Source: https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/taco-...shows-them-assault-complaining-customers/amp/
A $20 dollar gift card? That's ridiculous.
But least the employees were fired. That's a start.
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Taco Bell workers fired over video showing them assaulting customers
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Source: https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/taco-...shows-them-assault-complaining-customers/amp/
A $20 dollar gift card? That's ridiculous.
But least the employees were fired. That's a start.
Lock if old.
What did these people expect to happen? Of course they would get fired.
Also, waiting 45 minutes for a fast food order? I'd have been gone after 10 minutes.
I hope that was a typo and actually should have said "$200,000 court settlement."
Also, waiting 45 minutes for a fast food order? I'd have been gone after 10 minutes.
I hope that was a typo and actually should have said "$200,000 court settlement."
I know people talk down to fast food employees and treat them like dogshit, I don't know if that's what happened here but you can't follow someone out of the store 6-deep and beat their ass, that is ridiculous. A $20 gift card is an insult.
From the article, it looks like they had Grubhub orders that they had to take care of before serving the other customers, I've never worked in fast food or a Taco Bell but is it possible the machines or stations they would need to use were taken up at the time? Even then 45 minutes is a crazy amount of time for a fast food place to be swamped like that.
I work in a Dennys and I can confirm that there are times that GrubHub/UberEats orders completely crash our entire kitchen causing 30+ Minute ticket times for the guests who are actually in the restaurant.
It's asinine sometimes.
I imagine fast food restaurants are even more popular with the Grubhub/UberEats crowd.
Yeah, like to a customer it may seem like they are "lazy" but if you're working there are you're slammed with orders you have to do first and the store starts filling up with people, a lot of whom treat fast food workers with little regard or understanding, and these people are likely only making minimum wage to be dealing with all that.
Need it for what? There's no situation where a beatdown like that is an acceptable thing to do. Not even if you're being robbed.
Holy shit I go to that Taco Bell, they rule
But I go during the lunch hour not at night, man they put a goddamn hurting on him
But I go during the lunch hour not at night, man they put a goddamn hurting on him
wait n/m wrong Taco Bell
how you gonna retrain your staff to not beat someone's ass
like wtf was even said
how you gonna retrain your staff to not beat someone's ass
like wtf was even said
If he hurled racial slurs, absolutely. But we're not even there yet, I need to see what went down.
I stay away from all fast food joints in CC. Would rather drive my ass out to Conshohocken for El Limon if I want tacos.
Maybe this was an unrelated story but weren't they trying to kick the shit out of a grubhub driver even calling him all kinds of slurs?
Yeah I was watching the news earlier and apparently several of them jumped the counter after a GrubHub driver said he was waiting for like an hour for a burrito.
Multiple employees sporting Taco Bell Gear caught on tape punching a man and woman and they offer a $20 gift card? Wow.
Even if, in this hypothetical situation, the customer and his girlfriend yelled racial slurs, it's not okay to have 6 people gang up and beat the shit out of someone.
Manager: "Oscar, what do you ask before handing them their order?"
Oscar: "Would you like mild, hot, fire, or these hands B?"
Manager: "This is gonna be a long day"
From the tape segment on the news it seems like not all 6 were fighting. Some employees ran out to stop the violent ones, which is at least 2 of them from the footage. 2 violent, 1 fool just watching, and it looks like 2 employees are holding back another one.
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I'm not condening the assault, but I dont buy his story that he "just complained". You dont get a beatdown like that for only complaining. We've seen this too many timrs before, person does shitty thing faces action of said shitty thing and then plays the victim. There were other customers there so why was he the only one attacked?
They weren't the only ones apparently:
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/new...Center-City-Philadelphia-Video-506853671.html
I was thinking the same thing, lol. But, I guess they'd have already paid for the order, and while they probably could have asked for a refund and left, I think that a fair portion of people will just deal with the delay if everything is already paid for.
There's some borderline victim blaming going on in here.
If evidence comes out that this guy hurled racial slurs or some shit, fuck him with a pipe.
But until then, maybe don't assume the worst about the victim.
If evidence comes out that this guy hurled racial slurs or some shit, fuck him with a pipe.
But until then, maybe don't assume the worst about the victim.
No one is victim blaming. Someone asked under what scenario is a beatdown like this "acceptable" and I gave the slur example.
I would like to see how it escalated because the incident sounds absurd. Even the rightwing racist ass NYPost is being cautious about the provocation issue.
I wasn't referring to you.
But yeah, I agree it seems odd he'd catch fists like that simply for asking for his food. But if reports are to be believed, the people who beat him down did it again to a GrubHub driver days later. So who knows?
I'm going to just say: Good they were fired. Feel bad for him and his girlfriend. BUT I reserve the right to shit all over them both if this turns into a story where they hurled a bunch of racial slurs at the employees and got what was coming to them.
