I inadvertantly got an old woman fired from one of the local Walmarts for being racist. Yep, tis true. My friend was pushing my youngest in the buggy, and asked this woman where the Baby Orajel was. The woman looked at her, sneered, turned back to what she was doing, pointed her thumb behind her, and says "It's over there.", then went back to what she was doing.
She didn't see me behind her, so I came up a minute later and said "Excuse me, but where is the Baby Orajel?", then very politely says "It's over with the toothpaste ma'am, let me show you." I told that would not be necessary and walked away. We still could not find it, so Nancy asked another employee, who then told us it was in the baby section......way on the other side of the store.
We came back to my house in bit later, I emailed Walmart HQ. Then I got a call from the manager of the store here, who apologized repeatedly. I just flat out told him that if she's going to remain in customer service she needs to treat all customers the same. Not treat one like she doesn't exist because of her skin color. I told him that she needed to be talked to because that was just wrong. He agreed, told me he would personally take care of it.
Well, Nancy knows one of the Asst. Mgrs there. She saw him a few weeks later and told him what took place. He goes "Ohh, that's why she's no longer working there." He said he didn't know why she was gone, just knew that she was. We both were very surprised that she was fired....or voluntarily left. All we expected was her to be "talked" to.....warned, but all I can think is that she either smarted off to whomever talked to her about it and got herself fired, or she decided to leave because she didn't want to treat blacks the same as whites.
Ah well.
