[hahamrfunnyguy]

It really depends on the degree to which your co-workers and clients lack a sense of humor.

For example, in the early 00's I was working for a company that built a lot of CMS sites. One of the test images my co-worker used was Yoda driving a go-kart. A customer got offended, so we were instructed to use really boring images that just had the word "test" on them.

[throwup]

I once got in trouble for using Bacon Ipsum as placeholder terms and conditions, since the client's project manager was vegan. I wish I was joking.

https://baconipsum.com/?paras=5&type=all-meat&start-with-lor...

[mynameisvlad]

This one I can kind of understand. Moreso than the Yoda one.

There’s a good chance at least one piece of copy will be missed when replacing the placeholder text, and for a vegan company, that can easily cause outrage for their customers since it’s just full of meat products. There are a lot of reasons for people being vegan and some hold incredibly strong beliefs on meat products.

[throwup]

To be clear, it wasn't a vegan company or even anything related to food -- it was a shipping company. There just happened to be someone who worked there who was an outspoken vegan.

[gw99]

Some people are waiting to be offended. I used Mighty Boosh as a test image a couple of years back and was told off for it.

https://imgur.com/a/hOfmKpy

[egeozcan]

This offended me by refusing to show anything without js! (I'm not serious, just in case that wasn't clear)

[nerdponx]

I am serious about that!

[osrec]

What about Yoda driving a go-kart is even remotely offensive?!

A client being offended at something like that is a bit of a red flag for me...

[Rebelgecko]

Since their story happened 20 years ago its probably not related, but Reddit banned r/LegoYoda because of the captions on some photos of Yoda driving a 2003 Honda Civic.

[prange]

Perhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...

[hahamrfunnyguy]

"It's completely unprofessional." is about what their reaction was.

[myko]

One time I built a product demo-ing a physician directory, I used pictures of Dr. Strange, Mr. T as Dr. T, Zoidberg–it was comedy gold.

Boss made me use boring stock photos instead :(