[Magdalen] The Deen controversy

[Marion Thompson]

I wouldn't survive in today's climate.  Although that sort of thing 
wasn't tolerated at home, my mother did speak of a touch of the tar 
brush and of priest-ridden bog Irish and such like, which to my credit I 
don't.   However, spending a lot of years  in close proximity to the 
military and being quick to adopt the lingua franca of whomever I 
associated with, I have a pretty salty turn of language, much of which I 
don't even hear myself saying, especially if caught off-guard by 
something.  Dear heaven, I shocked an Altar Guild lady when I said that 
I was pissed off about something.

Oh well.  There it is.  Mea maxima culpa.

Marion
On 9/24/2014 11:44 AM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>>>> The complaint came from an employee. Words like this ***used
> in the workplace *** are unacceptsble IMO. And actionable-M<<<
>
> Absolutely.  But considering how "Both sides agreed to dismiss the lawsuit 'without any award of costs or fees to any party'" (Wikipedia), Food Network Etc should have been willing to accept her apology/explanation and merely monitor the situation from there, like any good network should do.  Even "Former President Jimmy Carter urged that Deen be forgiven, stating, 'I think she has been punished, perhaps overly severely, for her honesty in admitting it and for the use of the word in the distant past. She's apologized profusely'" (also Wiki).
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