This reminds me of when my company’s software had something called Work Order Groups. It’s a very lengthy term so we tended to shorten it to WOG all over the place. Then we had an Australian customer politely let us know that wog is a racial slur in the commonwealth, so we had to change it everywhere.
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There's a similar situation in the subreddit I mod, we talk about "word of god" a lot (ie statements from the creator of a fictional work, such as George Lucas for Star Wars or JRR Tolkien for LOTR), and people tend to shorten that to WOG a lot, except there's an automated filter that catches comments slurs like "wog" and removes them, so then the mods have to go back and manually approve every comment.
You know it's not often I come across a slur I've never heard of, figures it would be the British.
To me the word just means a frog. I think specifically a tadpole.
So, update on this situation: I have an "interview" next week.
I say "interview," because they're doing this differently. Rather than a straight interview, I have to role-play as a trainer on the first day of training. I even had to set up the meeting, myself. They sent me some documents as a guide for the process.
As nervous as I am, it's a really neat idea. I'm going to practice for it, and might ask some friends to maybe do a video call with me to let me practice.
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It's short for golliwog. Which should tell you why it's considered highly offensive here.
I think you're expecting people to know the character/puppet, which I doubt is the case.
Having said that for me wog just means "wife or girlfriend"
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I had to look it up. I was unfamiliar with that term.
We here in America don’t have a history of racist filth like you all, so it’s very foreign to us.
Make sure you bring the good dice, and for gods sake, don't role 1 on your first interaction!
