I've made a terrible mistake at work

[Big Gus]

So a colleague calls me over to this guy's desk. His system has frozen. He's this relatively new black dude. I can't get his system to shut down the normal way, so I start tapping his keyboard to try to kickstart it / assess how frozen it is. I literally go: tap tap tap. Now, this is going to sound either like I'm making it up or like I can't possibly have done this by accident, like I must have done it on purpose, but I swear to fucking god this was some random instance of appalling luck - I had somehow managed to type KKK.

There's this split second where I realise what I've just fucking typed on the screen - and then I panic and start bashing K K K K K K K K K K to make it look ... less fucking racist, you know? And then I delete the whole lot and just do a hard reset of his computer and tell him sorry, he'll have to restart, and then I leave.

I go back to my desk and I'm like, fuck fuck fuck. Should I have mentioned it? Should I have made light of it? Should I have said, 'Oh shit, that's kind of inappropriate, total accident, really sorry'. Because all I could bear to do was type K K K K K K K K a million types to try to disguise my awful blunder and hope he either didn't notice or realised I'd made a hugely embarrassing slip up. But now I'm thinking ... he must think I've done it on purpose. It can't look like anything else, can it? Its like if I ended up typing FAG on on a gay colleagues screen or something.

Shit. I am genuinely fretting that this guy thinks I'm some kind of white supremacist. But I can't go in tomorrow and approach him about it. I mean, what if he didn't realise?

Ugh. It's like something off of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Weep.

[Fern]

calm down. he probably didnt even notice. dont let on, kid . .

[checkyourprez]

So a colleague calls me over to this guy's desk. His system has frozen. He's this relatively new black dude. I can't get his system to shut down the normal way, so I start tapping his keyboard to try to kickstart it / assess how frozen it is. I literally go: tap tap tap. Now, this is going to sound either like I'm making it up or like I can't possibly have done this by accident, like I must have done it on purpose, but I swear to fucking god this was some random instance of appalling luck - I had somehow managed to type KKK.

There's this split second where I realise what I've just fucking typed on the screen - and then I panic and start bashing K K K K K K K K K K to make it look ... less fucking racist, you know? And then I delete the whole lot and just do a hard reset of his computer and tell him sorry, he'll have to restart, and then I leave.

I go back to my desk and I'm like, fuck fuck fuck. Should I have mentioned it? Should I have made light of it? Should I have said, 'Oh shit, that's kind of inappropriate, total accident, really sorry'. Because all I could bear to do was type K K K K K K K K a million types to try to disguise my awful blunder and hope he either didn't notice or realised I'd made a hugely embarrassing slip up. But now I'm thinking ... he must think I've done it on purpose. It can't look like anything else, can it? Its like if I ended up typing FAG on on a gay colleagues screen or something.

Shit. I am genuinely fretting that this guy thinks I'm some kind of white supremacist. But I can't go in tomorrow and approach him about it. I mean, what if he didn't realise?

Ugh. It's like something off of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Weep.

haha that is pretty funny. something that would happen to larry david too. but if you didn't mean it then its no big deal, just a poor coincidence. lifes too short to get worried about something you can't change and didn't mean in the first place.

just try not to light a cross on fire on the guys lawn anytime soon and i think your set.

[Helvete]

That's rather funny actually. I would suggest that you don't even mention it, but I remember one of your stories before about shagging your mates mum, and that was total plagiarism, so I'm sceptical about this one. It's not like the KKK are even really talked about in the UK so it probably wouldn't be immediately apparent.

[Lex Diamonds]

There's only one real course of action from here:

What you need to do is find another black man in the office, it doesn't matter how black he is as long as he's black. Then, learn his name and develop some kind of a rapport (don't worry about any kind of real friendship you just need to be on speaking terms). Now just make sure that you talk to this black guy in front of the other black guy, laugh at all his jokes, compliment him on his hair etc. Maybe mention how you love rap music and how his people are good at sports for extra credibility points.

Soon black guy #1 will see that you love him and his people and you can stop hanging around with black guy #2 and get back to your old life with its usual level of racial awkwardness. (y)

[Adam]

Dude, that is nothing. Let it go. I thought I was gonna read a horrible story how some1 died because of what you did at work or something.

If you made it into an issue by saying something then he might of thought who the fudge is this guy - but I doubt he noticed.

The fact that you probably didn't even consciously notice he was black and put in KKK without any thought to what you might be doing other than trying to fix his computer then I doubt you have any deep seeded issues. Except making this thread does make it sound like one of those "some of my best friends are black" excuses. :p

Maybe you should get over heard bitching about white people at some point though.

[checkyourprez]

now it would be a completely different thing if you accidentally typed nigger on his screen. theeen you might have a problem. kkk is nothing, is on the right hand side of the board, just a random spot to hit a key.

[Guy Incognito]

i share helvete's scepticism at first but this is a nothing incident compared to the mum threesome you nicked.

i wouldnt have thought the guy thought anything. you didnt purposely do it, dont sweat it

[Freebasser]

I third the 'stolen thread' point.

Hey; don't cry wolf, man.

[checkyourprez]

That's rather funny actually. I would suggest that you don't even mention it, but I remember one of your stories before about shagging your mates mum, and that was total plagiarism, so I'm sceptical about this one. It's not like the KKK are even really talked about in the UK so it probably wouldn't be immediately apparent.


ooo was that the one where he banged her with his half mutant friend with the massive donger? hah yea that was redick, until the truth came out. (n)

[Big Gus]

Nah guys I know the whole "fucked my mates Mum" thing was ridiculous copy and paste material but I did that for the lols.

This is straught up, I feel like Hitler here.

[checkyourprez]

Nah guys I know the whole "fucked my mates Mum" thing was ridiculous copy and paste material but I did that for the lols.

This is straught up, I feel like Hitler here.

shape the mustache on your avatar a bit.

[Adam]

hitler started the kkk? Man, my history is all out wack

[Bob]

it's not a big deal, i tap "k" all the time when i need to tap the keyboard, it's in a very prominent position. and three times is a sort of instinctual amount of times to tap something

i am a huge racist though

[Guy Incognito]

on the flipside you could have typed AA without knowing this guy was a recovering alcoholic and he could have been really upset, he might not have thought you did it on purpose but it could have struck a nerve but you wouldnt have even noticed. not actually sure what i am trying to say here apart from its really nothing to worry about

[kaiser soze]

give him a Kwanzaa card (y)

[jabumbo]

how was his system frozen if you could still tap letters out?

[Bob]

how was his system frozen if you could still tap letters out?

his computer was probably just scared of black people

[checkyourprez]

his computer was probably just scared of black people

inappropriate.

[Bob]

forgive me if that joke wasn't very PC

[ms.peachy]

I thought it was funny, Bob.

But then again, I'm a total racist too.

[Lex Diamonds]

The scared joke was average to good, the PC joke however was gold.

Overall I'd give Bob's contribution to this thread a 8/10. Quality stuff but still room for improvement.