I do a monthly poster for this client that is part of a subscription service they offer to employers. It’s kind of a communications/motivational program, where they get a package each month with a poster and other items that are displayed on a special display unit or a bulletin board that deliver motivational messages like “work together”, “stay focused and calm”, “don’t let things get to you” etc. The images are supposed to be humorous scenes that go along with whatever copy and headline is that month’s theme. I’ve been doing this for years and years.

Re: The Latino comment- I think the man and kid are pretty obviously black. The cashier is supposed to be Asian but actually I only suggested those kinds of features so she could be construed as multi-ethnic or any one of a variety of different races… “race neutral”, so to speak.

The woman is white as anyone doing anything wrong or stupid in these workplace posters is always white. I actually had one of my wife’s cousins, who’s employer in Missouri subscribes to this program and who has seen my posters each month for some time, tell me the people in his office call them the “dumb white guy” posters. That’s a sad truth but it’s necessary to avoid any outrage and accusations about racism. No one complains if you draw the white guy doing something stupid or careless, but you can bet you’ll hear from somebody with a soapbox should you dare to make a person or any other race look like that way. That is just reality. One day this world will grow up enough to not make this necessary… I hope I live to see that.

Whom was the poster for? A magazine , an ad?
One tricky question:

Which person of the poster could be latino?

Answer: Whoever!