And getting someone fired over a minor insult is not admirable.
People that I hire (like me) mean well but do screw up. In all the years of my business, I have encountered only one who I so serously misjudged in the hiring process. She was socially irredemable and needed to be bandished from the land of the living.
She was a black racist who I hired on the begging of a Black Christian minister, who I love. That never happened again. God Himself, uses ministers to attempt redemnation of the demon possessed; not my business. I will help the normal down and out and that works out okay. She actually attacked a white employee like she was rabid at work. She was “dissed”, then she was unemployed, then she was back in prison where she belonged.
I would still fire someone who referred to customers as fat in writting if my business is a resturant. Treating customers like they are the pay check would not be in doubt by the bartenders in that business enviornment if I were the boss. Writing “fat” on the customer’s receipt...that is so aggressively disrespectful, how do I know he’s not spitting or beating off in the customers’ food?
Oh nonsense, calling someone fat is childish and rude, but it doesn’t rise to the level of beating off in their food. Look, you feel how you want and I’ll feel how I want. I say making him pay for their dinner would have been lesson enough, and no one should lose their livlihood because he called someone fat... especially if it was, I’m sorry, the TRUTH. It’s rude, but that’s all it is. That is MHO and you aren’t changing it.