Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    First time I got called a cracker I laughed and hung up on the caller (customer service job).

    “Eww! You a smartass little cracker ain’t ya!”

    Pulled a black friend aside:

    “Hey Darren, I just got called a ‘cracker’. Is that a racial slur or something?”

    LOL, Darren just stared at me a minute. “Yeah, you know, master cracking the whip? (with hand-waving demo) You never heard that?!”

    Darren was an education. Got stuck with him and another coworker in a room all afternoon. Had to leave because my stomach hurt from laughing so hard and so long. Thought I was getting sick until I got away from him and took a breath.