Would you be offended by your workplace showing Family Guy on the break room TV?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'd be very annoyed, but not offended.

This.  I'd also change the channel, tbh.

It's playing via a connected computer, playing DVDs and downloaded episodes. So you can only do something like that if you have access to the computer which is not in the break room. Not possible!

The break room where I work has this thing called a remote that lets you change the channel just by pushing a button. 

OK but mine doesn't. And leaving a remote out for the TV is just asking for it to be lost within a week in a public place like that.

I'd be very annoyed, but not offended.

This.  I'd also change the channel, tbh.

It's playing via a connected computer, playing DVDs and downloaded episodes. So you can only do something like that if you have access to the computer which is not in the break room. Not possible!

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Look, it should be pretty obvious that letting employees manage the TV themselves is just asking for it to have the connection lost without knowing how to get it put back up. This way only HR can change it, which prevents that from occuring.

Actually, it has never caused any issues and no one has tried to steal the remote   *shrug*  I agree that Inksholes who complain about this sort of stuff to HR suck though.

[Derpist]

Yes, but only because of the show's quality.

[Badger]

This is purely anecdotal, but I find it interesting the people at my work who are most fond of Family Guy besides me seem to be Hmong women. Like they'll crowd around the TV when it's playing and laugh hysterically while having side conversations in Hmong. Even despite, well probably in part because of the Asian stereotype jokes. Although to be fair this sort of thing isn't all that uncommon, it's really only extreme Tumblr types who assume that anyone who's a member of a minority group must be very offended and couldn't possibly like anything that makes jokes playing off stereotypes of that group.

That's the coolest anecdote I've heard in weeks.

[HAnnA MArin County]

We don't have a TV in our break room (I work at a hotel), and I work alone so I wouldn't care if it was on or not. Only time the TV comes on is in the lobby during breakfast hours and it's always funny watching the guests fighting over whether to turn it on MSNBC or Fox News. I always change it when no one is down there and if it's been left on Fox News.

[dead0man]

I'd hate to work in a place that wouldn't play FG.  We have a TV in our shop, FG doesn't get played a lot anymore though.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I have to agree with Ernest, and I don't think that he's being even slightly melodramatic about it: A television in the break room would bother me a great deal. In fact, it usually bothers me when I need to spend a significant amount of time in any public space that is dominated by television screens - waiting rooms, supermarkets, lobbies, etc. I actually stopped visiting the gas station nearest to my apartment when they (bizarrely) added televisions to the pumps.

It's tolerable if the volume is low enough (as it usually was in bars and restaurants I've been to). Loud TV in public places is the worst though, yeah.

[Californiadreaming]

No, not at all!