:siren: [B]THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION[/B] :siren:
Right now, I work as a clerk at a Grocery store. One of the major downsides to this job is that I have to remain in the same 15 by 8 foot area for most of the day, occasionally dipping into the back room to get something. The back room is where the butchers do most of their work, and whenever I go back there, I like to strike up a conversation with some of them.
Some of them.
See, while all of the people working in the Department are generally friendly, well-mannered people, it wasn't until recently that I actually got into a slightly deeper conversation about things with the manager and realised it would probably be best for me to transfer somewhere else, as I literally cannot believe that he thinks some of the Fox News-esque things we discussed.
From the very beginning, I could tell the conversation was going to be hilarious. The store I work at is in a part of the city populated in large part by immigrants, mostly from the Middle-Eastern or Southeast European area, and the Manager decided to use this as legitimate evidence that Muslims are trying to take over the country. His logic is that Canadian families only have 2 or 3 kids, while Muslim immigrant families could have anywhere from 10 to 12 kids, and that by using all these new votes, the Muslims plan to turn Canada into an Islamic state within 50 years by voting away all the parties we have set up.
Now, on the inside, I felt like I was being trolled. It literally felt like he was saying things just to piss me off. But the thing is, most born-again Christians in their late 50's think the only definition of a troll is a hideous creature that lives under a bridge. So he must actually believe this. This is the man that has the final say in what I should be doing during most of the day.
Originally, I didn't care. I thought if I never brought it up again then maybe I would never have to talk about the subject again. But the last straw came yesterday when I went in the back to ask for something from a customer, and the first question my boss asks me is "Is he a Muslim?" I responded that I had no way of knowing since being a Muslim is a religious status and there's very little, visually, I could do to find out. It's at this point that my boss simply asked "Does he look like an Indian?" I gave my boss the closest look I could to this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/JpsIw.jpg[/IMG]
Then looked out the little window we have on the door to see. The guy looked like he might have been from somewhere, but I didn't remember an accent or anything when he talked to me. I said no, and my boss immediately cut a piece of beef for him. While I was packaging it, he asked why I had to check. I said that I don't keep track of what I don't know about customers, and he said:
"If an Indian guy comes in and he doesn't speak proper English, just tell him we don't have what he wants."
I've talked to the store Managers about him, and they claim that he hasn't broken any violations or anything of the sort, and that if he wants to fear Muslims, he can do it all he wants, and there's no way he'd get fired for it.
What a tolerant society we live in.
Sounds like a great guy
People like him piss me off
He sounds like the kind of guy who goes on conspiracy sites all night. I'd say just do what you're doing now and try and not talk to him much or try and talk about other things instead of a subject pertaining to anything that could strike up a conversation about Muslims.
Nice use of images, well written sentences and a gripping and twist filled plot with a good sense of humour too. 8/10
Wow, at least get him to understand that Indians are almost always not Muslim. Jesus if they were, Pakistan and Kashmir wouldn't be such a bloody hell hole.
I'd love for him to get hit by a car, (Ofcourse, being driven by a canadian) and then getting treated by a muslim doctor.
what a jerk
[QUOTE=Miskav;29842095]I'd love for him to get hit by a car, (Ofcourse, being driven by a canadian) and then getting treated by a muslim doctor.[/QUOTE]
muslims can be canadian
If you work at a larger Grocery store, report him even higher than your store manager. Also tell them your store manager is useless.
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;29841671]"If an Indian guy comes in and he doesn't speak proper English, just tell him we don't have what he wants."
I've talked to the store Managers about him, and they claim that he hasn't broken any violations or anything of the sort, and that if he wants to fear Muslims, he can do it all he wants, and there's no way he'd get fired for it.
What a tolerant society we live in.[/QUOTE]
If you want to get him fired, when you get a customer like this, go into the back room to check with him, then come back out and say to the customer "sorry the butcher refuses to cut you meat due to your skin colour"
I work in a small shop were a lot of my co-workers are 50-60 years old and some of the shit you hear them say is awfully ignorant (not racist though) so I sympathise with you.
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;29841671]
"If an Indian guy comes in and he doesn't speak proper English, just tell him we don't have what he wants."
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Isn't that illegal?
What a twat.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;29842616]Isn't that illegal?[/QUOTE]
If he owns the place and sells nonvital stuff, he has rights to decline anyone for any reason.
Sounds like my dad. Any kind of person with tan skin = terrorist.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;29842875]If he owns the place and sells nonvital stuff, he has rights to decline anyone for any reason.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure there are rules against refusing to serve someone due to their race.
what a douche, why don't you dare em for a roshambo? Just make sure you're first up the bat
that boss is fuckin right doing bout what he is
Thousands of years of human evolution and we can still be ignorant fucks. God bless the human race.
Bush's greatest and most horrifying achievement was creating mass zenophobia throughout the world.
[QUOTE=Dubious George;29843061]Bush's greatest and most horrifying achievement was creating mass zenophobia throughout the world.[/QUOTE]
Xenophobia's always existed it wasn't just Bush that sat there and decided it might be funny.
Also completely off topic but has anyone else noticed that the users viewing this thread icon has started spinning?
[QUOTE=johan_sm;29842875]If he owns the place and sells nonvital stuff, he has rights to decline anyone for any reason.[/QUOTE]
From what I can determine, the type of place he works in is not a small company. And I do believe food is a vital thing, so yes, it probably is illegal.
(Though there may be some loophole in the system I'm not aware of.)
[QUOTE=markg06;29843130]Xenophobia's always existed it wasn't just Bush that sat there and decided it might be funny.
Also completely off topic but has anyone else noticed that the users viewing this thread icon has started spinning?[/QUOTE]
Even though Xenophobia has existed for a long time, Bush Junior was able to cultivate a sizeable amount of the american people into racist paranoids.
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;29841671]Now, on the inside, I felt like I was being trolled. It literally felt like he was saying things just to piss me off. But the thing is, most born-again Christians in their late 50's think the only definition of a troll is a hideous creature that lives under a bridge. So he must actually believe this.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I remember when sarcasm was invented back in 2006.
It was a great day.
Trip him up, get an immigrant and a non-immigrant friend to go to your store, ask for shit you know you have, bring a recorder and ask your manager for 2 slices of meat. When he asks if they're Muslim, say no. After he says "okay", tell him that there are two guys, one for each guy (so he has to bag them in different bags) and that one is an immigrant. When he refuses to serve the immigrant, act as if all if right.
Then, take the evidence to his superior.
I would probably just be straightforward with the guy & tell him that I'm not going to take part in any racist bullshit. I guess when you're younger, it's uncomfortable to be confrontational like that, but stand up for what's right if you have the balls to
[QUOTE=NPerez;29843428]I would probably just be straightforward with the guy & tell him that I'm not going to take part in any racist bullshit. I guess when you're younger, it's uncomfortable to be confrontational like that, but stand up for what's right if you have the balls to[/QUOTE]
Eh, if I was in the OP's position, I'd only go against him if I had another job at the ready. Because you can't tell to someone as stupid as his boss that he's an idiot without getting fired.
[quote]His logic is that Canadian families only have 2 or 3 kids, while Muslim immigrant families could have anywhere from 10 to 12 kids, and that by using all these new votes, the Muslims plan to turn Canada into an Islamic state within 50 years by voting away all the parties we have set up.
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he knows they came to Canada to get AWAY from their shitty shariah Islamic state, right
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;29842346]muslims can be canadian[/QUOTE]
Read as [quote]Muslims can be eaten[/quote]
I'm supposed to be a right proper fellow, but here goes
What a fucking piece of shit, cunthead stinky dick. We Canadian's are supposed to be the most loving and tolerant ones out there, then this guy goes ahead and reverses all that. We live in a country that openly accepts gay marriage, so you think we'd be pretty on the ball about non-discrimination. But apparently there's still racist fuckholes out there.
I could start ranting about born-again Christians, or just Christians in general, but we all know exactly where that would end up...
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