Posted on 07/19/2014 1:04:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dylan Paul, 24, said she was more than hurt when she complained that a customer mis-gendered her while she was working last Monday.
“I was working the salad station near the entrance to the restaurant of Broadway Paggliacci’s. Working there, your function is greeting customers, taking and making salad orders, and bidding customers farewell. It was in the evening on a shift I’d picked up from a coworker when I was saying goodbye to one of our regular customers. He returned the gesture, misgendering me as “man,” which isn’t something too unusual in my life.
I corrected him, “It’s ma’am actaully.” He didn’t hear me clearly the first time, and asked me to repeat myself.
"Ma’am, I’m not a man." He heard me clearly that time, and laughed at me before going about topping his pizza with the condiments we keep by the door. I had a few moments to say something, but I was too in shock to respond. On my way home I resolved to say something to him if I saw him in the restaurant again,” said Paul in her blog. Paul was upset that her co-workers and supervisors did not try to take her side in the situation so she decided to quit and then afterwards, she complained about the situation and said she was later fired for standing up for her beliefs. The owner of Pagliacci’s Matt Galvin said when he heard about the situation he took full responsibility and wanted to make sure that type of behavior was not acceptable at any of the Pagliacci’s.
He offered to re-hire Paul but she has not decided if she would go back.
He also is planning sensitivity training for all Pagliacci employees because of the incident.
Paul said this incident shows that the problem of transgender discrimination is a larger problem in workplaces across Seattle.
Xx is female.
Xy is male.
Whatever you want to call yourself is irrelevant.
How many shaves are needed to get that thin-skinned?
The amount of mental issues this person has seems insurmountable..........
When a person does something freaky they shouldn’t be shocked when they’re treated like a freak.
Nobody’s promised an easy life and when a person stands out as really really different by their own choice, their life might just be a little less easy for a time. Suck it up, Buttercup, and understand that normal people don’t have to accept your bizarreness.
At least the customer didn’t pull out a scimitar and saw your head off while shouting “allah akhbar”.
Some people need to grow up. Someone who has worked in food service or retail has to deal with a customer who is a total @#$@#$% on occasion. If someone takes it real personal that a person said something you didn’t like move on. If some customer jumps up and assaults you, I can understand, but says something offensive, let it go. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be in a job where you interact with customers regularly.
This wasn’t even intentional. This customer made a mistake. The individual looked a certain gender, so a common mistake was made. Since this employee has an issues of feeling offended when this person absolutely intended no offense at all. This person should not be working with customers, because customers can be a lot worse to you than make a mistake about you.
Ugh “misgendering” now?
Definitely, especially how thinned skinned the person is.
Back when I grew my hair out long, and my beard too. People looked from behind, and figured this lanky individual was a woman. I don’t get how a mistake is so life threatening to some people.
I sure got a laugh out of that video. thanks for posting.
there is no such thing as gender.
There are two sexes.
Refuse to use the word gender unless you are parsing Latin words.
... This article sounds like something out of a comedy routine....
Who’s on first?
I thought the reaction of the audience and judges were hilarious!
” It’s a lasagna, but it thinks it’s a pizza?”
No it’s a Calzone!
I give up. What sex is it?
It may have been because the pepperoni was missing...
Stromboli...
Years later an old neighbor came by and we got to talking, Justice came up. He asked, "Boy or girl?"
"No idea!", I had to answer.
We both had a laugh...
XX, XY and people with serious medical or psychological issues.
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