SC needs to take it to Fratching

[Mr Hero]

This guy was a prick. It started simple enough. It always does. He asks to opt out of the automatic $1.50 charge for the safe. If this is all he had, would I be writing about this?

SC: What's your manager's name?
Me: *I tell him her name*
SC: What's her last name?
Me: Romero
SC: Ah, a beaner.
Me: Excuse me?
SC: Your manager's a beaner.

He then goes on and starts questioning the owners' citizenship status and if they are here legally. Hint: Parents were born outside of the U.S. but are now citizens. Their son was born in California. All of whome are owners.

[BamaBabe]

Christ on the Cross!! Seriously, is wrong with people?!

[bainsidhe]

I'd never heard that term before until now. I'll count myself as lucky, since I wouldn't dignify the remark with a response anyway.

[hinakiba777]

It's people like this that make the spiteful thing inside of me eat the bubbly part. I don't understand how such horrid people can be allowed to socialize. Prejudice

[Captain Trips]

I always thought Romero could also be Italian, so not only is he a bigot, he's an ignorant one at that. (If that isn't being too redundant.)

[Mr Hero]

You could be correct. I'm not sure what ethnicity her husband is, but he's definitely not Hispanic. He might be Italian. Supervisor is definitely not Hispanic, so ya the guy was an ignorant jackass.

[infinitemonkies]

What I don't understand is the assumption that <born in another country = illegal immigrant,> but then again, I'm not a racist.

Though I grant that it is much, much easier to get a Canadian work/travel/student visa or citizenship than an American one.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The first thing I thought of there was Cheech and Chong, I must admit.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

I always thought Romero could also be Italian,

As an Italian I can't think of any Romero...
OK, I was wrong. Here it says that there are 5,587 families with that last name in Italy. None I have been in contact with, I guess.
Oh well.
Yes, I am still posting this even if I proved myself wrong

[Nyoibo]

And consider if you will one of the most famous Romeros Born in NY.

[tollbaby]

I had some guy bitch the other day that he had called previously, ended up with a "paki" agent, and the guy had hung up on him. I gritted my teeth and took his order to get rid of him, but GOD that burns my ass... Maybe the agent hung up on you because you called him a "paki"!!!! asshole.

[hinakiba777]

Though I grant that it is much, much easier to get a Canadian work/travel/student visa or citizenship than an American one.

This is very true. Despite having worked in the states in the past, and being married to an American Citizen, my cousin couldn't get a Student Visa to do her grad work in California. Then again, her hubby couldn't get a visa to live and work in Canada either. So she lived and worked in Alberta, and he lived and worked in Oregon I think. They would spend weekends together. I think this went on for 2 years.

[EricKei]

hina - Maybe my info is outdated, but I thought marrying an American citizen autimatically made one a Citizen ...? -- The only potential exception I can think of might be in the case of Dual Citizenship; last I checked , the US didn't acknowledge that.

[Argus]

hina - Maybe my info is outdated, but I thought marrying an American citizen autimatically made one a Citizen ...?

There are countries that do that. The US is not one of them.

[Raveni]

People often asked my employees where I was from (sometimes while I was standing next to them), and the conversation usually went like this:

SC: That's a pretty foreign name, where is he from?
CW: Texas
SC: But what nationality is he?
CW: American
SC: But where is his family from?
CW: Minnesota.
SC: But...
CW: Do you know what they do to people who ask too many questions in Texas?
SC: Sorry! I'll be going now!
Me: What do they do again?
CW: I have no idea. No one has ever asked.