Employee at the grocery store.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Deal with it. So the woman is not friendly to you. How does it actually affect your life? Let it go. Do not report her and possibly have this (probably poor) hourly worker lose her job. You don't want that kind of bad karma. Just let her be.

And, realize that many black people deal with this kind of treatment DAILY from whites. I am black, very friendly, professional and polished looking and got followed/ignored (yes, in the SAME trip by different salespeople) last week at Anthopologie while the white customers got very different service at the same time.

I guess you just aren't used to it as a white person.

I am so freaking sick of hearing that because I am white, I do not "get" discrimination. Please...enough already you sound ridiclous. I get stereotyped all the time as a very short, petite, woman who looks like she is 16 years-old. I get laughed at when I order a drink, I have had the cops threatened to be called when I used my ID at a liquor store, I have people try to butt in front me in lines at places thinking I am a child and will not say anything, and the list goes on.

Not to mention I am a woman in a finance field that moved to the top quickly so I get looks and rude comments from men I work with about my ability a good amount.

I do not go through life throwing this in people's faces these negative experiences, nor do I act like I am a victim. I DO get what it is like so quit your bullshit already.

Not the pp, but your comparisons are laughable. Are you really trying to make this argument? Wow..... SMDH.

You absolutely, 100% DO NOT know what it's like to be discriminated against, based on being black. To claim otherwise is foolish.

The comparison is based on appearance. PP, gets treated differently because of her appearance (short and looks like a 16 year old kid) , like you get treated differently because of your appearance (being black). So yeah, there are struggles for other people not just blacks.

Sucks to get treated like shit regularly on the phone by customer service reps, no matter how nice you are because you sound 16 years old.
Store owners call the cops on your ass, because they think you have a fake card.
When this happens to you, PP, you say to yourself it's because I'm black, while the other person says it's because I look and sound like a kid. It's all discrimination.

Not PP but you can't compare looking like you are 16 to being Black or any other race. No one will spit in your food because you look 16 or clutch a purse and cross the street when they see you. There is no assumption that you speak broken english or are poor simply because you look young for your age.

Eh, she tried. Some credit for effort?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal with it. So the woman is not friendly to you. How does it actually affect your life? Let it go. Do not report her and possibly have this (probably poor) hourly worker lose her job. You don't want that kind of bad karma. Just let her be.

And, realize that many black people deal with this kind of treatment DAILY from whites. I am black, very friendly, professional and polished looking and got followed/ignored (yes, in the SAME trip by different salespeople) last week at Anthopologie while the white customers got very different service at the same time.

I guess you just aren't used to it as a white person.

I am so freaking sick of hearing that because I am white, I do not "get" discrimination. Please...enough already you sound ridiclous. I get stereotyped all the time as a very short, petite, woman who looks like she is 16 years-old. I get laughed at when I order a drink, I have had the cops threatened to be called when I used my ID at a liquor store, I have people try to butt in front me in lines at places thinking I am a child and will not say anything, and the list goes on.

Not to mention I am a woman in a finance field that moved to the top quickly so I get looks and rude comments from men I work with about my ability a good amount.

I do not go through life throwing this in people's faces these negative experiences, nor do I act like I am a victim. I DO get what it is like so quit your bullshit already.

Not the pp, but your comparisons are laughable. Are you really trying to make this argument? Wow..... SMDH.

You absolutely, 100% DO NOT know what it's like to be discriminated against, based on being black. To claim otherwise is foolish.

The comparison is based on appearance. PP, gets treated differently because of her appearance (short and looks like a 16 year old kid) , like you get treated differently because of your appearance (being black). So yeah, there are struggles for other people not just blacks.

Sucks to get treated like shit regularly on the phone by customer service reps, no matter how nice you are because you sound 16 years old.
Store owners call the cops on your ass, because they think you have a fake card.
When this happens to you, PP, you say to yourself it's because I'm black, while the other person says it's because I look and sound like a kid. It's all discrimination.

Not PP but you can't compare looking like you are 16 to being Black or any other race. No one will spit in your food because you look 16 or clutch a purse and cross the street when they see you. There is no assumption that you speak broken english or are poor simply because you look young for your age.

The comparison is how people treat you and respond to you based on what you look like or what their assumptions are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal with it. So the woman is not friendly to you. How does it actually affect your life? Let it go. Do not report her and possibly have this (probably poor) hourly worker lose her job. You don't want that kind of bad karma. Just let her be.

And, realize that many black people deal with this kind of treatment DAILY from whites. I am black, very friendly, professional and polished looking and got followed/ignored (yes, in the SAME trip by different salespeople) last week at Anthopologie while the white customers got very different service at the same time.

I guess you just aren't used to it as a white person.

I am so freaking sick of hearing that because I am white, I do not "get" discrimination. Please...enough already you sound ridiclous. I get stereotyped all the time as a very short, petite, woman who looks like she is 16 years-old. I get laughed at when I order a drink, I have had the cops threatened to be called when I used my ID at a liquor store, I have people try to butt in front me in lines at places thinking I am a child and will not say anything, and the list goes on.

Not to mention I am a woman in a finance field that moved to the top quickly so I get looks and rude comments from men I work with about my ability a good amount.

I do not go through life throwing this in people's faces these negative experiences, nor do I act like I am a victim. I DO get what it is like so quit your bullshit already.

Not the pp, but your comparisons are laughable. Are you really trying to make this argument? Wow..... SMDH.

You absolutely, 100% DO NOT know what it's like to be discriminated against, based on being black. To claim otherwise is foolish.

The comparison is based on appearance. PP, gets treated differently because of her appearance (short and looks like a 16 year old kid) , like you get treated differently because of your appearance (being black). So yeah, there are struggles for other people not just blacks.

Sucks to get treated like shit regularly on the phone by customer service reps, no matter how nice you are because you sound 16 years old.
Store owners call the cops on your ass, because they think you have a fake card.
When this happens to you, PP, you say to yourself it's because I'm black, while the other person says it's because I look and sound like a kid. It's all discrimination.

Not PP but you can't compare looking like you are 16 to being Black or any other race. No one will spit in your food because you look 16 or clutch a purse and cross the street when they see you. There is no assumption that you speak broken english or are poor simply because you look young for your age.

You rambling on about white people not knowing discrimination is as ignorant as the people you say discriminate against blacks. I really feel sorry for you that you go through life with such a negative outlook in general just because of your skin color or if you arent black then you base it on skin color so much. I hate to break it to you, but black people are NOT the only ones discriminated against in America. There are many other races, religions, sexes, disabled and many others who deal with this on a daily basis. And you know what...I bet their outlook is much better than yours. Stop playing a victim becuase the "I am black and you do not know racism unless you are black" comment is only used as a crutch to get you through life. Open your eyes- maybe you are 95% of the problem.

[Anonymous]

108 posts later, has the OP just said something to the manager?

Jeez, how screwed up have things become, that we can't just complain about bad service and leave it at that.

Things I don't care about:
1. Whether she's nice to black people.
2. Whether this is turnabout so that white people know the suffering of black people

All I know is that if every badly treated customer said something to the manager, she would be gone. And whatever life lesson needed to be taught to her, would be taught to her. And we could stop worrying about her motives and just deal with her for her performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deal with it. So the woman is not friendly to you. How does it actually affect your life? Let it go. Do not report her and possibly have this (probably poor) hourly worker lose her job. You don't want that kind of bad karma. Just let her be.

And, realize that many black people deal with this kind of treatment DAILY from whites. I am black, very friendly, professional and polished looking and got followed/ignored (yes, in the SAME trip by different salespeople) last week at Anthopologie while the white customers got very different service at the same time.

I guess you just aren't used to it as a white person.

I am so freaking sick of hearing that because I am white, I do not "get" discrimination. Please...enough already you sound ridiclous. I get stereotyped all the time as a very short, petite, woman who looks like she is 16 years-old. I get laughed at when I order a drink, I have had the cops threatened to be called when I used my ID at a liquor store, I have people try to butt in front me in lines at places thinking I am a child and will not say anything, and the list goes on.

Not to mention I am a woman in a finance field that moved to the top quickly so I get looks and rude comments from men I work with about my ability a good amount.

I do not go through life throwing this in people's faces these negative experiences, nor do I act like I am a victim. I DO get what it is like so quit your bullshit already.

Not the pp, but your comparisons are laughable. Are you really trying to make this argument? Wow..... SMDH.

You absolutely, 100% DO NOT know what it's like to be discriminated against, based on being black. To claim otherwise is foolish.

The comparison is based on appearance. PP, gets treated differently because of her appearance (short and looks like a 16 year old kid) , like you get treated differently because of your appearance (being black). So yeah, there are struggles for other people not just blacks.

Sucks to get treated like shit regularly on the phone by customer service reps, no matter how nice you are because you sound 16 years old.
Store owners call the cops on your ass, because they think you have a fake card.
When this happens to you, PP, you say to yourself it's because I'm black, while the other person says it's because I look and sound like a kid. It's all discrimination.

Not PP but you can't compare looking like you are 16 to being Black or any other race. No one will spit in your food because you look 16 or clutch a purse and cross the street when they see you. There is no assumption that you speak broken english or are poor simply because you look young for your age.

You rambling on about white people not knowing discrimination is as ignorant as the people you say discriminate against blacks. I really feel sorry for you that you go through life with such a negative outlook in general just because of your skin color or if you arent black then you base it on skin color so much. I hate to break it to you, but black people are NOT the only ones discriminated against in America. There are many other races, religions, sexes, disabled and many others who deal with this on a daily basis. And you know what...I bet their outlook is much better than yours. Stop playing a victim becuase the "I am black and you do not know racism unless you are black" comment is only used as a crutch to get you through life. Open your eyes- maybe you are 95% of the problem.

This exactly.