I (21M)was at work and we have a new hire who is non-binary. I call everyone bro. I work in a factory and the women there love that I treat them like a bro. I’m just there to make my money and go home. I work with gay people, lesbians, etc. and I get along with them perfectly. I’d consider some of them friends because we’ve gone to the club as a group before and we all ran down some people we thought were attractive. My gay friend, let’s call him John, was my wingman lol. I have no problem with people being themselves and loving who they love. But this non binary person let’s call them, “Happy.” Happy was starting on Monday and as soon as they got out there I said what’s up bro nice to meet you. Happy said nice to meet you too and I trained them. The whole day. Well at the end of the day HR calls me and said I have to stop calling Happy bro. I was like okay, I didn’t mean to offend the person. I just called them bro. But today at the end of my shift, I see him pointing at me with my work friends and when I walk over to them, they said “he hates you for calling him bro, he seems like a pick me person.” So I walk over to Happy and say hey I didn’t mean to offend you by calling you bro, I just call everyone that. Happy smarts off that I should know better than to call everyone bro cause it could be offensive. I just wanna know if I should really stop calling people bro? I don’t mean any ill intent behind it. Happy does look more like a dude so subconsciously I guess I just thought he’d be okay with it. But he didn’t say anything to me and my friends had to tell me he was talking shit and I still took the high road and apologized for offending them. Just tell me straight up if I’m the asshole lol