# I'm glad I don't work the register where I'm employed. I might have been fired. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613 "2016-09-23T01:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/21 "2016-09-24T02:20:10Z")
I took a Yale U t-shirt and stenciled “educating the ruling class since 1701” on it. Didn’t get beat up walking around New Haven, but I also wasn’t shitting all over a religious minority. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/22 "2016-09-24T02:41:56Z")
**Baker** (and _only_ **Baker** ) please forgive me for what is going to sound like an attack on you; it’s really just a blanket statement about the sentiments that are so prevalent around here lately. That being said, your OP comes across (to me) as a stealth. . . attempt at looking like the most sensitive, liberal color blind citizen that just cannot abide racial, ethnic, religious slurs. All around us there are people wearingl t-shirts expressing their disdain for this group or that. Hell, do you drive a car? Bumper stickers are practically mini billboards to disparage those with whom we don’t agree. You’re about to lose your mind over some cunt expressing a stupid sentiment regarding his or her opinion about Muslims? Again, I don’t mean to flame on you personally. It just seems that people fall all over each other trying to show their outrage in order to appear to be “The Most Tolerant In The Land”. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/23 "2016-09-24T03:13:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > **Baker** (and _only_ **Baker** ) please forgive me for what is going to sound like an attack on you; it’s really just a blanket statement about the sentiments that are so prevalent around here lately. That being said, your OP comes across (to me) as a stealth. . . attempt at looking like the most sensitive, liberal color blind citizen that just cannot abide racial, ethnic, religious slurs. All around us there are people wearingl t-shirts expressing their disdain for this group or that. Hell, do you drive a car? Bumper stickers are practically mini billboards to disparage those with whom we don’t agree. You’re about to lose your mind over some cunt expressing a stupid sentiment regarding his or her opinion about Muslims? Again, I don’t mean to flame on you personally. It just seems that people fall all over each other trying to show their outrage in order to appear to be “The Most Tolerant In The Land”. Oooh, a “more in sorrow than in anger” reproof. 😃 What I was trying to say in my OP is that maybe I’m not all that tolerant, which is why it was good I wasn’t actually serving the woman.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/24 "2016-09-24T03:32:43Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oooh, a “more in sorrow than in anger” reproof. 😃 What I was trying to say in my OP is that maybe I’m not all that tolerant, which is why it was good I wasn’t actually serving the woman.:rolleyes: I have no idea what you’re attempting to express. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/25 "2016-09-25T02:12:32Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > **Baker** (and _only_ **Baker** ) please forgive me for what is going to sound like an attack on you; it’s really just a blanket statement about the sentiments that are so prevalent around here lately. That being said, your OP comes across (to me) as a stealth. . . attempt at looking like the most sensitive, liberal color blind citizen that just cannot abide racial, ethnic, religious slurs. Well, holy shit, I do hope everyone shuts the hell up just in case Wookinpanub gets the wrong idea about them! Super important PSA there, dude, and we all thank you for it! For real. This sort of smarmy “I scold because I care” bullshit is absurd. Of course people should be able to talk about what they’re seeing around them without worrying that you’re judging them as holier-than-thou. Fortunately nobody cares about such a ridiculous judgment; if people did, it would stifle conversation. It’s hard to imagine a less productive contribution you could make to the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/26 "2016-09-25T02:21:03Z")
I take it a Jesus was a carpenter…Allah was a sociopathic pedophile T shirt would not have gone over well either… ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/27 "2016-09-25T02:42:16Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > This one isn’t particularly aimed at Catholics. (And you have to agree, it makes a valid point.) That one was an example of a message offensive generally to religion (or at least Christianity) but not specifically Catholics. And no, I don’t have to agree it makes a valid point. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/28 "2016-09-25T05:51:56Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > Lots of things that seem true to you (the general and the specific “you”) aren’t actually true. And lots of things that seem untrue to you (the general and the specific “you”) are actually true. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/29 "2016-09-25T17:25:14Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > That one was an example of a message offensive generally to religion (or at least Christianity) but not specifically Catholics. > > And no, I don’t have to agree it makes a valid point. I wouldn’t have thought the implication of the Easter bunny and Santa standing in **front** of Jesus was that all the were equally real. I would have assumed it was more along the lines of “remember the reason for the season” or possibly never mind the messiah, give me candy and presents. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/30 "2016-09-26T00:24:23Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I take it a > > Jesus was a carpenter…Allah was a sociopathic pedophile T shirt > > would not have gone over well either… Especially since they didn’t even get it right. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/31 "2016-09-26T01:53:24Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I wouldn’t have thought the implication of the Easter bunny and Santa standing in **front** of Jesus was that all the were equally real. I would have assumed it was more along the lines of “remember the reason for the season” or possibly never mind the messiah, give me candy and presents. I found the image: [www.cafepress.com/mf/28456388/easter-bunny-jesus-santa-cl\_tshirt?productId=685445619](http://www.cafepress.com/mf/28456388/easter-bunny-jesus-santa-cl_tshirt?productId=685445619) ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/32 "2016-09-26T18:28:43Z")
“Your shirt – I totally agree! I mean, the Inquisition, that was some horrible shit, right? And when the Muslims totally burned all those witches in Salem? And what are they coming here for? I think all the immigrants should just go back to where they came from. That’s what my friend Greg Running Bear says, anyway” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/33 "2016-09-26T19:04:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’m a baker in a cafe located in the public library. I work in the back area but I can see out front. Most customers are OK but a few make up for them. > Now, I’ve seen poor taste in clothes. such as BUCK FUSH. I supervised the kids who shelve books when I worked at a public library. The superintendent’s kid was a page, and she wore that T-shirt to work. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/34 "2016-09-26T19:26:10Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I take it a > > Jesus was a carpenter…Allah was a sociopathic pedophile T shirt > > would not have gone over well either… Neither that one nor the t-shirt mentioned in the OP are recommended casual wear on a pilgrimage to Mecca.\* \*speaking as someone who wore a “Food Tastes Better With DNA” t-shirt to Whole Foods. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/35 "2016-09-26T21:29:53Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I found the image: > > [www.cafepress.com/mf/28456388/easter-bunny-jesus-santa-cl\_tshirt?productId=685445619](http://www.cafepress.com/mf/28456388/easter-bunny-jesus-santa-cl_tshirt?productId=685445619) Interesting. I wouldn’t _necessarily_ interpret that shirt as anti-religious. Could be pro-religious anti-consumerist? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613/36 "2016-09-27T00:10:51Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > Interesting. I wouldn’t _necessarily_ interpret that shirt as anti-religious. > > Could be pro-religious anti-consumerist? I’m pretty sure it’s anti-graphic-design. That is one _terrible_ looking t-shirt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-glad-i-dont-work-the-register-where-im-employed-i-might-have-been-fired/766613.md?page=1)