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Do you know the one of the three overweight women who walk into a restaurant and get an electronic receipt with the words “FAT GIRLS” on it? Sadly, you probably do because it’s not the first time something like this has happened. This time the victims were these three women in Stockton, California. And the list keeps growing. Insulting people on receipts is officially a trend now.
It seems some people are now so used to insulting using Twitter, Facebook or any other internet forum, that they have lost the most basic of civilized behaviors. Perhaps these people now detach themselves from the consequences of their actions whenever they are behind a screen and a keyboard, even if it’s a restaurant terminal or a cashier.
Maybe they have grown so insensitive that anything goes for them, that they can’t distinguish between internet life and real life. After all, it’s all the same life. Unfortunately, instead of being civilized online like they should be in face to face interactions—or risk getting a punch or fired—people are moving this conduct to the real world too.
ABC News reports that these three friends got the “Fat Girls” insult after dining at Chilly D’s in the Cameo Casino Restaurant, in Stockton, California. Their server Jeff wrote it on the restaurant’s electronic billing system. One of the women—Christine Duran—said that even the manager had a “smirk on his face” when they called him to complain.
A Papa John’s Asian customer got “Lady Chinky Eyes” on her receipt.
A RadioShack customer in Maryland got “ugly itch” from “ghettohood” and “tattoville” because she had tattoos on her arm.
Sometimes it’s not insults but plain sexual harassment.
Or a desperate guy trying to get laid.
I can imagine Biff, the knucklehead who barely graduated from high school writing this from behind the counter of a nobody restaurant.
Racial remarks.
More racial remarks.
Sometimes it’s not about race or physical appearance, just a plain “suck my dick fuck face.”
It’s not only in the United States. Over here in Blighty, the parents of a a rowdy kid got “thank you little fucker” when the bill came.
In South Korea, restaurants often mark their customers if they are “foreigners.” Of course, most foreigners never notice it.
I think the last one (Korean restaurant foreigner) probably serves a functional purpose, e.g. get someone who can speak English to hand the customers their bill.
I get what you are saying, but isn’t it racist to assume all foreigners speak English? Or just American? Is this an oxymoron?
It’s not racism. English is an “international” language. It’s difficult to find someone who can speak French, Spanish, German etc. in an Asian country. Very few people can speak more than two languages – their mother tongue and English, and fewer are the people who can converse with a foreigner in English comfortably (Note that I used the word comfortably instead of confidently. A lot of people underestimate their own language skills.) Furthermore, we are talking about a restaurant, not a hotel check-in counter. Their hiring requirements generally don’t include foreign languages as a necessary skill.
Argument well stated and accepted. I speak four European languages well enough to get around and can do the pleasantries in about 20 more, but even I get stuck from time to time – some geographical regions just don’t have any perpetration of European languages. I was surprised how few Japanese spoke any English too…
So… they weren’t fat girls? Oh wait, yes they were. So….why is that an insult? If more people stopped sweeping issues under the carpet in the name of PC then maybe they wouldn’t be so fat.
“You’re beautiful as you are”, “Curvy people are happy”, “Boys like a bit of meat”…..No, wrong. They are fat and telling them a few home truths may cause a few tears (like they don’t already know) and put YEARS on their lifespan.
Perhaps they should have put “small portions advised” instead.
There’s a difference between honestly telling someone they’re fat and need to lose weight and writing “Fat Girls” on their receipt. The latter is just plain rude and extremely inappropriate.
And of course it’s an insult, since when has calling someone fat not been an insult?
Whilst I think its deplorable to label customers based on their physical attributes, I nevertheless disagree that calling someone fat should be an insult. It is not inherited or inflicted (apart from a few rare conditions), it is a choice. We do not have to have 9 million people a year die from hypertension while 4.5 million die from starvation. Everyone’s decisions affect each other, just because we physically remove ourselves from the consequences of our actions it doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Furthermore, a Body Mass Index of ~18-25 is not a desire, it’s a biological necessity for healthy body function. You don’t get to demand the world stop telling you the truth that would save your life just to spare you some embarrassment.
In terms of self image – if you find it insulting that somebody calls you fat, either accept that personal image is not as important as character (obviously) or do something about it.
[This is obviously not to say that it's morally acceptable to walk up to someone and call them 'fatty fatty fat fat'. It is the intent behind the words that should be examined, not the words themselves. Anything can be turned into an insult if it's said the right way.]
Yeah you’re right. Hmm maybe there wasn’t any malice behind it and that’s just how Jeff remembered them as. Though it’s a little silly to have it printed out, if purely from a business view.
In the Middle Ages when all the peasants are starving to death, calling someone fat is probably an indication of his social status. XD
Since fat people started saying they happy as they are and that the doctor tells them they are the healthiest person on the books
They are delusional. In denial. Unhealthy. A burden on society (particularly in the UK where obesity costs the National Health Service alone 5 Billion pounds per annum – we could invade another culture for that)
If they can’t show a degree of self responsibility then they are insulting everybody that covers their irresponsible selfish fat behinds. THEY are the insult, to everybody who has to support them and to the millions of people who go hungry and survive on licking food wrappings left at the side of the road.
I agree it wasn’t the best business policy but why would somebody on minimum wage give a flying about anything as long sighted as that. When corporations start paying their due taxes and contributing to the society they prey on then the work force might start to feel a little empathy as part of the team and not feel it appropriate to treat it with contempt.
Eventually the ‘have not’s’ fight back.
Now for the Tea Party and Palin……
“Over here in Blighty”
I could have sworn that Jesus Diaz was American, or at least US based?
Article has been adjusted from original posted on US Giz where, knowing Mr Diaz’s own tendency for casual racism it probably said “even those limey pricks are doing it”.
If you’re rude to someone in a service environment without a confrontation then you’re crap at your job and less face it, it’s not rocket science. Someone wants something from you, you’re nice, they come back. You choose to wait and people piss you off, you need to choose a different job..
Just a friendly advice. No matter how crappy is the service wherever you eat, always be gentle to the staff. As a former waiter in hotels like Waldorf-Hilton, Marriot etc, I can say some rude people end up paying a lot of money for food with some “secret extra ingredients”.
They are fat girls though are they not? Calling them fat girls is accurate as much as they don’t like being called it, this phrase perfectly describes what you are.
dont really understand the asian one…
is it offensive cause he wasn’t asian, or that the server used something about the person to decipher who had made the order?
asian d*ck / f**k ugly asian guy etc would be offensive
i suppose if it was in a fast food chicken store, and the ticket said “not the black guy” then the receipt would be ok?