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My daughter worked at Port of Subs while in college. So many days she came home in tears/near tears because of the bad treatment she received from customers. My daughter is a personable, bend over backward, polite person. She wasn’t giving anyone attitude or talking on her cell phone. Maybe Rachel needs to be the “poster child” of abused, minimum wage, food service workers to give some people a wake up call of the thanklessness of the job they do when one has to have their sandwich right f-ing now.

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My daughter worked at Port of Subs while in college. So many days she came home in tears/near tears because of the bad treatment she received from customers. My daughter is a personable, bend over backward, polite person. She wasn’t giving anyone attitude or talking on her cell phone. Maybe Rachel needs to be the “poster child” of abused, minimum wage, food service workers to give some people a wake up call of the thanklessness of the job they do when one has to have their sandwich right f-ing now.

This ties in directly with my take on the Westboro Baptist Church thing.

It is not true that the First Amendment gives you the right to be heard. It gives you documents your right to speak, and to try to attract an audience (and, implicitly, the right of people to elect to listen to you) but the First Amendment does not give you authority to require anyone to listen.

And like Westboro with its outrageous claims on the attention of people who are at their most vulnerable, Mr. Smith practiced on the good nature which Rachael was expected by her employer to project even when provoked with insults to her employer and, implicitly, to herself for working there. WBC is a pack of bullies, and Mr. Smith is a bully. He presumably thinks he’s the opposite of Westboro - but he is Westboro’s first cousin.