Sorry We Made Sure You Were OK

[LillFilly]

This was inspired by Ralerin's post.

About a year ago we got a call from a Store that they heard a child screaming and were worried. My coworker walked down to that area and indeed heard screams of bloody murder. He rounded a corner and observed a family with a handicapped teen in a wheelchair, who was flailing and screaming while the family tried to calm him. They saw coworker, who nodded in greeting and returned to the store that had complained to tell them everything was all right.

Cue the family coming to the office to complain to our then idiot supervisor about coworker Apparently, he 'followed' them all through the mall just because they were (insert minority here) and gave them dirty looks when they couldn't calm their child, making them feel like they had no choice but to leave. Supervisor, being a complete idiot, called coworker in, berated him in front of the family and made him apologize for 'making them feel uncomfortable' (I don't know if it made a difference, but supervisor was the same ethnicity as the complaining family) Umm, ok, then next time we hear your child screaming we WON'T make sure he's ok!

[Grape The Cat]

Ah, the race card. Will it ever go away? Your supervisor was an ass.

[Moosenogger]

Since I've read the epic story Vinegar Boy a few times, didn't your doofus supervisor open up the mall (or the store) for a discrimination lawsuit? Having the employee say, "Yes, I did that and I'm sorry" is just asking for the family to come back with their hands out.

[Syriilord]

Ah, the race card. Will it ever go away?

Yes it will. In the future, when we're all Goobacks (Those future people from South Park)

Oh yeah. They took mah job!

[emax4]

Kind of a related story....

This Thanksgiving we spent at my wife's parent's house. I heard a new story of how they went to Disneyworld when she was a child, and she went on these bumper boats (like bumper cars, but a big motorized car on an innertube, I guess). She said that the boat kept spinning in circles and she couldn't control it. She tried turning the wheel both ways and it wouldn't work, so she let go of the wheel and it kept spinning.

At that point, since the only way she knew how to get help was to scream bloody murder, she screamed and screamed!!! She says people were coming from all over, running to her area to make sure everything was ok. Later on at dinnertime after all the commotion, some would come over to her table and say, "hey, you're the little girl that screamed.." (as if they were seeing a movie star for the first time in person) LOL

Still, the wheelchair incident is a bad story. I probably wouldn't have apologized though, but have said, "uh, I hear people in trouble and I rush over to make sure things are ok, and you're upset over this? And you want me to apologize for trying to be a good samaritan? SRSLY??"

[Kristev]

The race card is actually still valid in many instances. This just didn't happen to be one of them.