, because no one took it seriously.

I realized later I was just not seeing the people who felt excluded by this type of humor.

>In a blue collar work place welders are dumb, electricians are gay, jokes about wives and girlfriends are fair game and a suction cup didlo is a tool of endless comedic potential, not a HR disaster waiting to happen.

Dunno what kind of lousy shops you worked at but nobody ever did anything like that at the granite shop I worked at for 5 years, nobody did that kind of stuff in the landscaping crews I worked on.

> These people aren't any more racist or sexist or whatever than anyone else. They're just willing to crack jokes about a hell of a lot of stuff that would make most white collar employees cringe.

I wouldn't cringe if I heard off-color jokes at an auto repair garage.

I think I'd call the police if I saw a bunch of dipshits sitting around a workstation, targeting random women from the other room with facial recognition software to share degrading posts about them being receptacles for their own sexual gratification.

Aside from TV sitcoms and online forum caricatures, I haven't a clue what that kind of sociopathy has to do with blue collar workers.

There is a massive spectrum of juvenile behavior out there in workplaces. I've worked in a place where overt, graphic (often disgusting) harassment happened regularly, and I've also worked in a place where even making what you thought was an innocuous wisecrack would probably get you fired. Obviously the former is totally unacceptable and probably illegal, and the latter is stifling and feels oppressive. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and where it gets drawn is not necessarily the same at every place you can possibly work. There is not one line that fits all companies. Where the line gets drawn can and does depend on the existing workplace culture, the industry, the job function, the country, and the law. There is a legal/illegal point on the spectrum that the company definitely doesn't want to go near. There's a "reputational disaster" point that most companies also don't want to go near. On the other side of the line, there's the "exceedingly woke" point that you won't see outside of multi-national corporations and silicon valley. Most office workplaces draw the line somewhere in the middle, where you basically are expected to treat people thoughtfully and pleasantly, with dignity, respect, assume good intentions, behave like an adult, etc. You know, the "no assholes" rule.

Also, nurses are apparently extremely "out there" culture wise.

Source: several friends (mostly female, some male) who are nurses. Their environments sound deeply toxic, and super political.