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  • If you're gonna play the Race Card....

    DISCLAIMER: I am ONLY including the people's races because it is important to the story. I have nothing against people of ANY race!

    Me: (my race is not important to the story)
    CW: AWESOME coworker who does guest relations (he's African American - this is important to story)
    SC: who else? (African American - this is important to story)

    SC comes to the register with her ticket to the science center.
    SC: I want a refund.
    Me: Sure, that's not a problem, ma'am. But can I ask why?
    SC: I just want a refund.
    Me: Is there any particular reason why? Are you upset with anything, ma'am?
    SC: I just want my refund!
    So I shrugged it off, took her ticket, and gave her the refund.

    Then she proceeds to walk into the science center, while making continuous eye contact with me!

    So I call over CW, and tell him that SC just got a refund on her ticket and went into the science center anyway. He goes after her, and she tells him that she saw someone else go in without a ticket, so she should be able to do it too. My awesome CW then asked EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the science center (it's only one room) if they had a ticket. And every single person did.

    But instead of admitting defeat, SC threw out this little gem in front of everybody when CW asked her to leave:
    SC: *shouting* You're just being racist!! I'm going to sue you for racial discrimination!!
    CW: *motions to his face and body* Seriously?

    SC seemed to come to her senses, made the catbutt face, and left. And we never heard anything else about it.

    Honestly though, if she had seen someone go in without a ticket - why didn't she say anything when she asked me for a refund? Any why did she try to pull the race card on a fellow African American???

  • #2
    wow talk about your epic fails
    Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never used a crew-served weapon- a wise Sgt.

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    • #3
      Quoth GiftShopGirl View Post
      DISCLAIMER: I am ONLY including the people's races because it is important to the story. I have nothing against people of ANY race!
      So sad that you have to include that or risk a "OMG you mentioned someone's race! You're a racist! When did you stop beating your wife?" type comment.

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      • #4
        Quoth GiftShopGirl View Post
        CW: *motions to his face and body* Seriously?
        Oh, oh I love your Co-Worker, GiftShopGirl! *Hugs GSG's CW*
        Now a member of that alien race called Management.

        Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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        • #5
          Haha, I think some people are just to stupid to think through what they say before they say it. That may be why we get so many SCs in the first place.

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          • #6
            Quoth edible_hat View Post
            So sad that you have to include that or risk a "OMG you mentioned someone's race! You're a racist! When did you stop beating your wife?" type comment.
            Yup, know that that's like

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            • #7
              Honestly though, if she had seen someone go in without a ticket - why didn't she say anything when she asked me for a refund? Any why did she try to pull the race card on a fellow African American???
              Knee jerk reaction?

              basically... i suspect she just didn't want to pay... and when the rules were enforced she said the first complaint that came to mind, without noticing who she was saying it to.

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              • #8
                Yay for working 100% on the phone. No one can possibly ever play the race card.
                Or see that I'm facepalming (and hitting 'mute' just before my hand hits).
                Long days, short nights, a bottle of NOS makes it all right.

                Canadians Unite !

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                • #9
                  Quoth GiftShopGirl View Post
                  Any why did she try to pull the race card on a fellow African American???
                  Because your Awesome Co-worker is obviously a total Uncle Tom Race Traitor who utterly sold out to The Man.

                  Or the sc is in fact just an sc.

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                  • #10
                    It's even more fun when you have a black person...call you the N-word, and you're white
                    Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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                    • #11
                      Actually, Protege I see that being done.

                      Here in Brooklyn, the N word doesn't necessarily define a person's skin color or ethnic heritage. In some teen-aged societies, it's a label to be prized but in most circles it's something to be scorned.

                      I have heard African-Americans describe someone with the N word. To them, that's a person who has a bad reputation. They don't want their children hanging out with a person like that.

                      Puerto Ricans sometimes nick-name children and use 'mi Nigrito' for a child with darker than average skin or 'mi Chinta' for a child with almond eyes'. No one takes any offense at this because the children are well loved and well-cared for. Those names are just affectionate terms.

                      Puerto Rican men also sometimes refer to each other as "Jibaro." This is the equivalent of 'Hill-billy' and is pretty close to the Italian "Paesan." In my Father's generation, Irishmen called each other 'Mick'.

                      Now, if anybody outside the group called someone inside the group those names, you can bet that there would be great outrage. Certain terms may only be used within a group because only the group knows what those names are supposed to mean.
                      Research is the art of reading what everyone has read and seeing what no one else has seen.

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                      • #12
                        The last time I heard the Race Card being used was at the local university's homecoming......all the bars around here have a dress code that men HAVE to wear shirts with sleeves (except on Halloween). No "wife beaters" or other kinds of male tank tops.

                        A kid I went to high school with, who, for the record, isn't 100% black was yelling and cursing up a storm at the also half black half white bouncer for "Not letting me in cuz I'm a nigger!"
                        You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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                        • #13
                          Heh,

                          During my security days I threw an obnoxious chav out for being, well, obnoxious. There he stood at the front of the store screaming at me

                          "Iz it coz I iz black, innit?"

                          He was whiter than snow.
                          A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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                          • #14
                            About the only time I've experienced someone playing the race card was a co-worker at Macy's. "Rick" apparently told our manager that the "rea" reason she was getting work-related complaints about him was solely because he was black. I've no idea whether that was believed or not, but I do know that when we'd hired a girl of that same race in our department, "Rick" tried to convince her to stick with him because everyone else was highly racist.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth 411guy View Post
                              Yay for working 100% on the phone. No one can possibly ever play the race card.
                              Or see that I'm facepalming (and hitting 'mute' just before my hand hits).
                              My job is all by phone too. And yes I have been called racist before... the person I was talking to had no accent to indicate a particular race. I've been forced to conclude that 'stupid' is it's own race and I hate those stupids more then you know. So sure, I'm racist.
                              "I'm working for popcorn - what I get paid doesn't rise to the level of peanuts." -Courtesy of Darkwish

                              ...Beware the voice without a face...

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