Let your employee know you meant no disrespect, and that your goal, and theirs, was and is to get the job done.
Given his supposed expertise, Shapiro should know that disrespect is a time-honored form of intimidation.
Show them your authority in your tone and let them know that disrespect is not acceptable.
You know, I'm just here to say that a black guy from the same--you know, that's nothing, no disrespect to that white guy's resiliency, or the things that he needed to be successful--but a black guy with the same reality might not have some of those opportunities based on policy, along with system racism and how these things work.
"I am no day at the beach, and I know I disrespected some people along the way, and when it happens, I know I don't feel good about it that night," Tortorella said in a mea culpa last week during a half-hour interview on WFAN.
I have worked in a nonunion oil fields, in a nonunion packing house, unloaded nonunion trucks, and I've dug out sewers knee-deep in human waste for nonunion construction companies, so I know how much disrespect is dumped on workers today.
"I don't know why Coach disrespected me like that," Moss said, referring to Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano.
"You know, you're not used to seeing — no disrespect — you're not used to seeing Asian guys that good, that athletic".
The Times intended no disrespect, editors said, and knew just what it was doing: following a rule in its style manual that decrees that no acronym — SEAL stands for Sea, Air and Land — longer than four letters can be rendered in capital letters.
