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Red Lobster employee suspended after posting racist receipt online

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Zoe said:
The proper recourse would have been banning him from the restaurant.
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I agree. Unfortunately, he'd already had his meal and chances are not everyone remembered his face. It's not as though it's the norm to check a blacklist before seating a customer.
 
kidko said:
"Surely no one would do that, must be a fake" said the white person
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That's not at all the argument that's being put forth as to why this MAY be fake. I don't even know why you added that last part, but that kind of stuff will not spark intelligent discussion.
 
kidko said:
"Surely no one would do that, must be a fake" said the white person
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Yeah, except that's not what the person accused said.

And yes, it's possible they are innocent.

Sorry, but your statement comes off a bit ignorant.
 
It has to be difficult to be the person to make that call for suspension. On one hand she is calling out someone racist, on the other hand it's breaking privacy and policy.
 
Thug Waffle said:
well i mean she released someone's personal signature to the entire internet so, at the very least, that's pretty inappropriate and short-sighted. not defending the person who wrote the comment - it's asinine.
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Yeah.

She wasn't suspended for posting the picture.

Let's not cry wolf here, guys.
 
unknownhero said:
that certain word isn't in print but in cursive which is different that the sig itself.
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Only the last two letters are in cursive. Everything else including the line above is in print.

Even still, my signature looks nothing like my cursive.
 
Gleethor said:
I don't even know why you added that last part, but that kind of stuff will not spark intelligent discussion.
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Because, that's the point I wanted to put forth. Some people should stop and examine why it is that their gut reaction is "she faked it, let's examine the handwriting" when a black woman shows evidence of hate speech.
 
kidko said:
Because, that's the point I wanted to put forth. Some people should stop and examine why it is that their gut reaction is "she faked it, let's examine the handwriting" when a black woman shows evidence of hate speech.
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The gut reaction should be, "This isn't sufficient proof of anything yet and why is this shit on the internet?"
 
kidko said:
Because, that's the point I wanted to put forth. Some people should stop and examine why it is that their gut reaction is "she faked it, let's examine the handwriting" when a black woman shows evidence of hate speech.
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I don't think anyone's gut reaction was that she faked it. I think people believed her, then saw the receipt, which, coupled with the customer's denial, certainly put her claim into question. The truth is that we don't have enough facts to know what really happened at this point, and no one should be judging anyone until we do.
 
kidko said:
Because, that's the point I wanted to put forth. Some people should stop and examine why it is that their gut reaction is "she faked it, let's examine the handwriting" when a black woman shows evidence of hate speech.
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The gut reaction should be to abstain from judgement of both parties until proper evidence comes out about the issue. Taking a stance either way by thinking its fake automatically, or believing the guy is a bigot who should be harassed shows incredible bias either way.
 
Further commentary by Toni Christina Jenkins:

The Red Lobster waitress who said customers left her a receipt with the N-word on it returned to work Thursday ... and got a firm talking to from her bosses.

"They wanted me to sign something that said I understand that I violated company policy by posting the picture," Toni Christina Jenkins, a 19-year-old nursing student, told the Daily News.

Jenkins said she posted it to Facebook expecting it to get a few comments from her friends and did not expect it to go viral.

Toni Christina Jenkins said she never intended to cause the customer harm and did not realize his name was printed on the receipt.

"It wasn't to get back at the gentleman," Jenkins said. "I knew his signature was there, but I didn't know his actual name was printed on the receipt. My intention wasn't to attack the guy."

The Red Lobster waitress was frustrated that people questioned the validity of her claim. Both Jenkins and Barnes said they have gotten threats since the incident made national headlines. Jenkins is far from angry with Barnes now and even said that she would hug him if given the opportunity.

"I can only imagine what he's going through because he's on the other end. I don't wish anything bad against him at all," she said.

Jenkins, who lives with her parents, said that she is working at Red Lobster to save up enough money for a car.

“I don't want anymore drama in my life,” she said. “I just want to go to work, get the money for a car and go to school. ... That's all.”

Red Lobster was not immediately available for comment.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...eceipt-reprimanded-employer-article-1.1452767
 
I don't understand why the first impulse in these threads is always to deny <example of racism> is happening. I really don't.

How does it make your world a better place to deny that racism actually exists? Does someone writing "nigger" on a receipt make you a worse person because you share the skin color of the person who wrote it?

I don't understand.

Like, I get someone saying "no, this thing that I did is not racist." That's obvious.

But why the rush to "zoom and enhance" to explain away every single thing?

I can't wrap my head around it. I don't get it, I really don't.
 
Htown said:
I don't understand why the first impulse in these threads is always to deny <example of racism> is happening. I really don't.
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I don't think it's really anyone trying to deny that racism exists though. Are you saying the the first impulse should be to call this guy a racist and case closed that's it?

I think it's just people seeing that there isn't enough here to determine either way honestly. Maybe he is, who knows? I just really don't think it belongs on facebook as some spectacle for people to get riled up about at this point.
 
Smellycat said:
I am sure this has been pointed out, but the handwritings don't match.

Edit: And it looks like different pens were used.
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.......And yet not a word from the customer denying he did it.

Frankly its more of a leap to think some 19 year old in some random town decided to one night fake a racist comment on a receipt and post it on facebook then to think that their are in fact very overtly racist people in America that would write that. I worked in Baton Rouge bartending for years and I can tell you of a number of places that almost blatantly dont let black people in and have heard some customers say some pretty racist shit to black co-workers.
 
R10Neymarfan said:
How is she untrustworthy exactly. You're making up assumptions about her.

What if she was white. Would she still be untrustworthy?
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I think being willing to post personal information about a stranger online is the definition of untrustworthy.
 
Smellycat said:
I am sure this has been pointed out, but the handwritings don't match.

Edit: And it looks like different pens were used.
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The handwriting and pen color between the printed words (not the signature) do look very similar and the customer did admit to writing the word "none" on the receipt. That makes me a little suspicious.

Looks like whatever the case the customer wins this fight.

And I can't see anywhere where it says the girl got fired but wouldn't doubt that's what will happen.
 
Zoe said:
I think being willing to post personal information about a stranger online is the definition of untrustworthy.
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It can also just be short sightedness brought on by anger.

Doesn't mean she's a genuinely untrustworthy human being. Also doesn't mean I'm making an excuse for her posting the information online.
 
Jonm1010 said:
It can also just be short sightedness brought on by anger.

Doesn't mean she's a genuinely untrustworthy human being. Also doesn't mean I'm making an excuse for her posting the information online.
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Personally I wouldn't be able to trust someone who would act so irrationally either.
 
Darkmakaimura said:
The handwriting and pen color between the printed words (not the signature) do look very similar and the customer did admit to writing the word "none" on the receipt. That makes me a little suspicious.

Looks like whatever the case the customer wins this fight.

And I can't see anywhere where it says the girl got fired but wouldn't doubt that's what will happen.
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yeah, I just read the article that says the customer admitted to writing "none", but not the total line.

The customer is either:

1) Lying about the total line. If he is lying, he is not doing a good job because he could have easily said that he didn't write anything the tip and total lines.

2) Telling the truth.
 
Does Red Lobster take their To-Go orders at the bar? Obviously no one watched the dude sign the receipt. I'm sure something would have been said immediately if he had signed it and handed it straight over to someone. Is it possible, some prankster saw the ticket waiting to be picked up and scribbled on it really fast? Dude has no idea, waitress has no idea, and the prankster pats themself on the back for execution of a major troll. "Nigger" was obviously some kind of after thought, and it looked like it was written from an angle.
 
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