Advice on work function - Polynesian/Hawaiian - General Tiki

A ainokea Member Joined: Mar 29, 2005 Posts: 23	A ainokea Posted posted on Tue, May 10, 2005 5:58 AM Well what's the purpose of your workplace's diversity week and how secure is your job? :) If it's just a half-assed exercise in mandatory fun, I'd take the passive aggressive route and purposefully create the most absurdly non-Polynesian "party city luau aisle" table I could. But if the diversity week is a serious event and other tables are going to be manned by folks earnestly trying to showcase their backgrounds, then don't allow your company to short shrift Polynesia / Hawaii with that plastic crap. And if the committee has a problem, scowl and ask em, "Wot, you got beef?" I'm one of the most un-PC people I know, but even I would be offended if I went to a cultural affair saw Hawaii represented by plastic technicolor tikis and plastic leis.

Well what's the purpose of your workplace's diversity week and how secure is your job? :)

If it's just a half-assed exercise in mandatory fun, I'd take the passive aggressive route and purposefully create the most absurdly non-Polynesian "party city luau aisle" table I could.

But if the diversity week is a serious event and other tables are going to be manned by folks earnestly trying to showcase their backgrounds, then don't allow your company to short shrift Polynesia / Hawaii with that plastic crap. And if the committee has a problem, scowl and ask em, "Wot, you got beef?"

I'm one of the most un-PC people I know, but even I would be offended if I went to a cultural affair saw Hawaii represented by plastic technicolor tikis and plastic leis.

Post #157586 by ainokea on Tue, May 10, 2005 5:58 AM