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  • M Marc Clifton

    ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

    Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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    Lost User
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    Marc Clifton wrote:

    what would you do?

    Ask him/her how much $ is on the table.

    In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

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      ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

      Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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      R Giskard Reventlov
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      I would sue.

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      • M Marc Clifton

        ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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        Lost User
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        I would make some associations of my own and probably call my lawyer, just to drag such an ... out into the public.

        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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        • M Marc Clifton

          ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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          The crime is against Federal law - there should be a complaint to HR, but I've found HR's never an advocate of the employee. Time for a paper trail. This "make associations" - it's not new. How many famous Hollywood stars, for generations, had to change their names because they sounded too Jewish. Irish had trouble, too. The manager should be shown the door - and if it's company policy, they should be given the opportunity to meet a federal district attorney and hire lots of lawyers. No one should ever be considered born "the wrong kind" in the USA.

          Ravings en masse^

          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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          • M Marc Clifton

            ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

            Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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            TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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            That's asinine! Unbelievable! I'd say it sounds like the boss is the one making associations and perhaps I ought to notify HR about harrasment, etc.

            #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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            • M Marc Clifton

              ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

              Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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              Brisingr Aerowing
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              I'd talk to a lawyer about the incident.

              What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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              • M Marc Clifton

                ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                Slacker007
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                Isn't that against the law? If not, it should be. :doh:

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                  The crime is against Federal law - there should be a complaint to HR, but I've found HR's never an advocate of the employee. Time for a paper trail. This "make associations" - it's not new. How many famous Hollywood stars, for generations, had to change their names because they sounded too Jewish. Irish had trouble, too. The manager should be shown the door - and if it's company policy, they should be given the opportunity to meet a federal district attorney and hire lots of lawyers. No one should ever be considered born "the wrong kind" in the USA.

                  Ravings en masse^

                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                  Slacker007
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                  W∴ Balboos wrote:

                  No one should ever be considered born "the wrong kind" in the USA.

                  :thumbsup:

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                  • R R Giskard Reventlov

                    I would sue.

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                    Marc Clifton
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                    R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

                    I would sue.

                    Me too! Marc

                    Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                    • S Slacker007

                      Isn't that against the law? If not, it should be. :doh:

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                      Marc Clifton
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                      Slacker007 wrote:

                      Isn't that against the law? If not, it should be.

                      I would think so, but I don't know of any laws that address that issue, though of course that is not my area of expertise! Marc

                      Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                      • M Marc Clifton

                        ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                        Mark_Wallace
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                        I'd change it to I Am Being Racially Oppressed Wallace. 'Ray', to my friends/non-oppressors.

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                          jeron1
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                          Marc Clifton wrote:

                          use a nickname....

                          Tell him to use Obama for his nickname. Seriously, the manager sounds like a chimp.

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                          • M Marc Clifton

                            ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                            Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                            Foothill
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                            I can understand the manager asking for a employee to use a nickname if their name is inherently difficult to pronounce but because it sounds Islamic? GTFO! :wtf: That's like asking someone who is named Jesus to use a nickname not to offend Christians.

                            if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016

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                            • M Marc Clifton

                              ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                              Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                              Pete OHanlon
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                              Osama - O'Hanlon. Oh hell. I'll be on a watch list somewhere.

                              This space for rent

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                                Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                Richard Deeming
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                                That's terrible... ...how dare you confuse you're with your! ;P


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                                  Isn't that against the law? If not, it should be. :doh:

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                                  Joe Woodbury
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                                  It's extremely against the law. So much so that most HR departments would immediately drop kick that manager out the door.

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                                    Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                    Joe Woodbury
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                                    Most HR departments would fire that manager on the spot. I'd double down and have everyone else use the nickname Mohammad. (And just say they are honoring Mohammad Ali.) Or Mustafa - you like Lion King. Omar - you like Omar Bradley. Another option: ask the manager to change his name so customers don't associate the rest of you with "shit head."

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                                    • M Marc Clifton

                                      ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do? (Yes, this is actually happening to someone where I work.) Marc

                                      Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                      Pete OHanlon
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                                      Marc Clifton wrote:

                                      ...because it sounded "Islamic" and he doesn't want customers to "make associations", what would you do?

                                      I think I'd be tempted to go with the nickname Bloweyup MacTerrorist

                                      This space for rent

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                                      • J Joe Woodbury

                                        Most HR departments would fire that manager on the spot. I'd double down and have everyone else use the nickname Mohammad. (And just say they are honoring Mohammad Ali.) Or Mustafa - you like Lion King. Omar - you like Omar Bradley. Another option: ask the manager to change his name so customers don't associate the rest of you with "shit head."

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                                        Joe Woodbury wrote:

                                        Most HR departments would fire that manager on the spot.

                                        IMO, HR departments shouldn't be empowered to hire or fire anyone. It's his manager that should kick his @rse six ways to the unemployment line.

                                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

                                          I would sue.

                                          Me too! Marc

                                          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                          R Giskard Reventlov
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                                          I knew a guy who was named "Eric Horseshit". His boss asked him to change his name, so he did. Now he's called Harry...

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