Today I was at the liquor store. I am well aware I am heavily tattooed and do get questions and comments about them, I am okay with this 99 percent of the time. So I go up to the cash to pay for my purchase and the middle aged women who was ringing me through said ”Is that a guy eating another guy on your arm?” pointing to my portrait of Bub of Day of the Dead. I replied with “Why yes it is!” This women then proceeded to say “That’s disgusting! Why would you want to do that to your body!?”
I was so shocked! I could have said a thousand things back, but being the better person, I said “To each their own,” with a smile and walked out with my purchase.
When I arrived home, I called the NSLC to make a formal complaint towards the employee and thankfully her supervisor was very understanding about my complaint. I explained that I did not want to cause any bad repercussion towards this employee but I was very insulted and thought that he should be aware of the customer service she was bringing their company.
This behaviour however is unacceptable. I am a hairstylist and I would never ever tell any of my clients any part of them is disgusting. I just hope that when I have children some day that I will instill the values that they never have to right to judge anyone or make rude comments about them because they look a certain way. —Losing Hope in the Human Race
This article appears in Aug 2-8, 2012.
good on ya, i had a person comment on my crow tattoo, “i never met anyone who liked crows” okay lady who lives under rocks
Good for you for calling and following through. Its a teachable moment and hopefully the employee learns a lesson from it.
Fuck, and you just know that some poor cashier drone making min wage at SuperSobeys would never have the nerve to be such a fucking idiot and say something like that to a customer.
IF YOU LOOK LIKE A FREAK, EXPECT TO GET TREATED AS ONE.
OP, tats are a permanent solution for temporary gratification. get a life, loser!
if this was a chance encounter in public and a total stranger said that, that’s life. But this was a paid customer service employee, damn right you should complain. She is on the job, not on her own time with her own opinions. Cow! (and How could anyone NOT love crows, sassy little buggers?)
you are expecting every low paid worker to have more diplomacy than Jean Cretien. It doesn’t work that way.
i think they make pretty good coin in the jar store
I’m sure they make more money than I’ve been paid in the past to put up with a lot worse, GV. Not to mention she’s public sector and unionized.
That would make me sick OP and I would have definitely torn a strip off her right then and there or said something so passive aggressive it would have made her contemplate suicide, depending on my mood that day. And no I don’t have any tattoos, nor do I take issue with people expressing their opinions on their own time, but not when someone is handing over their hard earned cash for your overpriced, regulated product.
You don’t just make rude comments about someone while on the job. God help her if she ever encounters a difficult customer.
ooohh I would have made a scene.. I can see it now.
It was rude what the employee said but if you share aspects of your life in public (or wear them on your sleeve) people will have a right to an opinion. Some will take it further and actually comment.
Sure, people have a right to an opinion, but when you are working and representing a company that opinion is left at the door.
Yeah but why the hell would you get a tattoo of a movie character in the first place?
Well a tattoooed image depicting cannablism is kind of disgusting – duh. It would be like tattooing an image of a turd on your body and expecting to hear “how pretty!”
Was the tattoo from the studio release or Romero’s Director’s Cut?