Arby's employee writes homophobic slur on receipt for gay couple -- and quickly finds himself without a job - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism
By: Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism
Some people think that it's cool to be a bigot. Guess what? It isn't
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An Indiana man who was employed at Arby's is without a job after he allegedly wrote a homophobic slur on a receipt for two male customers, WLFI reports.
An image of the receipt was posted to Facebook by one of the men, which shows the anti-gay slur "f**" next to where the name for the order was supposed to be written.
"I was shocked, just because the kid seem like he was new on the job and he was really nice," said John Burns, who was at Arby's with his partner, Craig Gray.
"This young man has learned this behavior somewhere," said Burns. "You know, there are some people out there that don't get people out there are like this and that's wrong."
According to President for Pride Lafayette, Ashley Smith, the incident highlights a bigger issue.
"What did this person think when he did this, he or she. Did they feel like they got fired because they got in trouble or got told on by some customers. Do they realize the gravity of what they did," Smith said, adding that allies of the LGBT community "should stand up if they see something happening."
"You stand up and you say this is not ok. What else can be done, in the moment, if you see this happen you can't just ignore it."
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Little twit was fired. Good!
hopefully, one or all of his ex peers discreetly paint the sidewalk in front of his house with his face in a few days.
But his parents might get upset.
meh, there probably aren't any sidewalks in his trailer park anyway...
I guess the basement in a trailer would be like a cargo hold.
tornado shelter
Every place he might try to get a job should be made aware that they would be hiring a homophobic bigot. He should also not be able to get unemployment benefits. He can just live in his mother's basement.
This first thing that struck me about this story is how times have changed.
Of course I'm not familiar with that specific restaurant, but it seems to me that there's been a trend lately.
In many place like that, he would've gotten away with it in the past... but recently in many cases in places and situations where overt bigotry would've been tolerated by "the powers that be"...it is no longer tolerated.
Although we still have a long way to go, in many cases there's been significant progress lately..
Unreal. I feel like you must have to be overflowing with hate to do something like this.
What gets me is the being nice and smiling to their faces all the while having these horrible thoughts and actions.
I am kinda an open book. Someone can just look at me and tell how I am feeling.
So am I but it gets me in trouble
I say fuck it. the only person I answer to in this life for my own actions is myself.
You're so lucky you don't have a supervisor
self employed for over a decade. working way less than half as much and making triple. plus no HR lady or useless sales manager camping out in my office during the week, as if that was any deterrent. it's truly amazing how much grace that over $1 million in self generated sales yearly can buy.
"oh please come back, everyone misses you"
uh-huh, $150K signing bonus up front with no strings attached, or fuck off you thieving con artists.
You are lucky! Or Smart!
Or...both.
BTW I've noticed that that seems to be a bit of a trend in recent years...little by little, more and more people are getting fed up with working for a boss with half a brain...in an organization run by the #1 boss...with similar traits!
And it appears that trend has really been accelerating this past year by people who started working remotely (due to Covid)and found they really liked it. So some have decided not to go back to working for someone else and have started their own businesses...
BTW there are some large companies that are supposedly wonderful to work for...but they are a small minorty of companies...
In many cases...but not all.
I have seen cases where sometimes racial/religious/ethnic bigotry is so widely accepted in a particular community that often some individuals do it without thinking.
(Of course that's been my experience, which is probably somewhat different in that regard than many other peoples'. In the 60's I was living in N Carolina and very involved in the Civil Rights movement. .In many cases there were people who weren't particularly rascist-- but the norm was to use the N word without thinking, or to laugh at anti-Black or anti-Semitic jokes because everyone around them did.
People believed it was great to have statues honororing people who basically had committed treason against the United States-- who job was to make sure as many U.S. soldiers were murdered as possible! (Confederate Generals). Etc.
Some White folks back then were real haters...but others weren't all that obsessed with race, just wanted to live their own lives...but adhered to the all pervasive dominant culture.
Places like Arby's are in the hospitality business. Their employees must be spot free.
Him being fired is not a surprise at all.
Two of my favorite dining spots, the third one I'll be trying in September.
I haven't tried this one yet, but I'll be there in September.
Mesa AZ, Frybread and Indian Tacos, excellent
This one is great, Bannock, Frybread, and Indian Tacos...Heaven in the Okanagan.
Some of these types of food trucks often have authentic ethnic food..of excellent quality... that's often better than many mainstream restaurants!
The two that I have eaten at have excellent ethnic American food, (Native American)
I also like BBQ and there were a million BBQ joints when I lived in MO. But one my favorites was a chain known as Famous Dave's BBQ. He is a very interesting man and he learned to cook and sell pushing his grandmoms' cart around selling Frybread in WI. I have eaten at his first resturant in Hayward WI.
His full name is David Wayne Anderson, age 50. Of Ojibwe and Choctaw heritage, he's a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe in Wisconsin.
I have eaten there r.t..b, excellent food.
Also the Kai, on the expense side with some unique interpretations of NA foods.
That it is.
It's been years but is ''The Point'' still in business. They used to have a great restaurant there, not NA but outstanding.
Thanks for the update.
Miigwech (thank you)
Wouldn't gay men want to go there?
I mean, after all, they have the meat.
snicker
I will say the rootbeer float looks good.
I'm partial to their cherry turnovers
Oohhhhhh.... thanks for the reminder!
And thank you for the I-30 info. It's been so long driving that way I had forgotten. I had to dig my old road atlas out to plan our travels to see family and get to my wifes retirement assignment.
make sure you exceed the speed limits in arkansas. /s
When are you coming back to the states? I think they plan to have that bridge repaired sometime thi summer?
fuck that, some lib bridge inspector red tagged that perfectly good bridge. just drive around the barricades. /s
Not soon enough.
Do you travel that way a lot? We have a trip to Florida planned in July and Mr Giggles wants to 40 across and I-55 south to Biloxi for an overnight stay. We might have to "re-calculate"
Well, the USG is planning our return in July. We packed out the big stuff we're taking back and just finished today. It should be around three months before we see that again! Right now, we're flying back on July 12th. But we're also going to be visiting family in NY, VA, TN and MS before heading to her new assignment. Which is great as it will allow me to totally avoid the I-40 problem entirely.
"Speed limits" are only posted suggestions, which I readily admit to tossing in the circular file all the time.
While I'm exceeding the speed limit! You give such great advice!
I guess you missed that story on the internet this week about people with out of state plates.
I-40 in Arkansas now has a 75 mph speed limit
I did
They still don't like when you do 85. My stretch of hwy I travel everyday is 75, too, but the staties get peeved when they see you doing 85-90 mph
If you're driving that fast you deserve a ticket.
OK.... there ARE limits to how far you can push those 'suggestions'
But, then again, those problems only come to light if you're caught.
You could always pull my daughter in laws routine of crying and begging forgiveness. She's been nicknamed Mario (in honor of Mario Andretti of course) in her office. It doesn't always work as their insurance premium, will attest to!!
To some people simply leaving the driveway and being on a public road is sufficient for a ticket!
It's a 75 mph zone! What speed do you go at 65 mph? I'm betting you do at least 5 over
Some advise for anyone that ever decides to travel to Michigan [mainly the SE part of the state] is if you're doing the speed limit, stay in the right lane with the semis, because they're doing 70-75 MPH; 70 MPH is the speed limit on our Interstates.
However, if you EVER find yourself on I-696, you better drive like you're in a race. The speed limit may say 70 mph, but the reality is, if you're not doing 90 mph, you're about to be run over.
On M39 [aka Southfield], the speed limit may say 55 mph, but if you do 55 mph, you'll get run over. Most people are going 70 + mph, including semis.
Any other road... if you aren't comfortable doing 5-10 mph over the speed limit in all sorts of weather, stay in the right lane!!!
The ONLY time I've ever been pulled over on an Interstate or state highway, I was exceeding the speed limit by 20 mph or more or there was one time that I got pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt [I was hungover and didn't care or think about it]... and I still didn't get a ticket.
If I exceed the limit in a 65 zone it's not more than 2-3 mph over. In a 75 mph zone I drive between 70-73 mph.
I know Ohio is a state wide speed trap.
On other roads, I'll usually maintain at least whatever the fastest driver is doing.... of course staying right behind him or her and let them be the radar target.
Years back, I was on I-95 headed south doing about 90 in the early afternoon (speed limit was I believe 55 at the time). I always used my signal to move over into the passing lane and then again when I moved back. A VA trooper pulled up along side me and simply indicated by a hand gesture to slow down. Okie dokie, yes sir! I dropped down to just over 75 and we tooled down the road together until he got off at the exit for the VA Troopers Barracks.
Please tell us all that you're doing that in the far right lane and not the left passing lane.
Are you old?
A few days after mother's day, my wife and I took my mom to Tampa to the Hard Rock casino for a few hours, then to Orlando to the Boston Lobster Feast.
On the way home, I was doing about 85, little traffic once outside of Orlando. My mom noticed my speed and asked me "who taught you how to drive". I looked in the rear view mirror at her and said "you did".
Not another peep about my driving.
74
Of course I don't drive in the left passing lane unless someone in front of me is going slower and when I do pass I speed it up to 80 if another car is right behind me.
Coming back from the Easts Coast on the last trip there was construction on 30 with a 7 to 8 mile back up
so I took 20 from Nashville to Birmingham to Dallas Fort Worth.
A pleasant surprise, so much so that I had the opportunity to stop and see many major clients along the way.
Maybe not..if McConnel's Senate Republicans have anything to say about it!
they should have the senate vote on the infrastructure bill, with the session on that bridge, in between a dozen parked and loaded semi's.
I like that idea
Yeah, we went to Grapevine last summer and that construction mess was a bear at 4 AM in driving rain
As one should. I do that too, but well... not everyone does, that's for sure.
My great grandfather was frequently ticketed for excessively exceeding the speed limit.
My grandmother was pulled over when she was in her early 70s for doing 92 in a 70 mph zone. She was listening to William Tell's Overture.
So, sometimes age has nothing to do with it, but yes many times it does. I'll be that 80 year old speeding down the freeway doing 90 mph, I'm sure of it.
well, it did say smoked brisket on the receipt...
Well, there's an old saying:
One man's meat is another man's Poisson!
OTOH, that is contradicted by another old saying:
What's sauce for the Goose is sauce for the Gander!
I have to admit that I'm very happy the individual has been fired, and I'm looking forward to going to an Arbys when we return stateside next month, the one we have here in London just is not the same. but then no 'fast food' chain really is.
I hope you get a good one. The one in our town is going downhill
I have to go to another town to get to one. There is only one here on the whole of the coast.
Yeah...but...you have all those great seafood places!
supposedly that corp has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for a couple years.
Most have. Whataburger was sold to a Chicago investment firm in 2019 and was panicked by the COVID situation,
yet 2020 was one of their best years ever, continuing into 2021 while they expand to other states like KS.
Go figure.
they were in colorado up until 30-40 years ago and I used to look forward to having a whataburger whenever I was down in texas after that. over the last 15 months of living there, not so much. I still love their breakfast menu though. biscuits and gravy for $2.39? yes please. thank god I'm back in the state where flying a confederate flag on your truck requires full coverage auto insurance.
I hope you get a good one. The one in our town is going downhill
I have heard that most Arby's are not that great-- both for quality of the food as well as cleanliness.
(But its all hearsay on my part, I never eat in fast food places any more).
I always loved Arby's but there is not one near me. When my husband and I were purchasing a new car, there was one right next door to the dealership. Our salesman brought us lunch from there. I was so excited to get a beef and cheddar fix, until it arrived. It was a disgusting hot mess but I forced myself to eat it as I did not want to insult our salesman. I will never eat at Arby's again, even if there is one right next door.
Some people feel that Chipotle is a notch or two above most of the others...
One of the several reasons I try to avoid fast food. One wonders if putting "fag" on the ticket was all that was done. Or, at least I do.
uh, yeah. I did bar-tending and waited tables for several years in a really nice dinner house decades ago. let's just say it's a really bad idea to annoy your server just to impress the other people you came in with.
I did, too, but I never did anything to anyone's drink or food. I found ways to pad their bill
yeah well, I was in the weeds on a weekend night and some goober yelled at me to take his beer back to the bar right now and put a bigger head on it.................yes sir! use your imagination.
I never got that. I don't care for the foam on top.
I won't say what first popped into my head.
Why not? Most of us were thinking it
Let's just say I saw a vid of a bartender that was pissed at a customer and decided to use his little head to stir the drink.
ewww
I used to be a waiter in a really nice Italian restaurant. At the end of the night the owner gave us just a few bucks from the register., but most of the money I made was tips.
I quickly learned that of that money--there were different factors of course-- but mainly the larger tabs were based on the amount of alcohol they ordered (both for tips as well as the owner).
Ordering a bottle of wine was a plus-- but this was best case scenario: if the table ordered a drink (hard liquor) before the meal-- then a bottle of wine with the meal!
To a lesser degree ordering both an appetizer and dessert helped increase the tab-- but the real money was in the alcohol!
P,S: It was called "Tony's Italian restaurant".
I later found out his name wasn't actually Tony but rather was John-- he called the restaurant Tony's because that way sounded like it had more authentic ltalian food!
(Nice place actually-- great atmosphere, excellent food. at reasonable prices .and had a garden with tables out back).
I wonder if his gf asked him why his dick tasted like whiskey.
This is the stuff I imagine. I used to work with a guy that thought he was funny, while everyone else around him thought him a dickhead. I've no doubts his food gets special treatment. When I was with him, I either did not eat or drink, or I'd try to make it plain and obvious that I did not agree with nor abide by his obnoxious behavior. I've never waited tables, but I have worked my ass off in other places. Never could understand why anyone would be an ass to a person, much less an ass to a person bringing you something to ingest.
When I was young I worked at a Wendy's. The manager had a finger cut off in the frosty machine and a young man was trying to clean the vents above the grill and was stepping on the deep fryer. His leg fell in almost up to his knee. Another time I had to take a woman to the hospital because a big can fell on her head.
Sounds like you needed hazardous duty pay
we used to sometimes run out of maine lobsters during the weekend dinner rush and the kitchen would put up a countdown sheet at the pickup line. one time some old bag keeled over in the dining room at a 6 chair table. it was a mad dash by the realists/veterans on the wait staff back to the line to see how many live lobsters that table had ordered. my first life lesson/example of tragedy = opportunity.
for those of you that are now convinced I'm without a soul, let me preface that by saying a lot of patrons that came into this restaurant would experience some form of life issue before the entrees and tab arrived, because they knew that the restaurant wouldn't be collecting the bill after gramps or granny was being loaded into the meat wagon. I worked there long enough to see the same guy have 2 heart attacks in the place.
Let's just say I never had another frosty.
Omg. I shouldn't find that funny.
Someone just died. Keeled over in the dining room. Quick, how many lobsters did they have?
I can't remember, but there were a few waitresses that were horrified by our non-concern. bfd
I saw that bullshit happen way more than once though. fyi - the lounge cocktail waitress watched granny get off the gurney in the parking lot before being hoisted into the ambulance.
In many fast food places that staff makes low wages.
They hire the type of people they do (low wages)...for a reason.
Waste not, want not.
WTF?
Arby's ran a special that day....1/2 a fried leg....fries and drink included
No kidding. Someone thought they got some bonus chicharrones.
shit! That's way funnier than what I said
I thought it was funny, initially. Now I'm thinking about all of the times I have eaten the bonus fried mystery item in an order of fries.
Look, an onion ring in with my fries...er, wait....
It’s unfortunate that the worst consequence is losing a job at Arby’s. I should think that it’s highly unlikely that the next shitty job he applies for will find out about this. Maybe he should go apply at Chick fil a. They might consider that as management material.
the last company I worked for refused to comment on any type of past history due to legal concerns, other than a he/she worked here before.