I work in a warehouse with a lot of Mexicans. It just so happens that a lot of the truckers we service are also Spanish-speakers. There's a lot of code-switching in the warehouse, a lot of inside jokes, double-entendres, etc.

Anyways, the Mexicans call the boss "cabrón". I thought that it meant "boss/jefe". Anyways, there was a problem with a Spanish-speaking trucker's paperwork that prevented us from logging their load and charging them a lumper fee. After explaining the problem, I told him to "Call your cabrón and get the paperwork for the load."

Well, there was obviously a language-barrier and the trucker called his jefe to tell him to call my jefe about how I called him (the trucker) an asshole, and my boss who is Guatemalan-descendant had a word to speak to me before I explained the situation; funny enough when he told me to walk into his office I asked him, "What's wrong, cabrón?"

We all had a good laugh and I apologized to the trucker, and my boss explained the situation in Spanish to said trucker and his cabrón.

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TL:DR Language barrier caused me to disrespect a trucker and his boss