Career limiting move

[bellinghman]

A colleague recently had a car accident. It wasn't his fault - a delivery lorry reversed into his car while he was stationary waiting for a gap in traffic before pulling out into a main road. But the lorry driver didn't want to admit fault, and started abusing our Pravin, calling him a Paki and so on.

(Pravin is, technically speaking, Kenyan born of Indian ancestry, and thus our token African, since we already have Chinese and Indian born employees - we are missing a South American, with our closest yet having been a Guatemalan.)

This is possibly a little foolish on the part of the driver, who was driving a lorry for an Indian company, delivering Indian food to an Indian grocer.

Oops!

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Cambridge with my first wife, lo this quarter century ago, the next door house was co-owned by three guys, two of whom were often away down south with the British Antarctic Survey.

And I did work, once and briefly, for the BAS myself.

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

I did too, many years ago... except it was with the Australian version.