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[quote=Anonymous]This is blowing my mind.

She's only been on the job for 2 weeks; this is her first week solo without shadowing the person she replaced.  She ran her first meeting this morning, which included one of our longtime clients, but seniority wise in the company, she was the highest person on the call.  It wasn't just said once, either.  The first time she said it, everyone around the table kind of gave each other side looks, like, 'did that really just happen?'  She then said it again a bit later and someone on the conference call did the awkward throat clearing and moved the conversation forward.

I grew up in a family with a SN relative, so the r-word is not in our vocabulary at all and it's always striking to hear someone say it.  Usually it's teens, but to hear an adult say it in a professional setting is just... wow.

Do I email our client and apologize?  Do I let someone higher than this person know?  Do I speak with her first privately?  Is this just something you tell HR about and let them deal with?  Position wise, she's the new Controller and the meeting was made up of the senior members of our finance team as well as this longtime client.  I just feel embarrassed she was the main representative from our company on this call and was so unprofessional.             [/quote]

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