RACIAL SLUR AT WORK

At a chemical plant in Georgia, a manager called a worker "god damn sand n****r" in front of everyone.

The slur landed about 15 minutes before the poster wrote in, and the manager seemed to think he was being funny. People nearby laughed, but the poster believed it was the kind of nervous, shocked laughter that spills out when nobody knows what to do. In the moment, the poster laughed it off too.

That changed once the worker got away from the scene.

The poster said they felt hurt and diminished after leaving work, especially because they had been at the plant for more than four years. The manager, by contrast, had only started in October. The poster said they felt they had earned respect through their work, and the comment cut straight through that.

Then came the question: "What the actual fuck do I do in this situation?" The poster said they had five witnesses and wanted to know the next move.

An update came later, after the poster got home from work. Everyone who had seen it said they would back them up. One witness was described as a burly ex-Army man from Tennessee who said he had been to Afghanistan and called the manager's remark "xenophobic and heinous." Another witness, an old hand who had spent years around plants, suggested either confronting the manager directly or letting karma handle it.

The poster chose the second option.

"I've chose the latter," they wrote, then said they had sent an email to HR. From there, they planned to wait and see how HR responded before deciding what to do next. "Their reaction dictates my next move, so I'm playing it by ear," the poster said.

By the end, the post had been locked. The poster thanked readers for their opinions and said that reading them while still stunned had helped them decide how to move forward.

"We'll see what happens," they wrote.