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    So back when I was working at the gas station, the 2nd location I worked at was one of those lovely locations where I was constantly calling the police. I was also the assistant manager.

    Some guy (black) comes in and asks for cigarettes. He's probably of age, but he looks under 30 so I'm not selling without an ID. I was a complete bitch about checking for IDs. He didn't have one so I told him I wasn't going to sell to him.

    A second later two women (white) come in. One looks to be in her 50s or so and the other looks to be early 30s. She's also in enough that I could recognize her. Both of them are flipping out. They want to know why the hell I wouldn't sell to their friend who was just in there. I explain that I have to card anyone who looks under 30. The younger one starts to flip out about how I sold to her earlier (again, she's in often enough, I've carded her before and she does look over 30 really) and he's older than her so there's no way that it was because of that. It has to be because he's black.

    It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that I'd never seen him before and he did look younger than 30. So now they are freaking out about how I'm racist and how horrible I am. I'm irritated because I have nearly hit the point where I don't care about my job (a month or so later I went to the DM and said either transfer me or I quit) and I don't feel like dealing with this shit. I'm informed by the younger lady that she's friends with my boss and she's going to get me fired.

    The older one wants to talk to my boss even after I explain that I'm the assistant manager. Fine. I call my boss. This is irritating enough as it is because she always had tons of excuses why she never answered her phone which meant I got to deal with all the shit instead of her. Well unfortunetly she answers the phone this time. Why does this suck? Because a second before, the ladies decided to turn around and walk out the door. Now I have to explain to my boss why I called her at 11 at night. I give her a heads up incase the asses come in to try to complain about me the next morning.

    Awesome part? When I describe who it is who claimed to be her friend her responce was "man, I can't stand her!"
    "Man, having a conversation with you is like walking through a salvador dali painting." - Mac Hall

  • #2
    My response?

    Well, madam, I carded him because he looks under 30 to me. I don't card you or "your mom" because you both are obviously well beyond that age.
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    • #3
      Just tell her

      "I didn't card you cause you look too damn old to doubt you're overage"

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      • #4
        Quoth bigjimaz View Post
        My response?

        Well, madam, I carded him because he looks under 30 to me. I don't card you or "your mom" because you both are obviously well beyond that age.
        told them that. Her claim was that since he was actually older than her and in her opinion looked older too (which he didn't) it couldn't have actually been about age.
        "Man, having a conversation with you is like walking through a salvador dali painting." - Mac Hall

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        • #5
          Quoth Shangri-laschild View Post
          told them that. Her claim was that since he was actually older than her and in her opinion looked older too (which he didn't) it couldn't have actually been about age.
          Pfft. I have a few friends who are 30 and not a damn one of them looks it.
          The casino we were at recently has an over 30 line for the ID check, and I was the only one under 30 so I got stuck in what I like to call the "fetus line". Anyway, the casino employee first directed them to the fetus line, then gave a nice face when they all showed their ID, stating, "No way would I have figured you guys are 30."

          Your age means dick all when it comes to how you look.
          Hell, on the same night my ID was scrutinized because I look 17.

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          • #6
            Oh god, I dealt with that on a daily basis. My neighborhood is mostly black, and I had started printing pictures taken from our digital surveillance of the thieves we had caught, and hanging them up on the "wall of shame". Of course most of them were black. Not because black people steal more than any other race, but because there's just such a dense population of them here. But I quickly became known as the racist white bitch because of THEIR kids being thieves...

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            • #7
              Walgreens had a policy of carding everybody.

              I was in there late one night and the young FEMALE clerk tells the old woman purchasing cigs that "everybody has to present ID because most women don't look a day over 18".

              (wow, nice way of saying I don't know how old you are)

              Old woman gets bent out of shape because she was carded for her cigs.... even though the sign on counter said they card everybody and the clerk was being pleasant about the issue.


              Clerk and old woman discuss the issue. Old woman ain't happy but she leaves.

              The next customer in line was cigs as well. Clerk cards her with the same line about most women don't look a day over 18. The next customer in line is obviously a street walker that should have retired 20 years ago when she still had half of her looks. Streetwalker's comment, "thank ya honey, those are the nicest thing anybody has said to me in a long time".

              Clerk is happy, somebody understands her comment.

              As the streetwalker is leaving she says "we are all in customer service one way or another".


              Yep.
              SC Motto "I am more important than you and others and don't you ever forget it"

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              • #8
                Quoth bigjimaz View Post
                My response?

                Well, madam, I carded him because he looks under 30 to me. I don't card you or "your mom" because you both are obviously well beyond that age.
                That's why it's just easier when a store cards everyone, regardless of how old they look. Corporate just decided that we draw the cutoff at 40, so if you look under 40, then you're carded. But this is still sucky because I've seen 40 year-olds look 18 and twenty-somethings look 50. So if 40 is the cutoff, than I am still carding pretty much everyone. Don't let me think about it, don't argue with me about it, just show your damn ID. But worst of all? Our individual store DOES card everyone (we were caught selling to minors a few years back, resulting in a lost license for a year, so now we card everyone), but we still have the corporate signs plastered about the store saying that we card for people under 40. Dammit, take it as a compliment if I card you, don't be a jerk about it. Grrr.
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                • #9
                  Quoth StevieJD View Post

                  As the streetwalker is leaving she says "we are all in customer service one way or another".


                  Yep.
                  Hey can I use this as my signiture! So true!
                  People are never happy!
                  You should have told her that black dont crack and she looks like shes been ridden hard and put away wet. Thats why he was carded and she wasnt
                  I am so tired of the race card! People need to just stop being so sensitive and understand that no you didnt get the job because of your race but becuse your an underqualifed nimrod.
                  No I am not refusing you service because your (insert race here) but becuase you are being rude and obnoxous!
                  Oh and I wont date you not because your such and such nationality but because your ugly, pushy. and I'm just not into you!

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                  • #10
                    best smackdown i ever saw was a black friend of mine of register at the gas being belittled by a biggoted old lady "your dumb dont you know anything rant rant rant rant rant". as a sidenote he's in college with me right now but he just calmly replies. "Ma'am this is high crime area and i was hired because I'm disposable"

                    old ladies just 's and we both just die laughing while she turns into a tomatoe face. - he never did have a problem with her again

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                    • #11
                      Quoth StevieJD View Post
                      The next customer in line was cigs as well. Clerk cards her with the same line about most women don't look a day over 18. The next customer in line is obviously a street walker that should have retired 20 years ago when she still had half of her looks. Streetwalker's comment, "thank ya honey, those are the nicest thing anybody has said to me in a long time".
                      Some of the nicest convenience store customers are prostitutes (sure, they do have the habit of buying gum with $50 notes, but only because that's what they got paid with)

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                      • #12
                        We are supposed to card everyone who orders alcohol, regardless of apparent age. Because the restaurant is in a somewhat shadier area of town, the logic is that if they don't have ID, they probably can't afford that beer anyway. We're supposed to ID everyone so that if a crackhead does come in and get ID'd, they can play a discrimintion card about us only IDing them because they are a crackhead.

                        But I don't. I ID young people and crackheads. It may well come back to bite me in the ass one day.

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                        • #13
                          At the library the higher ups decide that no longer will people put money in copy machines to make copies, now they have to put it in another machine to make copies. Granted, there is also people printing from the computers and there probably isn't a system where you just put money in the printer, or at least one that the library wants to spend cash on.

                          So we have this system where you add money to your library card on one machine and use another machine to make copies and get your printouts.

                          Woman comes up to me and asks "Where do the prints come out at?" So I take her to the machine that prints out stuff. Why didn't I ask if she had money on the card? 1) sometimes you ask the question and they say "yes" so you assume that everyone has money on their card 2) you ask if they have money on the card and they act like you said "you look poor, I don't think you have money to make copies," because their response for some reason is "Of course I have money on my card! I can pay for copies!" so you kind of get sick of asking the question 3) She asked where they came out. So I assume she already put money on it.

                          Anyway, we go to the machine, scan her card, the machine says "card not in system..."* Since I had this problem before several times, and it was because the patron didn't type in their card number when the queue box pops up, I ask her if she did. She said she did and so I asked if she could do it again, it might have been typed wrong.

                          NOpe, that wasn't it. Then I asked her if she added money. She said no and so we go to add money, and she said something about me not telling her to do that in the first place. I don't know why I said this, but I said, "I'm sorry, I confused you with someone else."

                          You can guess what she said. "It's because us black people must look the same to you." But, you know, with an attitude.

                          I say, "What does that suppose to mean?" Of course, she doesn't respond.


                          *note: that will be the message if they didn't type in their library card number in the queue box, or have no money on the card, or their card expired. I wish the machine would tell us what the problem is then just a generic message.
                          Last edited by depechemodefan; 05-08-2008, 06:54 PM.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth rerant View Post
                            Hell, on the same night my ID was scrutinized because I look 17.
                            Don't be sad.

                            I haven't been carded in a long time.

                            That hurts my female ego.
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                            • #15
                              My SO often does not get carded, she is 20 so legal to get achohol where we live. Of course having DDD's at 14 might help that.
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