A New Low

[Nakajo]

A man came up to the customer service counter.

SC: I want to talk to a manager, now.
Me: Is it something I can help you with, sir?
SC: You can get that AIDS-riddled cashier OUT of your FOOD COURT.



He said that. Word for word.
This is the closest I've EVER come to hitting a customer.
But violence is not the answer!

I called a manager.

They pulled him to the side, there was some arguing, the manager went into the food court, came out, talked to the man some more, and then escorted him out of the building.


Apparently, one of our girls, who just came back from maternity leave and still exhausted with the late baby nights, looked way tired and sunken-eyed. The guy had screamed at her that he didn't want her making his food because she looked "like death" and stormed to my counter. She was still crying when the manager came back to talk to her.

To you, sir:
FUCK YOU
and stay the HELL out of my store.

[Hobbs]

I mean, seriously...

W

T

F

!!

There's a reason why my shirt says, "I know violence isn't the answer; I got it wrong on purpose."

[fireheart]

Holy freaking biscuit.

Anyway to track this guy down and subject him to the CS woodchipper?

[One-Fang]

I was expecting a flaming co-worker, not a sick-looking one. Either way, douchebag.

[Imogene]

Well, we can only hope he feels similarly if he ever manages to get a girl/keep her.
"No, I won't procreate with you, you look like death!"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

"No, I won't procreate with you, you look like death!"

The ones who look like death are probably the only ones who'd want anything to do with him anyway.

[Salted Grump]

From The Seven habits of highly Effective Pirates

6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Also;

27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.

This sort of thing is a hot-button topic for me, and possibly Fratchable, as a person in my family Does have HIV. Needless to say, If someone said that to me, I'd be (Almost literally) Poppa-bear on their ass, and would likely have NO regrets about the aftermath, even if it would end with me being fired.

I'm genuinely sorry, and saddened that Ignorant Post-natal Drips like that still exist today, even after years, if not decades of education being collectively crammed into their skulls. Makes me wonder if the world would be better off being run by Squid.

[PepperElf]

Either that or he'll finally get a woman, have a baby... then insult the woman when she looks like death...

and then he'll learn why many mothers give their daughters iron skillets when they get married. And it has nothing to do with cooking.

This sort of thing is a hot-button topic for me

I hate knee-jerk reactions on that too. Granted I failed micro bio in college 15 years ago, I still remember a lot of the retroactive virus portion (I suspect the professor specialized in it), and combining that with a human sexuality and classes for nursing... HIV / AIDS doesn't scare me. Went though enough data in all those classes to learn that "casual contact does not infect you".

Sounds like that man needs to be slapped upside the head with some medical text books.

[Iris Kojiro]

The ones who look like death are probably the only ones who'd want anything to do with him anyway.

You're too nice, Irv. The only way he'll even get a girl that looks like death is to spill bleach on his blow-up doll.

[PepperElf]

or raid a graveyard

[derangedperson]

Just remember: Violence is not always the best option...

...but it's still an option.

[AriGriffin]

I'd have gone off on that guy. A close family member had AIDS and died.

[smileyeagle1021]

you know, I opened this thinking the title was an exagerration (I mean who here hasn't said that the customer they just had set the new standard for suckiest customer ever)... but no, it wasn't, the SC truly is the suckiest customer ever.
I've never known personally someone with AIDS, but cancer will do similar things to the body as what the food court cashier had going on and someone saying that the person was death incarnate for the look would have sent me through the roof since mine is the first generation in the family where there hasn't been at least 2 cases of cancer, but that could change with time.

[AirHostess]

At least that SC will get his eventually.

Who ARE these people????? They cannot be human beings like us.